Wake Forest: M2

With funding from the National Science Foundation and National Security Agency,
a Macaulay2 workshop will be held Sunday, August 5, 2012 through
Thursday, August 9, 2012 with Saturday, August 4 and Friday, August 10 serving
as the travel days. The workshop will be at Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Activities will start first thing Sunday morning
(possibly Saturday night).
The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with
those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for
Macaulay 2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical
algorithms. Some sample software projects that might be undertaken are visible
at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/dev/projects/ although the organizers are also
looking for participants who might have new packages they are interested
in. Further examples of possible projects are available as part of past
workshop topics, which can be viewed at

The new main Macaulay 2 wiki page is at http://wiki.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2 and a project development page is in the process of being built there. Please take a look and consider posting your projects on that page.
Attendance at this workshop by invitation only — based on a brief application
— and all who are interested are encouraged to apply. Financial support is
available for approximately 20-30 people with preference given to younger
researchers.
Also, please note that the organizers expect to have such a workshop approximately once per year, so you should look for future announcements as well.
If you would like to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Everyone
interested is strongly encouraged to apply, including graduate students and
postdocs. Your application should include:

  1. Information about what algorithms you would like to work on, and what you have done in the past (this is the most important piece — please put some
    thought into this and be as specific as possible),

  2. A good estimate of travel expenses, and whether you would require financial
    support for housing and meals (when available), and if you will be willing to
    share a room, (rooms are in limited supply; if additional single rooms are
    available, and you want one, the organizers may ask you to pay any additional cost).

  3. Your current institution and rank, and if you are a graduate student, your
    advisor’s name.

Applications are due by Monday, April 16, 2012 and the organizers hope to allocate funds to participants by Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
The application page is available here
A few other pieces of information you may need:

  1. Please commit to being present for the entire workshop.
  2. You will need to bring your laptop with Macaulay2 on it to the workshop.

Organizers:

  • David Eisenbud
  • Daniel R. Grayson
  • Frank Moore
  • Michael E. Stillman
  • Amelia Taylor

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