Magma is a relatively new system for computer algebra based and developed at the University of Sydney, Australia, by the computational algebra group, headed by Dr John Cannon. If you want to know what Magma is capable of, if you want to see some examples of Magma code, or if you wish to acquire Magma directly, I refer to the Sydney home pages of Magma. If you wish to invite me to present Magma or to organize a workshop, please send me some e-mail.

The Handbook

Conferences and Workshops

Below I have listed the workshops and conferences on Magma I have been involved with.

• A Magma workshop at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, organized to coincide with the 39th South-African Mathematical Society conference, November 4--6, 1996.
• The Second International Magma Conference (Milwaukee, USA, 12-16 May 1996). One of my current activities concerns the Proceedings of this conference. which took place at Marquette University, Milwaukee.
• The International Magma Workshop (Montreal, Canada, 13-14 July 1995).
• The Third Australian Magma Workshop (Sydney, 18 April 1995). Part of the third Computational Algebra and Number Theory conference (CANT95) at Macquarie University, Sydney.
• The International Cayley/Magma Conference (London, 23-27 August 1993).
• The Second Australian Cayley/Magma Workshop (Sydney, 19 November 1992). Part of the second Computational Algebra and Number Theory conference (CANT92) at the University of Sydney. The proceedings were edited by Alf van der Poorten and me.
• The First Australian Cayley Workshop (Sydney, November 1990). This was part of the inaugural Computational Algebra and Number Theory conference (CANT90) at the University of Sydney, held at the occassion of the retirement of Professor Tim Wall, from November 6 to 9 of 1990. A list of talks.