Call for Posters I S S A C ' 9 7 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation July 21--23, 1997, Maui, Hawaii, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGSAM and ACM SIGNUM Held in federation with PASCO '97 ISSAC is an annual international symposium that provides an opportunity to learn of new developments and to present original research results in all areas of symbolic mathematical computation. Topics of the meeting include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic mathematics. Algebraic, symbolic, and symbolic- numeric algorithms including: simplification, polynomial and rational function manipulations, algebraic equations, summation, integration, linear algebra and matrix computations, number theory, ODE/PDE, complex computation, group computations, and geometric computing; Computer Science. Theoretical and practical problems in symbolic mathematical computation including: computer algebra systems, problem solving environments, programming languages and libraries for symbolic computation, user interfaces, data structures, software architectures, parallel/distributed computing, mapping algorithms to architectures, concrete analysis of benchmarking, complexity of computer algebra algorithms, artificial intelligence techniques, automatic differentiation and code generation, mathematical data exchange protocols; Applications. Problem treatments incorporating algebraic, symbolic, or symbolic-numeric computation in an essential or novel way, including engineering, economics and finance, physical and biological sciences, computer science, logic, mathematics, statistics, and education. ISSAC '97 will be held at the Aston Wailea Resort on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii, USA. Accommodations are available on-site, and at hotels and rental apartments a short distance away. The nearby Maui High Performance Computing Center (http://www.mhpcc.edu) will cooperate with local arrangements. Planned conference activities include invited presentations, research and survey papers, poster sessions, tutorial courses, vendor exhibits, and software demonstrations. Proceedings, as well as abstracts of all posters, will be distributed at the conference. THE POSTER SESSIONS are an ideal venue for presenting recent research results or ongoing research projects that might not yet be complete, but whose preliminary results are already interesting nonetheless. Posters describing computer algebra systems and applications are also especially welcome. To encourage poster submissions of good quality, a best poster prize, consisting of a certificate, will be awarded. Posters will be judged based on content and presentation. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS. Authors should submit to the Poster Committee Chair an abstract of no more than 1000 words describing the contents of the poster. Plain LaTeX or TeX is preferred, but plain text is also acceptable. E-mail submissions are strongly encouraged and should be sent to issac97_poster_chair@mcs.drexel.edu. Regular mail submissions should be sent via air mail to Mark J. Encarnacion Department of Computer Science College of Engineering University of the Philippines Quezon City 1101, Philippines Please allow at least one week for air mail delivery. IMPORTANT DATES 16 May 1997 Poster abstracts must be received 1 June 1997 Notification of acceptance Authors are encouraged to read the article "How to Prepare a Poster" (http://www.siam.org/siamnews/general/poster.htm). POSTER SESSIONS COMMITTEE John A. Abbott (U. Genova, Italy) Mark J. Encarnacion, Chair (U. Philippines) Li Ziming (MMRC, China) Petr Lisonek (Simon Fraser U., Canada) Hirokazu Murao (U. Tokyo, Japan) Emil Volcheck (National Security Agency, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION about the symposium is available at http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/ISSAC97/ or from Bruce Char ISSAC '97 General Chair Dean's Office, College of Arts and Sciences Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA bchar@mcs.drexel.edu