Hey! This sounds really interesting! I've used Macaulay2 in the past for my research, and it seemed pretty helpful.
On Thursday, 16 March 2017 14:41:30 UTC-4, Grayson Jorgenson wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am a second year math PhD student at Florida State University studying > algebraic geometry. Last year I had the chance to work on Sage through GSoC > and implemented basic functionality for algebraic curves. During the course > of that project I came across some generic algebraic geometry functionality > that I think would be nice to have in Sage, including more support for > general schemes (in order to handle gluing) and blow ups for schemes via > the Rees algebra construction. > > I'd love to have the opportunity to participate in GSoC a second time and > have been working on a project proposal for this year to implement an > assortment of general algebraic geometry functionality, most of which in > the direction of what Magma currently offers that's not yet in Sage. In > addition to the above topics, some other goals I've been investigating for > this project include implementing basic support for working with algebraic > surfaces such as parameterization/implicitization (at least for certain > special types of rational surfaces), and more functionality for projecting > projective schemes to subspaces. I have discussed potential mentorship for > such a project with Benjamin Hutz, but it would help a lot to have another > mentor if possible. > > Would anyone be interested in mentoring an algebraic geometry focused > project like this? I'm currently investigating potential additional topics > to add to the proposal, but I lack the expertise in some areas such as > toric varieties to determine what kinds of functionality there might be > desirable/feasible to implement in Sage. I would be very grateful for any > guidance or topic suggestions. > > Thank you, > Grayson > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
