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From: sl25@cus.cam.ac.uk (Steve Linton)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Conference Announcement
Keywords: MAGMA, Cayley, conference
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                         FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

         The CAYLEY/MAGMA Conference on Computational Algebra

                     London, August 23 - 27, 1993

An instructional conference on Computational Algebra and the new MAGMA system
for Algebra and Number Theory will be held at Queen Mary and Westfield College,
London, August 23 - 27, 1993. The conference is being held to mark
the international launch of MAGMA and it will focus on the state of the art in
algorithmic algebra.

Building on a decade of experience with the CAYLEY system, the Computational
Algebra Group at the University of Sydney, with the generous assistance of
algebraists from many different countries, has designed the MAGMA system.
This system provides an integrated facility for solving hard computational
problems in the major families of algebraic structures, viz. groups, rings,
fields and modules.

MAGMA has a functional-style programming language in which the principal
data types are sets, sequences, structures (magmas) and mappings. The
kernel contains efficient implementations of many of the principal algorithms
in Module Theory, Ring Theory, Group Theory, Algebraic Number Theory
and Algebraic Combinatorics.

Each of the morning sessions of the Conference will consist of lectures on
current developments in one of the above areas of computational algebra, while
the afternoons will be devoted to instructional presentations of corresponding
features in the new MAGMA system.  Ample opportunities will be provided for
participants to gain hands-on experience with the system.

Papers are sought from intending participants describing:

(*) Algorithmic methods in Module Theory, Ring Theory, Group Theory, Algebraic
Number Theory or Algebraic Combinatorics,

(*) Research applications of CAYLEY or MAGMA, or

(*) The impact of computer techniques on research in algebra and related areas.

Intending participants are invited to express interest by sending email to 

        R.L.Silverstone@qmw.ac.uk



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