Mark Giesbrecht
	Associate Professor Associate Director School of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario Canada

Research

My research interests are in all aspects of symbolic mathematical computation, including

• algorithms for symbolic linear and multi-linear algebra
• symbolic-numeric algorithms for polynomials
• factoring polynomials and differential operators
• algebraic complexity
• generic libraries and the LinBox project
• computer algebra systems (from top to bottom)

I am a member of the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo and a principal investigator with the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra.

Some of my recent publications are available here.

Professional Activities

I perform some service in the research community. Here's a summary of some of what I'm currently up to:

• ISSAC 2009 Program Committee
• SNC 2009 Program Committee
• NSERC Herzberg and Brockhouse Prize panels
• ACM SIGSAM Chair (July 2007 - June 2009).
• The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 2007) at the University of Waterloo.  It was fun!  I survived.
• Steering Committee Chair: International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), 2006-2007.
• Programme Committee Member, ACM International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC'2005), Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2005.
• Elected Member at Large, ISSAC Steering Committee (2004-2007).
• Programme Committee Member, Workshop on Symbolic Numeric Computing, Xi'an China, July 19-21, 2005.
• Editorial Board of the Journal of Symbolic Computation
• Program Committee Chair for the IMACS Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA) Conference, July 28-31, 2003 at NCSU in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
• Program Committee member for the 2003 ACM International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC'2003), August 3-6, 2003 at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

A more complete summary of what I'm doing professionally can be found here.

Students

I currently have quite a number of graduate students in symbolic mathematical computation and compiler optimization. The Symbolic Computation Group also has a number of (currently full) post-doctoral and visiting researcher positions.

Teaching

• Winter 2009: CS 487 – Introduction to Symbolic Computation
• Fall 2008: CS136 – Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction
• Winter 2008: CS 487 – Introduction to Symbolic Computation.
• Spring 2007: CS 887: Advanced Symbolic Computation.  My part was on computations with lacunary polynomials.  This is really fun stuff.
• Winter 2007, Spring 2007. I taught CS136: Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction again. More Scheme, more ideas, less Java, less clutter!
  
  I have taught many courses in computer algebra, compilers, systems programming, introductory programming, discrete mathematics, distributed systems and others. In fact, in the more than 30 courses I have taught, I've never done one more than twice...(actually, as of Spring 2007 this is no longer true: I have taught CS 136 three times).

More about my teaching...

Administative Activities

Since January 2009 I have been Associate Director of the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. This puts me on more committees and in more meetings than I care to name. Sometimes good things are accomplished.

From July 2002 through June 2005, I was the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Computer Science. This means, among other things, I was chair of the Undergraduate Academic Plans Committee (formerly the Curriculum Committee) and the Undergraduate Operations Committee. I was in recovery, but fell off the wagon in January 2009. See above.

I also have a number of other administrative responsibilities at the University of Waterloo. Here's a summary.

Contact Information

Mark Giesbrecht
Associate Professor School of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics University Of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada Email: URL: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mwg	Office: Davis Centre 1310 Phone: +1 519 888-4567 ext. 36582 Fax: +1 519 885-1208 Administrative Assistant:   Suzana Pinto (general) ext. 37198 SCG Lab: Davis Centre 2302