About us

The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation is the premier conference for research in symbolic computation and computer algebra. ISSAC 2026 will be the 51st meeting in the series. The conference presents a range of invited talks, tutorials, short communications (posters), software demonstrations, and vendor exhibits.

Important Dates

Fri, Apr 24, 2026
Submission software presentation deadline
Fri, May 8, 2026
Short Communications (posters) abstract submission deadline
Mon, May 25, 2026
Notification of acceptance/rejection
Fri, Jun 12, 2026
Final version (.tex) due

Call For Paper

Exact and symbolic linear, polynomial and differential algebra
Symbolic-numeric, homotopy, perturbation and series methods
Computational algebraic geometry, polynomial and semialgebraic optimization
Computational group theory and number theory, quantifier elimination and logic
Computer arithmetic
Summation, recurrence equations, integration, solution of ODEs & PDEs
Symbolic methods in other areas of pure and applied mathematics
Complexity of algebraic algorithms and algebraic complexity
Design of symbolic computation packages and systems
Language design and type systems for symbolic computation
Data representation
Considerations for modern hardware
Algorithm implementation and performance tuning
Mathematical user interfaces
Use with systems such as digital libraries, courseware, simulation and optimization, automated theorem-proving, computer-aided design, and automatic differentiation
Applications that stretch the current limits of computer algebra algorithms or systems

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in PDF format of no more than 4 pages. The abstracts will be reviewed by the short communications and software committees.

Committee

Organizing Committee

Christoph Koutschan

General Chair

RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Alin Bostan

Program Committee Chair

Inria and Sorbonne University, France

Clément Pernet

Program Committee Chair

Grenoble INP - UGA, France

Anne FrĂŒhbis-KrĂŒger

Local Arrangements Chair

Carl von Ossietzky UniversitÀt of Oldenburg, Germany

Florian Hess

Treasurer

Carl von Ossietzky UniversitÀt of Oldenburg, Germany

Ali Kemal Uncu

Publicity Chair

University of Bath, UK

Arne Storjohann

Tutorial Chair

University of Waterloo, Canada

Hao Du

Short Communications Chair

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Katsusuke Nabeshima

Software Presentations Chair

Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Short Communications Committee

Erika Ábrahåm

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Hao Du

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Claudia Fevola

Inria Saclay, France

Kisun Lee

Clemson University, United States of America

Jie Wang

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Software Presentation Committee

Alexander Brandt

Dalhousie University, Canada

Clemens Hofstadler

Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Dong Lu

Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Katsusuke Nabeshima

Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Speakers

Saugata Basu

Purdue University, United States of America

Assia Mahboubi

Inria & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, France, Netherlands

Oded Schwartz

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Wadim Zudilin

Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands

Bettina Eick

Tutorial Speaker

Technische UniversitÀt Braunschweig, Germany

Ziming Li

Tutorial Speaker

Academia Sinica, China

Vincent Neiger

Tutorial Speaker

Sorbonne University, France