ISSAC, the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, is an
academic conference
An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journal ...
in the field of
computer algebra. ISSAC has been organized annually since 1988, typically in July. The conference is regularly sponsored by the
Association for Computing Machinery special interest group
SIGSAM SIGSAM is the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation. It publishes the '' ACM Communications in Computer Algebra'' and often sponsors the ''International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation'' (ISSAC).
Extern ...
, and the proceedings since 1989 have been published by ACM. ISSAC is considered as being one of the most influential conferences for the publication of scientific computing research.
History
The first ISSAC took place in
Rome
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on 4–8 July 1988. It succeeded a series of meetings held between 1966 and 1987 under the names SYMSAM, SYMSAC, EUROCAL, EUROSAM and EUROCAM.
ISSAC Awards
* The ''Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize for excellence in software engineering applied to computer algebra'' is awarded at ISSAC every other year since 2004.
* The ''ISSAC Distinguished Paper Award'' is awarded at ISSAC since 2002 to authors that display excellence in areas that include, but are not limited to, algebraic computation, symbolic-numeric computation, and system design and implementation.
* The ''ISSAC Distinguished Student Author Award'' is awarded at ISSAC since 2004 to authors if they were a student at the time their paper was submitted.
Conference topics
Typical topics include:
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* exact linear algebra;
* polynomial system solving;
* symbolic summation;
* symbolic integration and computational differential algebra
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;
* computational group theory;
* symbolic-numeric algorithms;
* the design and implementation of computer algebra system
A computer algebra system (CAS) or symbolic algebra system (SAS) is any mathematical software with the ability to manipulate mathematical expressions in a way similar to the traditional manual computations of mathematicians and scientists. The d ...
s;
* applications of computer algebra.
See also
* ''Journal of Symbolic Computation
The ''Journal of Symbolic Computation'' is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal covering all aspects of symbolic computation published by Academic Press and then by Elsevier. It is targeted to both mathematicians and computer scientists. It ...
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References
External links
ISSAC web page
Bibliographic information about ISSAC
at DBLP
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Computer algebra
Theoretical computer science conferences
Recurring events established in 1988
Association for Computing Machinery conferences