Sage Days 8.5
Dates you could come
- William Stein: any dates during June 13 - June 22, July 3 - July 6.... (I'm now going to ISSAC July 20-23 too).
- Michael Abshoff: pretty much any date except July 20–23, i.e. ISSAC 2008
- Martin Albrecht: most dates should be fine after June 14 until August 17 (CRYPTO)
- Marshall Hampton: Only great dates for me are July 13 - 18th; my summer is very tightly scheduled. I will try to make any weekend date.
- Craig Citro: Anything after July 4 works great for me.
- Jason Grout: May 19 - May 23; June 23 - June 26; July 28 - Aug 15
- David Roe: May 24-June 25, August 18-Sept 9
- Emily Kirkman: June 13 - June 22
- Clément Pernet: any date except July 7-11 (SIAM meeting in San Diego), and maybe July 20-23 (ISSAC), although not sure I'll go there.
- Mike Hansen: any dates at this point
- Burcin Erocal:
- David Harvey
- Bill Purvis: any dates at this point (retired systems engineer)
Topics
- Cython -- something much deeper than usual, and not necessarily so Sage related. Cython is one of the "killer apps" of Sage:
- expand range of Cython developers (i.e., Robert tells us how to work on Cython).
- increase documentation
- future development directions
- PEX
- pickling
- MS Windows -- figure out how to do a full native port of Sage to Windows. Seattle would be a good place for this theme, and I'm working on getting some Microsoft funding to support doing a port.
- visiting Microsoft and meeting the clients
- finish the cygwin part
- teach everyone how to use MSVC
- Parallel computation in Sage -- DSage, Ipython1, Threads again; sort of like the MSRI conference last year but much more focused on Sage and actual implementations.
- Exact linear algebra -- perfect to capitalize on Clement Pernet being around, and the positive momentum behind Linbox, IML, etc. There would be a number of talks on all the basic tricks of exact linear algebra, systematic benchmarking, with the goal being to "beat Magma" at a range of exact linear algebra problems.
