Nobuki Takayama

Michael Joswig

Joris van der Hoeven

Komei Fukuda

The ICMS Developer's Meeting is an international congress for which the main theme is mathematical software. The 2010 meeting was the third of a series of meetings of similar theme, the ?rst being held in Beijing, China in 2002,and the second in Castro-Urdiales, Spain in 2006. The ?eld of mathematics has numerous branches, and in each branch we ?nd that algorithms, and also implementations and applications of software s- tems, are studied. Researchers who endeavor to make such studies also have international meetings within their speci'c branches of mathematics, and these meetings have made signi'cant contributions to the ?elds in which they lie. The ICMS (International Congresseson Mathematical Software), on the other hand, is a general (not branch speci'c) meeting on mathematical software, which is held every four years, and is a rare opportunity for developers of mathematical softwarefrom di'erent branchesof mathematics, as well as mathematicians who are interested in mathematical software, to gather together.

Third International Congress on Mathematical Software, Kobe, Japan, September 13-17, 2010, Proceedings

Mathematical Software - ICMS 2010

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Congress on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2010, held in Kobe, Japan in September 2010. The 49 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational group theory, computation of special functions, computer algebra and reliable computing, computer tools for mathematical editing and scientific visualization, exact numeric computation for algebraic and geometric computation, formal proof, geometry and visualization, Groebner bases and applications, number theoretical software as well as software for optimization and polyhedral computation.

Kenji Iohara

Philippe Malbos

Masa-Hiko Saito

This edited volume presents a fascinating collection of lecture notes focusing on differential equations from two viewpoints: formal calculus (through the theory of Gröbner bases) and geometry (via quiver theory). Gröbner bases serve as effective models for computation in algebras of various types. Although the theory of Gröbner bases was developed in the second half of the 20th century, many works on computational methods in algebra were published well before the introduction of the modern algebraic language. Since then, new algorithms have been developed and the theory itself has greatly expanded. In comparison, diagrammatic methods in representation theory are relatively new, with the quiver varieties only being introduced – with big impact – in the 1990s. Divided into two parts, the book first discusses the theory of Gröbner bases in their commutative and noncommutative contexts, with a focus on algorithmic aspects and applications of Gröbner bases to analysis on systems of partial differential equations, effective analysis on rings of differential operators, and homological algebra. It then introduces representations of quivers, quiver varieties and their applications to the moduli spaces of meromorphic connections on the complex projective line. While no particular reader background is assumed, the book is intended for graduate students in mathematics, engineering and related fields, as well as researchers and scholars.

Two Algebraic Byways from Differential Equations: Gröbner Bases and Quivers

Andres Iglesias

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Congress on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2006. The book presents 45 revised full papers, carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on new developments in computer algebra packages, interfacing computer algebra in mathematical visualization, software for algebraic geometry and related topics, number-theoretical software, methods in computational number theory, free software for computer algebra, and general issues.

Second International Congress on Mathematical Software, Castro Urdiales, Spain, September 1-3, 2006, Proceedings

Mathematical Software - ICMS 2006

Michael E. Stillman

Jan Verschelde

Algorithms in algebraic geometry go hand in hand with software packages that implement them. Together they have established the modern field of computational algebraic geometry which has come to play a major role in both theoretical advances and applications. Over the past fifteen years, several excellent general purpose packages for computations in algebraic geometry have been developed, such as, CoCoA, Singular and Macaulay 2. While these packages evolve continuously, incorporating new mathematical advances, they both motivate and demand the creation of new mathematics and smarter algorithms. This volume reflects the workshop “Software for Algebraic Geometry” held in the week from 23 to 27 October 2006, as the second workshop in the thematic year on Applications of Algebraic Geometry at the IMA. The papers in this volume describe the software packages Bertini, PHClab, Gfan, DEMiCs, SYNAPS, TrIm, Gambit, ApaTools, and the application of Risa/Asir to a conjecture on multiple zeta values. They offer the reader a broad view of current trends in computational algebraic geometry through software development and applications.

Software for Algebraic Geometry

This volume contains the outstanding collection of invited papers and refereed papers selected for the Second International Congress on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2006, held in Castro Urdiales, Spain, September 1-3, 2006. We cordially invite you to visit the ICMS 2006 website http://www.icms2006.unican.es where you can find all relevant information about this interesting event. ICMS 2006 was the second edition of this congress, which follows up the successful ICMS 2002 held in Beijing, China. Since its inception, this congress has been a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians - ICM, the world’s largest conference on mathematics, celebrated every four years since the edition of 1900 in Paris, where David Hilbert presented his 23 famous problems. For the first time, this 2006 edition of ICM is held in Spain (see: http://www.icm2006.org for details), and so is ICMS 2006. This congress was devoted to all aspects of mathematical software, whose appearance is — in our opinion — one of the most important events in mathematics. Mathematical software systems are used to construct examples, to prove theorems, and to find new mathematical phenomena. Conversely, mathematical research often motivates developments of new algorithms and new systems. Beyond mathematics, mathematical software systems are becoming indispensable tools in many branches of science and technology.

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