Symbolic Computation in Education

This informal seminar will provide a forum for foreign and Chinese researchers, educators, and other experts actively involved or interested in developing, using, and practicing methods and software tools of symbolic computation for education to exchange ideas and views, to discuss teaching philosophy and pedagogical techniques, to present research and experiments, and to build up contacts for future cooperation. The scientific program of the seminar will feature invited talks and short presentations.

Confirmed main invited talks will be given by:

• Falai Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
• Bernhard Kutzler (Austrian Center for Didactics of Computer Algebra)
• Jerry Uhl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Lu Yang (Guangzhou University, East China Normal University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences)

If you are interested in attending this seminar and giving a 25-minute talk, please send the title and an abstract of your talk to the organizers by March 5, 2006. Your work addressing any issue about the influence and usage of symbolic computation in education will be considered for presentation at the seminar. Specific topics include (but are not limited to):

• Teaching philosophy and methodologies, innovative pedagogical ideas and techniques based on symbolic computation
• Theoretical reflections and empirical studies on educational impact and role of symbolic computation (on different subjects and at different levels)
• Experiments and comparisons on using symbolic computation methods and software systems for education
• Methods and software tools of symbolic computation developed for educational purposes
• Internet- and web-based teaching, learning, and assessing
• Development of curricula and educational environments integrating symbolic computation
• Survey, analysis, and report on educational activities using symbolic computation

SCE 2006 is the third in a series of seminars, organized in China, on various subjects interacted with symbolic computation. The previous two seminars were on

• Geometric Computation (Hefei, China, April 24-26, 2002), with a book published by World Scientific,
• Differential Equations with Symbolic Computation (Beijing, China, April 14-16, 2004), with a book published by Birkhäuser.

Organizers

Shangzhi Li and Dongming Wang* School of Science Beihang University Beijing 100083, China Fax +86 10 8233 8311

Jingzhong Zhang Institute for Educational Software Guangzhou University Guangzhou 510405, China

*On leave from LIP6-UPMC-CNRS, France