The First Training School offers the following courses and tutorials:

• Introduction to Gröbner bases and other methods in elimination theory (Lecture notes).
  Bruno Buchberger (RISC, Austria, a brief introduction into the Gröbner bases method and its origins by the inventor of the method), Franz Winkler (RISC, Austria).
• Cylindrical algebraic decomposition and its applications. QEPCAD.
  Christopher W. Brown (Naval Academy, USA).
• Introduction to basic techniques and software for symbolic summation and integration (Materials).
  Manuel Kauers (RISC, Austria), Carsten Schneider (RISC, Austria).
• Solving and manipulating differential equations with Maple and Mathematica. (Materials).
  Elena Kartashova (RISC, Austria), Georg Regensburger (RICAM, Austria), Markus Rosenkranz (RICAM, Austria).
• Maple tutorial.
  Alexander Potapchik (MapleSoft, Canada).
• Mathematica tutorial.
  Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC, Austria).
• Short tutorials on symbolic computation software systems:
  • GAP. Erhard Aichinger (Department of Algebra, JKU, Austria).
  • Magma. Janka Pilnikova (RICAM/RISC, Austria).
  • Singular (Materials). Viktor Levandovskyy (RISC, Austria).
  • Theorema. Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC, Austria).

Online material will be available. Courses and tutorials will be supplemented by exercises.