Sage days 10 in Nancy (France)

October 10 to 15, 2008 at the Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (Loria)

Registration

Please register on the [http://registration.net-resa.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/gnetresa.woa/wa/newParticipant?idevt=281&profil=396 registration website].

Program committee

• Michael Abshoff
• Timothy Daly
• Laurent Fousse
• Clément Pernet
• Ludovic Perret
• Paul Zimmermann

The following program is preliminary.

Program:

• October 10: Linear Algebra (chair Clement Pernet)
  • Invited speakers:

    • [http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~astorjoh/ Arne Storjohann]

    • [http://ljk.imag.fr/membres/Jean-Guillaume.Dumas/ Jean-Guillaume Dumas]

    Contributing speakers:
    • Martin Albrecht
    • Gregory Bard

    • [http://www.rlmiller.org Robert Miller]

• October 11: Elliptic Curves (chair Laurent Fousse)
  • Invited speakers:

    • [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/J.E.Cremona/ John Cremona]

    • [http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/david.lubicz/index_en.html David Lubicz]

• October 12: Groebner Bases (chair Ludovic Perret)
  • Invited speakers:

    • Carlo Traverso: [:/CarloTraversoTalk: Groebner bases, lattices and cryptography]

    • [http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~eschost/ Éric Schost]: Computing with triangular families of polynomials: an overview

    Contributing speakers:
    • B. Erocal : SCrypt: Using Symbolic Computation to Bridge the Gap Between Algebra and Cryptography

    • M. Brickenstein : Secrets of Singular and PolyBoRi

      • This talk presents techniques for Gröbner bases calculations implemented in the computer algebra system Singular and the

        PolyBoRi framework. I will consider

        • data structures
        • algorithms
        and give application examples, show their structure and explain how to exploit it.

    • [http://www-calfor.lip6.fr/~renault/index.html G. Renault]

• October 13-15: Coding Sprints (chair Michael Abshoff)

Each "talk" day (October 10 to 12) typically has 2 invited speakers, who are specialists in the corresponding domain, not necessarily already in contact with SAGE, and 3 contributed speakers, who typically describe a SAGE module (or a proposal of).

The SAGE Days 10 dinner will take place on the 11th.

Location:

[http://www.loria.fr/presentation-en Loria] [http://cado.gforge.inria.fr/workshop/venue.html Coming to Loria (webpage from another event, don't be confused).]

   LORIA
   Campus Scientifique
   54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy
   France

[http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&ll=48.665497,6.157295&spn=0.002643,0.00501&t=h&z=18 Google Maps]

Accomodations

• [http://www.ot-nancy.fr/uk/centre_historique/index.php Finding an hotel in Nancy.]

• We will also coordinate a group reservation at the youth hostel: [http://www.fuaj.org/Nancy# Un petit coin de paradis]. Sign up in the ["Days 10 Youth Hostel Page"] if you're interested.

Close events

You may be interested in the [http://cado.gforge.inria.fr/workshop/ CADO project workshop] which will occur at the same place, October 7-9.

Sponsors

• http://ljk.imag.fr/membres/Laurent.Fousse/lorraine.png

• [http://www.grand-nancy.org/ Communauté Urbaine du Grand Nancy]

• [http://www.uhp-nancy.fr/ University Nancy 1 Henri Poincaré]

• [http://www.inria.fr/ INRIA]

• [http://www.gdr-im.fr/ GDR IM]

PhD students attendance support

Thanks to funds donated by our sponsors, we are able to support attendance costs for a small number of Ph.D. students. Interested students should apply directly per mail to Paul Zimmermann (<paul.zimmermann@loria.fr>).