Daniel, You may or may not get much feedback at this late in the game. The proposals are due tomorrow. You will also need to submit a patch to be considered.
Here is our application info: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2016-Student-Instructions Best to type up whatever you can come up with on your own and get a patch in ASAP! Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Daniel Nichols <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! My name is Dan Nichols, and I am a graduate student in the > mathematics PhD program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I'm > working on applying for GSOC 2016 and I'm very interested in some of the > SymPy projects, including the two ideas concerning polynomial > factorization. I've done a lot of reading on this topic as a part of my > thesis work, and this seems like a great opportunity to put that knowledge > to a practical use. > > Before I submit my application, can I ask for some clarification about the > goal of the idea "Multivariate polynomials and factorization > <https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2016-Ideas#multivariate-polynomials-and-factorization>"? > I understand general-purpose factorization algorithms (e.g. Van Hoeij) > which involve factoring over a finite field, hensel lifting, and then > recombining factors with something like LLL. And I have read the 2004 paper > by Bostan, Lecerf, etc. on applying this method to multivariate > factorization. Is the main goal of the project just to improve the current > implementation of the method in Wang's 1978 paper by using more efficient > multivariate arithmetic and GCD? Or is the goal more generally to explore > ways to improve SymPy's multivariate factorization? > > I notice from looking at factortools.py that multivariate factorization > over finite fields is not implemented yet. As an additional goal of this > project, it could be interesting to implement this, perhaps following the > 1997 paper by Bernardin and Monagan. I'm also very interested in another > project idea concerning univariate factorization over global fields > <https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2016-Ideas#univariate-polynomials-over-algebraic-domains>, > so I will certainly apply for that one too. I have read Van Hoeij's paper > on factoring over global fields and I think this would be a very useful > project. > > Thanks very much for your help, and I hope to have a chance to contribute > to SymPy this summer! > > -Dan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" 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/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/78a81376-b7e1-49c3-9849-d2c436550daa%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/78a81376-b7e1-49c3-9849-d2c436550daa%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" 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/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1Ag8uEJGTDdR0iEr66sS5rXqMaerF32C7q_aedRc3WRkiQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
