ISSAC is a yearly international symposium that provides an opportunity to learn of new developments and to present original research results in all areas of symbolic mathematical computation.

Topics of the meeting include, but are not limited to:

Algorithmic mathematics
Algebraic, symbolic, and symbolic-numeric algorithms including: simplification, polynomial and rational function manipulations, algebraic equations, summation, integration, linear algebra and matrix computations, number theory, ODE/PDE, complex computation, group computations, and geometric computing;

Computer science
Theoretical and practical problems in symbolic mathematical computation including: computer algebra systems, problem solving environments, programming languages and libraries for symbolic computation, user interfaces, data structures, software architectures, parallel distributed computing, mapping algorithms to architectures, concrete analysis and benchmarking, complexity of computer algebra algorithms, artifical intelligence techniques, automatic differentiation and code generation, mathematical data exchange protocols;

Applications
Problem treatments incorporating algebraic, symbolic or symbolic-numeric computation in an essential or novel way, including engineering, economics and finance, physical and biological sciences, computer science, logic, mathematics, statistics, and use in education

ISSAC'98 will be held in the historic buildings of the University of Rostock, Germany. Accomodations will be available at nearby hotels. The old ``Hansestadt'' Rostock is situated close to the Baltic Sea and about 200 km away from Berlin. Participants have the occasion to attend afterwards the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM'98 held August 18-27 in Berlin.

Planned conference activities include invited presentations, research and survey papers, poster sessions, tutorial courses, vendor exhibits, and software demonstrations. Proceedings, as well as abstracts of all posters, will be distributed at the conference.

The Poster Sessions are an ideal venue for presenting recent research results or ongoing research projects that might not yet be complete, but whose preliminary results are already interesting nonetheless. Posters describing computer algebra systems and applications are also especially welcome. To encourage poster submissions of good quality, a best poster prize, consisting of a certificate, will be awarded. Posters will be judged based on content and presentation.

Instructions for authors
Authors should submit to the Poster Committee Chair an abstract of no more than 1000 words describing the contents of the poster. Plain LaTeX or TeX is preferred, but plain text is also acceptable. E-mail submissions are strongly encouraged and should be sent to glabahn@daisy.uwaterloo.ca

Regular mail submissions should be sent via air mail to