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                    First Announcement and Call for Papers

                SECOND MAGMA CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL ALGEBRA

                Marquette University, Milwaukee, May 12--16, 1996
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Conference Themes
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An interdisciplinary conference on computational algebra and number theory,
computer algebra and their applications will be held from May 12--16, 1996
at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The purpose of this
conference is to bring together mathematicians and software developers
to present recent developments in cognate areas of computational algebra
and number theory, to inform theoreticians about available computational
tools and provide an opportunity to become familiar with their use, to
identify desirable directions for theoretical research and practical
development, and to promote the use of advanced tools in applied areas.

In the past few years a number of very significant advances have
taken place in several different branches of computational algebra
and number theory.
The organizers of this Conference perceive a need to bring together
theoretical mathematicians and developers of algorithms and software 
tools to consider ways of overcoming the compartmentalized nature of 
computational algebra in the context of the increasing tendency for 
sophisticated applications to draw on computational techniques from 
several quite different areas.


Topics
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COMPUTATIONAL METHODS for, but not restricted to, the following areas:

Algebraic geometry   Cohomology        Commutative algebra   Elliptic curves
Finite fields        Finite geometry   Group theory          Knot theory 
Module theory        Number theory     Ring theory           Semigroups

APPLICATION of such techniques to problems in algebra, coding theory,
combinatorics, cryptography, design theory, discrete signal processing,
hardware design and physics.


Organizing Committee
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  Mike Slattery (Chair)                    John Cannon 
  Michael Pohst                            Jon Carlson
  Stuart Margolis                          Marty Isaacs
  Arjen Lenstra                            Jenny Key


Conference Site
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The Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at
Marquette University will host the meeting. Since January 1994, the 
Department has been located in Katharine Reed Cudahy Hall, in the center
of the Marquette campus. Marquette University, located on an 80-acre 
urban campus near downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is an independent, 
coeducational institution founded in 1881.

Lectures will be held in the main lecture auditorium which seats 
140 people and features network connections and video projection 
equipment. A discussion area outside the lecture hall, at the foot of
the atrium, will be available for morning and afternoon teas.

Extensive computing facilities will be available for conference delegates,
including Internet services.


Conference Structure
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* Invited Talks --- Recent advances in the development of 
practical algorithms for various branches of algebra, number theory, and
geometry will be described. There will also be a number of invited talks 
by research mathematicians describing their attempts at investigating problems 
with the available tools in computational algebra.

* Contributed Talks --- There will be opportunities to present papers
on both the development of new algorithms and on novel applications.

* Problem Sessions --- In small special interest groups, problems and
potential approaches to their solutions will be discussed; participants
will be encouraged to submit problems.

* Workshops ---  During the evenings there will be hands-on workshops 
both for new and for existing users of Magma and related systems.

* Software Demonstrations --- A small number of mathematicians will have
the opportunity to demonstrate pioneering applications of computer algebra
tools in research.

* Poster Session --- If necessary poster sessions will be organized to
prevent overcrowding of the contributed talks sessions.


Proceedings and Further Anouncements
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A proceedings of the Conference will appear as a special issue of the 
Journal of Symbolic Computation.

A World Wide Web site will be maintained with a schedule of events, abstracts
of talks, additional information on the venue and registration, comments
by participants and possibly links to preprints of papers and home pages of
participants.

Please write to the (ordinary mail or electronic) address listed below
if you would like to receive the second announcement (including a list of
invited talks) and the registration form, or use the registration form
on the Web page.


Submissions and Timetable
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Besides the invited lectures and workshops (details to be announced shortly),
a number of sessions for the presentation of 30 minute contributed talks are
planned.  Please send an extended abstract (one to three pages) for proposed
contributed talks in an area relevant to the Conference to the address listed
below before  March 8, 1996.  The program committee will make a selection
before April 1 of talks to be presented in Milwaukee; speakers will be
invited to submit a full paper, which will undergo the usual refereeing
process for the Journal of Symbolic Computation. If necessary a poster
session will be organized to allow additional contributions to be presented.

The organizers also welcome submissions for the demonstration of software;
send a short (one-page) proposal to the address below before  March 8, 1996.

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snail mail:
          The Second Magma Conference
          c/o Michael Slattery
          Dept. of Math., Stat. and Comp. Sci.
          Marquette University
          Milwaukee WI 53201-1881
          U.S.A.

e-mail:
	  mikes@mscs.mu.edu

Magma Conference Home Page:
          http://studsys.mscs.mu.edu/~mikes/CompAlg
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