Sage Days 24 Coding Sprint Projects

This is a list of projects suitable for Sage Days 24. Feel free to add your favourite ideas/wishes, and to put your name down for something you're interested in (you'll need to get an account on the wiki to do this).

GIAC Factoring

People: Thomas, Burcin, Richard, William Stein (total anarchy, no leader!)

Kovacic's Algorithm

People: Burcin, Erocal, Felix

Implement Kovacic's algorithm in Sage.

Hypergeometric Functions

People: Flavia Stan, Karen Kohl, Fredrik Johansson, Zaf

Add a hypergeometric function class + simplifications

Plural support


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People: Burcin Erocal, Simon King, Oleksandr, Alex D., Burkhard


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People: Burcin Erocal, Simon King, Alex, Alex D., Burkhard (total anarchy!)


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Add support for Singular's noncommutative component Plural, finish #4539.

Parallel Integration

People: Stefan Boethner, Ralf, Burkhard, Burcin Erocal

Integrate Stefan Boettner's parallel integration code in Sage. There are several prerequisites for this, such as

Function Fields

The goal of this project is to get the basic infrastructure for function fields into Sage. See Hess's papers and talks.

People: William Stein, Sebastian P.

Make sure to see this page for more links.

Fast linear algebra over small extensions of GF(2)

People: Martin Albrecht, Ciaran Mullan, Robert Miller, Sebastian P., Thomas

Here is how long Sage currently takes to compute the reduced row echelon form over GF(2^4) on a Macbook Pro (2nd generation):

n

Sage

NTL *2

Magma

M4RIE

1000

49.49

18.84

0.090

0.097

2000

429.05

149.11

0.510

0.529

3000

1494.33

526.57

1.640

2.315

Note that over GF(2^8) this code is already faster than Magma

> K<a> := GF(2^8);
> for i := 1000 to 10001 by 1000 do
for> A:=RandomMatrix(K,i,i);
for> t:=Cputime();
for> E:=EchelonForm(A);
for> print i, Cputime(t);
for> end for;
1000 1.290
2000 9.870
3000 33.560

gf(2^8), 1000 x 1000: wall time: 0.865
gf(2^8), 2000 x 2000: wall time: 4.306
gf(2^8), 3000 x 3000: wall time: 14.029

Generating Stuff

People: Robert Miller (self-determination!)

Fix sage.functions

People: Frederik, William Stein, Harald

Easy ripping apart of symbolic expression trees

People: Burcin, Thomas, Stefan, Frederik