Would someone like to introduce SymPy at the PyCon Sage Days?

[Jason Moore]

Viviane Pons (vivian...@iri.fr) is hosting a Sage Days during the PyCon sprints (http://wiki.sagemath.org/days67) and would like someone from SymPy to give a short talk to introduce SymPy.

Will anyone be at PyCon and like to give this presentation?

Jason
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[James Crist]

I'll be there. I'm giving a poster session on code generation in SymPy, and will be hanging around until the following Tuesday. I could definitely give a short talk on SymPy, if no one else steps up.

- Jim

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Jason Moore <moore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Viviane Pons (vivian...@iri.fr) is hosting a Sage Days during the PyCon
> sprints (http://wiki.sagemath.org/days67) and would like someone from SymPy
> to give a short talk to introduce SymPy.
>
> Will anyone be at PyCon and like to give this presentation?

Btw, I would be very interested in making SymPy/CSymPy the default in
Sage, currently Sage uses Pynac for symbolics.
It uses SymPy + Maxima for integrals. I think SymPy could be used
where Maxima is used, but SymPy itself is only about as fast as Maxima
(maybe a bit faster, but not much), while Pynac is much faster. The
CSymPy's speed is very good (much faster than Pynac and a bit faster
than GiNaC on the few synthetic benchmarks that we tried so far), and
functionality-wise, CSymPy is not that far behind Pynac. I think the
last two things missing from CSymPy are series expansion and pattern
matching, which hopefully we'll implement over the summer.

I am personally very excited about our progress with CSymPy, and if we
managed to get it used by Sage eventually, it would bring a lot of new
users and developers, so it's a worthy goal.

Ondrej