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SAGE DAYS 9, an ACCELERATE BC Graduate training event

Mathematical Graphics and Visualization Workshop

MITACS SFU PIMS

August 8-16, 2008
Burnaby, Canada

Simon Fraser University

Schedule of presentations

See the Wiki for a short description of the projects.

Friday, August 15, 2008
9:00 - 9:15 Matthew Stamps
Topological methods for studying graph colourability
9:20 - 9:35 Pheadon Sinis
Visualizing stochastic processes
9:40 - 9:55 Ignacio Rozada
Python and PDEs
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 10:45 Olesya Peshko
Intensity-based image segmentation tool
10:50 - 11:05 Avra Laarakker
Properties of digit sets and dilation matrices using Sage
11:10 - 11:25 Jonathan Zimmerling
Probability distributions
11:30 - 11:45 Andrew Tapay
Triangle groups in the plane
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 13:45 Adrian Belshaw
Unimodular polynomials
13:50 - 14:05 Aurel Meyer
Symmetry groups and polytypes
14:10 - 14:25 Natasha Richardson
Applets for Grade 7 students
14:30 - 14:45 Gary Furnish
Symbolics
14:50 - 15:20 Break
15:20 - 15:35 Arnaud Bergeron
Better adaptive plotting in Sage and Drawing Paths
15:40 - 15:55 Franco Saliola
Properties of Christoffel words
16:00 - 16:15 Zhivko Nedev
Representing a class of combinatorial structures
16:20 - 16:35 McLean Edwards, Scott Zhou
Iterates of unconstrained optimization in SAGE
16:45 Michael Abschoff, Clement Pernet
Efficient Exact Linear Algebra over GPU

Saturday, August 16, 2008
9:00 - 9:15 Hesameddin Abbaspour Tazehkand
Hyperbolic routines for PiScript
9:20 - 9:35 Véronique Sangin-Gagnon
Triangle Hyperbolic Group
9:40 - 9:55 Ryan Hoban
Hyperbolic structures on surfaces
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 10:45 Yair Goldberg
3D graphing in PiScript
10:50 - 11:05 Drew Chorney
Fundamental domains of PSL(2, Z) and congruent subgroups
11:10 - 11:25 Jakub Marecek
Integer programming solver
11:30 - 11:45 McLean Edwards
4D plotting with Jmol
11:50 - 12:05 Adam Getchell
Non-linear dynamics
12:10 - 12:25 Steven Kieffer
Algebra sketches
12:30 Closing Remarks

Useful reading before you arrive

Serious mathematical graphics requires real programming. You will be able to get more out of the workshop if you make sure that you have some familiarity with computer programming before you arrive. Our main programming tool will be the programming language Pyhton. The material linked to below will get you up to speed:
  • The official Python Tutorial
  • Dive into Python: A book about Python written for people who already know some programming languages.
  • PiScript manual by Bill Casselman. We shall use PiScript for our basic graphical needs.
  • Sage, a computer algebra system based on Python. We shall be using this whever we need more mathematics than Python provides natively. There is a Sage tutorial available.

Schedule

Friday, August 8, 2008
15:00 - 18:00 Check-in at University Residences.
Check-in is at Residence Administration, located at the end of the main Residence Parking Lot
(from University drive West left to W Campus Road)
Lab will be available at IRMACS for early arrivals.
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome reception and Barbecue at Highland Pub on campus.
The Highland Pub is on the south side of the Convocation Mall, opposite the main library.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
8:45 Opening remarks
9:00 - 9:50 David Austin: Introduction to Python
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:20 Bill Casselman: Easy drawing with Python 1
11:30 - 12:20 William Stein: The SAGE programming environment
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 18:00 Lab
18:00 - 18:30 Wrap-up

Sunday, August 10, 2008
9:00 - 9:50 Bill Casselman: Easy drawing with Python 2
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:20 David Austin: Easy applets with Jython 1
11:30 - 12:20 William Stein: Plotting tools in Sage
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 18:00 Lab
18:00 - 18:30 Wrap-up

Monday, August 11, 2008
9:00 - 9:50 Bill Casselman: Easy drawing with Python 3
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 David Austin: Easy applets with Jython 2
11:40 - 12:20 William Stein: More exercises in Sage
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 18:00 Lab
18:00 - 18:30 Wrap-up

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
9:00 - 9:10 Processing of per diems by Jo-Anne Rockwood (MITACS)
9:10 - 10:00 William Stein: 3D plotting tools in Sage
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:20 Robert Bradshaw (live from San Diego): 3D Graphics in Sage
11:30 - 12:20 Brian Corrie: Anatomy of a 3D scene
Free afternoon (lab is available)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
9:00 - 9:50 Dan Drake: Tools for Getting Graphics into LaTeX 1
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:20 (Special interest talk) Phaedon Sinis: Introduction to option pricing
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 18:00 Lab
18:00 - 18:30 Wrap-up

Thursday, August 14, 2008
9:00 - 9:50 Dan Drake: Tools for Getting Graphics into LaTeX 2
10:00 - 10.05 Nilima Nigam (associate director MITACS): Some words about MITACS
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:20 (Special interest talk) Michael Abshoff: The Sage development process
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 18:00 Lab
18:00 - 18:30 Wrap-up
19:30 - 22:00 Workshop Dinner at Cristos
4624 Hastings Street (Hastings and Alpha)
(Take bus 135 from Campus)
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