GSoc introduction

[Aniket Joshi]

Hello everyone, 

I am a third year PhD Math student at the University of Alberta. My research interests are related to the representation theory of lie algebra and vertex operator algebras, and modular forms. I am fairly experienced in Mathematica, but quite new to SAGE. I am well-versed in Python and some of its packages including sympy, numpy, pandas. I hope to contribute to SAGE and give back to the open source community. 

Based on my background, I'd like to contribute to the lie algebras or modular forms modules. A possible project could be to implent operator product expansions (OPEs) or lambda brackets of composite operators. I am also interested in symbolic calculus, and am curious if there are ways to contribute to this module. 

I'd be happy to listen to all ideas and suggestions, and ways I can contribute to SAGE. 

Best, 
Aniket

[Vincent Delecroix]

Dear Aniket,

Thank you for your interest in Sagemath.

Before applying for GSoC with Sagemath, you should start
getting familiar with Sagemath (how to install and use it, code
some basic algorithms, etc.) and with the developer guide

http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/index.html

(what’s the coding standard, how to use git and trac, etc.). Then,
you can start contributing Sagemath with smalls patches (implementation
of a new algorithm or improvement of an existing one).
You can see the current activity at

https://trac.sagemath.org/

Sincerely,
Vincent