Sage Education Days 6
The Sixth Sage Education Days will be held in conjunction with Sage Days 58, Sage on the Web, at the University of Washington in Seattle, June 16-18, 2014.
Funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education.
Contents
Schedule
This schedule is tentative, preliminary and evolving. We are leaving plenty of time in the afternoons and evenings for small working groups that will organize at the conference to get things done.
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Monday |
June 16 |
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9:30 AM |
Introductions |
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11:00 AM |
State of the SageMathCloud |
William Stein |
SageMathCloud, stein-smc.pdf video (part 1 of 2) (part 2 or 2) |
Noon |
2014 Spies Sage Development Prize |
William Stein |
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Afternoon |
Working Groups |
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4:00 PM |
Status Reports |
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5:00 PM |
Ten-minute survey |
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Tuesday |
June 17 |
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9:30 AM |
MathBook XML |
Rob Beezer |
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10:45 AM |
Hashdist |
Chris Kees |
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11:15 AM |
IPython Interactive Widgets |
Kevin Winters |
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1:30 PM |
William Stein |
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3:00 PM |
Informal technical discussion about bup |
Rob Browning |
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Afternoon |
Working Groups |
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4:00 PM |
UTMOST PI Meeting |
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4:30 PM |
Status Reports |
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5:00 PM |
Ten-minute survey |
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Wednesday |
June 18 |
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9:30 AM |
(Approximately) What/How Students Learn Sage at SFASU |
Jane Long |
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10:00 AM |
No code, please |
Nathan Carter |
video If you want to see (or take over!) this project, contact Nathan directly; see contact info below. |
Afternoon |
Working Groups |
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4:00 PM |
Status Reports |
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5:00 PM |
Thirty-minute survey |
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Participants
To register, please add yourself alphabetically by last name. You need to request a Trac account to be able to login to the wiki - you can do that by following the instructions at the top of the page located here. As a last resort, email Rob Beezer at beezer@ups.edu and he'll add your name (please include a relevant web link, if available).
Gregory Bard (University of Wisconsin---Stout)
Rob Beezer (University of Puget Sound)
Nathan Carter (Bentley University)
Bruce Cohen (Lowell High School, San Francisco)
Michael Doob (University of Manitoba, Canada) -- unable to attend, 2014/06/12
TJ Hitchman (University of Northern Iowa)
Tom Judson (Stephen F Austin State University, Texas)
- Chris Kees (Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, US Army ERDC)
Kiran Kedlaya (University of California, San Diego)
Randy LeVeque (University of Washington)
Max Lieblich (University of Washington, Seattle)
Jane Long (Stephen F Austin State University, Texas)
Susan Lynds (University of Colorado)
Miguel Marco (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
- Alex Nowak (Bates College)
Wai Yan Pong (California State University Dominguez Hills)
- Travis Scrimshaw (University of California Davis)
William Stein (University of Washington)
John Travis (Mississippi College)
- Kevin Winters (Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, US Army ERDC)
- Michael Wise (Mississippi College)
Mailing Lists
The mailing list for Sage Days 58, will be used for Education Days 6 as well. Please add yourself to this list if you are not already on it. This will be the primary/only vehicle for announcements before and during the workshop, and last-minute changes during the week.
There is also a list specifically for discussing education and Sage.
Organizers
Rob Beezer http://buzzard.ups.edu
Tom Judson http://faculty.sfasu.edu/judsontw/
William Stein http://wstein.org/
Logistics
At the University of Washington Seattle campus (on the west coast of the US, not Washington, DC).
This local information page could be helpful but has not been reviewed lately for accuracy, so double-check anything critical.
- The airport code for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is SEA.
- June 16, 17 and 18 will be full days. So plan to travel on June 15 and June 19.
- If you are attending the IBL Conference in Denver, TJ Hitchman suggests Alaska Airlines 860, which departs at 8:25 PM, Wednesday, June 18.
All activities will take place in the Mechanical Engineering Building, MEB. MEB 238 will be used for presentations and MEB 246 will be used as a workspace. We also have MEB 248, for every day but Tuesday, as overflow or breakout workspace.
Reimbursement Form for participants at Sage Edu Days 6 whose travel was approved in advance for funding. Please help us by submitting these as soon as possible, since our grant ends very soon.
Pictures
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Lodging
We have a block of rooms reserved at Hotel Deca right at the NW corner of campus and in the heart of the business dostrict close to the University. Information for making a reservation is:
Reservations are to be made by each individual calling the hotel directly at 1.800.899.0251 between the hours of 8a.m. – 7p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. – 4p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, or by faxing reservations to 1.206.545.2103, or emailing requests to reservations@hoteldeca.com. To guarantee rate and room type, please ensure the name of the group, arrival date, and any other information needed is given at the time of reservation.
- Your Group Names is: SAGE Days
- Your first date of arrival is: 06/16/2014 (this should be 6/15/2014)
- Your last date of departure is: 06/19/2014
- Your group rate of \$179.00 is valid for 3 days pre / post contracted dates. (Reimbursment maximum is \$152 on federal grant money.)
- Your guests have until 05/16/2014 to make reservations for this group.
We plan to have some rooms at The Collegianna, but they cannot confirm those until we are closer to the event.
- (2014/04/16) More lodging information will be coming soon.
UW Campus Wireless
UW NetID: event0403 Password: 8V2D:9M7R:3E2H
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LOTS OF OLD STUFF COMMENTED OUT, WILL RETURN IN EDITED, UPDATED FORM
Campus location: We have MEB 246 and MEB 248 reserved in the Mechanical Engineering Building for the week's events.
Sage Days 48 will happen the same week at the University of Washington with the Notebook Development as its theme.
Be sure to buy your plane ticket on a US carrier.
See the local information page for more specifics.