Hi Ondrej Thanks for your answer. I would like also ask about the mentor thing. Should i ask publicly for a mentor or is an automated procedure? Perhaps it would be good to agree with a person towards a certain work plan before submit to google.
Τη Τετάρτη, 3 Απριλίου 2019 - 9:21:16 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Ondřej Čertík έγραψε: > > Hi Fotios, > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2019, at 10:15 AM, bpapa...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My name is Fotios Anagnostopoulos and I am a Phd student at National > > and Kapodistrian Uni. of Athens,Greece. > > My field is Cosmology and Modified Theories of Gravity (i. e > > https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01301). > > A thought of mine is to construct a module able to accelerate > > scientific calculations in these fields and also to provide an open > > source alternative to > > (with regard to certain tasks) well-known commercial software. > > > > My question is if there is interest from the community to this > > direction. I include a draft of my proposal.Please feel free to comment. > > I am very much so interested in a project like this. If you search the > sympy mailinglist archive, you can find many discussions on precisely this > topic. As I said there, general relativity was one of my main motivations > why I started SymPy while I was at university. We have examples how to > compute, say, the Schwarzschild metric ( > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/7e4048eea4c39c1abded6d5be811d17629a278d7/examples/advanced/relativity.py), > > as well as the tensor module (that came later) and I didn't even know about > the GraviPy package. > > It would be very useful to lots of people to have a more advanced module > in sympy that can handle things like the xAct (http://www.xact.es/) open > source library that you mention in your proposal. Essentially an equivalent > of xAct, but on top of SymPy. > > So why don't you think about the details: can SymPy do everything that is > needed for xAct, what would be the design of the sympy module, can we > follow a similar design as xAct, or improve upon it, what would be a > minimal set of features that are possible to achieve in one summer that > would still make the module useful to people at the end, and then what > features would be implemented by the community later (e.g., roadmap after > the summer), etc. > > Also, make sure you satisfy a patch requirement for SymPy ( > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2019-Student-Instructions, point > 4.). > > If you have any questions, please ask. > > Ondrej > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/a54e2212-70fb-4ea2-ae30-e7164caa4b99%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
