Sage Days 15: Seattle, WA

DATES: May 16 - 21, 2009

Schedule

Saturday, May 16: Introduction to Sage

All talks on Saturday and Sunday are in the Gates Common, room 691 in the Paul G. Allen Center (see also Google maps to Paul G. Allen Center), top floor.

Morning: Introductory Sage Talks

These talks are aimed at Sage newbies, anywhere from advanced undergrads to people teaching courses on these topics who are interested in seeing Sage in action.
9:30AM - 10:20AM: Linear Algebra using Sage, Rob Beezer
10:30AM - 11:00AM: Calculus using Sage, William Stein stein-calculus.sws
11:05AM - 11:20AM: 3D Plotting using Sage, William Cauchois
11:30AM - 12:20PM: Number Theory using Sage, Craig Citro

Afternoon: Advanced Topics

2:30PM - 3:00PM: From LaTeX to Sage and back again, Rob Beezer
3:15PM - 4:45PM: Cython, Robert Bradshaw & Craig Citro
5:00PM - 5:50PM: Advanced Mercurial Usage, Mike Hansen

Evening: Coding! Party!

5:30PM - 6:30PM: Coding Sprint organization
7:00PM - 9:30PM: Sage-4.0 PRERELEASE PARTY!!!! Math Lounge, Padelford Hall
9:30PM - ???: Coding Sprints!!!

Sunday, May 17: Research/Development

All talks on Saturday and Sunday are in the Gates Common, room 691 in the Paul G. Allen Center, top floor.

Morning

10:00AM - 10:50AM: Sage -- What's on the Horizon for Sage development, William Stein
11:00AM - 11:50PM: Algebraic Topology and Sage, John Palmieri

Afternoon

2:00PM - 2:50PM: ReST/Sphinx, Mike Hansen and John Palmieri
3:00PM - 4:50PM: MPIR/FLINT, Bill Hart and Tom Boothby
5:00PM - 6:00PM: Coding Sprint Organization
6:00PM - ???: Coding!!!

Monday, May 18

11:00AM - 12:00PM: Sage-Combinat and Categories for the Working Mathematical Programmer, Nicolas Thiery in SCC 246
12:00PM - 5:00PM: Coding Sprints in SCC 246 (room info)
(1:30PM - 2:20PM: William's Modular Abelian Varieties class, MEB 243) -- Lecture on Computing with modular forms in Sage
(2:30PM - 3:20PM: William's undergrad Sage class, CMU B027) -- LAB/Tutorial: Writing larger Sage/Python programs

Evening: MEB 238

5:00PM - 6:00PM: Fredrik Johanssen: MPMath
6:00PM - 6:30PM: Coding Sprint Organization

Tuesday, May 19

Morning: Microsoft Research!

9:30AM - 2:30PM: Microsoft Research
9:30AM - 9:55AM: Introduction to Sage, Craig Citro
10:00AM - 10:25AM: Introduction to Cython, Robert Bradshaw
10:30AM - 11:00AM: IronPython: Python and .NET, Jim Hugunin
11:15AM - 12:00PM: sage-windows, William Stein and Dan Shumow
12:00PM - 2:30PM: Lunch and Discussion at MSR
4:00PM - 5:00PM: Andrei Okounkov, Sieg 134

Evening: MEB 238

5:15PM - 6:05PM: Yacop/Algebraic Topology in Sage, Christian Nassau
6:15PM - 6:45PM: Coding Sprint Organization

Wednesday, May 20

11:00AM - 5:00PM: Coding Sprints in SCC 246
(1:30PM - 2:20PM: William's Modular Abelian Varieties class) -- Explicit modular abelian varieties
(2:30PM - 3:20PM: William's undergrad Sage class) -- LECTURE: How I built the Sage project from the ground up
4:00PM - 5:00PM: Andrei Okounkov, Sieg 134

Evening: PAA A110

5:00PM - 5:30PM: Coding Sprint Organization
5:30PM - 7:00PM: Coding Sprints!!!

Thursday, May 21

Morning: Final Status Reports

11:00AM - 1:00PM: Final Status Reports in SCC 248
1:00PM - 5:00PM: Coding Sprints in SCC 248
4:00PM - 5:00PM: Andrei Okounkov, Sieg 134

Evening: PAA A110

5:00PM - 7:00PM: Last Wrap-up (for those still here)

Project Ideas

Projects

Mailing list

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

Video

Might be broadcast using http://www.ustream.tv

Topics

Computational Algebraic Topology
Porting Sage to Windows
Number Theory

Organizers

Michael Abshoff
Craig Citro
Robert Bradshaw
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
D. Benjamin Antieau
Shaun Ault
Rob Beezer
Tom Boothby
Robert Bradshaw
Dan Brown -- interested in Sage + Latex for teaching
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
Stephanie Vance
Carl Witty

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.)

Directions

Room 1:
 * Alia Hamieh

Room 2:
 * Carl Witty 
 * David Roe

Room 3:
 * D. Benjamin Antieau -- get it to SEA/TAC at 9.38pm via United flight 0015.
 * Jerome LeFebvre

Room 4:
 * Bob Bruner  -- NW Flight 211, arriving Seattle Tacoma (SEA) at 11:21 AM.
 * Christian Nassau

Room 5:
 * Shaun V. Ault
 * Nicolas Thiery -- Sunday in the afternoon (3-4pm), and join you at Paul Allen Center.

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)

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