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SIGSAM is the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation. We publish the ACM Communications in Computer Algebra and sponsor the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC).

ISSAC 2008 will be held 20-23 July 2008 in Linz, Austria.

Why join SIGSAM?

SIGSAM members receive the following benefits:

a subscription to the quarterly publication ACM Communications in Computer Algebra, in print and through member-only access to the articles on the CCA website;
a copy of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), the premier annual conference in the field of computer algebra and symbolic computation;
a discount on registration at ISSAC;
announcements of news and events in the field of symbolic computation through the SIGSAM-Members mailing list.
access to the ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature.
a substantial discount on a personal subscription to the Journal of Symbolic Computation (US$220, regularly US$400).

Membership dues are a modest US$30 per year (with a special rate of US$9 for students). You can join here. (Current members can renew their membership here.)

Awards

SIGSAM sponsors awards for distinguished papers and distinguished student authors at the annual International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC).

SIGSAM administers the ACM SIGSAM Richard Dimick Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering applied to Computer Algebra.

Several SIGSAM members have been named ACM Fellows since the ACM Fellows Program was established in 1993.

Citation Index

SIGSAM maintains a citation index to aide authors in formally citing documentation for computer algebra systems used in published research.

Conference Sponsorship

SIGSAM has a history of sponsoring conferences or special sessions. For examples, SIGSAM frequently sponsors the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC). In addition, some conferences such as East Coast Algebra Days (ECCAD), the International Workshop on Symbolic-Numeric Computation (SNC), and the International Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation (PASCO) have been conducted in cooperation with SIGSAM.

We encourage conference organizers to submit requests for SIGSAM sponsorship or in cooperation with status to the SIGSAM chair before the first call for papers is possible. Doing so may help increase number of papers submitted to the conference because many researchers use information on sponsorship and publication of proceedings to decide whether or not to submit a paper to a conference.

Mailing Lists

SIGSAM announces events in computer algebra through the SIGSAM-Members and SIGSAM-Friends mailing lists.

SIGSAM also sponsors mailing lists on topics of research in computer algebra and symbolic computation. The list topics are

More about SIGSAM

Here are the SIGSAM officers and Advisory Board.

Read the SIGSAM Bylaws.

Read SIGSAM annual reports.