Hi Stefan, As someone who has followed and used many of your "minor" contributions (optics, plotting) I'll say that you should definitely apply for a GSoC project this year. I'm confident that your contributions will be very useful.
My summer plans are up in the air but I may also end up applying again (and if not I'll probably end up mentoring). If so I will propose rebuilding the various Tensor and Matrix-like objects in SymPy in a more unified and sensible way. The focus here would be less on Tensors explicitly and more on how Tensors and the various kinds of Matrix objects can all live together elegantly. If you'd like to communicate about how these two ideas could work together I'd be happy to talk. I think that SymPy is well positioned to make a really awesome linear/tensor algebra module. I'd be happy if that work could happen this Summer. -Matt On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:04 AM, krastanov.ste...@gmail.com < krastanov.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Some of you know me as I have a few minor contributions to sympy and I > helped a bit with GCI. I would like to know whether it is possible for > me to apply for a GSoC project this year? > > About the project I have in mind: It is the tensor module. It is quite > bare-bones at the moment. I would like to make sufficiently general to > be useful in (for example): > - Einstein equations in general relativity > - Integrating Feynman diagrams (it has to do with a tensor product of > the space of Lorenz and the space of Dirac) > - nonlinear optics, linear elasticity, fluid mechanics, etc > > The first two of those will be directly useful for me. > There is a package for Mathematica (called Ricci) that may serve as an > example but I have just started looking at it. I've also checked the > related issues in the issue tracker. > > And about eligibility for the GSoC: I am still a student (4th year > physics in France). > > So if you are interested I can prepare a more in-depth presentation of > the potential project. > > Stefan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
