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# Participants / Going around the table
During the “Going around the table”, everybody in turn will self introduce themselves in 2-3 sentences, highlighting personal interests and aims for the week. And edit their entry below.
This is the list of participants for the [Free Computational Mathematics conference](https://hackmd.io/zkXWN_cwTjy46dyBSJKaug).
**Participants**: please edit your entry to include e.g. web page, areas of interest, aims for the week ...
- Ini ADINYA University of Ibadan, Nigeria
My area of research is in computational and mathematical finance. I have never used sage before and this is a huge opportunity for me to learn sage and python. I am also interested in
- Juan AFANADOR University of Aberdeen, Scotland
3rd year phd student, working on matroids, algorithms for quantifying ...,
- Ahmed ALHARBI Aix-Marseille Université, France. I enjoy anything related to algebra. Up to now, I am a user of CAS ([SageMath](sagemath.org)) I wish to help in the development.
- Bill ALLOMBERT Université de Bordeaux, France ([PARI/GP](http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/) developer)
- Abdelhamid AMROUN Université Paris-Sud, France
- [Odile BÉNASSY](https://github.com/zerline) Université Paris-Sud, France; (Sage Combinat Widgets), Software engineer, work on Sage Jupyter widgets, interfaces in general, temporary position for OpenDreamKit
- [François BERGERON](http://bergeron.math.uqam.ca) Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. My area used to be enumerative combinatorics, and now is algebraic combinatorics (invariants and group representation theory). I have been actively using CAS in my research for more than 30 years. Although I am relatively new to Sage, I know Maple quite well. I (like to believe that I) have a clear idea of what we should do in CAS, I'll try to explain it to you on Wednesday. The message is that: "our best guide in research is surprise and beauty". This needs to be present as much as possible in our computer tools, including for people that are not expert (by far) in uses of computers.
- **Gunvant BIRAJDAR**! Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India; work in MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, LaTeX, interested in the software presented here.(http://www.tiss.edu/view/9/employee/gunvant-birajdar/)
- [Erik Madison BRAY](https://github.com/embray)  Université Paris-Sud, France, been working at Paris-Sud with Nicolas for 3 years on SAge mostly, I'm a software engineer, background in physics and astrophysics, used to work on Astropy, been working on Python generally for 15 years (Also similar to Jeroen--working on many, many in many in many in many in). Created the Windows version of Sage, so if there are any problems with it blame them. They may try to pass the blame to something else, but start with Erik (or https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows)
- [John CREMONA](http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/J.E.Cremona/) University of Warwick Number theory since 1970s. C++ library [eclib](https://github.com/JohnCremona/eclib). Sage developer since 2007 (also Pari/GP, Magma, ...). LMFDB developer and managing editor (www.lmfdb.org)
- [Luca DE FEO](https://defeo.lu/)  Université de Versailles St Quentin.
Interests: SageMath (dev), PARI/GP, Number theory, Crypto, Web, Teaching.
- ~~Wolfram DECKER TU Kaiserslautern, Germany~~
- Jeroen DEMEYER Ghent University, Belgium; full-time OpenDreamKit developer, working on Sage, and interfaces with other systems such as PARI/GP. Maintainer of cypari2, cysignals, contributor to Cython.
