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Grand Challenges in Computer Algebra

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"Grand Challenges in Computer Algebra" is a special session at the 1997 IMACS ACA conference held in Maui, Hawaii, July 24-26.

Grand Challenges are computational problems, that are beyond the limits of current technology. In numerical computing, Grand Challenges include problems like weather forecasting or simulation of black holes. What are the Grand Challenges of computer algebra? How large are problems, that can be treated today? What kind of technology can help raising the tractability limits? In summary, this session will foster the communication between people involved in computer algebra applications with Grand Challenge resource requirements and people developing the technology, that will eventually enable us to address these challenges.

Topics include:

• Computer Algebra applications, that have very large resource requirements.
• Progress reports on stretching the limits of tractability.
• New technology with the potential of increasing the size of problems that can be tackled.

Selected papers from the conference as well as some additional papers will be published as a special issue of the journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Elsevier).

List of speakers:

• Bruno Haible (ILOG, France) and Thomas Papanikolaou (TH Darmstadt, Germany), abstract
• Hoon Hong, Richard Liska, Nicolas Robidoux and Stanly Steinberg, abstract
• Werner Krandick (Universität Paderborn, Germany), abstract
• Wolfgang Küchlin (Universität Tübingen, Germany), abstract
• Robert Lewis (Fordham University, USA), abstract
• Michael Monagan and John Ogilvie (Simon Fraser University, Canada), abstract
• Thomas Pfahler (University of Kent at Canterbury, Great Britain), abstract
• Laurent Bernardin (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), abstract

For further information, please contact the session organizer:

Laurent Bernardin
bernardin@inf.ethz.ch
Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
ETH Zürich