On 22 February 2012 13:41, Maarten Derickx <m.derickx.stud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Sage-developers, > > Michiel Kosters and I are currently writing a proposal for the Lorentz > Center [1] in order to organize a sage days on the subject of function
Great idea! > fields. It would be useful for us to have an estimate of how many of you are > interested in participating in such a Sage Days. It would also be useful for > us to know if you would like to have certain function field functionality in > sage for your own research to explain to the Lorentz Center why such a sage > days should be organized (other arguments are welcome to!). > So to be concrete: > > 1. Are you willing to participate in such a sage days? Yes, as long as the dates are convenient. > 1. a) If yes, are there dates around the end of this year which are very > inconvenient for you? Not the last week in September (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2012-2013/numbertheory/selmergroups/). There might be some other periods I cannot make as this will fall within the 2012-13 Warwick Number Theory Symposium (year-long) -- see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2012-2013/numbertheory/). > 2. Why do you want sage to get better at computing stuff about function > fields? I implemented quite a few function field things using Magma a few years ago, including finding rational points on conics over function fields (joint with Mark van Hoeij) and some 2-descent on ellitpic curves over F_p(T), p odd (joint with David Roberts), most of which is now in Magma, but most is not in Sage. And I like function fields, and consider them to be an area where Sage lags behind Magma still. John > > Thanks in Advance, > Maarten Derickx > > [1] http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/ > > -- > 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 -- 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
