Sage Days 6 Schedule

This is the provisional schedule for Sage Days 6 in Bristol. We do not expect further changes to the schedule for Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday 10 November

0930-1050 William Stein and Martin Albrecht: Sage for Mathematical and Cryptographic Research [attachment:stein-albrecht.pdf stein-albrecht.pdf], [attachment:stein-albrecht.sws stein-albrecht.sws], [http://sagemath.org/talks/200711-stein-albrecht/ original slides]

1050-1120 Coffee and Tea Break

1120-1210 Ludovic Perret: Gröbner bases in Cryptography : An Overview [attachment:perret.pdf perret.pdf]

1210-1400 Lunch

1400-1500 Robert Bradshaw: Creating Fast Compiled Programs using Sage (["Cython"]) [attachment:fast-cython.pdf slides]

1500-1600 James Davenport: Simplification in Computer Algebra [attachment:davenport.pdf davenport.pdf]

1600-1630 Coffee and Tea Break

1630-1730 Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange: Edwards Coordinates for Elliptic Curves http://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/newelliptic/

1830-2200 Dinner at Goldney Orangery

Sunday 11 November

0930-1030 Michael Brickenstein: High Performace Algorithms for Multivariate Polynomials over Boolean Rings (PolyBoRi) [attachment:brickenstein-polybori.pdf brickenstein-polybori.pdf]

1030-1100 Coffee and Tea Break

1100-1200 Paul Zimmerman: The ["MPFR"] library: well-defined semantics for multiple-precision floating-point numbers [http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/talks/sd6.pdf slides (pdf)]

1200-1400 Lunch

1400-1500 Clement Pernet: Fast Exact Linear Algebra (LinBox)

1500-1600 David Loeffler: Computing Automorphic Forms for Unitary Groups using Sage [attachment:loeffler.pdf]

1600-1630 Coffee and Tea Break

1630-1730 Bill Hart: Algebraic Number Theory with ["FLINT"]

2030-2200 John Cremona (Moderator): Panel Discussion -- "The Future of Open Source Mathematical Software", Panelists: William Stein, Ondrej Certik, Bill Allombert, Michael Abshoff, and Dan Bernstein.

Some possible [:/panel: panel topics] have been suggested, but we are also open to other relevant topics!

Monday 12 November

0900 - 1000 Gregory Bard

1000 - 1100 Planning session for coding sprints

1000 - 1600 Sage development (coding sprint)

1600 - 1700 Ondrej Certik: A Python library for symbolic mathematics (SymPy), [attachment:certik.pdf certik.pdf]

Tuesday 13 November

0900 - 1000 Michael Abshoff: Valgrind

1100 - 1700 Sage development (coding sprint)

1700 - 1800 Lightning talks / demos

Wednesday 14 November

0900 - 1000 Free Slot

1000 - 1400 Sage development (coding sprint)

1400 - 1500 Coding Sprint Wrap-up

1530 - 1630 Tea/coffee at Heilbronn Seminar

1630 - 1730 William Stein: SAGE for number theorists ([http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/events/seminars/series/index.php?id=7 Heilbronn Seminar])