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
I have been involved in the development and documentation
of Magma since 1989. The contents of the
Handbook of Functions will give you an impression of the
scope of Magma.
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.
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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.
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The International Magma Workshop (Montreal, Canada, 13-14 July 1995).
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The Third Australian Magma Workshop (Sydney, 18 April 1995).
Part of the third Computational Algebra and Number Theory conference
(CANT95) at Macquarie University, Sydney.
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The International Cayley/Magma Conference (London, 23-27 August 1993).
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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.
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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.