*** Extended Deadline for Submissions: January 21, 2008 *** ISSAC 2008 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation Hagenberg, Austria, July 20-23, 2008 http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/issac2008/ The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) is the premier annual conference to present and discuss new developments and original research results in all areas of symbolic mathematical computation. Planned activities include invited presentations, research papers, poster sessions, tutorial courses, vendor exhibits and software demonstrations. IMPORTANT DATES ISSAC 2008 will be held July 20 to 23, 2008 in Hagenberg near Linz, Austria. Extended deadline for submissions: January 21, 2008 (Midnight [24:00 EST]). Notification of Acceptance: March 24, 2008. CONFERENCE TOPICS They include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic Mathematics: Algebraic, symbolic and symbolic-numeric algorithms. Simplification, function manipulation, summation, integration, polynomial / differential / difference equations, linear algebra, number theory, group and invariant theory, geometric computing. Computer Science: Theoretical and practical problems in symbolic computation. Systems, problem solving environments, user interfaces, software, libraries, parallel / distributed computing and programming languages, concrete analysis, benchmarking, theoretical and practical complexity, automatic differentiation, code generation, mathematical data structures and exchange protocols. Applications: Problem treatments using algebraic, symbolic or symbolic- numeric computation in an essential or a novel way. Engineering, economics and finance, physical and biological sciences, computer science, logic, mathematics and education. PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Abbott, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy Hirokazu Anai, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Laurent Buse, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Xiao-Shan Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Laureano Gonzalez-Vega, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain; (Chair) Willem de Graaf, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy Mark van Hoeij, Florida State University, USA Joris van der Hoeven, Université Paris-Sud, France Evelyne Hubert, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Alexander Hulpke, Colorado State University, USA M'hammed El Kahoui, Université Cadi Ayyad, Morocco Manuel Kauers, RISC, Univ. Linz, Austria Jürgen Klüners, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany Viktor Levandovskyy, RWTH Aachen, Germany Steve Linton, University of St. Andrews, UK Greg Reid, ORCCA, University of Western Ontario, Canada Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University, Australia Arne Storjohann, University of Waterloo, Canada Lihong Zhi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Original research results and insightful analyses of current concerns are solicited for submission. Submissions must not duplicate work published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee and additional referees. Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium. Papers must be in English and should not exceed 8 pages in the standard format for ACM proceedings, or 20 to 22 pages of text in LaTeX 12pt article style. To submit your contribution, please visit the paper submission page at http://www.easychair.org/ISSAC2008/. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the symposium. General Chair Program Committee Chair Local Arrangements Chair J. Rafael Sendra Laureano Gonzalez-Vega Franz Winkler