ECCAD, East Coast Computer Algebra Day, is an annual one-day conference that provides opportunities to learn and share new developments and to present research results in the area of Symbolic Computation. ECCAD 2004, will be held on Saturday, May 8^th, 2004 and is hosted by the Computer Algebra Research Group, Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Previous ECCAD conference homepages can be consulted at: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~saunders/eccad/.

1. Tuesday, June 1, 2004: e-ECCAD'2004 An Electronic Conference in Computer Algebra
   
2. Monday, May 3, 2004: Directions to the ECCAD'2004 conference building:
   
   • ECCAD'2004 will be held in the Laurier Faculty of Science Building, Room N1001, Ground Floor.
   • The Laurier Faculty of Science Building is located on King Street North, close to the King Street North and University Avenue West intersection in Waterloo. Taxi drivers (and everybody else in Waterloo) refer commonly to this intersection as "King and University".
     
   • The mailing address of the Laurier Faculty of Science Building is "75 University Avenue West" but the two entrances to the building (which are closer to room N1001) are actually on King Street, directly across the street from Lodge Street.
   • The Laurier Faculty of Science Building is shown as building number 24 in map1 and map2. See also this map.
3. April 30, 2004: The conference web page will be inaccessible on Sunday May 2, 2004, due to a power shutdown affecting the Science building from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
4. April 21, 2004: NEW Deadline for submitting poster abstracts - May 1, 2004.
5. April 8, 2004: All three ECCAD'2004 invited speakers are confirmed.

Maplesoft is offering two free Maple tutorials for ECCAD 2004 attendees. Two concurrent sessions are running from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Titles include:

1. Getting the most out of Maple's LinearAlgebra Package
   Dave Linder, Team Lead, Mathematical Software
2. Maplets - A Customizable Interface to Maple
   Stephen Forrest, Developer, Mathematical Software

Topics

First Announcement and Call for Paper

• ECCAD'04 1st Announcement in PDF format
• ECCAD'04 1st Announcement in Text

Conference Poster

• Snapshot JPEG (800 x 1178, 200K)
• Full size JPEG (1800 x 2650, 1MB)

Important Dates

• ECCAD 04 - Sat., May 8th, 2004
• NEW Deadline for submitting poster abstracts - May 1, 2004
• Deadline for travel support - April 30th, 2004
• Registration begins - January 2nd, 2004

Travel Support

Limited funding for participants based in Canada and the United States is available, with a preference towards graduate students and new PhD's who are presenting a poster. More details will be available when the registration begins.

Information

Direct your questions to the ECCAD'2004 organizer Ilias Kotsireas by e-mail at ikotsire@wlu.ca or at eccad2004@wlu.ca. Phone numbers: 1-519-589-1323 and 1-519-884-0710 x 2218.