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Wed, 14 Mar 2007

Westcoast Wrap-Up
In case anybody wonders, this is what I have done during my stay at the US westcoast.

• I gave four talks in total on Pyrex/SageX, commutative algebra implementations, and algebraic attacks against block ciphers.
• I got started on linking against Singular from SAGE. I am far from being finished but I am planning to put out a pre-alpha-poke-an-eye-out release soon.
• I got started on incorporating Gregory Bard’s M4RI implementation in SAGE and optimized it a little. Going to be released soon.
• I wrote a thread manager which might under some highly unlikely circumstances end up in FLINT. The point of a thread manager is to make sure the overhead of creating a new thread is minimized.
• co-worked on “fast integer” creation in SAGE. That means diving into Python and GMP internals to make the creation of new Integer objects fast.
• I helped a little on the IML and LinBox integration in SAGE.
• I wrote a SymbolicData wrapper for SAGE.
• I was a conference co-organizer for the first time.

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