Hello, There are 5 scheduled upcoming Sage Days in the next 6 months.
1. Sage Days 12 -- San Diego, Wed-Sat, Jan 21--24, 2009. SD12 will be in San Diego and the main theme is "bug week!". It's already been mostly organized, people have already been invited, hotel reservations have been made, etc. If you're going make sure you have your plane tickets. The organizers are: Michael Abshoff, Martin Albrecht, Joe Buhler, Craig Citro, and William Stein. 2. Sage Days 13 -- Quadratic Forms and Lattices --- Athens, Georgia, Feb 28 -- March 2, 2009. SD13 will be in Athens, Georgia, at UGA and it will be mainly about adding functionality to Sage for computing with lattices. It is being partly funded by Univ. of Georgia and partly by Sage Foundation money. Invitations haven't been sent out yet. The organizers are William Stein, Jon Hanke, Gonzalo Tornaria, and Michael Abshoff and we still need to do a lot regarding this conference ASAP. I would really like it if there were a highly energetic grad student on the organizing committee, since currently we don't have one, and I think that is partly why our organization keeps badly stalling. If you're such a grad student, contact me. 3. Sage Days 14 -- MSRI (Berkeley, CA), March 9--12, 2009. SD14 will be at MSRI in Berkeley, California, and will be on computational algebraic geometry. The organizers are David Eisenbud, Daniel Erman, Dan Grayson, Mike Hansen, William Stein, and Mike Stillman. There is almost no funding for this workshop, and most participants will be people already at MSRI for their (huge) algebraic geometry semester. So far nothing at all has been done to organize this workshop (except Dan Grayson emailed very honestly that he had no idea what organizing a Sage Days means, and Mike Hansen never even responded to my invitations to him to be a co-organizer, so I don't even know if he will be helping...). If you're reading this and are in the Bay Area (or have some of your own funding) and are seriously interested in computational algebraic geometry and volunteering to help organize this Sage Days, then please email me ASAP (wst...@gmail.com). 4. Sage Days 15 -- Seattle, WA SD15 will be in Seattle, probably in mid-April or early May. Organizers have not been chosen yet, but it'll likely be locals, such as Craig Citro, Robert Bradshaw, Robert Miller, Mike Hansen, etc. If anybody has any strong opinions about: topic, dates, being an organizer, etc., with respect to SD15, please email me. 5. Sage Days 16 -- CRM-UPC, Barcelona, June 22--27, 2009. SD16 will be in Barcelona, Spain in June 2009. It will be right after MEGA, which is a big algebraic geometry conference. The main focus will be number theory, and I believe there will likely be substantial funding coming from Spain, at least for European participants. The organizing committee consists of Jordi Quer, William Stein, John Cremona, Michael Abshoff, and Martin Albrecht. There are links to wiki pages for all of the above upcoming workshops at http://wiki.sagemath.org/days16/. Of related interest, I'm going to give a plenary talk on Sage at MEGA. Also, I am going to the "Explicit Methods" meeting at Oberwolfach, so if you were invited to that, and are going to attend, please let me know at some point so we can organize some sort of Sage-related sprint or something. Last time I went to that conference I actually spent a huge amount of "all night" time sprinting with Karim Belebas -- it's when the first working version of the Sage/PARI C library interface was developed, which required interesting changes to PARI itself to work. -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
