Dear Mahathi, Yes, you can certainly write a proposal about your own project. However, be aware that your project should not be too limited as it has to cover the entire GSoC period, but not so ambitious that it is deemed untenable.
Best, Travis On Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 5:17:18 AM UTC+10, Mahathi Vempati wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > I am a computer science and natural sciences student currently doing > research in quantum information. I enjoyed using Sage for basic > calculations in my research work. > > I would like to implement a quantum information library in Sage as part of > GSOC-2020. > > A few useful relevant functions are available in MATLAB. For example, as > given in http://www.dr-qubit.org/matlab.html. However, having open source > access to such functions would benefit researchers in the field. > > Also, Sage already has a tensor-product module ( > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/tensor_free_modules/sage/tensor/modules/tensor_free_module.html), > > which could come in handy to have better implementations of functions like > partial trace and partial transpose that are useful for quantum information > research. (I will ensure I check how to use it in this scenario exactly > before I write up a proposal). > > Before I write up a proposal detailing how I would like to go about this > project in the summer, I would like to ask - would this be in the scope of > allowed projects? Do you have any suggestions for me before I write the > proposal? > > Thank you, > > Mahathi > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-gsoc/ff3308f3-a3ac-4198-ae25-4608519575c6%40googlegroups.com.
