Women in Sage 4 - Application Deadline May 20

[Alyson Deines]

The application for the fourth annual Sage Days for Women is now up: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days50.

This Sage Days will be held July 10 - 15, 2013 in Seattle, Washington.  Participants will stay at the beautiful Shuey House.  The first two days will be a series of introductory level Sage talks on UW's campus and the rest of the workshop will be coding sprints at the Shuey House.    

All funding and lodging is going to women, but men are welcome to participate.  Also, please feel free to forward this to people who might be interested!

Our project leaders are Kristin Lauter, Michelle Manes, Adriana Salerno, and Ursula Whitcher.  

In Adriana and Ursula's project, we will develop techniques and code for counting points on hypersurfaces in toric varieties over finite fields, with an eye toward arithmetic mirror symmetry.  

Kristin has proposed several projects including methods for generating record abc triples, relating to elliptic curves and abelian varieties  (e.g. getting involved in the abc Olympics and writing code for relevant functions) and investigating degrees of isogenies between elliptic curves and higher dimensional abelian varieties.  

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Jennifer Balakrishnan

Alyson Deines