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Thursday, 16 August 2018 Invitation to the workshop on Software Tools for Mathematics

We are glad to invite you to participate to the workshop on Software Tools for Mathematics which will be held from 24 to 28 September 2018 in Koper, Slovenia.

The workshop will focus on the diversity of the mathematics software ecosystem, and on collaboration between the various systems and communities.

This will be also an official Sage Days event, which is a gathering of people interested in SageMath, from newcomers to contributors. As a Sage Days meeting, the workshop will bear the number 97. It will not be only about Sage though – more of a "GAP + Sage + other software".

Everyone is invited to participate, regardless of initial skills in software: to start using mathematics software, to become more proficient user, to start developing, to meet other developers …

Dates and location:

The workshop will start on Monday morning, 24 September 2018, and end on Friday evening, 28 September 2018. We suggest participants to arrive on Sunday, 23 September 2018 (or before) and leave on Saturday, 29 September 2018 (or after). There will be an install party on Sunday night for anyone interested.

We plan two days of Software Carpentry training, covering the Unix shell, version control with Git, and programming with Python, delivered by Software Carpentry instructors.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we will focus on mathematical software and databases with lots of talks, tutorials and demos about the various software including but not restricted to GAP, CoCalc, DiscreteZOO, Jupyter, LaTeX and SageMath. We also plan to include a problem session on Thursday afternoon where people can submit math problems whose solution might involve programming, for everyone to think about.

Fees and registration:

The workshop fee for students is 150 €, and 200 € for other participants. Early registration for payments before August 31, 2018: 100 € for students, and 150 € for other participants.

Register here.

 

Organisers:

  • Nino Bašić (FAMNIT, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia),
  • Katja Berčič (CCM, UNAM Morelia, Mexico),
  • Matjaž Krnc (FAMNIT, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia),
  • Samuel Lelièvre (LMO, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France).

We acknowledge financial and organisational support from:

  • UP FAMNIT,
  • UP IAM,
  • OpenDreamKit, the Horizon 2020 European Research Infrastructures project #676541,
  • Slovenian Discrete and Applied Mathematics Society.