- Joscha DIEHL MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig, Germany; noncommutative algebra, nonassociative algebra, explore space as much as possible, did that before with hand-written python packages, trying to use Sage more
- Kevin DILKS University of Georgia, USA; combinatorics, algebraic combinatorics in Sage,
- Anne DRANOWSKI University of Toronto, Canada;
- Hubert EKONGOLO Aix Marseille University, France
- [Andreas ENGE](https://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~aenge/)<img src="https://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~aenge/images/enge.jpg" width=50px/> [LFANT team](https://lfant.math.u-bordeaux.fr/) INRIA Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest, France
computational number theory, [PARI/GP](http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/), [PariDroid](http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/paridroid/index.html), [GNU MPC](http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/), Sage packaging for [GNU Guix](http://www.guix.info/)
- Izabela FAGUET Université Paris-Sud, France
- Justine FALQUE Université Paris-Sud, France, PhD student in Paris, Sage, permutation groups, algebraic combinatorics
- Claus FIEKER University of Kaiserslautern, Germany,
Interests: Number Theory, Hecke, Oscar, Julia, Crypto
Worked on Kant/KaSh and Magma before
- Jean FROMENTIN Université de Calais, France
- Young Hee GEUM Dankook University, South Korea, interested in developing numerical methods for nonlinear equations
- [Eric GOURGOULHON](https://luth.obspm.fr/~luthier/gourgoulhon/) CNRS - Observatoire de Paris, France
Interests: Sage (developer), general relativity, black holes
- [Sebastian GUTSCHE](https://sebasguts.github.io) University of Siegen, Germany
Category theory, GAP, OSCAR, Julia, Normaliz, Integration Julia-GAP, Julia-Polymake, Julia-Singular
- Han HAN Université Paris-Sud, France, HCI = human computer interaction, study how humans interact with technology, i'm here to talk to mathematicians
- [Max HORN](https://www.quendi.de) Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany → University of Siegen, Germany; Interests: GAP (developer), OSCAR (developer); group theory, algebraic Lie theory, ..; happy to help with git or Mac OS X porting questions
- Fredrik JOHANSSON INRIA Bordeaux, France, arbitrary precision arithmetic, 11 years ago started working on mpmath, contributed to sympy, Flint, Arb
- Vincent KLEIN CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, France, work for OpenDreamKit project as an engineer, mainly on SageMath, also on projects which are sage's pakages (pplpy, gmpy2, cysignals and others).
- Samuel LELIÈVRE Université Paris-Sud, France, like typing as you talk, like to ping people
- Stephen LINTON University of St Andrews, Scotland
Interests: sporadic groups, computational group theory, GAP, linear algebra over finite fields, mathematical software system design
Goals for the week: get ideas for future GAP development
- David LOWRY-DUDA University of Warwick, England: L-function and modular form database (LMFDB.org) developer, sage developer (also matplotlib, pandas, python libraries), analytic number theory
- Alba Marina MALAGA SABOGAL INRIA Paris, France, PhD in dynamical systems, now working in CS lab in INRIA in a research team that does NLP, working for Opaline project whose goal is to increase accessibility of electronic books, also interested in accessibility of mathematics, am here with my baby
- [Victor MARSAULT](http://victor.marsault.xyz) CNRS & Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
Interests: automata theory, database theory, numerations systems.
Part of development team of [Awali](http://vaucanson-project.org/AWALI/Awali.html), previously called Vaucanson, library in C++ for automata, hope to interface it with Sage this week!
- [Marc MEZZAROBBA](http://marc.mezzarobba.net) CNRS - Sorbonne Université, France: symbolic-numeric algorithms, Sage (contributor), ore_algebra.analytic (developer), Mathemagix (minor contributions some years ago)
- Thierry MONTEIL CNRS - Université Paris 13, France: see some of my Sage interests on https://wiki.sagemath.org/ThierryMonteil, in particular: like to answer [ask.sagemath.org](https://ask.sagemath.org/questions/) questions, organize tutorials, develop [Sage Debian Live USB key](https://sagedebianlive.metelu.net/), deploy Sage in precarious situations, [sysadmin some of Sage services](https://wiki.sagemath.org/Debate/Collective%20infrastructure%20management). Mathematically speaking, work on dynamical systems, combinatorics, tilings, discrete geometry.
- Mike OGIUGO University of Ibadan, Nigeria. I am interested in computer algebra, use GAP on computational group theory, chains of subgroups and classification problem in finite groups.
