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 stein-albrecht.pdf, stein-albrecht.sws, original slides
1050-1120 Coffee and Tea Break
1120-1210 Ludovic Perret: Gröbner bases in Cryptography : An Overview perret.pdf
1210-1400 Lunch
1400-1500 Robert Bradshaw: Creating Fast Compiled Programs using Sage (Cython) slides
1500-1600 James Davenport: Simplification in Computer Algebra 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) 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 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 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 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), 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 PDF and tar.bz2