Sage Days 66 in Liège, Belgium
When
From March 30 to April 2nd 2015
What
Monday, Tuesday will be devoted to users with introduction talks. We welcome local students and professor from Liège to attend those talks.
Wednesday and Thursday will be devoted to developers (wanabees welcome) with lot of time for development.
There is a possibility that Wednesday will be reserved to solving bugs (Bug Day) where development of new features will be prohibited.
Possible development projects:
- - decrease Sage doctesting time (some tests are too long)
- Reduce the number of [tickets that needs review|http://trac.sagemath.org/report/75]
Some magic powder
There will be "Math Computing Fights" organized at the end of the first two days. There will be math quiz involving computations. There will be prices for the fastest and nicest solutions and also for participation. People may use whatever software they want. The show will be inspired from Star Academy and vote will be done by the audience. The goal will be to have fun and learn from each other.
Where
Université de Liège, Belgium
Confirmed Speakers
- Thierry Monteil (LIPN, Paris 13)
- Vincent Delecroix (Labri, Bordeaux)
Participants
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- Štěpán Starosta (Pragues)
- Tomáš Kalvoda (Pragues)
- Émilie Charlier (U. Liège)
- Michel Rigo (U. Liège)
- Eric Rowland (U. Liège)
- Elise Vandomme (U. Liège)
- Michelangelo Bucci (U. Liège)
- Thierry Monteil (LIPN, Paris 13)
- Vincent Delecroix (Labri, Bordeaux)
- Sébastien Labbé (U. Liège)
Organizers
- Sébastien Labbé (U. Liège)
Other events
Other events that we had to consider for choosing the date are:
16-20 Mars: alea http://alea15.math.cnrs.fr/, CIRM Marseille
- 18-22 May: conference numeration, Nancy
- 25-29 May: conference automatic sequences, Liege
- 1-5 june: young researcher school "Growth, Symbolic Dynamics and Combinatorics of Words in Groups", Paris