Sage Days 6 Schedule

This is the provisional schedule for Sage Days 6 in Bristol. "Provisional" in this context means that we don't have confirmations from the alleged speakers yet.

Saturday 10 November

0930-1050 William Stein and Martin Albrecht: Sage for Mathematical and Cryptographic Research

1050-1120 Coffee and Tea Break

1120-1210 Ludovic Perret: Gröbner bases in Cryptography : An Overview

1210-1400 Lunch

1400-1500 Robert Bradshaw: Creating Fast Compiled Programs using Sage (Cython)

1500-1600 James Davenport: Simplification in Computer Algebra

1600-1630 Coffee and Tea Break

1630-1730 Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange: Edwards Coordinates for Elliptic Curves

1830-2200 Dinner at Goldney Orangery

Sunday 11 November

0930-1030 Michael Brickenstein: High Performace Algorithms for Multivariate Polynomials over Boolean Rings (PolyBoRi)

1030-1100 Coffee and Tea Break

1100-1200 Paul Zimmerman: The MPFR library: well-defined semantics for multiple-precision floating-point numbers

1200-1400 Lunch

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

1500-1600 David Loeffler and Kevin Buzzard: Computing Automorphic Forms for Unitary Groups using Sage

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, Robert Bradshaw, Ondrej Certik, Bill Alombert, Michael Abshoff, and Dan Bernstein.

Monday 12 November

0930 - 1030 Ondrej Certik: A Python library for symbolic mathematics (SymPy)

1030 - 1700 Sage development (coding sprint)

1700 - 1800 Free Slot for a Status Report (Gregory Bard)

Tuesday 13 November

0930 - 1030 Michael Abshoff: Valgrind

1030 - 1700 Sage development (coding sprint)

1700 - 1800 Lightning talks / demos

Wednesday 14 November

0930 - 1030 Free Slot

1030 - 1400 Sage development (coding sprint)

1400 - 1500 Coding Sprint Wrap-up

1530 - 1630 Tea/coffee at Heilbronn Seminar