Applications of advances in computer algebra to studying classical integrable systems and related algebraic structures

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The area of my work is the study of differential equations and the development of computer algebra algorithms and programs to investigate these equations. Partial differential equations (PDEs) describe the behaviour of a quantity in space and time. They are especially interesting if they allow solutions that propagate and keep their shape or solutions that have shape preserving structures propagating towards each other, penetrating each other and afterwards taking again their original shape. Such PDEs have a number of unusual properties, for example, they have infinitely many conserved quantities and infinitely many infinitesimal symmetries. They are called 'integrable'. To find these integrable PDEs one formulates mathematical conditions for their special properties in the form of auxiliary equations and tries to solve them. These conditions have in common that they are overdetermined, i.e. they involve more conditions than unknowns. The idea is to have one powerful package of computer programs to solve overdetermined systems and to use that repeatedly to find integrable differential equations of different kind.