Hi Tushant, I don't think it is reasonable to do a project on modular forms without having at least taken a year of graduate-level mathematics courses. It's highly unlikely one could pick up the relevant background in the given amount of time. This project is aimed at graduate students.
-- William On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Tushant Jha <[email protected]> wrote: > Eagerly waiting for any updates on the modular forms project... > > -Tushant Jha > Hyderabad > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tushant Jha <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hello Community, >> >> Hello All, >> >> I am Tushant Jha, and undergraduate student and, at the moment, a GSoC >> aspirant, and write this mail to get engaged with what is being done at >> SAGE. I have done a research project on the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves >> and am exploring the theory of modular forms these days. I have used Sage >> (esp Sagecloud service) and Pari/gp extensively for various number-theoretic >> applications. >> >> I am comfortable with programming in Python, and can work with C/C++ as >> well. I plan on doing GSoC this year so as to get an opportunity to learn >> the intricacies of programming novel additions to already enormous >> codebases, and in the process gain an experience at how huge systems are >> engineered. >> >> Going through the list of ideas by Sage, I was really attracted to the >> project about q-expansions of Modular Forms attached to elliptic curves. >> Althout I am not entirely familiar with the "well-known and easy to >> implement algorithm" mentioned in the project description ( >> http://wiki.sagemath.org/GSoC/2015#Computation_of_q-expansions_of_modular_forms_attached_to_elliptic_curves_at_all_cusps. >> ), I am still really eager to work on this project idea. >> >> Would it be possible for someone, perhaps Prof Stein, to please provide >> some more explaination of the new ideas he has mentioned in the project >> description, so that I could possibly work with him and his graduate student >> on any required prerequisite work for the project? >> >> Another idea that caught my attention was the Game theory project, having >> worked on gambit in the past. What would ideally be scope of this project? >> >> Would it be possible for someone on this group to please let me know the >> opportunities available and the scope in these projects? And what would >> ideally constitute prerequiste work in these projects for proposal? >> >> With thanks, >> >> Sincerely, >> Tushant Jha >> Hyderabad > > -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-gsoc" 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/sage-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
