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Association for Computing Machinery
Special Interest Group
on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation |
About SIGSAM
SIGSAM is the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation. SIGSAM is the largest international organization supporting and promoting research in computer algebra and symbolic and its applications. We publish the ACM Communications in Computer Algebra and regularly sponsor the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC).
SIGSAM Elected Officers
The currently elected SIGSAM officers are- Chair: Mark Giesbrecht (U. Waterloo, Canada), Chair_SIGSAM@acm.org
- Vice Chair: Peter Paule (RISC, Linz, Austria), VC_SIGSAM@acm.org
- Secretary: Wen-shin Lee (Antwerp, Belgium), Secretary_SIGSAM@acm.org
- Treasurer: Daniel Lichtblau (Wolfram Research, USA), Treasurer_SIGSAM@acm.org
The SIGSAM officers maintain a private mailing list (SIGSAM_OFFICERS@listserv.acm.org), open only to the SIGSAM Executive Committee. Web access is available here.
Other Executive Committee Members
- Information Director: William J. Turner (Wabash College, USA), Infodir_SIGSAM@acm.org
- CCA Editor: Ilias Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada), Editors_SIGSAM@acm.org
- CCA Editor: Auston Lobo (Washington College, USA), Editors_SIGSAM@acm.org
- Past Chair: Emil Volcheck (National Security Agency, USA), Pastchair_SIGSAM@acm.org
Web Development and Administration
- John P. May, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada
- Daniel S. Roche, University of Waterloo, Canada
- William Turner, Wabash College, USA
SIGSAM Advisory Board
The Advisory Board advises the Chair on matters of interest to SIGSAM. It consists of the officers, the Past Chair, the newsletter Editor(s) and up to ten Members at Large elected by ballot by the members of SIGSAM at the Annual General Meeting.
Advisory Board Members At Large
| Gene Cooperman (2005-2008) | Laureano Gonzalez-Vega (2005-2008) |
| Jürgen Gerhard (2005-2008) | Alexander Hulpke (2005-2008) |
| George Labahn (2005-2008) | Ziming Li (2005-2008) |
| William Turner (2005-2008) | Joachim von zur Gathen (2006-2009) |
| Jean-Guillaume Dumas (2007-2010) | Michael Monagan (2007-2010) |
Governance
- The SIGSAM Bylaws
- SIGSAM Reports
Membership
ACM maintains a page of membership statistics for all SIGs and current SIG membership (requires login).