= AMS Short Course: Computing with Elliptic Curves using Sage =

= WiFi in Back Bay Ballroom B: SSID SherBosMtg, passcode F4HM =

= This page: http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmm12 =

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Create an account at the Sage public notebook server: [[http://www.sagenb.org]].

== Mailing lists ==

  * Participants: https://groups.google.com/group/sage-jmm2012
  * Organizers: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-short-course

== Dates ==

 * January 2-3, 2012 in Boston, MA at the joint AMS/MAA meetings

After the Short Course, please visit the [[jmms2012|Sage booth]] in the Joint Meetings exhibits area!

== Precourse Preparation ==

Read through the following (all are free):

 * ''The Official Sage Tutorial'': [[http://sagemath.org/doc/tutorial/|html]] or [[http://sagemath.org/pdf/SageTutorial.pdf|pdf]]
 * ''The Official Python Tutorial'': [[http://docs.python.org/tutorial/|html]] or [[http://wstein.org/edu/2012/jmm12/python-tutorial.pdf|pdf]]
 * ''Three Lectures about Explicit Methods in Number Theory Using Sage'': [[http://sagemath.org/doc/bordeaux_2008/|html]] or [[http://sagemath.org/pdf/bordeaux_2008.pdf|pdf]]

== Course Materials ==

 * Everything combined into a single PDF: [[attachment:JMM2011-notes.pdf]]

 * Noam Elkies (Harvard University): [[http://math.harvard.edu/~elkies/ams12.pdf|PDF Notes]] and [[http://sagenb.org/home/pub/3936/|Sage Worksheet]] version of [[http://math.harvard.edu/~elkies/ams12.gp|GP/PARI session illustrating computations]].   
 * Kiran Kedlaya (UC San Diego): [[http://sagenb.org/home/pub/3927/|Sage Worksheet]] or [[http://demo.sagenb.org/home/pub/335/|Sage Worksheet on demo.sagenb.org]] or  [[attachment:kedlaya.sws]]
 * Ken Ribet (UC Berkeley): [[http://sagenb.org/home/pub/3929/|Sage Worksheet]] or [[attachment:William Stein -- JMM -- Solving Cubic Equations.sws]]
 * William Stein (Univ of Washington):  [[attachment:stein-1.pdf|PDF Slides]] and [[http://sagenb.org/home/pub/3931/|Sage worksheet illustrating computations]] or [[attachment:stein-2.sws]]
 * Jared Weinstein (Boston University): [[http://sagenb.com/home/pub/3900/|Sage Worksheet]]

== Schedule ==

 * We are in [[http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2012/2138_progfull.html|the official AMS schedule]].

=== January 2, 2012 ===
||9:00am - 10:30am || Kiran Kedlaya: Introduction to Python and Sage||
||10:30am - 11:00am|| Break||
||11:00am - 12:30pm||Software Session 1: QA format -- How do I do XXX in Sage?||
||12:30pm - 2:00pm|| Break (lunch)||
||2:00pm - 3:30pm|| Ken Ribet: Computing with elliptic curves over finite fields using Sage||
||3:30pm - 4:00pm|| Break||
||4:00pm - 5:00pm||Software Session 2: Problem format -- [[/probs|try to solve a problem yourself using Sage]]||
||5:00pm – 6:30pm||Reception: Back Bay Ballroom D - Sheraton||


=== January 3, 2012 ===

||9:00am - 10:30am||Jared Weinstein: Computing with elliptic curves over the rational numbers using Sage||
||10:30am – 11:00am|| Break||
||11:00am - 12:30pm|| William Stein: Computing with the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture using Sage||
||12:30pm – 2:00pm||Break (lunch)||
||2:00pm - 3:30pm||Elkies: Computing with Elliptic Surfaces||
||3:30pm – 4:00pm||Break||
||4:00pm – 5:00pm||Software Session 3: QA format -- How do I do XXX in Sage?||

== Description ==

  See [[attachment:sage_short_course-2011.pdf]].