SIGSAM Viability Review

SIG Governing Board
March 19, 2005
By Emil Volcheck, SIGSAM Chair

Financials

FY 2006 Budget stable

Fund balance: $6800
Conference reserve: $2900

Membership

Membership up

June 2004: 363
March 2005: 396

Professional members stable at about 220

Volunteers

Officers, Past Chair (5)
Editors (3)
Information Director (1)
Advisory Board, Members-at-Large (5)
Citations Project Coordinator (1)
CD Project (2)
Nomination committee members (9)

Conferences

International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC)

Well-attended, submissions up, good return

Past:
Philadelphia, 2003: 139 registered, +$3800
Santander (Spain), 2004: 165 registered, +$5800

Future:
Beijing in 2005 (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Genoa in 2006 (Univ. Genoa; ICM)

Highlights

AMS Math Reviews cooperation
ACM Fellow: George Collins
ISSAC awards, Jenks Prize
Citations Project
Proceedings on CD
Discount for developing countries
Bylaws revision