Hello, I am interested in working on the project about implementing Mark van Hoeij's algorithm to factor linear ODE's. Currently, I am a fourth year PhD student in the Math Department at George Washington University (Washington DC, USA). My research area is in low dimensional topology, which has not much to do with Differential Galois theory. I am very interested, however, in learning more about it, and even possibly doing future work related to differential Galois theory for PDE's.
I looked at the SPAD language (in particular the Pascal's Triangle example on http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/PascalTriangle) and am confident that I could get up to speed using it pretty fast. Reading and understanding the necessary parts of Hoeij's thesis would probably be more time consuming, but I think it would be a really interesting way to spend the Summer. I would have contacted you earlier, but I have been very busy putting together another proposal for Sage (also a Google Summer of Code organization). Would you please let me know if there is still interest on your part for this project. Here is a little bit about my background: In addition to the coursework at my home university, I have taken coursework at the University of Maryland in Commutative Algebra, Geometric Analysis, Riemannian Geometry and Differential Topology. Most of my knowledge of ODE's comes from Lawrence Perko's Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems text (the first few chapters). Most of my knowledge of algebra (and Galois theory) comes from Dummit and Foote's graduate textbook. Thank you, Jason Suagee -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" 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/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
