Calcul Mathématique Libre / Free Computational Mathematics

Location

All the activities will take place in the CIRM library. We use the conference room on the ground floor as main stage, and breakout space elsewhere in the library.

Beware that there may be occasional thieves around the CIRM. Do not leave valuables unattended.

Group Photo

Participants

Software installation

Departure organization: taxi sharing

If you are planning on taking a taxi to leave CIRM and seek to share it you can use the above link to synchronize with the other participants.

Schedule

We have made the schedule voluntarily flexible to maximize opportunities for participants to discover the ecosystem, and reciprocally for developers to expose their systems. The general idea is to have short demos to give an overview of the ecosystem to all participants. And then a combination of free tutorials where we point participants to resources to explore according to their pace and taste, with support from instructors roaming around. And possibly guided tutorials or longer presentations in separate rooms. The schedule will be progressively refined according to the participants interest.

Notes:

  • Participants are encouraged to skip the parts that are irrelevant to them (e.g. tutorials on material they already master) to engage into parallel collaborative activities such as coding sprints.
  • The planning has been designed so that participants can use their free time to enjoy the beautiful surroundings; hence the long lunch break and late work.

Monday 11th: User interfaces and getting started

Time Speaker Title
09:00-10:00 Coffee, Informal software installation helpdesk
10:00-10:05 Nicolas Word of welcome
10:10-10:55 Fernando Perez The Jupyter project: scientific computing, user interfaces, and community building
11:00-11:30 Demos around Jupyter: Binder, CoCalc, JupyterHub, JupyterLab
11:30-12:30 Self guided tutorial 1: get started with Jupyter
12:30-16:15 Lunch break
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:15 Joris Van Der Hoeven GNU TeXmacs
17:15-17:30 Everyone Going around the table:
17:30-18:15 Demos around computational systems: GAP, Mathemagix, Pari/GP, SageMath, Singular
18:15-19:30 Self guided tutorial 2: get started with the system of your choice
19:30-20:30 Dinner
21:00-21:45 Anne Schilling Impact of computer assisted experimentation in combinatorics

Tuesday: A panorama of computational math software

Time Speaker Title
09:00-09:45 Marie-Françoise Roy Real algebraic geometry and computations: an intricated history
10:00-10:30 Fredrik Johansson, Claus Fieker Demos around computational systems: Arb, Oscar, Hecke
10:30-10:35 Word of welcome from the French Mathematical Society
10:35-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:15 John Cremona, Éric Gourgouhlon Demos around computational systems: LMFDB, SageManifolds
11:15-12:30 Self guided tutorials; coding sprints
12:30-16:30 Lunch break
16:30-17:00 Odile Bénassy, Sebastian Gutsche, Jeroen Demeyer Demos around Interactive mathematics with Jupyter Widgets
17:00-19:30 Self guided tutorials and coding sprints
19:30-20:30 Dinner
20:30-20:45 Han Participate in a user interface study!
20:45-22:00 Odile Bénassy, Viviane Pons, Marie-Françoise Roy Celebrating the Women in Sciences day: Short presentations followed by a discussion . Presentation by M.-F. Roy. Querying Wikidata with Jupyter to explore the gender gap.
22:00-24:00 Samuel Tutorial: teaching with CoCalc
24:00-25:00 Samuel Using TeXmacs in CoCalc

Wednesday: Best practices for computer exploration

Time Speaker Title
09:00-09:30 François Bergeron Experimental mathematics
10:00-12:30 Tutorial: GAP; coding sprints
12:30-19:30 Lunch break, free afternoon
some (interactive) suggested hikes
a map
19:30-20:30 Dinner
20:30-20:45 Han Participate in a user interface study!
20:45-22:00 Tutorial: shell, version control with git (gitorial); coding sprints

Thursday: Share your lab notebooks and code!

Time Speaker Title
09:00-11:00 Tutorial: Python
11:00-12:30 Nicolas Thiéry Tutorial: Some best practices for computer exploration (slides)
12:30-16:30 Lunch break
13:30-16:30 Michael Torpey GAP tutorial pt 2
16:30-18:30 Thierry Monteil Sage Tutorial
16:30-16:45 Michael Torpey Demo: pypersist Binder
Persistent memoisation in Python/Sage
16:45-17:30 Max Horn Collaborative mathematical software development (slides)
17:30-18:00 Viviane Pons Tutorial: teaching with Cocalc
17:30-19:30 Tutorials; round table on software development
19:30- Gala dinner

Friday: Become a developer

Time Speaker Title
09:00-9:30 Bill Allombert Tutorial: Parallel programming in PARI
09:30-10:00 Thierry Monteil, Alba, Victor Marsault Demos: Sage Debian Live, Grobid, awali
10:00-12:15 Tutorials: contributing to GAP, contributing to Sage …; coding sprints
12:15-12:30 End of official program
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00- Informal tutorials; coding sprints

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