Sage Days 15: Seattle, WA

DATES: May 16 - 21, 2009

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

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."

* William Stein has pre-paid for FIVE 3-person rooms at

    The Collegiana Inn
    4311 - 12th Ave. NE
    Seattle, WA 98105
    (206) 732-3200

This place has rooms: http://www.collegeinnseattle.com/
There is probably a very nice studio and/or 1-bedroom available apartment that can be rented for a week here: http://www.stanfordatuw.com/
Flyer (pdf)