News

January 2015

Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 10-13

The UTMOST team presented a poster on this project at the NSF UTMOST poster session.

William Stein gave a one-hour Guest Lecture to the SIGMAA on Mathematics Instruction Using the Web on the SaqgeMathCloud. Tom Judson was an organizer of the “Poster Plus 5” Session on Open Source Resources in Mathematics, which included a presentation by Tom Judson, Rob Beezer and David Farmer.

The Sage project also had a successful booth in the exhibit hall, which introduced many people to both the SageMathCloud and the Sage Cell Server.

June 2014

Sage Education Days, June 16–18

Sage Edu Days 6 will be held June 16–18 at the University of Washington in Seattle. See the website for schedule and videos of talks.

Anyone with an interest in the use of Sage in educational settings is welcome to attend. The focus will primarily be on undergraduate mathematics, but will not be limited to just that area.

There will also be a developer conference happening that whole week.

March 2014

Sage Cell Server

In March 2014, the Sage Cell Server had an average of 1986 computations per day, about 100 more computations per day than in February 2014. The service was visited by users in 158 countries (about half coming from United States, 25% from Europe, and 10% from Asia). The top city accessing the service was Tacoma, WA (no doubt due to Rob Beezer’s online linear algebra textbook using it), followed by Omaha, NE, Ottawa, Hartford, CN, and Fargo, ND.

SageMathCloud

In March 2014, about 40,000 projects were modified. At the end of March, there were around 28,500 accounts (with about 150 accounts being created each day) and around 43,500 total projects. See this page for more graphs and statistics.

January 2014

Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 15–18

The UTMOST team presented a poster on this project at the NSF UTMOST poster session

Several UTMOST collaborators talked in sessions, including the MAA Open Textbook session (Tom Judson/Rob Beezer) and in the MAA Online Resources session (Jason Grout).

The Sage project also had a successful booth in the exhibit hall, which introduced many people to both the SageMathCloud and the Sage Cell Server.

June 2013

Sage Education Days, June 19–21

Sage Edu Days 5 will be held June 19–21 at the University of Washington in Seattle. See the website for schedule and videos of talks.

Anyone with an interest in the use of Sage in educational settings is welcome to attend. The focus will primarily be on undergraduate mathematics, but will not be limited to just that area.

There will also be a developer conference happening that whole week, with the Sage Cloud as the theme.

June 2012

Sage Education Days, June 13–21

Sage Edu Days 5 will be held June 13-15 at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Anyone with an interest in the use of Sage in educational settings is welcome to attend. The focus will primarily be on undergraduate mathematics, but will not be limited to just that area.

There will also be a developer conference happening that whole week, with the Sage notebook as the theme.

January 2012

Joint Meetings

We had a booth in the TUES poster session, and the Sage booth in the conference hall was a big hit as well.

August 2011

Mathfest

We had a very successful booth that we shared with the Webwork folks.

AIM Open Textbook Initiative

American Institute of Mathematics has launched its Open Textbook Initiative. This initiative will review and provide links to high-quality open-source textbooks. This initiative is supported in part by UTMOST.

Sage-Enhanced Textbooks

Rob Beezer announced his work on enhancing his linear algebra textbook and also announced his work on enhancing Judson’s abstract algebra textbook. Both of these projects involved work sponsored by UTMOST.

Embedding Sage in a webpage (beta)

You can now embed Sage into any webpage! A beta version of the Sage Cell server was released. See the documentation for embedding a computation.

As an example, click the button below to explore a Taylor polynomial

or generate graph paper (including a pdf)

or try whatever Sage computation you want below.

factorial(30) # edit me

June 2011

Sage Education Days 3, 16–18 Jun 2011

We had our first UTMOST conference in Seattle with the test site teacher-authors for the 2011-2012 academic year. See the conference homepage for details, links to videos of the talks, etc.

July 2010

Grant awarded

The UTMOST proposal was awarded a grant!