Sponsors

• NSF grant OCI-1147247, Collaborative Research: SI2-SSE: Sage-combinat: Developing and Sharing Open Source Software for Algebraic Combinatorics
• Laboratoire de Recherche en informatique, Université Paris Sud
• Laboratoire de mathématiques, Université Paris Sud

Tentative Schedule

Below is a timetable for the week; a full detailed schedule is available here.

	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
09h00	Welcome, Sage installation Coffee	Talk II - T. Roby	Tutorial III - contributing to Sage C. Berg	Talk IV - M. Mezzarobba	Open Presentations
10h00	Introduction to Sage Tom Denton	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10h30		Tutorial II - Programming in Python and Sage V. Pons	Tutorial IV - coercion and category framework S. King	Tutorial IV -coercion and category framework (continued) S. King	Open Presentations
10h45	Tutorial I Sage notebook and help system M. Guay-Paquet
11h30	Talk I - M. Zabrocki	Talk III - S. King
12h30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14h00	Round table - discussion A. Schilling	FindStat Demo (Chris, Viviane, Travis)	Exercises and Coding Sprints	Digiteo Seminar G. Gonthier*	Exercises and Coding Sprints
15h00					Final Status Reports
15h30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16h00	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints	Coding Sprints
17h00	Coding Sprints	Status Reports	Status Reports	Reintro. to Sage T. Scrimshaw

• Monday morning-Wednesday morning: tutorial for newcomers and talks with a slant toward algebraic combinatorics
• Afternoons and rest of the week: coding sprints
• Thusrday 2pm-3pm: by a coincidence, the Digiteo Seminar will take place in our conference room, with a distinguished lecture by Georges Gonthier on computer-checked proofs: Le génie mathématique, du théorème de quatre couleurs à la classification des groupes.

Newcomers are welcome to join later in the week; there won't be specific events organized for them then, but we will be available for questions and discussions while they get through tutorials on their own or work on their personnal projects.

Access and directions

The workshop will be held at the Faculté d'Orsay, in the math department in the Petit Amphi of the Bâtiment 425.

The math department is 45 minutes from Paris downtown by local trains (take the RER B from Charles de Gaulle or downtown Paris in the direction of St-Rémy-les-Chevreuse and get off at Orsay-Ville). For more details see directions (in french). To purchase the train ticket, there are green machines that take credit cards or coins but no bills. The price to Orsay is 13 euros.

The closest RER station to the hotel: Residhome Bures La Guyonnerie is Bures-sur-Yvette (one station after Orsay-Ville) (see map).

Here is a map2 with points of interest (Math department, Hotel, grocery store, restaurants)

The math department is a five minute walk from the hotel (see below).

Depuis Paris, prendre le RER ( ligne B ) en direction de St-Rémy-les-Chevreuse, et descendre à Orsay-Ville. Se diriger vers le bas de la vallée. On peut alors continuer à pied jusqu'à l'entrée principale de l'Université, puis suivre le sentier qui remonte, jusqu'au fléchage indiquant le bâtiment 425 vers la gauche ( voir le plan en cliquant ici ). Il est également possible de prendre le bus 06-07 ( voir le circuit du bus ) jusqu'à l'arrêt "Château", et suivre le fléchage à partir de là.

(From Paris, take the RER (line B) to St-Remy-les-Chevreuse and get off at Orsay-Ville. Proceed down the valley. We can then continue on foot to the main entrance of the University, then follow the path back until signs indicating the 425 building to the left (see map here). It is also possible to take the bus 06-07 (see circuit bus) to stop "Castle", and follow the signs from there.)

Projects

The wiki page for the projects and coding springs is available here.

Registration

Participation is free. To register, please fill in this poll so that we can plan ahead for rooms, coffee breaks, ... and also to optimize the lodging. Please send us your e-mail address as well so that we can get in touch with you as the workshop gets closer.

Lodging

We have negociated a reduced price at the nearby Residhome Appart Hotel from Bures-sur-Yvette. The rate is of 66€ per night (56€ 5 nights or more) for a two person studio (double bed or twin bed). There is also a reduced rate of 106€ (90€ for 5 nights or more) for a four person apartment (two double beds; probably not so convenient). Breakfast is not included; see the web site for the amenities.

To reduce the expenses you are strongly encouraged to find a room mate to share a double room with. In particular, for those person that will get funding from us for lodging, we will most likely reimburse on the basis of 33 euros per night in order to support more participants.

To reserve a room, please send them an e-mail at bures.guyonnerie@residhome.com or call +33 1 64 86 36 00. Mention that you come for the "Sage Days 49 conference". If you want to share a twin room, mention it and specify who your room mate will be.

Caveat: there are only a limited number of rooms with twin beds, and they will run out soon. Therefore you are urged to reserve your room as soon as possible.

Funding

For participants coming from universities in the United States, there is funding from our Sage-Combinat NSF grant. Please email Anne Schilling (email anne at math.ucdavis.edu) with your CV and an estimated budget. The deadline for this is March 30, 2013. Later applications will be considered as long as funds are available.

If you were promised NSF funding, then please send the filled out form along with the original receipts to Jessica Goodall at

Jessica Goodall, Department of Mathematics, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 or by e-mail to jgoodall@math.ucdavis.edu .

Invited speakers

• Simon King (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
• Tom Roby (University of Conneticut)
• Marc Mezzarobba (RISC, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)
• Mike Zabrocki (York University)

Tentative list of participants

See the poll.

If you are in the list below, please register above!

• Vivien Ripoll (UQAM)
• Mike Hansen (Harvey Mudd)

Organizers

• Nicolas Thiery (LRI, Université Paris Sud, Orsay)
• Alejandro Morales (UQAM, Montréal, email: ahmorales at lacim.ca)
• Anne Schilling (UC Davis)

Why 49?

Because that's 7^2

Why Orsay?

“Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France

Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance

To escape from the perilous pants eating plants

But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy

You ought to be shouting how lucky am I”

-- Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?