I gave an hour-long talk about Sage this past weekend at the 14th Coast Combinatorics Conference in Victoria, BC, Canada. The worksheet and tex source are posted at
http://wiki.sagemath.org/Talks Some observations: 1. Much easier to get started on a talk like this when examples are posted - I stole some good ideas from Dan Drake and Paul Zimmerman (thanks!) and included interacts by William Stein and Pablo Angulo (with credit). Please consider adding to the wiki page when you have prepared material like this. 2. One research talk mentioned that Sage had been an invaluable tool (I'll get a link to a publication eventually for the database that collects these), and another talk included 3-D images of paths on a torus created in Sage. It was a very informal gathering, so later speakers made off-hand remarks, like "you could determine this automorphism group, or have Sage do it for you." (Moral - have your talk scheduled early.) 3. Some people installed Sage overnight, others told me they had some seen some feature they were eager to exploit. So I think it was a good way to get a few more active researchers using Sage. 4. At the US border coming home, the customs officer verified my story by asking for the "the second-order derivative of x^2." Maybe I should have pulled out Sage for that? ;-) Rob -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
