SD 10 Coding Sprint

Rules

• participation is optional
• starting monday daily and optional status report meetings at 6pm in the amphitheater
• each person should only participate in a project or two
• 3.1.3 should be out by monday

Informal lectures

These should be held on Monday

• Using Cython (Robert Bradshaw)
• The new coercion system - the final frontier (Robert Bradshaw or any other volunteer)
• Mercurial and Mercurial Queues (Mike Hansen)

Coordinators

• Combinatorics: Mike Hansen
• Linear Algebra: Clement Pernet
• Groebner Basis (Martin Albrecht)
• Elliptic Curves (?)

Suggested projects

• Bug Squashing (Michael Abshoff, 1/2 David Harvey, Simon King)
• Polynomial Factory over QQ (Andy, Bill Hart, 1/2 David Harvey, Michael Abshoff)
• Nash Equlibria (Greg Bard, Paul)
• linear algebra over polynomial rings (Burcin Erocal)
  • (esp. for nullspace computation over fraction fields of these)
• improve the state of fraction fields (Burcin Erocal)
• F5 (Martin Albrecht, Michael Brickenstein, Simon King, Paul)

  • http://www.math.usm.edu/perry/Research/

• Matrix Factorisation over GF(2) (Martin Albrecht, Clément Pernet, Greg Bard, , Jean-Guillaume Dumas)
• Linear Algebra modulo Small Primes (Clément Pernet, , Jean-Guillaume Dumas)
• Sage-Combinat (coming soon)
• Linear Algebra on GPU: play with the local Ge8800 and FFLAS-FFPACK (Michael Abshoff, Clément Pernet)