On Nov 19, 2007 9:38 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2007 12:21 PM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > at Sage Days 6 Stefan Müller-Stach > > > > http://hodge.mathematik.uni-mainz.de/~stefan/index.html > > > > babelfish translation: > > > > http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=de_en&url=http%3A//hodge.mathematik.uni-mainz.de/%7Estefan/index.html > > > > asked me whether the Sage project would like to name some projects suitable > > for a Diplomarbeit for some of his students. > > > > If you don't know the German system: it is safe to assume a "Diplomarbeit" > > is > > like a Master's thesis (except that you usually do a Diplom before pursuing > > a > > PhD). The idea is that we/you/the Sage developers name a project (in number > > theory) which is suitable for a Diplomarbeit (i.e. challenging enough but > > not > > overwhelming, timeframe: roughly a year) and Stefan tries to pass this > > project on to one of his students. > > > > To me this seems like a nice way to get stuff implemented that one hardly > > gets > > around to implement. > > > > Also, he is thinking about setting up a Sage seminar which could provide a > > similar 'service' for Sage: i.e. Students get credits for working on Sage. > > This would be suitable for more short term projects. > > > > Thoughts
For starters, one thing for any student wanting to help to do is open up the Magma reference manual and browse through it until they see something they personally find interesting. If Sage doesn't do it, or Magma does it way faster than Sage, then there's a project. Same comments for Maple/Mathematica, though I don't know if Maple/Mathematica do anything at all in number theory / arithmetic geometry that Sage doesn't already do better, except maybe Faugere's F4... Once Sage can do everything Magma can do and more, then we have to start being much more creative about student projects. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
