Sage Days 69: Women in Sage 6 (September 4-9, 2015)

Saturday (Sept 5)

• 9:00 a.m. getting started on trac
• 10:30 a.m. projects
• 5:00 p.m. status reports

== Sunday (Sept 6) ==

• 9:00 a.m. review a patch example
• 10:00 a.m. project work
• 1:00 p.m. review a patch
• 5:00 p.m. status reports

Projects:

• Writing/fixing documentation: fixing typos
  • git command should be git -command
• Reviewing patches
• ABC project (Lily, Kristin, Aly)
• Modular forms project (Jackie, Aly, Lubjana)
• Combinatorics patches (Emily, Nadia)

  • Finish fully packed loop class http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18003

  • Create a snake graph class (using part of the code already written for on http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16310)

    • a snake graph is a connected sequence of square tiles which goes north and east http://www.northeastern.edu/martsinkovsky/p/MADL/2013/slides-canakci.pdf

• Recurrences for hypergeometric sums - Sister Celine's algorithm code (Karen)

  • https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html

  • http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SisterCelinesMethod.html

• Analytic rank for elliptic curve L-functions (Michelle)
• Newton's method bug (Amy)
• Discrete Gaussian sampler bug (Kristin, Amy)

  • http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17764

  • http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19138

• Sturm sequences/ Weil polynomials (Alina) - patch in FLINT
• Power sums of roots of polynomials (Alina) - implement it in Sage (goal: beat pari)

Organizers: Jennifer Balakrishnan, Alyson Deines

Participants:

• Jen Berg
• Lubjana Beshaj
• Alina Bucur
• Amy Feaver
• Emily Gunawan
• Lily Khadjavi
• Karen Kohl
• Michelle Kovesi
• Kristin Lauter
• Nadia Lafrenière
• Jackie Lang
• Mélodie Lapointe
• Stéphanie Schanck