- (Opeoluwa) Lawrence OGUNDIPE University of Ibadan, Nigeria, here to learn how to use computer tools
- [Dmitrii PASECHNIK](http://users.ox.ac.uk/~coml0531/)<img src="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/5894//DSC_0686.JPG" width=50px/> University of Oxford, England; interested in lots of mathematics, group theory, optimisation, algebraic geometry; also developing Sage, paid for this by OpenDreamKit
- Fernando PEREZ University of California, Berkeley, USA; faculty in statistics at UC Berkeley, co-founder of Jupyter, open-source scientific tools; physics background, now focus on data science for geosciences
- Viviane PONS Université Paris-Sud, France; research in combinatorics, use Sage a lot, contribute to Sage, organise Sage events, bring sage to mathematicians, educator in computer science, teach programming, use tools for teaching; Women-in-Sage
- [Adrien POTEAUX](http://cristal.univ-lille.fr/~poteaux/) Université de Lille, France;
Interests: Computer Algebra (singularities of plane algebraic curves), Sage, Flint, would be interested in knowing a bit more of Singular.
- [Valente RAMIREZ](https://github.com/valentermz) Université de Rennes 1, France; post-doc, work with complex analytic and algebraic geometry; been using more and more software for my research, mostly using Sage now, been enjoying a lot using Sage, sometimes more than the traditional part of academic research
- [Jean-Florent RAYMOND](https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/jraymond) TU Berlin, Germany;
Interests: graph theory, graph algorithms, parameterized complexity, Sage
- Julian RÜTH Formerly OpenDreamKit
- Julian RITTER École polytechnique, France
- Erick RODRIGUEZ INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, symbolic computational representation theory, use Maple and GAP
- Marie-Françoise ROY Université Rennes 1, Bretagne, France; working on algorithms in real algebraic geometry, interested in interactive mathematical books
- Jacques SAKAROVITCH CNRS - TELECOM ParisTech, France; automata, weighted automata, weighted transducers; need tools to do all the pictures; worked with Sylvain Lombardy, designed LaTeX package for drawing automata pictures, called vaucanson-g, based on PSTricks, outdated; so far not been able to replace the basis by any pdf basic software; simple things should be simple to draw; been mentoring team of students and professors to design software platforms which would be able to deal with all kinds of automata; not a trivial problem to implement this; "should be ready within 6 months" for the past n years! Sylvain now the main developer
- Christoper Jesus SALINAS ZAVALA Université Jean Monnet, France; PhD student, work on analytic number theory; use MATLAB and C++, interested in Sage and PARI/GP
- Rob STURMAN University of Leeds, England; dynamical systems and ergodic theory; been working on introducing computational methods to students at various levels; worked with Mike Croucher of OpenDreamKit
- Daniel TAMAYO Université Paris-Sud, France; masters student in Colombia, doing internship in Paris-Sud; mostly use CoCalc and Sage; here to expand my horizons
- [Nicolas M. THIÉRY](http://Nicolas.Thiery.name)  Université Paris-Sud, France;
Interests: Sage (developer), algebraic combinatorics, teaching
currently "wasting" a lot of my time doing administration and financial reports of OpenDreamKit but happy that it is useful!
- Jean THIÉRY ModLibre.info; been advertising Sage all over the world for a number of years
- [Michael TORPEY](http://www-groups.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mct25/)  University of St Andrews, Scotland; research software engineer, working on various GAP packages and [pypersist](https://pypersist.readthedocs.io) (more on that later)
- Joris VAN DER HOEVEN CNRS École polytechnique, France; GNU TeXmacs, Mathemagix, computer algebra, analysis
- [Pascal WEIL](http://www.labri.fr/perso/weil/) CNRS + Université de Bordeaux, France. My interests are in theoretical computer science (automata, logic, finite semigroup theory) and in the combinatorial / algorithmic theory of infinite groups. The latter is what brought me to using Sage. I'm just a beginner…
- [Théo ZIMMERMANN](https://www.theozimmermann.net) Université Paris Diderot / Inria Paris, France  Developer of the [Coq proof assistant](https://coq.inria.fr/). User of Jupyter for doing empirical software engineering. I can answer your git / [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) (/ [OCaml](http://ocaml.org/)) questions.
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