Hi, you might also want to work on better integrating CVXOPT into Sage. Currently very little of its functionality is exposed in Sage. (let's move this thread to sage-gsoc, by the way)
Dmitrii On Saturday, 17 March 2012 18:32:57 UTC+8, Animesh Garg wrote: > > Hello Nathann and Team, > > Greetings > I am Animesh, currently a PhD student in operations research at UC > Berkeley. I have skimmed through the ideas page for the GSoC 2012. I find > interest in the project listing :Optimization > > I have a undergraduate education in Manufacturing and Automation from > Univ. of Delhi (India), and master's in Industrial Engineering from Georgia > Tech (Atl, GA).I have a background in optimization (Linear, Non linear and > some experience in Integer) & stochastic modelling (operations research), > robotics, computer vision. I have taken multiple graduate courses in > optimization and stochastics. > I have sufficient programming experience, mainly in c/c++ and matlab in > windows for robotics/vision domains where I implemented custom algorithms > and worked with robot hardware. Furthermore, I am comfortable using either > Linux or Windows. I have worked on projects with subversion. I do not have > substantial experience with writing open source code. > > I have had a chance to use CPlex, Gurobi and AMPL. I have known about Sage > but have never used it. I would like to take this as a chance to both know > Sage and contribute to its development. Personally I am motivated in > working in optimization in robotics and vision (in broad sense), and this > topic is of particular interest to me. I routinely need non-linear > optimization modules. And from the description of Sage - Big Ma 's rolled > into open source package, it is very appealing. > > I would like to discuss some specifics of the project, and tips for > formulating the student application. > I hope to get encouraging input from your end. Hopefully you might find my > candidature fit for your project. > > > Regards > Animesh > > PS: I sent this email to Nathan and Harald, on gmail to touch base with > the Sage team today(before being approved for the devel-group)- Apology for > multi-posting -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
