Program

Workshop

Start: Monday September 17th 2018 at 09:30
Finish: Friday September 21th 2018 at 15:30

Pad for the workshop

https://bit.ly/gapdays2018

Detailed Schedule

We will have a stand-up every morning at 9:30am and every afternoon at 4:30pm to lay out the plans for the day and summarise the achievements respectively. The talks will usually take place after lunch. The titles will be announced in September.

Monday
- 11:00: Opening
- 12:00: Lunch (in-house Mensa)
- 13:00: Meta-packaging (skype conference with Alexander Konovalov)
  (currently relevant for the homalg_project and the CAP_project)
- 16:30: Stand-Up: todays results
Tuesday
- 09:30: Stand-Up: Agenda for today
- 10:00 – 10:45: Sebastian Gutsche
  Integrating GAP and Julia - JuliaInterface and Gap.jl
- 12:00: Lunch (in-house Mensa)
- 16:30: Stand-Up: todays results
Wednesday
- 09:30: Stand-Up: Agenda for today
- 10:00 – 10:45: Markus Pfeiffer
  LibGAP: GAP as a library for use in Jupyter, OSCAR, SageMath, …
- 12:00: Lunch (in-house Mensa)
- 16:30: Stand-Up: todays results
- 19:00: Workshop dinner at the Restaurant Piazza Da Vinci
Thursday
- 09:30: Stand-Up: Agenda for today
- 10:00 – 10:45: Alexander D. Rahm
  The Rigid Facets Subdivision Algorithm in GAP
- 11:55: Group photo! (please be there)
- 12:00: Lunch (in-house Mensa)
- 16:30: Stand-Up: todays results
Friday:
- 09:30: Stand-Up: Agenda for today
- 10:00 – 10:45: Kamal Saleh
  Implementation of Quillen model categories
- 12:00: Lunch (in-house Mensa)
- 15:30: End of the meeting

Topics and projects

GAP - Julia integration (continue work from Oscar GAP Kickoff Coding Sprint (restricted access))
Towards GAP 4.10 (the stable-4.10 branch is planned for September 1st, and GAP 4.10.0 for October 1st; during the GAP days, we can finish the overview of changes in GAP 4.10, and if necessary fix any last minute regressions)
libGAP (access GAP as a library, for use in SageMath, OSCAR and elsewhere; for details, please read this email by Markus Pfeiffer)
Metapackages for GAP distribution (for details, read this pull request)

Further topics

The following are some topics from past GAP days, and suggestion for new things. If you’d like to revisit one of these, or some other subject, please contact the organizers. However, we would like to avoid opening up too many different topics, and instead focus on a few selected ones.