= Sage Day 25.5: Introduction to Sage and Combinatorics =

[[/francais|Version française ici]]

== One Day : Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 ==

== Location : SH-3420, LaCIM, UQAM, Montréal, Canada ==

  * Room SH-3420 is located in the [[http://www.uqam.ca/campus/pavillons/sh.htm|Sherbrooke Building]]
  * [[http://lacim.uqam.ca/|LaCIM - Laboratoire de combinatoire et d'informatique mathématique]]

== Context ==

Held in sandwich between [[http://lacim2010.lacim.uqam.ca/|LaCIM 2010 - 20th aniversary]] and [[http://gascom2010.lacim.uqam.ca/|GASCom]] conferences, this day is an opportunity for their participants to learn more about [[http://sagemath.org/|Sage]]. Introductory talks will be given and possibly talks or discussions on Sage adapted to the audience of LaCIM 2010 (algebraic combinatorics, theoretical computer science, bioinformatic, physics and number theory) and GASCom (generation of combinatorial objects and bijective combinatorics). Students starting their Autumn semester will be invited as well. The goals are :

  * Introduce the audience to Sage and in particular its combinatorial features
  * Help people installing Sage on their computer
  * Present topics related to LaCIM 2010 and GASCom conferences (e.g. species theory) and how Sage can be helpful
  * Give the opportunity for Sage developpers to meet and discuss


== Invited Speaker ==

  * Florent Hivert
 
== Organizers ==

  * Alexandre Blondin Massé
  * Franco Saliola
  * Sébastien Labbé

== About Sage ==

Sage is a free open-source  mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. Its mission is to create a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.

  * http://sagemath.org/

A recent video screencast given by William Stein, the initiator of Sage, at Sage Days 25 in India :

  * [[http://vimeo.com/13986940|Introduction to Sage: History, Goals, Demo]], 49 min.

An electronic book in french about mathematics and Sage, under the Creative Commons CC-by-sa license, was published recently : 

  * Calcul mathématique avec Sage, livre gratuit, juillet 2010 : http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/ 

== Registration ==

If you want to participate, fullfil the following form. There is no fee to attend the event, but your answers to those five simple questions will help us to improve its organization.

  * [[https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE1mc0N2M3lJQlpyN244MTdHOTdRUXc6MQ|Register for Sage Days 25.5]]

== Schedule ==

If you have any suggestions (a talk to give, a discussion topic, a special demand) feel free to contact us.

WARNING : The schedule below is subject to change.


||08:30-09:00||Coffee||
||09:00-09:30||Installation of Sage ([[/win_install|Windows instructions]]) ||
||09:30-10:30||Introduction to Sage and Sage-Combinat, by Florent Hivert [[attachment:SageIntroductionHivert.pdf]]||
||10:30-11:00||Presentation of participants (name, occupation, objectives) ||
||11:00-12:00||Finish the Installation of Sage & Basic tutorial||
||12:00-14:00||Lunch||
||14:00-14:30||Finish the Tutorial I||
||<|3>14:30-15:30||Teaching with Sage - Ressources available on the web, by Sébastien Labbé||
||Graph Theory, by Franco Saliola||
||Combinatorics on words, by Alexandre Blondin Massé||
||15:30-16:00||Coffee||
||<|2>16:00-17:00||Species theory and Sage Combinatorics Library, by Florent Hivert||
||animate and interact commands, using Sage from LaTeX, by Sébastien Labbé ||
||17:00-19:00||Happy hour at [[http://www.brasseriebenelux.com/|Benelux]] (Belgium pub) at 245, Sherbrooke West Street||

== Tutorials for Sage Days 25.5 and Mini Demos ==

  * How to use the Sage Notebook : [[attachment:SageDays25.5-Tutorial1.sws]] (traduit en français, voir [[/francais]])
  * Basic Python objects : [[http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/slabbe/days20/CIRM%20Tutorial%203.sws|CIRM Tutorial 3.sws]] (traduit en français, voir [[/francais]])
  * Florent's Combinatorics Worksheet : [[attachment:SageDemoHivert.sws]]
  * Tutorial on Combinatorics given at Sage Days 20 in Marseille by Nicolas Thierry : [[http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/slabbe/days20/NicolasThierry%20-%20sage-combinat%20demonstration.sws|Sage-Combinat demonstration.sws]]
  * Graphs mini-demo : [[attachment:SageDays25.5-Graphs.sws]]
  * Sage + Latex demo : [[attachment:devoir.tex]] + sagetex = [[attachment:devoir.pdf]]
  * Some [[/../animate|animations]] done with Sage
  * [[/../interact|Many examples of interact]] are available on the Sage Wiki. You can also consult "interact?" directly in sage which contains lot of examples.
  * Documentation for Words Library : http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/combinat/words.html
  * [[attachment:The Fibonacci Word.sws]]

== Teaching with Sage ==

  * [[http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_with_SAGE|Materials and links]] to recent math courses given with Sage
  * [[http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_using_SAGE|Some more materials]]
  * The [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu|sage-edu mailing list]] which is for helping those who have teaching or education-related ideas or questions relating to Sage.

== Participants ==

  * Alexandre Blondin Massé
  * Ariane Garon
  * Carine Pivoteau
  * Charles Fortin
  * Christian Stump
  * Florent Hivert
  * Franco Saliola
  * Hugo Tremblay
  * Jean Berstel
  * Jean-Philippe Labbé
  * Johan Oudinet
  * John Mc Kay
  * Malcolm Harper
  * Marco Robado
  * Mathilde Bouvel
  * Mélanie Beck
  * Michèle Soria
  * Olivier Dubois
  * Olivier Picard
  * Pierre Bouchard
  * Rodrigo Matias
  * Samuel Boucher
  * Sébastien Labbé
  * Srecko Brlek
  * Sylvie Hamel
  * Thierry Monteil
  * Timothy Walsh
  * Vivien Ripoll
  * Yannic Vargas