*-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

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

Tentative program

Saturday, July 25

10:00-11:00

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Introduction to Sage

an overview talk about Sage, which explains the history and motivation for the project, demos 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.

11:00-12:00

Florent Hivert and Nicolas Thiéry

Introduction to Sage-combinat

an overview talk about Sage-combinat

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13.30-15:00

Hands-on Tutorials

15:00-15.30

Coffee Break

15:30-16:30

Burcin Erocal

How to get started developing Sage

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

16:30-

Coding Sprint Organization

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

Sunday, July 26

10:30-11:30

Informal Sage-Combinat lab

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

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12:00-

Free afternoon

Monday, July 26

10:00-11:00

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11:00-12:00

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12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

16:00--

Coding Sprint Status Reports

Tuesday, July 27

10:00-11:00

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11:00-12:00

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12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

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Coding Sprint Status Reports

Wednesday, July 28

10:00-11:00

Carsten Schneider

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11:00-12:00

Burcin Erocal

Difference Fields and Symbolic Summation in Sage

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12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

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!

Registered Participants

Unconfirmed 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!