IMUB UB
 

Advanced School on
Specific Algebraic Manipulators

Barcelona, September 12-15, 2007


Symbolic manipulation is a common tool in many domains of science. For small and medium size computations different tools which can be used to obtain the desired results are available. However, faced to longer computations (e.g., dealing with a power series in 6 variables truncated to order 30, without any symmetry reduction, having near 2 million coefficients) they are useless. This lead to some scientists, mainly in Astronomy, to develop Algebraic Manipulators with specific purposes, for a concrete family of problems at the very beginning of the Computer Science. Since then a strong activity has been developed and programs able to deal efficiently with millions of terms have been produced. The first aim of the course is to present the basic concepts: data structure, basic and higher level operations, to use fully literal, rational or floating point (including multiple precision) coefficients and how to use them to be able to solve a variety of problems. The second aim is to encourage participants to write their own SAM to solve the problems in which they are interested, independently of the source of these problems. Problems in algebraic geometry have a lot in common with the analysis of singularities done in the study of differential equations and discrete transformations. The impact of new processor architectures and the possibility of distributed tasks will be also discussed.

The course will take place at Room B1, located at the ground level of the Court of Sciences (Pati de Ciencies), in the right part of the historical building of the Universitat de Barcelona (the address is at the end of this page). We will provide wifi access for the participants.

How to arrive

Lecturers
M. Gastineau (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris), A. Giorgilli (U. di Milano), À. Jorba (U. Barcelona), À. Haro (U. Barcelona), U. Locatelli (U. Roma 2), R. Ramírez (U. Politècnica Catalunya), P. Roldán (U. Politècnica Catalunya), C. Simó (U. Barcelona)

Tentative contents of the lectures

Slides and links
Rafael Ramírez-Ros: http://www.ma1.upc.edu/~rafael/research.html
Pau Roldán: http://www.ma1.upc.edu/~roldan/2007-09-14_SAM/
Laskar-Gastineau: TRIP: a general computer algebra system dedicated to celestial mechanics
Michael Gastineau: Multiplication of polynomials , Parallel computations and memory management , Storage of multivariate polynomials
Àngel Jorba: Two sessions


Tentative schedule


Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
09:00-10:00
Gastineau
Gastineau
Gastineau
Gastineau
10:00-11:00
Gastineau
Giorgilli-Locatelli
Gastineau
Ramírez
11:00-11:30
Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Giorgilli-Locatelli
Giorgilli-Locatelli
Giorgilli-Locatelli
Roldán
12:30-13:30
Giorgilli-Locatelli
Simó
Giorgilli-Locatelli
Simó
13:30-15:30




15:30-17:00
Jorba
Jorba
15:30-16:30 Ramírez
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Roldán
18:00-19:00 Simó

17:00-17:30
Coffee break Coffee break
17:30-19:00
Haro
Haro



Preregistration

To attend you must preregister first. To do it, click here.  As the attendance is limited, the preregistration will be closed when the course is full.

Registration

The registration fee is of 50€ for researchers belonging to the Consolider project i-MATH, and 100€ for other researchers. Details will be e-mailed to preregistered participants.

Grants

There are some grants to help with the local expenses to young students. If you are interested, mark the appropriate box when preregistering, send your CV (in pdf format) to the address sam07<at>imub.ub.es, and ask a senior researcher to e-mail a support letter to the same address, including the phone of the supporter.

Note that finantial help will be granted with the following order of priority: young researchers belonging to teams included in i-MATH, other researchers belonging to these teams, other spanish participants, non-spanish participants.

The deadline to ask for a grant is July 13. Granted students will be notified by e-mail on July 20.

Accomodation

Contact to: investigadors<at>resa.es, www.residencia-investigadors.es, www.resa.es

Make sure that the reservation is done well in advance. Otherwise it can be full.

Organizers

The organizers are Àngel Jorba and Carles Simó, with the collaboration of Ariadna Farrés and Montse Navarro. For more information, write them to the address sam07 at imub.ub.es (this address is not clickable, you should type it in your e-mail program; this has been done to minimize the amount of spam we receive).

Support

The course is supported by i-MATH (Consolider project from the Spanish Minsitry of Education and Science), IMUB and the research teams on Dynamical Systems of the UB.




Ingenio - Mathematica
MEC - CI 2010

 
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