Sage Days 22: Computing with Elliptic Curves

The official MSRI page for this workshop.

Location: MSRI at Berkeley, California Dates: June 21, 2010 to July 02, 2010

Schedule

• Schedule

Mailing Lists

• Participant mailing list

• Closed organization mailing list

Senior People

Number Theory: John Cremona (Warwick), Tim Dokchitser (Cambridge), Noam Elkies (Harvard), Matt Greenberg (Calgary), Ken Ribet (Berkeley), William Stein (University of Washington), Jared Weinstein (UCLA), Christian Wuthrich (Nottingham)

TA: Robert Miller (University of Washington)

Open Source: Robert Bradshaw (Google), Fernando Perez (Berkeley), Peter Norvig (Director of Research at Google), Prabhu Ramachandran (Bombay)

Project Groups

• Student group assignments

• General Sage related background reading

Projects:

1. John Cremona (Warwick University): ''Tables of elliptic curves''

2. Tim Dokchitser (Cambridge University): ''Complex L-functions and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture''

3. Matthew Greenberg (University of Calgary): ''Mod p representations associated to elliptic curves''

4. Jared Weinstein (UCLA) and William Stein (Univ. of Washington): ''Heegner Points and Kolyvagin's Euler system''

5. Christian Wuthrich (Nottingham): ''p-adic L-series and Iwasawa theory''

Colloquium

• Ken Ribet (Berkeley): TBA

Special Day -- June 25: Open Research Computation in Python

• Robert Bradshaw (Google) -- Cython: the best of both worlds
• Jarrod Millman (Berkeley) -- The Foundation for Mathematical and Scientific Computing
• Peter Norvig (Google) -- TBA
• Fernando Perez (Berkeley) -- Python: an ecosystem for scientific computing
• Prabhu Ramachandran (Bombay, India) -- Python in Science and Engineering Education in India
• William Stein (University of Washington) -- Sage: creating a viable open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab

Links

• There will be another workshop at MSRI at the same time on elliptic curves for undergrads: http://www.msri.org/up/2010