Introduction

[Rajul Srivastava]

Hi,

My name is Rajul and I am a third year undergraduate student at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code 2012 and I came across SymPy as one of the organisations. Browsing through the projects listed on ideas page, I came across the projects listed under Symbolic Quantum Mechanics and I liked most of the projects. I am interested in applying for projects like 'Implement All Known Analytical Solutions to Quantum Mechanical Systems', 'Position and momentum basis functions' , 'Spin states and operators for arbitrary spin', 'Abstract Dirac notation'.

I have been programming since a very early age and am conversant in many programming languages like Python, C/C++, Java, and Ruby. I am particularly experienced in Python. For Quantum Mechanics, I find the subject very interesting and have had introductory courses in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Chemistry as a part of my curriculum. I shall love to combine my love for the two subjects and work on a project listed under Symbolic Quantum Mechanics. I believe that I have a good background to contribute to these projects.

I shall be grateful if anyone can help me and give me reference to the literature that I may use and also shed some light on how I can go about making a successful proposal.

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Rajul Srivastava
<rajul....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I shall be grateful if anyone can help me and give me reference to the
> literature that I may use and also shed some light on how I can go about
> making a successful proposal.

I am quite far from quantum mechanics, but I'll still throw in my two
pence: to make your proposal valid, you have to fulfil your patch
requirement. To do this, set up your environment according to [0],
pick an issue your like here [1] (the issues [2] are easy to fix), and
submit a pull request. You should see your pull request merged before
April 23.

Sergiu

[0] https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Development-workflow
[1] http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/list
[2] http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/list?can=2&q=label%3AEasyToFix+&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Milestone+Reporter+Summary+Stars&cells=tiles

[pulkit]

Hi,

My name is Pulkit Jain, I am an undergraduate student at the
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute Of Technology Kharagpur,
currently in my Third Year of the Five Year Integrated Masters course
of Mathematics and Computing. I wish to apply for GSoC 2012 and as I
was browsing through the list of organizations, I came across SymPy. I
have gone through the projects listed on the Ideas page and I am
interested in applying for the projects concerning Linear Algebra,
Group Theory and Ordinary Differential Equtions.

Although I find all the projects listed worth-a-while, but I am
particularly interested in "Implementing a sparse matrix
representation for Matrix, so we can efficiently manipulate large
sparse matrices" , "Solving Differential Equations in Terms of Bessel
Functions", "An algorithmic approach to exact power series solutions
of second order linear homogeneous differential equations with
polynomial coefficients".

I have been programming since the age of 15 and I have used languages
like C, Java, Python and a bit of C++, during my span of programming,
I find python the most interesting because of its simplicity and
simple approaches and also have a fair amount of experience of
programming in it. My past courses in these areas have played an
instrumental role in developing my interest in them. I shall be
obliged if anyone can help me in regard of how I should go about
making making my proposal and where can I look for references.