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

http://groups.google.com/group/sagedays15

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

Tuesday, May 19, 10:30am, at Microsoft Research -- Jim Hugunin (of Microsoft and lead developer of IronPython) will speak about IronPython: Python and .NET
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
Shaun Ault
Rob Beezer
Tom Boothby
Robert Bradshaw
Bob Bruner (Wayne State)
Craig Citro
Alia Hamieh
Marshall Hampton
Mike Hansen
Bill Hart
Mike Hill
Fredrik Johansson
David Joyner
Kiran S. Kedlaya
Matt Klassen
Karen T. Kohl
Jerome Lefebvre
Robert Miller
Christian Nassau
John Palmieri
David Perkinson
David Roe
Dan Shumow
William Stein
Nicolas M. Thiery

Local travel info

* William Stein has already fully paid for FIVE 3-person rooms May 15 - May 22, 2009, at

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

If you would like to stay in one of the Collegiana rooms, email [email protected] to reserve a spot. (And, you don't have to pay anything out of pocket.)

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/
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