2025 FLINT development workshop in Palaiseau
Results
https://fredrikj.net/blog/2025/palaiseau-flint-workshop-report/
Photos
When and where
- January 27 – 31, 2025
- Bâtiment Alan Turing, campus de l’École polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
(location)
- Mon, Jan 27: Gilles Kahn room (ground floor)
- Tue, Jan 28 – Fri, Jan 31: Grace Hopper room (2nd floor, at the very back of the building)
- We will start around 09:00 on Monday and end around 17:00 on Friday, but feel free to arrive later or leave earlier.
Program
The workshop will focus on on coding sprints to develop FLINT and improve FLINT’s integration in other software. (Developers of other mathematical software with no direct link to FLINT are also welcome!)
Depending on participant interest, we may arrange a small number of tutorials and technical talks. Feel free to reach out to the organizers with presentation proposals or suggestions for topics you’d like to see covered.
Additional informal talks and public discussions will be scheduled as the need arises.
| Daily | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 11:45 | Coding sprints |
| 11:45 - 13:15 | Lunch at RIEA |
| 13:15 - 17:30 | Coding sprints |
| Monday | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Welcome the participants |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Albin Ahlbäck, Quick introduction to FLINT: How to compile and contribute, Example code |
| Tuesday | |
|---|---|
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Fredrik Johansson, Using FLINT’s generics |
| 19:30 | Social dinner at Le Living-Room |
| Wednesday | |
|---|---|
| Thursday | |
|---|---|
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Jean Kieffer, Theta functions in FLINT |
| Friday | |
|---|---|
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Albin Ahlbäck, Fast basecases for arbitrary-size multiplication |
Discussion
- Zulip chat: https://sagemath.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/408539-flint
- Wiki: https://github.com/flintlib/flint/wiki/Workshop-2025
Organizers
- Ricardo Buring [email protected]
- Fredrik Johansson [email protected]
- Pierre Lairez [email protected]
- Marc Mezzarobba [email protected]
Registration
Participation is free. To register for the workshop, please contact Ricardo and/or Marc.
We expect to have funds to cover local expenses and travel for some participants. Please contact us as soon as possible if you are interested.
Remote participation will be possible.
Participants
- Albin Ahlbäck
- Oscar Benjamin
- Ricardo Buring
- Edgar Costa (remote)
- Joel Dahne (remote)
- Luca De Feo
- Vincent Delecroix (remote)
- Lars Göttgens
- Alexandre Guillemot
- Tom Hubrecht
- Fredrik Johansson
- Jean Kieffer
- Pierre Lairez
- Marc Mezzarobba
- Arnaud Minondo
- Pascal Molin
- Vincent Neiger (Mon?, Thu)
Local information
Access
- Access and mobility on campus
- Public transport map (warning: a few bus line have been renumbered, including 91-10 → 5154)
- Route planner
Where to stay
- Aparthotel Adagio Access Palaiseau Saclay is just around the corner
- Many hotels in Massy, ~20 min from Polytechnique by bus (line 91-06 or 5154 from Massy Palaiseau to Place Marguerite Perey).
- Hôtel d’Orsay is located close to Le Guichet RER station, 30–40 min from Polytechnique by foot via Passage du Buisson aka escaliers de la Troche (300+ stairs), or ~30 min by bus (91-05 or 91-06 from Gare du Guichet to Place Marguerite Perey).
Where to eat
- In the immediate vicinity of Polytechnique: Le 19, Le Living-Room (restaurants), Food Asia Saclay 91 (Asian fast food), Panifique (bakery, closes at 20:00)
- Just a little further: Mangia, Le Julie’s.
- Massy: many restaurants and fast-food options on both sides of Massy-Palaiseau RER station, most decent, none exceptional
- A few restaurants close to Le Guichet station.
- Many more options in Palaiseau (rue de Paris) or Orsay but not as easy to reach.
Funding
- ANR NuSCAP
- ERC 10000 DIGITS