Sage Days 50: Women in Sage (4)

Sage is a mathematics software package, developed by and for the mathematics community. It aims to become a viable alternative to commercial software packages on the basis of an open-source model.

This will be a 6-day workshop which will include a combination of mathematical talks, tutorials, demonstrations of Sage functionality as well as time spent on Sage development. We will focus on various aspects of computational number theory with the goal of increasing the number of women developers.

How to Apply

We'd like to hit the ground running this year, so we have a few more steps to our application process.

• At Code Academy join the Women in Sage group.

• At Code Academy complete the Python track modules 1-8.

• Getting a Trac Account

• Do a few Sage problems and send them in an e-mail to aly [dot] deines [at] gmail [dot] com

• Fill out this form

Projects

• Preliminary reading for Michelle's project

  • Notes (from Amy and Anne): Our group has a Benford prediction and a Benford count function written. We also have a chi squared test using the prediction and count. It is important to note that our null hypothesis is that there is no correlation between the prediction and the actual count--thus, we want to have high p-values for sequences that follow the Benford distribution.

• Introduction and references for Adriana and Ursula's project

• Preliminary reading for Kristin and Lily's project.

Dates/Location

• July 10 - 15, 2013 in Seattle, Washington at The Shuey House

• Note: check-in is 4pm on July 9; check-out is 10:30am on the 16th

• Floorplan/photos: http://www.shueyhouse.com/photo.htm and preliminary room assignments

Speakers

• Lily Khadjavi (Loyola Marymount University)
• Kristin Lauter (Microsoft Research)

• Michelle Manes (University of Hawaii) Slides: Benford_SageDays.pdf

• Adriana Salerno (Bates College)
• Ursula Whitcher (University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire)

Schedule

All talks on Wednesday and Thursday will take place in Thomson 325 http://www.washington.edu/maps/embed/?place=234

WiSD4_schedule.pdf

Note

Saturday's schedule has been changed. Saturday morning is a free morning. We'll start back up at 1 p.m. with project updates.

Getting Started

• Installing Sage

• Getting a Trac Account

• Development Basics

• Tutorials and Problem Sets

• Patch How To

• Reviewing Patches How To.rtf

• Trac Ticket How To.rtf

Participants

• Jen Berg (University of Texas at Austin)
• Alina Bucur (University of California San Diego)
• Amy Feaver (University of Colorado)
• Anne Ho (Colorado State)
• Yasemin Kara (Cornell University)
• Beth Malmskog (Colorado College)
• Yiwei She (University of Chicago)
• Kate Thompson (University of Georgia)
• Christelle Vincent (Stanford)

Other Info

• Organizers: Aly Deines (UW), Jennifer Balakrishnan (Harvard)
• Funding: Microsoft Research (via Kristin Lauter) and The Beatrice Yormark Fund for Women in Mathematics

Group Photo

Groupphoto

Important Coding Lessons

• Sage is object-oriented. If you're creating a patch that adds a function, your function probably needs to be associated with an object.