Sage Days 15: Seattle, WA

DATES: May 16 - 21, 2009

Location

• Saturday May 16: Gates Common in the CS building (Paul G. Allen Center) at University of Washington
• Sunday May 17: Gates Common in the CS building (Paul G. Allen Center) at University of Washington
• Monday May 18: 5-7pm in MEB 238
• Tuesday May 19 (morning): at Microsoft Research
• Tuesday May 19: 5-7pm in MEB 238

• Wednesday May 20: 5-7pm in PAA A110

• Thursday May 21: 5-7pm in PAA A110

Project Ideas

• Projects

Mailing list

• http://groups.google.com/group/sagedays15

Video

• Might be broadcast using http://www.ustream.tv

Topics

• Computational Algebraic Topology
• Porting Sage to Windows
• Number Theory

Organizers

• Michael Abshoff
• Craig Citro
• Robert Bradshaw
• Marshall Hampton
• Mike Hansen
• Bill Hart
• Matt Klassen (digipen)
• David Joyner
• William Stein
• John Palmieri

Colloquium Talks

• Tuesday, May 19, 10:30am, at Microsoft Research -- Jim Hugunin (of Microsoft and lead developer of IronPython) will speak about IronPython: Python and .NET

• The Fields Medalist Andrei Okounkov will speak at UW on May 19, 20, and 21 at 4pm. Here's a quote from Okounkov: "This brings up many issues. I am not an expert, but I think we need a symbolic standard to make computer manipulations easier to document and verify. And with all due respect to the free market, perhaps we should not be dependent on commercial software here. An open-source project could, perhaps, find better answers to the obvious problems such as availability, bugs, backward compatibility, platform independence, standard libraries, etc. One can learn from the success of TEX and more specialized software like Macaulay2. I do hope that funding agencies are looking into this."

Confirmed Participants

1. Michael Abshoff
2. Martin Albrecht
3. D. Benjamin Antieau
4. Shaun Ault
5. Rob Beezer
6. Tom Boothby
7. Robert Bradshaw
8. Bob Bruner (Wayne State)
9. Craig Citro
10. Alia Hamieh
11. Marshall Hampton
12. Mike Hansen
13. Bill Hart
14. Mike Hill
15. Fredrik Johansson
16. David Joyner
17. Kiran S. Kedlaya
18. Matt Klassen
19. Karen T. Kohl
20. Jerome Lefebvre
21. Robert Miller
22. Christian Nassau
23. John Palmieri
24. David Perkinson
25. David Roe
26. Dan Shumow
27. William Stein
28. Nicolas M. Thiery
29. Carl Witty

Local travel info

* William Stein has already fully paid for FIVE 3-person rooms May 15 - May 22, 2009, at

    The Collegiana Inn
    4311 - 12th Ave. NE
    Seattle, WA 98105
    (206) 732-3200

If you would like to stay in one of the Collegiana rooms, email wstein@gmail.com to reserve a spot. (And, you don't have to pay anything out of pocket.)

Room 1:
 * Alia Hamieh
 * Karen T. Kohl

Room 2:
 * Carl Witty

Room 3:
 * D. Benjamin Antieau

Room 4:
 * Bob Bruner

Room 5:

• This place has rooms: http://www.collegeinnseattle.com/

• There is probably a very nice studio and/or 1-bedroom available apartment that can be rented for a week here: http://www.stanfordatuw.com/

• Flyer (pdf)