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].

See the [http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/sd10_participants.pdf list of participants].

Program committee

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

The following program is preliminary.

Program:

See [http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/sd10_schedule.pdf the full program in pdf format].

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

    • [http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~astorjoh/ Arne Storjohann]:[:/AStorjohannTalk: Algorithms for linear algebra on polynomial and integer matrices: similarities and differences]

    • [http://ljk.imag.fr/membres/Jean-Guillaume.Dumas/ Jean-Guillaume Dumas]:[:/JGDumasTalk: Simultaneous Modular Reduction and Kronecker Substitution for Small Finite Fields]

    Contributing speakers:
    • Martin Albrecht: [:/MAlbrechtTalk: Matrix multiplication over GF(2) in the M4RI library]
    • Gregory Bard : Using Graph Theory to Control Fill-in for Sparse Matrix Reduction to RREF over Fields of non-zero characteristic

    • [http://www.rlmiller.org Robert Miller]: [:/RMillerTalk: An example of implementing automorphism groups: linear codes]

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

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

      • This talk will give a survey of Sage's capabilities for computations with elliptic curves, including some recent developments and a wish-list of possible future developments.

    • [http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/david.lubicz/index_en.html David Lubicz]: [:/DavidLubiczTalk: Computing modular correspondences for abelian varieties (with Jean-Charles Faugère)]

    Contributing speakers:

    • Nadia El Mrabet: [:/NadiaElMrabetTalk: Implementing the Weil, Tate and Ate pairings using Sage]

• October 11: Sage-Combinat (chair Nicolas Thiery) (follows the Elliptic Curves session)
  • Invited Speakers:
    • Florent Hivert and Nicolas Thiéry: *-Combinat: Sharing Algebraic Combinatorics since 2000
    Contribution speakers:
    • Mike Hansen: Decomposable Objects and combinatorial species
    • Robert Miller: Partition Refinement for Classification
    • Franco Saliola: Posets and words in Sage-Combinat
• 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]: [:/EricSchostTalk: Computing with triangular families of polynomials: an overview]

    Contributing speakers:

    • B. Erocal : [:/BurcinErocalTalk: SCrypt: Symbolic computation assists algebraic cryptanalysis]

    • 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 Guénaël Renault]: [:/GuenaelRenaultTalk: Computation of the Triangular Representation of a Splitting Field]

• October 13-15: Coding Sprints (chair Michael Abshoff)
• October 14: SAGE Demo by Robert Bradshaw at 17h.

Standard day schedule is as follows:

• 09h30-10h00 Arrival/registration
• 10h00-11h00 Invited Talk 1
• 11h00-11h30 Coffee Break
• 11h30-12h00 Contributed Talk 1
• 12h00-14h00 Lunch Break
• 14h00-15h00 Invited Talk 2
• 15h00-15h30 Coffee Break
• 15h30-16h00 Contributed Talk 2
• 16h00-16h30 Contributed Talk 3

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]