SIGSAM Viability Review
SIG Governing Board
March 19, 2005
By Emil Volcheck, SIGSAM Chair
Financials
FY 2006 Budget stable
- Fund balance: $6800
- Conference reserve: $2900
Membership
Membership up
- June 2004: 363
- March 2005: 396
Professional members stable at about 220
Volunteers
Officers, Past Chair (5)
Editors (3)
Information Director (1)
Advisory Board, Members-at-Large (5)
Citations Project Coordinator (1)
CD Project (2)
Nomination committee members (9)
Conferences
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC)
Well-attended, submissions up, good return
Past:
Philadelphia, 2003: 139 registered, +$3800
Santander (Spain), 2004: 165 registered, +$5800
Future:
Beijing in 2005 (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Genoa in 2006 (Univ. Genoa; ICM)
Highlights
AMS Math Reviews cooperation
ACM Fellow: George Collins
ISSAC awards, Jenks Prize
Citations Project
Proceedings on CD
Discount for developing countries
Bylaws revision
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