GAP Days are meetings where developers and users with GAP programming experience are invited to discuss, influence, and contribute to the future development of GAP. To streamline each meeting, the organisers usually suggest a few main topics to work on during the week.
The meetings are also suitable for advertising recent developments in GAP itself, and its packages, via short talks. However, the focus of the meetings is on development, with talks playing only a minor role. As enough GAP experts will be around for advice and technical support, the meetings offer particularly good opportunities for people to work on their own packages. At the end of the week, we would be happy to hear about any progress you made.
Please visit gapdays.de for a list of all GAP Days.
The GAP Days Spring 2025 will be the first edition in Brussels, Belgium! Since this is the first edition on Belgian soil, the organizers would like to include a number of minicourses on a diverse range of mathematical topics, including topics from group theory, algebra and discrete mathematics. A minicourse will consist of two hours of lecture in the morning, with an exercise session (in GAP, obviously) in the afternoon. We will organize parallel sessions for developers. As such, master and PhD students in mathematics interested to use GAP to support their mathematical work, will be able to learn GAP and also meet developers.
The minicourse will be given by researchers who are also enthusiastic GAP users and/or GAP developers. We have confirmed minicourses by Ilaria Colazzo and Bettina Eick.
We warmly invite all people interested with little knowledge of the insides of GAP to join in as well: this includes undergraduate students, PhD students, post-docs, and more experienced mathematicians. You will be able to meet us and each other, and learn about GAP development and algorithmic group theory in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
The schedule can be found on the program page.
GAP Days Spring 2025 is organised by
GAP Days Spring 2025 will take place at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Information about the exact location can be found on the location page. For registration use the form on the registration page.
This workshop is supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) (FWO) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
If you have questions or suggestions, then please contact the organisers by email via gapdays2024-summer@gapdays.de.