Hi, I could be tempted to mentor as well, but the group of potential beneficiaries of the stuff I have in mind is much smaller than notebook stuff or the Android app. Anyway, here it goes:
a) Dense linear algebra over extension fields. I'm meeting Burcin tomorrow to work on this, so we'll have to decide whether it makes sense as a GSOC project or not. But the idea is to use tuples of matrices to represent matrices over extension fields ... and to have that reasonably generic in Sage so that it works for GF(p^k) and number fields, say. b) Write a decent interface to CryptMiniSat or any other SAT solver for Sage. By decent I mean something on Cython level, allowing direct access to the solver, e.g. getting learned clauses out etc. Also, bonus brownie points for ANF 2 CNF conversion (there's decent stuff out there one could wrap). c) M1RI, that's the code Tom wrote for dense linear algebra over GF(3) - GF(7). As far as I understand it, it's a bunch of Sage worksheets at the moment, i.e. a proof of concept. Turning this into a proper library would be awesome. It requires C skills but most of the linear algebra business has been solved before, i.e., I could give decent advise on how implement this or that function etc. On Wednesday 08 February 2012, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody want to help put together a GSoC application for Sage for > 2012? > > http://code.google.com/soc/ > > The application deadline is March 9. > > So far, I think we've applied 5 times to have Sage as a mentoring > organizing, and been denied every time. I think there is no feedback > about why we are denied (maybe they think we already have too much NSF > funding?). Also, other similar projects such as R, Sympy, PlanetMath, > etc., have often been accepted as mentoring organizations. However, > I don't think being denied every year is a reason to stop trying, > because (1) our project is better than many of the projects Google > chooses (they are just making a mistake by not choosing us), and (2) > even if they don't choose us, we can propose our project ideas to > other mentoring organizations. Regarding (2) though, it can be > frustrating -- e.g., I felt we had an excellent proposal for a > mentoring organization one of the years Sage was denied, and the > organization decided against funding it because the developers didn't > know us personally; their "no" was not based on weaknesses of the > project itself, which I found frustrating. So it's best if we are a > mentoring organization. > > -- William Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
