minicourses

[William Stein]

Hi Sage Days 15'ers:

What would you guys think of us organizing part of Sage Days 15 as a
sequence of minicourses?
Here are some ideas:

* Cython -- 3 lectures/tutorials in a row
Robert Bradshaw, Craig Citro

* ReST/Sphinx -- how to really *use* Sphinx/ReST as it is in Sage
Mike Hansen and John Palmieri

* Advanced Mercurial -- how to be incredibly good at mercurial
Mike Hansen, ?

* MPIR/FLINT -- how to write superfast arithmetic code against the
MPIR library
Bill Hart, Tom Boothby

And of course an education/end user tutorial or tutorials:

* Sage for Calculus

* Sage for Linear Algebra

* Sage for number theory

-- William

--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

[Craig Citro]

> What would you guys think of us organizing part of Sage Days 15 as a
> sequence of minicourses?

This sounds like a good idea, in particular in terms of organizing
things so that people who are new feel like they have more
"direction."

>   * Cython -- 3 lectures/tutorials in a row
>     Robert Bradshaw, Craig Citro
>

I'm happy to do this.

>   * Sage for Linear Algebra
>
>   * Sage for number theory
>

I'd also gladly help with these.

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[William Stein]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Bill Hart <goodwi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I'd *really* like to give a talk on MPIR especially, but also
> FLINT if there's time.

Could you give a 3-hour minicourse? I'm imagining something
like:
(1) talk about MPIR
(2) some hands on problem solving with MPIR
(3) talk about FLINT
(4) some hands on coding with FLINT
(5) discussion about how MPIR and FLINT are integrated into sage.

1-4 would be by you and could be all done in C.
5 would be by somelike like maybe Robert Bradshaw or me.

William

[David Joyner]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:37 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sage Days 15'ers:
>
> What would you guys think of us organizing part of Sage Days 15 as a
> sequence of minicourses?

Great idea I think.

[Rob Beezer]

A big +1 to both introductory sessions for folks just getting started
with Sage and to some more advanced how-tos for those wishing to dig
deeper.

I'd be happy to help with any sort of introductory material for linear
algebra if needed, though I'm sure there are others who would be
better qualified (and I can't be around on Sunday).

Rob

[William Stein]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote:
>
> A big +1 to both introductory sessions for folks just getting started
> with Sage and to some more advanced how-tos for those wishing to dig
> deeper.
>
> I'd be happy to help with any sort of introductory material for linear
> algebra if needed, though I'm sure there are others who would be
> better qualified (and I can't be around on Sunday).
>

I think it would be good to have all the education/introductory stuff
on Saturday, so ...
... excellent! You're doing linear algebra.

[Rob Beezer]

On Apr 23, 8:51 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... excellent!  You're doing linear algebra.

Excellent! I'll add it to the list.... ;-)

If anybody volunteers to present some linear algebra with a numerical
flavor, I could do a tag-team, otherwise I'll probably exhibit a bias
towards the exact linear algebra routines.

[Craig Citro]

> If anybody volunteers to present some linear algebra with a numerical

> flavor ...
>

Hmm, maybe we should see if Josh Kantor or Carl Witty would be
interested in that half of the gig?

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