*-Combinat 2009

International Sage Workshop on Free and Practical Software for Algebraic Combinatorics

Dates: July 25-29

Location: RISC, Linz, Austria

This event will follow FPSAC'09, and be part of RISC's summer 2009.

Goals

Program

Saturday, July 25

9:30-10:30

Burcin Erocal and FrancoSaliola

Introduction to Sage

an overview talk about Sage, which explains the history and motivation for the project, demonstrates some key features of Sage, and discusses where we are going next. It will be accessible to people in all research areas and assumes no prior experience with Sage.

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-11:45

FlorentHivert and NicolasThiéry

Introduction to Sage-combinat

an overview talk about Sage-combinat

11:45-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

FrancoSaliola and NicolasThiéry

Hands on Tutorials

?summary?

15:00-15.30

Coffee Break

15:30-16:00

JasonBandlow

Symmetric Functions

16:00-17:00

Burcin Erocal

How to get started developing Sage

a summary of relevant bits and pieces for developing software with Sage

17:15-

Coding Sprint Organization

Short self introductions, list of project ideas and people willing to work on them

Sunday, July 26

9:30-12:00

Informal Sage-Combinat lab

come work on your own problem with experts at your full disposition

?list of possible topics?

12:00-

Free afternoon

Monday, July 27

9:30-10:30

FrancoSaliola

Posets and words

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:00

Carsten Schneider and Burcin Erocal

Difference Fields and Symbolic Summation in Sage

?summary?

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:30

DanDrake

Combinatorial generation by backtracking

?summary?

14:30-15:30

FlorentHivert

Version control with mercurial for LaTeX and programming

15:30-16:00

Tea Time

16:00-17:00

Ralf Hemmecke and FlorentHivert

Combinatorial species and tree-like structures

Practical use in Aldor-Combinat and Sage

17:00-

Coding Sprint Status Reports

Tuesday, July 28

11:00-12:00

AnneSchilling and NicolasThiéry

Root systems, coxeter groups and crystals

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

NicolasThiéry

Categories for the working mathematical programmer

Implementing algebraic structures in Sage, using parent, elements, and categories

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:30

FlorentHivert and NicolasThiéry

Implementing Hopf algebras

17:00-

Coding Sprint Status Reports

Wednesday, July 29

9:30-10:30

<speaker?>

Sharing experimental code with the Sage-Combinat patch server

10:30-11:00

Veronika Pillwein

CAD and Special Function Inequalities

11:00-12:00

Coding sprints

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-

Coding sprints

Thursday, July 30

9:30-12:00

Coding sprints

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-

Coding sprints

14:00-

Coding Sprint wrapup

Projects

Organizers

Registration

Registration is free, but please register on: http://www.conferences.jku.at/riscsummer2009/e2570/index_eng.html.

Very convenient and reasonably priced rooms are available for reservation from the same site, but may run out. Register early!

Prerequisites

All attendees are expected to have Sage >= 4.1 and the Sage-Combinat patches installed on their laptops. If you do not plan to bring a laptop, please contact the organizers, and we will have a terminal setup for you. Please come see us for help during FPSAC if you encounter any problem!

Sage 4.1 will be available shortly from: http://www.sagemath.org/download.html

See http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/MercurialStepByStep for the installation instructions of Sage-Combinat. On UNIX/Mac, it boils down to running the following command in a terminal:

sage -combinat install

T-Shirts

If you would like to get the T-Shirt for this workshop (~$10), please write the size below before July 11th. Here is the current design (suggestions welcome): front-nt.png back-nt-2.png

And if you wonder about the meaning: Sage is the powerful propeller allowing us to soar high to our Castle in the Sky. Our hope is that in return our scouting will help drive the car to new horizons.

Registered Participants

Preliminary list of short tutorials

Besides the main general-purpose Sage-Combinat tutorial, we will run short tutorials focused on specific features, with a (flexible) format like 10 minutes of presentation; 20 minutes of exercises. Here are some ideas. Please feel free to suggest others, especially around some features you developed yourself!

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