[GAP Forum] Summer school "Advanced techniques in computer algebra systems development"

[Alexander Konovalov]

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Summer school "Advanced techniques in computer algebra systems development"

August 29th - September 2nd, 2011, University of St Andrews, Scotland

http://www.symbolic-computation.org/SICSA2011


The summer school "Advanced techniques in computer algebra systems
development" is organised by the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in
Computational Algebra of the University of St Andrews on August 29th -
September 2nd, 2011. It is supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer
Science Alliance (SICSA) and the EU FP6 project "SCIEnce - Symbolic
Computation Infrastructure for Europe".

Continuing a series of five RISC/SCIEnce training schools in symbolic
computation organised in RISC-Linz in 2007-2010, the 2011 school is dedicated
to three central themes which are important not only in computer algebra
systems, bus also in other scientific software: parallel computations, memory
management, and interfaces between systems.

The school will comprise of main lectures given by the invited speakers and of
experience sessions where school participants will be able to share their
experience. Each of the three days of the school will be centered around one
of the thematic areas for the convenience of those interested in a single day
participation and/or non-residential registration.


Schedule

- August 29th: Arrival day
- August 30th: Interfaces
- August 31st: Memory management
- September 1st: Parallelisaton
- September 2nd: Departure day


Main speakers

- John Abbott (Genova)
- Reimer Behrends (St Andrews)
- Alexandre Borovik (Manchester)
- Mickael Gastineau (Paris)
- Max Horn (Braunschweig)
- Peter Horn (Kassel)
- Richard Jones (Kent)
- Alexander Konovalov (St Andrews)
- Steve Linton (St Andrews)
- Alexander Voss (St Andrews)


Experience Sessions

If you would like to give a short talk, there will be an opportunity to do
this at one of the experience sessions. Participants are encouraged to tell,
for example, more details about the internals of the computer algebra system
they are involved in. Details about their approaches to parallelisation, 
memory management and interfaces to other systems are particularly welcomed. 
Please send us the title and a short abstract of your talk to consider its 
inclusion into the school programme.


Registration

The participation costs are as follows:

£300 - full registration, including the registration fee, 4 nights 
       accommodation, coffee breaks and meals during your stay.	
£150 - non-residential registration, including the registration fee, coffee 
       breaks and lunches during the school days.
£50  - single day registration (available for one or two days), including 
       the registration fee, coffee breaks and lunch.

For PhD students studying in Scotland SICSA participation is free of charge. 
We regret that there is no support available for other attendees.

Deadlines:

- for the full registration: August 14th 2011
- for the non-residential and single day registration: August 21st 2011

To register, follow the instructions in the "Registration" section here:

	http://www.symbolic-computation.org/SICSA2011


For further information, please contact:
* Alexander Konovalov: alexk at mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk
* Chris Brown: chrisb at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
* Vladimir Janjic: jv at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk