Monday

• 9 am: Welcome, and Sage installation help
• 10am-11am : Sage overview (presentation, demo, Sage-Combinat) (Franco + Nicolas)
• 11am-12pm: coffee break at University Club (next door), Introductions, more Sage installations

Lunch Break

• [the afternoon sessions may start later to accommodate time for lunch - please stay tuned for updates]

• 1pm: Tutorial: Using the Sage notebook and navigating the help system (Jason) [help-notebook sws file]

• 2pm: Tutorial: Doing the first exercises from Project Euler (Jason).

  See also the List tutorial [list sws file]

• 3pm: coffee break

• 3:15pm: Open tutorials (Anne, Jason, Florent, Franco, Nicolas):

  • Tutorial: Linear algebra (Franco) [linear algebra sws file]
  • Tutorial: Combinatorics (Jason) [combinatorics sws file]
  • Tutorial: Words [words sws file]
  • Other resources:
    • The Sage tutorial
    • Sage thematic tutorials and demos
    • Introductory book in French: Introduction à Sage

Tuesday

• 9am-9:30am: Tutorial: Programming in Python and Sage (Franco/Jason) [programming tutorial sws file]
  • Worksheet: The 3n+1 Conjecture [Collatz conjecture sws file]
  • Worksheet: Strings and the Burrows-Wheeler Transform [strings and Burrows-Wheeler sws file]
• 9:30am-noon: Anne's giving an introduction to implementations for crystal categories.
• 10:30am: coffee break
• 11am: Tutorial: Editing Sage's Sources

Lunch break

• 2pm: Anders: "Strategies for computing Schubert structure constants"
• 3:15pm: coffee break
• 3:30pm: Tutorial: how to kindly report a bug or suggest an improvement (20 minutes)
• 3:35pm: Coding sprint organization
• 4pm-: Coding sprints

Wednesday

• 9am-9:30: Sign up for projects and short meetings; presentations of work so far (students and others)
• 9:30-10:45am: Tutorial: Object oriented programming (FlorentHivert) [tutorial-objects-and-classes sws file]
• 9:30am: concurrent development projects: Scheicher and Thuswaldner algorithm, subspaces, posets
• 10:45am: coffee break
• 11am-11:20am: Tutorial: programming iterators [tutorial-iterators sws file] (FlorentHivert)

Lunch break

• 1:30pm: concurrent development projects: actions
• 3pm: coffee break
• 3:30pm: concurrent development projects: IntegerVectors, crystals, d-complete posets
• 5pm: Coding sprint status report
• 5:30pm: ultimate frisbee (most likely on the NW dyke field - directions will be provided)

Thursday

• 10am: coffee break

• 10:15am-12:15pm: Series of Tutorial: Contributing to Sage [contribute to sage sws file] How to contribute

  • Using and programming sage from the command line (Christian)
  • Creating a patch (Nicolas)
  • Reviewing a patch (Anne and Franco) Short step-by-step checklist
  • Sage combinat installation (Florent)

• 2pm: Coding sprint status report

• 2:30pm: Robert Smith Equivalence in Computer Algebra

• 3pm: coffee break

• 5:30pm: local weekly pick-up ultimate frisbee, President's Field (on the campus map: between field 46 (Raymond Field, fenced-in fancy field), building 48 (Festival Theatre, a former arena, so looks like one), and behind white house 47 (Alumni Hall administrative offices, formerly the university president's house))

Friday

• fill out travel reimbursement forms - TBA

• 10am: coffee break

• 10:15am-11:15am: Tutorial: Contributing to Sage-combinat Mercurial step by step

  Illustrated by the outdated picture

  

Lunch break

• submit code for student contribution prize by 1pm
• 2pm: Coding sprint status report
• 3pm: coffee break

Potential material

• Tutorial: Using algebraic structures: vector spaces, ... (Jason Bandlow, Florent Hivert, Nicolas Thiéry)
• Tutorial:: Implementing your own algebraic structures (Jason Bandlow, Floren Hivert, Nicolas Thiéry)
• Tutorial:: Graph theory
• Tutorial:: Linear programming
• Tutorial/demo:: Symmetric functions
• Tutorial: cluster algebras (Christian)
• Tutorial: Crystal bases (Anne)
• Tutorial: Posets (Franco)
• Tutorial: Parents, Elements, Categories (Nicolas Thiéry)
• Lexicographic generation of lists of integers (Florent Hivert, Nicolas Thiéry) Algorithmic & design
• Canonical forms, normal forms, and computer representation (Robert Smith)
• Schubert calculus: challenges, solutions, projects
• Various algebras in Sage (Hecke algebra, nilCoxeter, Temperley Lieb, local plactic) (Anne)

Discussions

• Thematic tutorials setup
• Categories
• The Sage-Combinat roadmap
• The Sage-Combinat workflow: writing the specs
• Modeling set containment: "x in S" see Discussion about Containment in Sage
• Posets, ideals/upper set

Development Projects

See the projects page.