Recent advances in the life sciences have created a growing demand for rigorous computational tools that provide global and certifiable information about complex models and high-dimensional data sets. This gives rise to many new and interesting computational challenges that often are of an algebraic nature.
The goal of this session will be to bring together experts on a wide range of topics at the intersection of computational biology and computer algebra, and to spark new conversations across methodological boundaries.
The session will highlight applications in several areas of biology, such as ecology, phylogenetics, reaction network theory, transcriptomics and more, emphasizing how computational tools have become indispensable for analyzing biological models in these fields. In addition, it will showcase a variety of algebraic techniques used to address key challenges in these areas, including (but not limited to) differential algebra, numerical algebraic geometry, symbolic computation, tensor decomposition, and tropical geometry.
The session will be part of the International Congress on Mathematical Software 2026 in Waterloo, Canada.
If you are interested in giving a talk in the session, please send your title and abstract by email to one of the session organizers. Abstracts are evaluated and accepted continuously until March 1, 2026.
Each talk will be 20 minutes long, followed by 5 minutes for questions.
TBA.
Joseph Cummings (University of Edinburgh)
josephcummings03 [at] gmail [dot] com
Marina Garrote-López (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
marina [dot] garrote [at] upf [dot] edu
Oskar Henriksson (MPI-CBG Dresden)
oskar [dot] henriksson [at] mpi-cbg [dot] de