Main goals
The aim of this ``summer’’ school was to give an overview of different applications of GAP in mathematical research.
OpenDreamKit implication
Olexandr Konovalov was one of the instructors. OpenDreamKit funded his participation to the event: \pounds 560.
Event summary
The speakers presented their areas of research, the functionality that is available in GAP to investigate these areas computationally, and guided participants through these tools during the accompanying hands-on programming lab sessions.
GAP in Algebraic Research Summer School, Aachen, Germany
Results and impact
Olexandr Konovalov gave an introductory GAP Tutorial based on the Software Carpentry lesson ``Programming with GAP’’ (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.597073), demonstrated GAP Jupyter notebooks and parallel distributed calculations using the SCSCP package. The format of this part of the school’s programme followed the Software Carpentry teaching approaches. In particular, we collected the feedback on minute cards after each of the half-day sessions. Some quotes from the feedback written by the learners:
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Nice step-by-step introduction
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Good organisation of materials and presentation
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The content are quite well organised
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Idea with stickers is cool. This really makes asking questions easier
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I really like the use of stickers as tools for asking for help and give feedback
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I really liked the tutorial, well explained, and differences between listing on a group elements or a group G!!!
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Appropriate speed
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Started from the beginning, easy to follow
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The session was understandable
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I learned a lot of interesting ‘short’ commands
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Lots of shortcuts - I am very lazy
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Very useful tips on optimising the working process (autocompletion etc)
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Many nice details
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“Real-life” example of application (average order of group elements) that demonstrate necessary syntax =)
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Good to solve a simple problem, not only technical details
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Programming with a goal in mind
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Very informative and useful
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Like presentation of different packages - also interesting for people knowing GAP
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Excellent the Jupyter notebook!! Incredible! I would like to see more about this application.
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References to “modern” interfaces like Jupyter instead of command line
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Some interesting tricks for people who already know GAP
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The graphical applications were awesome!
