On 8/23/07, Craig Citro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas (and the UT math department) have > > kindly offered > > to host and fund SAGE Days 8 in Austin, Texas, sometime in March 2008. > > We're now thinking of having it March 1 - 5, 2008. How does this look > > for people? > > I think the dates are a good idea; as soon as they're in stone, we > should get it onto Kiran's wiki (I'm happy to do this, since I have > an acct).
The dates aren't set in stone. > > My impression is that themes for SD8 would be: > > (1) something to do with quadratic forms (the upcoming Arizona > > Winter School), and > > Is this *specifically* targeted at quad forms stuff (i.e. Jon Hanke & > Jon Voight's AIM group) or on number theory in general? I think I fit > into the second group, but not the first, so I'm wondering if this > means that I should still be planning on going. Or is "it's not that > far, and I'll be coding on SAGE the whole time if I'm there" always a > sufficient reason to go? ;) The idea is really that some part of SD8 would have some loose connection to the upcoming Arizona Winter School. > > (2) supercomputing, because of some amazing new equipment available > > at UT Austin. > > > > This sounds fun; given that our intended goal for the IPAM SD7 is > applied stuff, it seems like we can drum up a lot of related > interest. Is the goal to have there be overlap between people > interested in (1) and (2), or just groups interested in each? What dates had we discussed for IPAM SD7? SD5 -- Cambridge, MA SD6 -- Bristol, UK SD7 -- Seattle, WA <-------- ## SD8 -- IPAM ???? SD9 -- UT Austin? At this rate, soon every day will be a SAGE day. > > -cc > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
