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Abstracts of Software Tutorials

An introduction of ICMS-DVDs

We are preparing ICMS-DVDs for participants of ICMS2010. DVD1 is KNOPPIX/Math. It is a project to archive free mathematical software and documents and offer them on KNOPPIX, a Live-DVD that contains a collection of GNU/Linux software. DVD2 is not a Live-DVD, it is a collection of binaries of mathematical software, source codes, documents and movies. It contains virtual machine of KNOPPIX/Math and small Debian based virtual machines for some matematical applications. I will introduce these DVDs.

Risa/Asir

Risa/Asir is a computer algebra system mainly for polynomials with the OpenXM functionality to integrate with other systems. It has been developed in the Fujitsu laboratory in 1990's and in Kobe University in 2000's. We will present an overview of the system, history of the developement, and hints to utilize it for developers.

The Sage mathematics software system

A brief tutorial for Sage (http://sagemath.org). We will demonstrate the web-based "notebook" interface and the Cython programming language, followed by a whirlwind tour of the components of Sage and the functionality provided by each.

NZMATH --- a practical number theoretic tool

NZMATH is a Python based number theory oriented calculation system. We will demonstrate some number theoretic calculations on IPython. After that we will introduce features of NZMATH and show how to install the system on your PC.

GNU TeXmacs

GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content, etc.). The rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop.

The software includes a text editor with support for mathematical formulas, a small technical picture editor and a tool for making presentations from a laptop. Moreover, TeXmacs can be used as an interface for many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using the Scheme extension language. A native spreadsheet and tools for collaborative authoring are planned for later.

CHomP - Computational Homology Project

The CHomP software (http://chomp.rutgers.edu/) is primarily aimed at the computation of homology groups of low-dimensional cubical sets, that is, polyhedra in R^n built of cells with respect to a fixed rectangular grid. In addition to a C++ programming library, the software package contains programs addressed to non-programmers, all under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Towards a Non-Hirsch-Polytope via polymake

Paco Santos recently disproved the long-standing Hirsch Conjecture. His (first) counter-example is a 43-dimensional simple convex polytope with 86 facets whose vertex-edge graph has diameter at least 44. The latter exceeds the Hirsch bound of 86-43=43. This tutorial explains the construction using polymake.

iscc

iscc is an interactive tool for manipulating sets and relations of integer tuples bounded by affine constraints as well as quasipolynomials defined over such domains. Essentially, the tool serves as a high-level interface to isl, barvinok and CLooG. The tutorial first illustrates some basic concepts and operations such as code generation, lexicographic optimization, (weighted) counting and the computations of bounds on quasipolynomials through the use of small examples that only require a single or a few operations. In the second part, a number of small applications are discussed that require a sequence of basic operations. All examples are inspired by the polyhedral model for program analysis and transformation.