The International Workshop on Parallel and Symbolic Computation (PASCO) is a series of workshops dedicated to the promotion and advancement of parallel algorithms and software in all areas of symbolic mathematical computation. The pervasive ubiquity of parallel architectures and memory hierarchy has led to the emergence of a new quest for parallel mathematical algorithms and software capable of exploiting the various levels of parallelism: from hardware acceleration technologies (multi-core and multi-processor system on chip, GPGPU, FPGA) to cluster and global computing platforms. To push up the limits of symbolic and algebraic computations, beyond the optimization of the application itself, the effective use of a large number of resources -memory and general or specialized computing units- is expected to enhance the performance multi-criteria objectives: time, energy consumption, resource usage, reliability. In this context, the design and the implementation of mathematical algorithms with provable and adaptive performances is a major challenge.

The workshop PASCO 2010 will be a three-day event including invited presentations and tutorials, contributed research papers and posters, and a programming contest. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

• Design and analysis of parallel algorithms for computer algebra
• Practical parallel implementation of symbolic or symbolic-numeric algorithms
• High-performance software tools and libraries for computer algebra
• Applications of high-performance computer algebra
• Distributed data-structures for computer algebra
• Hardware acceleration technologies (multi-cores, GPUs, FPGAs) applied to computer algebra
• Cache complexity and cache-oblivious algorithms for computer algebra
• Compile-time and run-time techniques for automating optimization and platform adaptation of computer algebra algorithms

The conference invites submission of papers presenting original research, either in the form of extended abstracts (2 pages) or full papers (up to 10 pages) in ACM format. As in previous years, PASCO 2010 will publish formal proceedings of the accepted papers. Please refer to the conference web site for details, important dates, and the programming contest.