Sage-FLINT Days

Organisers: John Cremona, William Hart, ....

What

A Sage Days around the theme of Number Theory and FLINT (Fast Library for Number Theory http://www.flintlib.org/)

Where

Warwick University in the UK (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/general/institute/)

When

17 - 23rd December 2011 (the formal program will finish on 21st, but participants can remain until 23rd to collaborate and code).

Program

* Two invited talks per day (including intro to Sage talks)

* A single evening public lecture

* Coding sprints.

Aims of the workshop

* Put flint2 into Sage

* Switch some of the mwrank code to use flint2.

* Help the Singular developers make better use of flint2.

* Introduce Sage to UK Number Theorists.

* Introduce Sage to Warwick researchers, postgrads and undergrads.

* Foster collaborations between the large Computational Number Theory and other research groups at Warwick and the Sage project.

* Hold talks on recent algorithmic developments in Computational Number Theory.