The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to sci.math.symbolic as well.
Aldor & Axiom Workshop 2008 part of RISC Summer 2008 Hagenberg, Austria 24-26 July 2008 The workshop aims at a cooperation of Aldor, Axiom, OpenAxiom, and FriCAS developers with developers of packages written for other Computer Algebra Systems, and mathematicians that would like to use a computer algebra system to perform experiments. Conference Website ------------------ http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/WorkShopRISC2008 Topics ------ Similar to 2006 and 2007, the workshop will be organized as a mixture of talks and discussions. We will begin with an introduction to Axiom / OpenAxiom / FriCAS and the Aldor language, including a comparison with the approach employed by Sage and Python. We then plan to cover the following topics: Aldor, SPAD, and the interpreter - work on SPAD (eg., allow arbitrary conditional exports), - work on the interpreter (eg., it's signature selection algorithm), and - improve the Axiom / OpenAxiom / FriCAS - Aldor interaction (eg., make Axiom / OpenAxiom / FriCAS understand Aldor's extend or dependent signatures generated in Aldor code). interaction of Axiom / OpenAxiom / FriCAS with other systems We would like to explore the possibility and the usefulness of reusing third party code like PARI, GAP, Polymake, etc., but also interfacing with Sage. problems implementing mathematics in Aldor and SPAD We would like to tackle some particularly challenging implementation problems, including - combinatorial species - the multisort case, - how to organize domains and categories for recurrences and functions, - how to organize aggregates and matrices, in particular how to ensure efficient looping over aggregate elements, etc. Contributions ------------- If you would like to contribute a presentation to one of these topics or a related one, please send a message to the organisers. Suggested reading ----------------- Aldor User Guide (http://www.aldor.org/docs/aldorug.pdf) Axiom Book (http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/book.pdf) Multisort species (svn cat svn://svn.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/hemmecke/combinat/branches/multisort-experiment/combinat/src/mspecies.as.nw) Registration ------------ Registration is handled via the general RISC Summer 2008 Registration at http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/summer2008/registration/ Please note that the fee (30 EUR) does not cover hotel, lunch, dinner, and transportation to Hagenberg. You may reserve a hotel room in Hagenberg through the registration page. Organisers ---------- Ralf Hemmecke and Martin Rubey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel