2024
February 12 2024
Updates on the SIGSAM Committee
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.
2022
Monday 4th April 2022
Agnes Szanto 1966-2022
Our dear colleague Agnes Szanto passed away on March 21st 2022, at the
age of 55, succumbing to lymphoma.
Agnes was a Professor in the Mathematics Department at North Carolina
State University where she was an active member of the Symbolic
Computation group. She was a passionate and creative researcher
concerned with the development and analysis of symbolic and numerical
algorithms for problems in algebra, and a devoted teacher and mentor.
Agnes was a central figure in the activities of our community. Agnes
served for 4 terms as SIGSAM Treasurer, from 2009 through 2017. She was
the Program Committee Chair at ISSAC'14, Tutorial Chair at ISSAC'12,
gave an Invited Tutorial session at ISSAC'11, and served on many Program
Committees for these conferences. Agnes also served on the Editorial
Board of the Journal of Symbolic Computation.
In addition, she was Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Algebraic
Geometry from 2016-2017 and was deeply involved in Foundations of
Computational Mathematics (FoCM), serving on its Board of Trustees as a
member and Chair and as the main organizer of the FoCM Conference 2011
in Budapest, among other activities.
Agnes was a generous and thoughtful friend and colleague,
enthusiastically committed to the community and especially interested in
supporting women mathematicians and working to make their
accomplishments known. She was an extraordinary person and an inspiring
role model. We will deeply miss her kindness and positive energy.
We join her family in mourning this devastating loss.
2021
Friday 16th July 2021
PhD Opportunity
Coventry University in the UK has a fully funded (fees and living stipend) PhD position open, sponsored by Maplesoft. The broad topic is the combination of Machine Learning Technology and Computer Algebra Systems, specifically looking at symbolic integration and symbolic simplification.
Full Advert Link: https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/machine-learning-technology/
Friday 11th June 2021
SIGSAM Elections
A new SIGSAM Committee has been elected for the term 1st July 2021 - 30th June 2023: Election Results.
Veronika Pillwein (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation Johannes Kepler University, Austria) will be Chair, Clement Pernet (Université Grenoble Alpes, France) Vice Chair, Shaoshi Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Secretary, and Matthew England (Coventry University, UK) Treasurer.
Zafeirakis Zafeirakopoulos (Gebze Technical University, Turkey) has been appointed as the new Information Director.
Tuesday 25th May 2021
CCA Issue 215 (Vol 55:1)
Issue 215 (Vol 55:1) of ACM Communications in Computer Algebra (CCA) is now available.
It can be accessed via the ACM Digital Library here. This requires an ACM DL subscription (provided with SIGSAM membership).
The issue contains an article by van der Hoeven and Lecerf On sparse interpolation of rational functions and gcds; and an obituary for Vladimir Gerdt.
Tuesday 11th May 2021
CCA Issue 214 (Vol 54:4)
Issue 214 (Vol 54:4) of ACM Communications in Computer Algebra (CCA) is now available.
It can be accessed via the ACM Digital Library here. This requires an ACM DL subscription (provided with SIGSAM membership).
The issue contains an article by Imamoglu and Kaltofenn on Sparse polynomial interpolation in Dickson polynomial basis; an article by Valluri on the Combinatorial primality test; and an article by Ou on Teaching multivariable calculus and tensor calculus with computer algebra software.
Wednesday 14th April 2021
SISGAM Elections
SIGSAM will hold elections for new officers. To vote you must be a current member of SIGSAM by 1st April to vote.
Nominees for Chair:
- Veronika Pillwein, RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
- Jonathan Hauenstein, Notre Dame, United States
Nominees for Vice Chair:
- Clément Pernet, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Chenqi Mou, Beihang University, P.R. China
Nominees For Treasurer:
- Matthew England, Coventry University, United Kingdom
- John May, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada
Nominees for Secretary:
- Shaoshi Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China
- Angelos Mantzaflaris, INRIA Méditerranée, France
Monday 1st March 2021
CCA Issue 213 (Vol 54:3)
Issue 213 (Vol 54:3) of ACM Communications in Computer Algebra (CCA) is now available.
It can be accessed via the ACM Digital Library here. This requires an ACM DL subscription (provided with SIGSAM membership).
The issue contains an article by van der Hoeven and Monagan on Computing one billion roots using the tangent Graeffe method and more ISSAC 2020 Poster Abstracts.
Wednesday 27th January 2021
Conferences in 2021
Despite the ongoing pandemic there are hopes of conferences to take place in 2021. ISSAC, CASC, CICM, SIAM:AG and MEGA are allannounced. See the SIGSAM Upcoming Conference List for more details.
Wednesday 6th January 2021
Vladimir Gerdt
Vladimir Gerdt passed away on 5th January, 2021. He made numerous contributions to the fields of symbolic computation, differential algebra, and their applications in physics. He was a member of the JSC editorial board 1985-2020 and was involved with the CASC conference series since its beginning. He was an excellent scientist and a kind-hearted man.
