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SAGE Days 2: SAGE: Now and The Future

A talk for [:days2:the SAGE Days 2 workshop], by William Stein.

• The purpose of this workshop:

  • lots of strategy, planning, brainstorming, etc.
• Funding ideas:
  • NSF Grants:
    • Computational Math program

    • CSUMS (http://sage.math.washington.edu/grants/stein-csums-06/)

  • The SAGE Mathematics Foundation
  • Parallel SAGE push
• Mercurial revision control system: why? what? how? -- a very quick tour

• Python 2.5 (see http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html)

  • index method; finally v[ZZ(2)] works!!

  • lists with more than 2^{32} elements

  • lots of speedups
  • ctypes is included standard
  • conditional expressions: x = true_value if condition else false_value

  • context managers: relevant to all the discussion about precision lately: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/pep-343.html

• Recently added SAGE components:
  • GSL: GNU Scientific Library
  • Twisted: Networking framework
• Upcoming events that are relevant to SAGE development:
  • October 23-27: I'm speaking about SAGE at an IMA "Software in Algebraic Geometry" in Minnesota later this month.
  • Nov 5-11: Me at CCR
  • Dec 3-4, 2006: Me at Waterloo

  • Jan 29-Feb 2: MSRI Interactive Parallel Computation ---> SAGE

  • March 10-14, 2007: Arizona Winter School (I'm at co-organizer). David Savitt (here) is the organizer.
  • June 3-8, 2007: Banff workshop on modular forms computation -- I'm an organizer
  • July 30-Aug 3, 2007: AIM: Workshop on Modular Forms and L-functions -- I'm an organizer
  • Plans:
    • SAGE 2.0: fast arithmetic
    • SAGE 3.0: parallel
    • Along the way: modular forms, elliptic curves, groebner basis, quaternion algebras, etc. -- what people want