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SIGSAM and ISSAC evolution

June 2024

SIGSAM and ISSAC steering committee are organizing a discussion on the evolution of their relationship with ACM. A presentation on the situation and the options can be found here and a forum for disucssing these issues is open to the community.

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SIGSAM Committee Updates

February 2024

After SIGSAM Chair Veronika Pillwein stepped down due to personal reasons, Clément Pernet replaced her as acting SIGSAM Chair. In addition, Dan Roche joined the committee as SIGSAM Vice Chair.

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Agnes Szanto 1966-2022

4th April 2022

Our dear colleague Agnes Szanto passed away on March 21st 2022, at the age of 55, succumbing to lymphoma.

We join her family in mourning this devastating loss.

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SIGSAM Elections

Friday 11th June 2021

A new SIGSAM Committee has been elected for the term 1st July 2021 - 30th June 2023: Veronika Pillwein will be Chair, Clement Pernet Vice Chair, Shaoshi Chen Secretary, and Matthew England Treasurer.

CCA Issue 215 (Vol 55:1) available

Tuesday 25th May 2021

Issue 215 (Vol 55:1) of ACM Communications in Computer Algebra has been published and is available to SIGSAM members here.

Jenks Prize Awarded

Friday 19th June 2021

The 2021 Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering Applied to Computer Algebra has been awarded to Henri Cohen, Karim Belabas, and Bill Allombert for the Pari/GP computer algebra system.

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Upcoming Conferences

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ISSAC 2024

The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
16-19 July 2024
Raleigh, NC, USA

ACA 2024

The International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra
24-28 June 2024
Havana, Cuba

CASC 2024

The International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing
2-6 September 2024
Rennes, France

SYNASC 2024

The International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing
16-19 September 2024
Timisoara, Romania

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ACM DL Selections

SIGSAM members benefit from access to the ACM Digital Library.

The Tropical Nullstellensatz and Positivstellensatz for Sparse Polynomial Systems
Marianne Akian, Antoine Béreau, and Stéphane Gaubert
ISSAC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 on International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, July 2023
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Flip Graphs for Matrix Multiplication
Manuel Kauers and Jakob Moosbauer
ISSAC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 on International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, July 2023
Digital Library Link

About SIGSAM

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