Theme

This workshop will be a 5-day intensive workshop to serve both as introduction to Sage and as an open developers meeting. The event will include a combination of mathematical talks, tutorials, demonstrations of Sage functionality as well as time spent on Sage development. The principal focus of the developers meeting is algebraic combinatorics and the representation theory of algebras.

Location and Date

• Centre de recherche mathématique, Montréal, Quebec, May 7-11, 2012.
• Official CRM website for this event

Invited speakers

• Meinolf Geck, University of Aberdeen
• Florent Hivert, LRI, Université Paris-Sud
• Anne Schilling, University of California Davis
• Øyvind Solberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Nicolas Thiéry, LMO, Université Paris-Sud
• Derek Ruths, McGill University

Who should attend

You! A specific goal of the workshop is to provide a venue for faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students to learn more about the software. This will make it accessible to researchers at all levels, even those without any prior experience with Sage. Since it will be held in May, it is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students embarking on summer research projects and graduate students looking to incorporate scientific computation into their research projects.

Registration and financial support

Online registration will be handled by the official CRM website for this event:

• Online registration

Questionnaire. In addition to the online registration, we also ask that you complete the following questionnaire:

• Questionnaire / Intention to participate

Financial support. A limited amount of financial support is available for students and postdocs. Requests for financial support can be made through the official CRM website for the conference.

• Request for financial support

Lodging

See the Accomodation page of the Official CRM website for this event. Each participant should book their own hotel room.

Organizing committee

• Srecko Brlek, Université du Québec à Montréal
• Sébastien Labbé, Université du Québec à Montréal
• Franco Saliola, Université du Québec à Montréal

Preliminary Schedule

Below is a timetable for the week; a full detailed schedule is available here.

	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
8h30	Coffee & Croissants	Coffee & Croissants	Coffee & Croissants	Coffee & Croissants	Coffee & Croissants
09h00	Introduction to Sage	Talk - QPA by Solberg	Talk - Zen by Ruths	Open Presentations	Open Presentations
10h00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10h30	Tour de Table and Installations	Tutorial III - basic Python given by Montréal Python	Tutorial IV - some usefull libraries by Montréal Python	Open Presentations	Open Presentations
11h30	Tutorial I - Notebook	Talk - PyCox by Geck	Tutorial V - Contributing to Sage	Tutorial VI - Cython	Open Presentations
12h30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13h30
14h30	Tutorial II - Calculus and Linear Algebra in Sage	Exercices and Coding Sprints	Exercices and Coding Sprints	Exercices and Coding Sprints	Exercices and Coding Sprints
15h30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16h00	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints
17h00	Status Reports	Status Reports	Status Reports	Status Reports	Status Reports
17h30	Buffet at CRM	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner
18h30	Montréal Python Meeting	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints

Participants

• Frank Ban, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Chris Berg, LaCIM, Montréal, Canada
• Alexandre Blondin Massé, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
• Pierre Bouchard, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Juan Carlos Bustamante, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• Sean Carrell, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Stephen Doty, Loyola University Chicago, USA
• Jérôme Fortier, LaCIM UQAM Montréal, Canada
• Darij Grinberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Mathieu Guay-Paquet, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Holly Heglin, York University, Canada
• François Huard, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada
• Mélodie Lapointe, UQAC, Chicoutimi, Canada
• Syed Lavasani, University of Calgary, Canada
• Dorota Mazur, York University, Canada
• Nishan Mudalige, York University, Canada
• Viviane Pons, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
• Vivien Ripoll, LaCIM, UQAM, Montréal, Canada
• Eric Rowland, LaCIM, UQAM, Montréal, Canada
• Travis Scrimshaw, University of California Davis, USA
• George Seelinger, Loyola University Chicago, USA
• Tarek Sellami, Institut de Mathématique de Luminy, Marseille, France
• James Stark, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
• Hugo Tremblay, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Aaron Lauve, Loyola University Chicago, USA
• Paul Guertin, Collège André-Grasset, Montréal, Canada
• Héctor José Blandin Noguera, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Domingo Alberto Quiroz Rodriguez, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
• Tom Denton, York University, Canada
• Gilbert Labelle, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Michael Larouche, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
• Mike Zabrocki, York University, Canada