Call for Inaugural Issue Papers: ``ALGORITHMS and COMPLEXITY at the INTERFACE of MATHEMATICS and COMPUTER SCIENCE'' September 8, 2006 Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS) is a new journal focusing on foundational research at the interface between mathematics and computer science. Theoretical algorithms and their complexity are central in this foundation, and this will be the focus of our inaugural issue. There are many current challenges at the interface of continuous and discrete computation. For instance, how can we faithfully and efficiently discretize a continuous object, or a continuous problem? When solving a PDE numerically, how do we guarantee the topological or qualitative properties of the solution? Efficient new algorithmic techniques must be developed and analyzed. The inherent complexity of such problems needs to be characterized. Such considerations are central to current research areas such as: * robust geometric algorithms * the surface-surface intersection (SSI) challenge in geometric modeling * mesh generation with guarantees * the development of a theory of real computation * the emerging field of numeric-algebraic computation In general, MCS also addresses experimental and case studies, scientific and engineering computation, design and implementation of algorithms and software systems, applications of mathematical methods and tools, and outstanding or emerging problems in applied computer and information sciences. The Editors-in-Chief are Dongming Wang (UPMC-CNRS, Paris and Beihang University, Beijing) and Zhiming Zheng (Beihang University, Beijing). The journal will be published by Birkh\"auser (Basel). There is a tight deadline for the appearance of our inaugural issue: March 2007. Please send your submission as soon as possible (but before Oct 15, 2006) to one of the Guest Editors: Chee Yap Hoon Hong Courant Institute of Mathematical Sci. Department of Mathematics New York University North Carolina State University 251 Mercer Street Box 8205 New York, NY 10012, USA Raleigh NC 27695, USA email: yap@cs.nyu.edu email: hong@math.ncsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTES: **1 We recommend preparing your paper using LaTeX with the class file in birkmult.zip, following instructions for authors in the MCS webpage. **2 Website for MCS journal from Birkhauser: http://www.springer.com/west/home/birkhauser/ **3 Website for this special issue: http://cs.nyu.edu/yap/mcs-first-issue/ **4 Authors may put a copy of accepted papers on their personal website provided that they cite the journal accordingly, and the article has been formatted by the author (in particular, it should not be the version that is published). You may also put a link to http://www.birkhauser.ch/macis/. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------