Sage Days 14: Sage and Macaulay2 for Algebraic Geometry Experimentation

March 10 - 12, 2008 in Berkeley, CA

• Official MSRI Page

This is part of the massive 2009 algebraic geometry program at MSRI.

We now have a poster (or get the svg source file).

Organizers

• Local organizers: David Eisenbud (UC Berkeley), Daniel Erman (UC Berkeley), Dan Grayson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mike Stillman (Cornell University)
• Sage organizers: William Stein (University of Washington), Mike Hansen (University of Washington)

Participants

• Confirmed: Mike Hansen, Justin Walker, Andrey Novoseltsev, Alex Ghitza
• Likely: Emily Kirkman, Kiran Kedlaya (probably March 11-12)

Hotel

• We have a block of 8 rooms reserved at the Rose Garden Inn.

Participants needing hotel room (please add your name and dates here):

• William Stein (arrive March 9; leave March 12)
• Justin Walker ()
• Alex Ghitza (March 8 to March 13)
• Andrey Novoseltsev (arrive March 9, leave March 12, reserved an "original double" room already)

Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen reached by the link in the previous sentence.

Very Tentative Schedule

Tuesday, March 10:
 * 9 - 10 am William Stein: Introduction to Sage
 * 10:30 - 11:30 David Eisenbud and Mike Stillman: Doing Algebraic
                 Geometry in Macaulay2 -- an introduction
 * 1:00 - 2:00pm Mike Hansen: The Sage/Macaulay2 interface
 * 2:30 - 3:30 pm: Alex Ghitza: Algebraic Geometry using Sage
 * 4:00 - 5:30 pm Justin Walker et al.: Interactive Sage Tutorial (for
                 command line users)
 * evening projects and discussion by people interested in coding

Wednesday, March 11:
 * 9:30 - 10:30 am Andrey Novoseltsev: Lattice Polytopes using Sage
 * 11:00am - 12:00 pm: William Stein et al.: discussion about
             mathematical software -- what do you want?
 * 1:30 - 3:00 pm Mike Hansen et al.: Interactive Sage Tutorial (for
             notebook users)
 * afternoon/evening projects and discussion by people interested in coding

Thursday, March 12:
 * 10:30 - 11:30am Dan Bump: Lie theoretic methods in Sage
 * 1:00pm: final wrap-up