Hi all, I'm Alex, currently studying at the University of Warwick, UK. I am interested in making an application for GSoC this year, specifically the point counting project listed captured my attention. I would be interested to know a bit more about what such a project might involve, would it be primarily wrapping pre-existing external libraries, implementing algorithms or a more even mixture of both (or something else entirely)?
In terms of my relevant background, over the last summer I did some work finding automorphisms of curves (specifically quartics) over fields of positive characteristic (three) and feel I could get to grips with the relevant theory quickly. I have also taken modules on and relevant to elliptic curves. Also while I have a lot of experience coding I am not entirely comfortable with C as I do not use it regularly enough, I'm confident I could bring my self up to speed without issue though. I code in Python and Java most often these days. I also use Sage regularly (and have done for a couple of years) I have also done personal Sage development in the past. One issue for me is that my final exams are likely to last until the end of May and so overlaps with the GSoC timeline (by up to 2 weeks) and I would be unable to give the project my full attention during this time, does anyone have any thoughts as to how much of an issue this would be? Best wishes, Alex ([email protected]) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-gsoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
