Sympy's ideas page for GSoC lists a variety of projects useful for physics computation, like the ones named in this post's subject. I am a third year physics major and possible compsci minor at the University of Chicago and write data analysis and simulations in Python for a cosmology/astrophysics lab--I know a lot of the math involved and will know a great deal more of it--including in the coming quarter, a class dedicated to Lie algebras, another to medical applications of fourier analysis and quantum mechanics, and another on quantum computing.
Building a suite dedicated to these physics-related problems is a useful project for GSoC and would be rewarding to everyone involved. Namely I would love to create as powerful a tool as possible for calculating Fourier and Laplace transforms, and, if possible, for approximating eigenstates of systems--most likely by repeatedly invoking the variational principle, since that is friendly to recursive functions. This would necessarily include solving problems involving the Dirac delta-function and step functions. Thank you, Michael Karfunkle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
