Tentative Programme

Monday

  • 9 am: Welcome, and Sage installation help
  • 10am-11am Sage overview (presentation, demo, Sage-Combinat) (Franco + Nicolas)
  • 11am-12pm: coffee break at University Club (next door), Introductions, more Sage installations

Lunch Break

Tuesday

  • 9am: Editing Sage's Sources (20 minutes) (TODO: make a notebook describing how to lookup and edit the source, sage -br, / hg_sage.revert() hg_sage.diff())
  • 9:20am-12pm: Tutorial: Programming in Python and Sage (Franco/Jason)
  • 10am: coffee break

Lunch break

  • 2pm: Anders: "Strategies for computing Schubert structure constants"
  • 3pm: coffee break
  • 3:15pm: Tutorial: how to kindly report a bug or suggest an improvement (20 minutes)
  • 3:35pm: Open tutorials / coding sprints
  • 5pm: Coding spring status report

Wednesday

  • 9am: Tutorial: Object oriented programming (FlorentHivert)
  • 10am: coffee break
  • 11am-11:20am: Tutorial: programming iterators (FlorentHivert)

Lunch break

Thursday

  • 10am: coffee break
  • 10:15am-11:15am: Tutorial: Contributing to Sage
  • 2pm: Coding sprint status report
  • 3pm: coffee break

Friday

Lunch break

  • 2pm: Coding sprint status report
  • 3pm: coffee break

Potential material

  • Tutorial: Using algebraic structures: vector spaces, ... (Jason Bandlow, Florent Hivert, Nicolas Thiéry)
  • Tutorial:: Implementing your own algebraic structures (Jason Bandlow, Floren Hivert, Nicolas Thiéry)
  • Lexicographic generation of lists of integers (Florent Hivert, Nicolas Thiéry) Algorithmic & design
  • Canonical forms, normal forms, and computer representation (Robert Smith)
  • Schubert calculus: challenges, solutions, projects
  • Various algebras in Sage (Hecke algebra, nilCoxeter, Temperley Lieb, local plactic) (Anne)
  • Tutorial: cluster algebras (Christian)
  • Crystal bases (Anne)
  • Posets (Franco)

Discussions

  • Thematic tutorials setup
  • Categories
  • The Sage-Combinat roadmap
  • The Sage-Combinat workflow: writing the specs
  • Modeling set containment: "x in S"