Business Meeting of ISSAC 2009

1. The Business Meeting of ISSAC 2009 took place from 17:00 to
18:00, July 29, 2009, in KIAS, Seoul Korea.  Around 70 participants
of ISSAC 2009 were present at the meeting.  The steering committee chair,
Xiao-Shan Gao, chaired the meeting.


2. Steering Committee Members

2.1 Fachgruppe Computeralgebra was renewed for another three year
term as one of the three organizations having organization members
in the Steering Committee.

2.2 Elizabeth Mansfield replaced  Daniel Lichtblau as an
organizational member to represent SIGSAM in the Steering Committee.

2.3 An election took place to vote for a new member at-large to
replace Xiao-Shan Gao. The organizational members of Steering
Committee nominated Dongming Wang, Franz Winkler, Chee Yap as the
candidates. Marc Moreno Maza was nominated as a write-in candidate.
The winner of the election was Franz Winkler. We decided not to
disclose the number of votes.

3. ISSAC 2011 Bids

We had two bids for ISSAC 2011: (1) Northeastern University at
Boston by Gene Cooperman; (2) ACM Federated Computing Research
Conference at San Jose by Emil Volcheck, which was presented by
Erich Kaltofen. The votes are 30 for Boston and 36 for San Jose.
So, San Jose won the bid.


4. ISSAC 2009 Report.

The treasurer of ISSAC 2009, Eberly Wayne, reported the number of
attendees of financial situation of ISSAC 2009. According to the
ISSAC website, 110 people pre-registered for ISSAC 2009. There were
several on-site registrations.  According to preliminary calculations,
ISSAC 2009 will make a profit.

5. ISSAC 2010 Update

The conference chair of ISSAC 2010, Wolfram Koepf, presented the
update for ISSAC 2010. The organization of ISSAC 2010 is on time.
The PC is already formed and the CFP is available at the conference.

Stephen Watt, the PC chair of ISSAC 2010, proposed possible ISSAC
submission and referee changes: (1) short author response to the
referee reports and (2) early submission of abstracts. There are
some discussions. The Steering Committee thought that it is the
right of PC chair to organize the submission process and refereeing
procedure.

6. Website for ISSAC

A website for ISSAC was set up by Stepehn Watt at:
http://www.issac-symposium.org.
An SC member will maintain the website.  Michael Monagan agreed to do so.
The website will archive:
(1) Past ISSAC documents
(2) ISSAC bylaws and other possible new rules for ISSAC
(3) Steering Committee members, past and present.

7. Yosuke Sato and Michael Monagan suggested that software session
   at ISSAC should be consistent, possibly with a time slot for
   presentation at the conference based on a carefully refereeing
   procedure.

8. Conference Survey

There are no discussions about 7 and 8 due to time constraints.


Prepared by Xiao-Shan Gao

August 4, 2009.