Projects

Guide

• To add a project, follow the pattern established by the existing projects to create a new page in the GitHub wiki.
  • Always choose a name like Project: [title] for the project.
  • See Project: Template for a template of a project description. Pay particular attention to the information in the header.
• To volunteer to work on a project (or ask questions), contact the potential advisors listed on the project.
• Another source for projects is GitHub issues, in particular those with labels:
  • enhancement
  • contributions welcome
  • good beginners' project
  • seeking a volunteer
• Also see the GitHub projects page for on-going work and outstanding tasks.

List of available projects

Top-level projects

The following projects require coding in the M2 language:

• Project: Solving systems of polynomial equations via elimination

Engine projects

The following projects involve the Macaulay2 engine, which may require other skills, most often C++:

• Project: Faster determinants and minors
• Project: implement ZZ mod n in the engine for composite n
• Project: parallelization via MPI (also top-level)