I would like to remark that, as far as I know, the guessing facilities of gfun have a reasonable replacement which is available in sage through fricas. The last time I checked, this was more general and at least as fast than it's maple counterpart.
The one thing that would dramatically improve the situation here would be a sane way to exchange data with fricas. Best wishes, Martin On Tuesday, 18 February 2025 at 08:17:13 UTC+1 vdelecroix 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/50a09f56-f4fe-4712-9b78-5292562b293en%40googlegroups.com.
