Progress report for Oxford
Dima Pasechnik
Reporting period from January 2018 to October 2018
Finance and administration
Everything in order.
Hiring
From April 2018 until the end of the project Pasechnik is employed for 70% FTE, up from 50% FTE for January-March 2018.
Achievements
In the reporting period most work in Oxford has been towards portability of Sage and its components, with patches contributed to MPIR, MPFR, Singular, GAP, PPL, Flint, Arb, Scipy, as well as Sage itself. Most time was devoted to porting to clang (very important for support of Sage on OSX), and work on MPIR and libGAP.
Pasechnik co-mentored two Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students in the summer of 2018, which resulted in improving graph theory and coding theory components of Sage. (He was also an admin for the 2018 GSoC for SageMath).
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Work in progress
Ports of Sage to FreeBSD and Solaris have been revived, and are well underway. Other projects are related to improving optimisation capabilities of Sage, as well as capabilites to generate graphs and other combinatorial objects.
He also is doing work on Sage modularisation.
Workshops and dissemination activities
Pasechnik attended a number of ODK and ODK-related workshops and meetings, and gave Sage-related talks at a coneference at Pilsen and seminars at Oxford and Warwick. He helps with using Sage in teaching at Oxford’s Mathematical Institute.
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