GSOC 2020

[Karn Tiwari]

Greetings

I am Karn Tiwari 2nd Year Student at NIT Surathkal, CSE and EEE department and I am looking forward to participating in GSOC 2020 for which I decided to explore the project "Diameter, radius, eccentricities, and distances" and "Database of Generators and of "sporadic" examples of distance-regular graph".

Regarding my experience, I have an in-depth knowledge of Graph Theory, Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus. I have good hands-on coding skills in C, C++, Python and currently learning Cython for the projects and I would like to contribute towards these projects as I think it is a good opportunity for me to use my knowledge for the Open Source and to learn new skills with great mentors.

I see myself as a prospective student for this project and would like to work on this project. I want to know what else can I do to improve my proposal idea and what else should I suppose to know for the project.

Thank you.

Regards

Karn Tiwari

[David Coudert]

Thank you for your interest in this project.

Before applying for GSoC with Sagemath, you should start getting familiar with Sagemath (how to play with graphs, do basic algorithms, etc.) and with the developer guide http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/index.html (what’s the programing standard, how to use git, etc.). Then, you can start contributing Sagemath with smalls patchs (implementation of a new algorithm or improvement of an existing one).

You can see the current activity at https://trac.sagemath.org/

Reading the papers related to the project is also important.

Sincerely,

[SWASTIK BANERJEE]

Hi,

     My name is Swastik Banerjee, and I'm a 3rd year CS undergrad from SRM University, Chennai.

     I aim to pursue research in Theoretical Computer Science in my future, and I'm particularly interested in Number Theory, Combinatorial and Graph Optimizations, Cryptography and Algorithms and Complexities. I have previously been a research intern at the Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata on Cryptology, and I'm also an ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri Regionalist (Honorable Mention 2019-'20).

     I have known Sage for almost 2 years now, although it is quite recently that I have started using it myself, along with Mathematica (although I find a few features of Sage strikingly unique), and now I want to make some contributions to the community.

     I am currently exploring the existing graph algorithms already available in Sage, and going through the Developer's Documentation to get acquainted with the interface of CoCalc.

     I have previously implemented Graph Algorithms and solved graph-related problems on my own, and hence I am also looking for Active Tickets in Trac that match my expertise so that I can start with contributing to some basic open issues.

    Regarding GSOC, the projects "Diameter, Radius, Eccentricities,and Distances" and "Database of generators and of "sporadic" examples of distance-regular graphs" particularly grab my attention and also match my current expertise, as I'm currently also pursuing self-reading graph theory on my own and I've been reading books like Douglas West's, etc to develop a deeper understanding on Graph Theory.

     Looking forward to make some positive contributions and develop a good relation with the Sage community in the upcoming months.

Thanking You,

With Regards,

Swastik