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Session on Elimination Theory and Applications
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Friday, March 6, 2009
by: Manfred Minimair, Ph.D.

The ACA conference series is the premier international conference series on Applications of Computer Algebra. This year it will be held at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 25-28, 2009. Together with Dr. Bob Lewis, Fordham University, New York, NY, Dr. Manfred Minimair from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Seton Hall University is organizing the session on Elimination Theory and Applications. This session concerns eliminating unknowns from systems of multivariate polynomial equations, including differential polynomials, and decomposing systems of equations with the goal of simplifying equations and computing their solutions.
 
Elimination theory is a classical area of research. It has been pursued for hundreds of years. The combination of techniques from symbolic and numeric computation has greatly stimulated the field in recent years. This has led to numerous computer based applications in areas such as computational chemistry, electrical engineering, dynamics of multibody systems, geometric theorem proving, computational algebraic geometry, robotics, and computer aided graphic design. The session will highlight and survey some advances in the area. Some of the typical computational tools in this area are: Groebner bases, resultants, characteristic sets, homotopy.

For more information please contact:
Melissa Kohlman
(973) 761-9466
kohlmame@shu.edu