Hi Vincent^2, Thank you for the ideas and adding them to the ideas page.
Best, Travis On Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 12:18:29 AM UTC+9 Vincent Neiger wrote: > Hello, > > I just added to the wiki the two projects suggested above. Could you > please have a look to make sure I did not introduce any typo and such? In > particular for the second project, as I created some title and I changed > "genfun" into "gfun" which seems to be the usual name for the Maple library > (I can revert back, if using "genfun" was intentional). > > Best, > Vincent > Le mardi 18 février 2025 à 13:38:30 UTC+1, vdelecroix a écrit : > >> Additionally, I would like to propose that "SageMath subprojects" >> (such as ore_algebra, admcycles, sage-flatsurf, slabbe, ...) could >> make GSOC proposal under the SageMath umbrella. I believe it is easier >> for a newcomer to be able to contribute to a smaller standalone >> project. What do you think? >> >> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 at 08:12, Vincent Delecroix >> <20100.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I lost my wiki password but I am willing to propose to mentor on the >> > following topics. I would welcome in anyone assisting me in the >> > mentoring. >> > >> > 1) Zariski closures of finitely generated matrix groups >> > >> > Mentor: Vincent Delecroix + (?) >> > Area: Algebra >> > Skills: Group theory, Lie algebras, Number fields, familiarity with >> > Python and GAP >> > Length: 175 hours and 350 hours variants >> > Difficulty: Medium-hard >> > >> > Finitely generated matrix groups over the rationals (or more generally >> > over number fields) appear in number theory (diophantine equations) as >> > well as in geometry (holonomy of flat connections). An important >> > invariant of such group is its Zariski closure: the smallest algebraic >> > group it is contained in. The goal of this project is to write an >> > algorithm to compute this Zariski closure using linear algebra in the >> > Lie algebra of the ambient group. >> > >> > 2) genfun >> > >> > Mentor: Vincent Delecroix + (?) >> > Area: Algebra, Combinatorics >> > Skills: Linear algebra, polynomial ring and power series, ODE, >> > familiarity with Python >> > Length: 175 hours and 350 hours variants >> > Difficulty: Medium-hard >> > >> > genfun is a Maple library developed by B. Salvy >> > (https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/bruno.salvy/software/the-gfun-package/). >> > Equivalent features are available in SageMath (some of them in plain >> > SageMath and others in the C-library flint or SageMath library >> > ore_algebra). The goal of this project is to write an interface to >> > these SageMath tools using the standardized names from genfun. >> > Additionally, there we expect the developer to write a document >> > explaining how each function call in genfun can be replaced by >> > standard SageMath computations. >> > In the course of the project, it is likely that the developer has to >> > implement additional interface to the C-library flint. We also expect >> > the developer to identify critical features that are missing in >> > SageMath in order to propose a complete open source alternative for >> > genfun integrated in the SageMath environment. >> > >> > Best >> > Vincent >> > >> > On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 at 05:12, Travis Scrimshaw <tcsc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > Hi everyone, >> > > It would be good if people added more project ideas and/or be willing >> to be listed as a mentor. Google is looking more closely at what mentor >> orgs are putting in their ideas pages, and right now it looks like we do >> not have many mentors this year. It would be great to improve this. >> > > >> > > Best, >> > > Travis >> > > >> > > On Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:02:04 AM UTC+9 Travis Scrimshaw >> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> Thanks, I've added you as a potential mentor there. >> > >> >> > >> Best, >> > >> Travis >> > >> >> > >> On Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 7:04:19 PM UTC+9 axio...@yahoo.de >> wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>> I'd be happy to co-mentor the diagram algebra project (where I know >> a little bit of the mathematics), and also the free module project. >> > >>> >> > >>> Martin >> > >>> On Thursday, 6 February 2025 at 00:38:30 UTC+1 tcsc...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Some other points I should mention: >> > >>>> >> > >>>> - Google will probably start looking at proposals after Feb. 11, >> so it would be good to have the projects listed before then. However, this >> is not a hard deadline and you are welcome to add project ideas at any >> time. >> > >>>> - If you are not able to edit the wiki page, you can simply post >> the idea here. >> > >>>> - The idea does not have to be very concrete. It is ultimately the >> responsibility of the contributor submitting the proposal to construct the >> project. Of course, the more precise/concrete, generally the better. You >> should also be somewhat available to provide feedback on projects. >> > >>>> - Being a mentor can be a relatively low-time commitment of 1-2 >> hours / week. This depends on the student, how you mentor, and how much >> time you want to spend. >> > >>>> - You do not have to be listed as the mentor on any idea you >> propose. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Best, >> > >>>> Travis >> > >>>> >> > >>>> On Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 8:31:59 AM UTC+9 Travis Scrimshaw >> wrote: >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> Hi everyone, >> > >>>>> I have submitted the application for SageMath to be involved with >> this year's GSoC program. In order to make our participation in the program >> successful and rewarding, as well as an important part of being selected as >> a mentor organization, I need you to submit project ideas on our GSoC 2025 >> page: >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> https://wiki.sagemath.org/GSoC/2025 >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> We need to have a diverse set of projects to attract good >> students, and this is a good opportunity for you to get help with >> completing some code, project, or feature that you've always wanted. You do >> not need to be an experienced developer to be a mentor as someone who does >> have experience can co-mentor to help with the technical details (I can do >> this for instance for 1-2 projects). So feel free to ask your colleagues >> for ideas and/or if they are willing to teach someone the underlying >> mathematics! >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> Let me know if you have any questions. >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> Thank you, >> > >>>>> Travis >> > > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "sage-devel" group. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >> > > To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/a7ab0de6-2741-4ddc-888f-b6f8927470ddn%40googlegroups.com. >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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