Workshop Announcement:

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   The computational complexity of polynomial factorization
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                    May 15 to May 19, 2006

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/polyfactor.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be 
devoted to algorithms for factoring polynomials.

Both univariate and multivariate polynomials will be considered,
with coefficients from finite fields, the rationals, and the complex 
numbers. The goal of the workshop is to invent significantly
faster new algorithms, or in turn establish hardness of a given
factorization problem. 

The workshop is organized by
Shuhong Gao, Mark van Hoeij, Erich Kaltofen, and Victor Shoup.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/polyfactor.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than February 15, 2006. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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The AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC) hosts focused
workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. ARCC
focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on
a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a
significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an
important new result, or investigating the convergence between
two distinct areas of mathematics.

For more information about ARCC, please visit
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