Sage Days 15: Seattle, WA
DATES: May 16 - 21, 2009
Location
- Saturday May 16: Gates Common in the CS building (Paul G. Allen Center) at University of Washington
- Sunday May 17: Gates Common in the CS building (Paul G. Allen Center) at University of Washington
- Monday May 18: 5-7pm in MEB 238
- Tuesday May 19 (morning): at Microsoft Research
- Tuesday May 19: 5-7pm in MEB 238
Wednesday May 20: 5-7pm in PAA A110
Thursday May 21: 5-7pm in PAA A110
Mailing list
Topics
- Computational Algebraic Topology
- Porting Sage to Windows
- Number Theory
Organizers
- Michael Abshoff
- Craig Citro
- Marshall Hampton
- Mike Hansen
- Bill Hart
- Matt Klassen (digipen)
- David Joyner
- William Stein
- John Palmieri
Colloquium Talks
The Fields Medalist Andrei Okounkov will speak at UW on May 19, 20, and 21 at 4pm. Here's a quote from Okounkov: "This brings up many issues. I am not an expert, but I think we need a symbolic standard to make computer manipulations easier to document and verify. And with all due respect to the free market, perhaps we should not be dependent on commercial software here. An open-source project could, perhaps, find better answers to the obvious problems such as availability, bugs, backward compatibility, platform independence, standard libraries, etc. One can learn from the success of TEX and more specialized software like Macaulay2. I do hope that funding agencies are looking into this."
Confirmed Participants
- Michael Abshoff
- Martin Albrecht
- Rob Beezer
- Robert Bradshaw
- Bob Bruner (Wayne State)
- Craig Citro
- Bill Hart
- Fredrik Johansson
- David Joyner
- John Palmieri
- David Perkinson
- William Stein
- Robert Miller
- Tom Boothby
Local travel info
Details still being worked out. See however, http://www.collegeinnseattle.com/ and
The Collegiana Inn
4311 - 12th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 732-3200Flyer (pdf)