====== 9th polymake conference and developer meeting ====== === February 9th, 2018 === ===== polymake conference ===== On Friday there will be one invited talk and several tutorial, demo and helpdesk sessions for polymake users. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop and use them in the tutorials, preferably with an installed version of polymake. See the **[[download:start|Download Section]]** for the current release, version 3.2 was released on January 29th. Alternatively, you can give a try to the brand new **[[install:dockerimage|polymake docker image]]**. If you have any polymake problem you want to get help during the workshop please describe your problem during the sign up process. The conference takes place in the math building of TU Berlin: \\ Rooms **MA544**, **MA644** in the morning and **MA648**, **MA649** in the afternoon,\\ Str. des 17. Juni 136,\\ 10623 Berlin\\ see also: [[http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/]] Certificates of participation will be available upon request. Registration: closed. **Schedule:**
^ **Friday** ^ ^^ | 09:00-09:30 | **Registration** || | 09:30-10:30 | **Talk: Homotopy Continuation in Julia** || | ::: | //Paul Breiding// || | 10:30-11:00 | **Coffee and Helpdesk** || | 11:00-12:00 | **Tut: Polymake Basics ** | **Demo: Polymake.jl** | | ::: | //Holger Eble// | //Benjamin Lorenz// | | 12:00-14:00 | **Lunch** || | 14:00-15:00 | **Tut: Installation and Toolchain** | **Demo: Callable library and MPI** | | ::: | // TBA // | // Lars Kastner // | | 15:00-15:30 | **Coffee and Helpdesk** || | 15:30-16:30 | **Hyperbolic Surfaces** | **K3 Polytopes and Quartic Surfaces** | | ::: | //Robert Loewe // | // Marta Panizzut// | | 16:30-18:00 | **Helpdesk** || | ~19:00 | **Dinner** (self paid) ||
===== Developer Meeting ===== The developer meeting takes place on February 8th and 10th. On Thursday we will have general discussions on important topics and tickets, and assign tickets/tasks to small teams for the coding session on Saturday. On Thursday we will go for lunch around 12:30. Everybody who is already there is welcome to join. Official start is at 15:00 in MA 621. On Saturday we will meet at 10:00. Please add your topics here: * common strategies of software distribution with cooperation partners (docker, snap, Nix, something else?) * what should we publish on GitHub (releases, snaphosts, master?) * peculiarities of rule system: creating subobjects vs. atomic properties, use of lookup() in rules //Please feel free to add more topics!//