Sage Days 15: Seattle, WA

DATES: May 16 - 21, 2009

Video and Photos

• http://wstein.org/sagedays15/

Project Ideas

• Projects

Schedule

Saturday, May 16: Introduction to Sage

All talks on Saturday and Sunday are in the Gates Common, room 691 in the Paul G. Allen Center (see also Google maps to Paul G. Allen Center), top floor.

Morning: Introductory Sage Talks

• These talks are aimed at Sage newbies, anywhere from advanced undergrads to people teaching courses on these topics who are interested in seeing Sage in action.

• 9:30AM - 10:20AM: Linear Algebra using Sage, Rob Beezer beezer-linear.sws QuickRef

• 10:30AM - 11:00AM: Calculus using Sage, William Stein stein-calculus.sws stein-calculus-actual_lecture.sws Published Worksheet at sagenb.org

• 11:05AM - 11:20AM: 3D Plotting using Sage, William Cauchois wcauchois-plotting.sws

• 11:30AM - 12:20PM: Number Theory using Sage, Craig Citro citro-number-theory.sws

Afternoon: Advanced Topics

• 2:30PM - 3:00PM: Authoring Interactive Sage Worksheets, Rob Beezer beezer-authoring-SD15.pdf

• 3:15PM - 4:45PM: Cython, Robert Bradshaw & Craig Citro sd15-cython-slides.pdf sd15__cython.sws

• 4:50PM - 5:25PM: Advanced Mercurial Usage, Mike Hansen

Evening: Coding! Party!

• 5:30PM - 6:30PM: Coding Sprint organization
• 7:00PM - 9:30PM: Sage-4.0 PRERELEASE PARTY!!!! Math Lounge, Padelford Hall
• 9:30PM - ???: Coding Sprints!!!

Sunday, May 17: Research/Development

All talks on Saturday and Sunday are in the Gates Common, room 691 in the Paul G. Allen Center, top floor.

Morning

• 10:00AM - 10:50AM: Sage -- What's on the Horizon for Sage development, William Stein stein-horizon.sws

• 11:00AM - 11:10AM: Plan Tuesday's MSR visit, note schedule change for MPIR/FLINT talk

• 11:10AM - 12:00PM: Algebraic Topology and Sage, John Palmieri palmieri-simplicial.pdf

Afternoon

• 2:30PM - 3:20PM: ReST/Sphinx, Mike Hansen and John Palmieri

• 3:30PM - 5:00PM: CUDA/MPIR

• 5:00PM - 6:00PM: Coding Sprint Organization
• 6:00PM - ???: Coding!!!

Monday, May 18

• MOVED TO 6PM: 11:00AM - 12:00PM: Sage-Combinat and Categories for the Working Mathematical Programmer, Nicolas Thiery in SCC 246

• 12:00PM - 5:00PM: Coding Sprints in SCC 246 (room info)

• (1:30PM - 2:20PM: William's Modular Abelian Varieties class, MEB 243) -- Lecture on Computing with modular forms in Sage

• (2:30PM - 3:20PM: William's undergrad Sage class, CMU B027) -- LAB/Tutorial: Writing Sage programs and using the command line (see http://wiki.wstein.org/09/480b/schedule for a link to notes).

Evening: MEB 238

• 5:00PM - 6:00PM: Fredrik Johansson: MPMath johansson-mpmath.pdf

• 6:00PM - 7:00PM: Sage-Combinat and Categories for the Working Mathematical Programmer, Nicolas Thiery

• 7:00PM - 7:30PM: Coding Sprint Organization

Tuesday, May 19

Morning: Microsoft Research! /carpool_list Directions

• 9:30AM - 2:30PM: Microsoft Research

• 9:30AM - 9:55AM: Introduction to Sage, Craig Citro citro-sd15-talk.pdf, citro-sd15-worksheet.sws

• 10:00AM - 10:25AM: Introduction to Cython, Robert Bradshaw

• 10:30AM - 11:00AM: IronPython: Python and .NET, Jim Hugunin

• 11:15AM - 12:00PM: Porting Sage to Microsoft Windows, William Stein and Dan Shumow stein-sage-windows.sws

• 12:00PM - 2:30PM: Lunch and Discussion at MSR

• 4:00PM - 5:00PM: Andrei Okounkov, Sieg 134

Evening: MEB 238

• 5:15PM - 6:05PM: Yacop/Algebraic Topology in Sage, Christian Nassau nassau-yacop.pdf

• 6:15PM - 6:45PM: Coding Sprint Organization

Wednesday, May 20

• 11:00AM - 5:00PM: Coding Sprints in SCC 246

• (1:30PM - 2:20PM: William's Modular Abelian Varieties class) -- Explicit modular abelian varieties

• (2:30PM - 3:20PM: William's undergrad Sage class) -- LECTURE: How I built the Sage project from the ground up LOEW 216

• 4:00PM - 5:00PM: Andrei Okounkov, Sieg 134

Evening: MEB 238

• 5:30PM - 7:00PM: MPIR/FLINT, Bill Hart hart-mpir.sws hart-mpir.pdf

• 7:00PM - 7:30PM: Status reports
• 7:00PM - ???: Coding Sprints!!!

Thursday, May 21

Morning: Final Status Reports

• 11:00AM: Final Status Reports at Alegro Coffee Shop (probably upstairs). (University and 15th) Off 42nd. Alley.

• 4:00PM - 5:00PM: Andrei Okounkov, Sieg 134

Evening: PAA A110

• 5:00PM - 7:00PM: Last Wrap-up (for those still here)

Mailing list

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

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 (Dortmund)
2. Martin Albrecht (Royal Holloway)
3. D. Benjamin Antieau (UIC)
4. Shaun Ault (Fordham)
5. Rob Beezer (University of Puget Sound)
6. Tom Boothby (UW)
7. Robert Bradshaw (UW)
8. Dan Brown -- interested in Sage + Latex for teaching
9. Bob Bruner (Wayne State)
10. Craig Citro (UW)
11. Alia Hamieh (University of British Columbia)
12. Marshall Hampton (University of Minnesota, Duluth)
13. Mike Hansen (UW)
14. Bill Hart (Warwick, UK)
15. Fredrik Johansson (Chalmers, in Gothenburg, SWEDEN)
16. David Joyner (US Naval Academy)
17. Kiran S. Kedlaya (MIT, but soon UC San Diego)
18. Matt Klassen (Digipen)
19. Karen T. Kohl (canceled)
20. Jerome Lefebvre (University of British Columbia)
21. Robert Miller (UW)
22. Christian Nassau (Germany)
23. John Palmieri (UW)
24. David Perkinson (Reed College)
25. David Roe (MIT)
26. Dan Shumow (UW)
27. William Stein (UW)
28. Nicolas M. Thiery (France)
29. Stephanie Vance (UW)
30. Carl Witty (Newton Labs)

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.)

Directions

Room 1:
 * Alia Hamieh
 * Jerome LeFebvre

Room 2:
 * Carl Witty  -- Friday afternoon
 * David Roe -- 11:55pm Friday via JetBlue 497, but I'm spending Saturday with family and will start being around late Saturday evening.

Room 3:
 * D. Benjamin Antieau -- get it to SEA/TAC Friday at 9.38pm via United flight 0015.


Room 4:
 * Bob Bruner  -- NW Flight 211, arriving Seattle Tacoma (SEA) at 11:21 AM on Friday.
 * Christian Nassau

Room 5:
 * Shaun V. Ault
 * Nicolas Thiery -- Sunday in the afternoon (3-4pm), and join you at Paul Allen Center.

• 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)