Macaulay2 RTG seminar

Fall 2023

Instructor: Karl Schwede

News:

Every group should be prepared to spend a couple minutes saying where they are and what they are working on.
We are moving to 2:00pm on Tuesdays Spring semester, for at least 1.5 hours.

Seminar plan

Seminar plan.

Macaulay2 on the web:

https://www.unimelb-macaulay2.cloud.edu.au/#home.

Activities:

Wednesday, 8-23-2023. Class activity.
Monday, 8-28-2023. Class activity.(files, loops, conditionals)
Wednesday, 8-30-2023. Class activity.(Lists)
Wednesday, 9-6-2023. Class activity.(Hash tables)
Monday, 9-11-2023. Class activity.(Methods)
(we also worked on this on Wednesday)
Monday, 9-18-2023. Class activity. (Types/classes)
Wednesday, 9-20-2023. Debugger examples: A crashing function and Debugger command examples.
Monday, 10-4-2023. Class activity. (Packages)
(also grab the file TempPackage.m2)
Monday, 10-16-2023. Class activity. (git)
Wednesday, 10-18-2023. For a bunch of the seminar, we'll be exploring different ways to interact with git.
Try visual studio code. vscode.
Try emacs. Some people like magit.
Try gitk and git gui. You can access them from xserver.math.utah.edu, or sudo apt install gitk on your ubuntu machine.
Try Github destop (mac and windows only).
Try interacting with git via ssh instead of https. Class activity. You can then clone the ssh repo instead of the https. You don't have to deal with tokens this way, but you do need to deal with ssh keys.
Wednesday, 10-25-2023. Class activity. (computing singular locus / ideal of minors)
Monday, 10-30-2023. Presentations and some continuation from last Wednesday, see Sample computations.
Monday, 11-6-2023. Class activity. (normalization, conductors, integral closure). SeminarExamples11-6-23.m2
Monday, 12-4-2023. Class activity. For the associated sample package, if you want to use that, click this link sample package.

Participant presentations on packages they are not writing:

Monday, 9-11-2023. Aryaman Maithani. For the activity, Macaulay2 and Sage, Class activity.. Also see the sage file.
Wednesay, 9-20-2023. Eamon Quinlan-Gallego. Here's the code he ran for the BGG package, Class activity.