Program

CAUTION: THIS IS A PREVIEW AND THINGS ARE NOT FINAL YET

• Start: Monday 25 August 2025
• Finish: Friday 29 August 2025

We aim to have introductory sessions on GAP for students and researchers interested to use GAP to support their research. The invited speakers will present a minicourse addressing topics in algebra, group theory and discrete mathematics related to GAP, and provide some exercises for the students in parallel with working sessions for developpers.

Detailed schedule

We will open with a meeting at Monday morning at 9:45. Around 10:00 we coordinate plans for the week, and follow a pattern of “Standups” each day at around 10:00 and 17:00, to communicate what we plan to work on, and what we have worked on, respectively. There will be two lectures of the minicourses per day and two hours of exercises in parallel with working sessions.

The schedule is subject to further changes.

• Monday

  • 9:30 Registration, Morning coffee, Welcome and opening
  • 10:00 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 10:30 Minicourse Ilaria Colazzo: lecture 1
  • 11:30 Minicourse Ilaria Colazzo: exercises 1 sheet 1 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 Minicourse Ilaria Colazzo: lecture 2
  • 14:30 Minicourse Ilaria Colazzo: exercises 2 sheet 2 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 15:30 coffee break
  • 16:00 Discussion
  • 17:00 Stand-up Meeting: Results from work sessions

• Tuesday

  • 10:00 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 10:30 Minicourse Ilaria Colazzo: lecture 3
  • 11:30 Minicourse Ilaria Colazzo: exercises 3 sheet 3 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 Minicourse Bettina Eick: lecture 1
  • 14:30 Minicourse Bettina Eick: exercises 1 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 15:30 coffee break
  • 16:00 Contributed Talks
    • 16:00 Talk: “Measuring sizes of certain large sets precisely and efficiently” (Pavol Kollár)
    • 16:20 Talk: “smallantimagmas love digraphs package” (Kamil Zabielski)(abstract)
  • 17:00 Stand-up Meeting: Results from work sessions

• Wednesday

  • 10:00 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 10:30 Minicourse Bettina Eick: lecture 2
  • 11:30 Minicourse Bettina Eick: exercises 2 / Parallel: working session for developers
    • also parallel: “Developing a GAP package” (room G.6.16A down the hall)
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 Minicourse Bettina Eick: lecture 3
  • 14:30 Minicourse Bettina Eick: exercises 3 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 15:30 coffee break
  • 16:00 Contributed Talks
    • 16:00 Talk: “Next steps for the package manager” (Michael Young)
    • 16:20 Talk: “TBA” (Seyyed Ali Mohammadiyeh)
  • 17:00 Stand-up Meeting: Results from work sessions

• Thursday

  • 10:00 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 10:15 Minicourse Michel Lavrauw: lecture 1
  • 11:15 Conference Photo
  • 11:30 Minicourse Michel Lavrauw: exercises 1 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 Minicourse Michel Lavrauw: lecture 2
  • 14:30 Minicourse Michel Lavrauw: exercises 2 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 15:30 coffee break
  • 16:00 Announcing GAP Logo contest winner & next GAP Days
  • 16:20 Talk: “The OSCAR computer algebra system” (Thomas Breuer)
  • 17:00 Stand-up Meeting: Results from work sessions

• Friday

  • 10:00 Stand up and technical discussion
  • 10:30 Minicourse Michel Lavrauw: lecture 3
  • 11:30 Minicourse Michel Lavrauw: exercises 3 / Parallel: working session for developers
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 working session for developers
  • 15:00 coffee and closing