2026 Google Summer of Code Participants Announced

[Aaron Meurer]

Hi everyone. As many of you may have noticed, Google has announced the results
for Google Summer of Code. I am proud to announce that 5 people have
been accepted to work on SymPy this year. The following projects have been
accepted:

Contributor, Project: Mentors

Edoardo Matachione, Enhancing SymPy’s Integral Module: Rationalizing
Substitutions and Contour Integration: Francesco Bonazzi and Aaron
Meurer

Luca Bertoni, Enhancement of gcd for polynomials in the sparse
representation: Oscar Benjamin

SalahDin Rezk, Extending Rule-Based Symbolic Integration: Francesco
Bonazzi and Aaron Meurer

Sujal Jayant Kumar, Enhancing Assumptions via EUF Integration, LRA
Robustness, and Property-Based Testing: Tilo RC and Aaron Meurer

Zehao Zhang, Group Representation Theory and Character Tables: Oscar Benjamin

Join me in congratulating them on their acceptance.

To everyone who was accepted, you should be receiving an email from your
mentors soon to discuss how you will be communicating over the summer about
your project. You should meet with your mentors once a week during the summer
to go over your progress.

Note that in many cases you may interact with some mentors as your primary
mentors, and other mentors will be backup mentors. Please contact the backup
mentors if you are not able to get ahold of your primary mentor(s). If you
cannot get ahold of either, please let me and Oscar Benjamin
(oscar.j....@gmail.com) know immediately.

I would like all of us to strongly encourage students to submit pull requests
early and often. This will go a long ways towards making sure that you don't
end the summer with a ton of code written that never gets merged. Students
should help review pull requests by other students, so that we don't get
bogged down reviewing so much code.

We also require that all students keep a weekly blog of their work over the
summer. If you don't already have a blog, you should start one. I recommend
using either Wordpress, Blogger, or creating your own blog on GitHub pages. If
you are savvy enough to set it up, I recommend GitHub pages, but if you
aren't, both Wordpress and Blogger are good enough.

The GSoC coding period officially starts May 25
(https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline).

I would like to thank all the students who applied this year and everyone who
submitted a patch. I would also like to thank all the mentors for helping
review patches and proposals.

This summer is looking to be another very productive one for SymPy, and I look
forward to it!

Aaron Meurer