Sage Days 91: Open Source Computation and Algebraic Surfaces (Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2017)

Location: Banff International Research Station.

Schedule

https://www.birs.ca/events/2017/2-day-workshops/17w2677/schedule

Projects

Feel free to add suggestions

Please add "sd91" as a keyword to any tickets you are working on during this Sage Days so they show up in this list: sd91 Tickets

Lattice related projects

• fix vector matrix multiplication for free module elements #23576

• fix .annihilator() for the trivial abelian group #22720

• use the inner_product_matrix for module comparison #23915

• implement finite bilinear/quadratic forms and make sure that the discriminant group has one #23699

• implement QQ/ZZ , QQ/2ZZ or QQ/nZZ as abelian groups. This is where finite quadratic/bilinear forms have values
• implement a class for (subgroups of) the orthogonal group of a finite bilinear/quadratic form and an algorithm to compute it
• diagonalization and isomorphism testing for finite quadratic/bilinear forms
• create a genus from a signature pair and a finite quadratic form
• create a finite quadratic form from a genus

• a latex representation for the genus using the Conway Sloane genus symbols #23916

• a base class for the orthogonal group of a lattice
• a method to compute the orthogonal group of a positive definite lattice

• expose more of Jeffery Hein's lattice code than is currently being used for modular forms 23342

Point counting and zeta function projects

• hypergeometric motives: Euler factors at good primes #23671, possibly others

• get Edgar Costa's code for zeta functions of projective hypersurfaces into Sage #23863

• package Sebastian Pancratz's code for deformation computation of zeta functions #20265

• implement a (rigorous, sane) test for Weil polynomials. More ambitious: get this code for exhausting over Weil polynomials into Sage

• Add Malcolm Kotok's code for zeta functions using the Sperber-Voight algorithm to Sage: #19865, http://hdl.handle.net/1802/30832

• implement the Cayley trick for handling nondegenerate complete intersections

Tickets needing review

• a class for integral lattices #23634

• bugfix for genera equality testing #23376

• Speedups for reflexive polytopes: #22391, #22594

To prepare for the workshop

Before the workshop, we recommend opening a Sage trac account and completing the Code Academy modules on Python and Git. If you like you may download and install the latest version of the source code of Sage, or use the k8s server described below.

The k8s server

William Stein has kindly provided a server for us to use during the workshop, with 48 CPUs and 256 GB of RAM. It is running CoCalc, so you can access it from your browser.

Creating an Account

You should create an account here. You will need a secret token, which will be e-mailed to participants (ask an organizer if you can't find it). Once you have an account, someone will have to add you to the Sage Days 91 project; anyone who is already part of the project can do so from the project settings page. At that point, you will be able to access the server at k8s.sagemath.org.

Git

If you will be doing Sage development, you need to set up a terminal that knows who you are (since we're all using the same user when we log in from the browser). This way we will be able to share Sage installations on the server. To set this up, open up a terminal (~/Terms/Admin.term exists for this purpose) and run the script setup_user (from anywhere). This will ask you some questions (name, e-mail, trac account info) and create a terminal for you (~/Terms/$TRAC_USERNAME.term). It will also create an ssh key specific to you that you should upload to trac. If you're ever interacting with git, you should use this terminal (or the ssh method described below) so that git knows who you are.

Note that by default, it will store your trac password in plain text in a file on the server. If you don't want it to, just answer "No" to the "store trac password" question, and you'll be asked for it at the beginning of each terminal session.

SSH

Once you add the public key from your laptop (generated by ssh-keygen and then copied from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub for example) to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the browser, you will be able to SSH into the project using the following command.

ssh [email protected] -p 2222

At the beginning of your key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server you should add command=".init_user roed"  for example. You can look at the other keys there for examples.

Sage installations

You can create a new Sage installation for yourself by running

new_sage

at your command prompt, or new_sage $YOUR_TRAC_USERNAME at any prompt (replacing $YOUR_TRAC_USERNAME with your trac username. Note that this will take a couple minutes.

The setup described above also means that the sage command in your terminal will be aliased to your copy of Sage, and anyone will be able to use your sage install from a Jupyter notebook by selecting the appropriate kernel.

Building and Large output

Avoid sending huge amounts of output in a terminal, as this slows the whole project down for everybody (proper output truncation isn’t sufficiently implemented). Here are some options to avoid this.

1. When building Sage, you can do

./sage -b > output 2>&1

rather than just sending a large amount of output to your terminal. You can check on output by typing

tail output

2. If you know tmux, do control+b, then c to make a new session, and leave the large-output session in a different session. You can switch back and forth with control+b then n.

3. If you've set up your terminal as described above, then

make build

in your sage folder will do the redirection for you, as well as automatically use many threads (so that the build goes much faster).

Possible Interest Groups

Lattices: Simon Brandhorst, Amy Feaver, Andreas Malmendier, David Roe, Ichiro Shimada

Zeta functions (Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology/deformation): Jen Balakrishnan, Edgar Costa, Kiran Kedlaya

Zeta functions (Dwork cohomology): Anastassia Etropolski, Heidi Goodson, Tony Várilly-Alvarado, Ursula Whitcher

People of many interests: Jen Berg, Renate Scheidler, Mckenzie West, David Zureick-Brown, Lenny Taelman