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<h2>Sage Days 25, Mumbai, India</h2>
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<h4>What is 'Sage Days'?</h4>
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Sage Days is a confluence of present and prospective SAGE Users and Developers.
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It is an opportunity to come together to share ideas, brainstorm and hack on Sage.
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Sage Days 25 is the 25th version of Sage Days, and is being organized in Mumbai, India.
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In order to cater to an Indian audience and scenario, this version has been tweaked
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slightly. Sage Days 25 has beginner level tutorials, in addition to the usual talks and sprints,
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to help new users get started with Sage and help promote the use of Sage in India.
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<h4>What is Sage?</h4>
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Sage is a free, open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL.
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It combines the power of numerous existing open-source packages into a common
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Python-based interface. It's mission is to create a "viable free open source alternative to
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Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab".
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Sage has tools for a broad range of mathematical areas like Linear Algebra, Calculus,
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Symbolic Math,  Plotting, Rings & Groups, Graph Theory, Number Theory and Cryptography.
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Essentially, "it can do anything from mapping a 12-dimensional object to calculating rainfall
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patterns under global warming" - as Science Daily puts it . Eager to get started? Start <a href="http://www.sagemath.org/tour.html">here</a>.
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Apart from being feature rich, it's usability is one of it's greatest strengths. Sage Notebook,
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a web-interface for all the math you'll ever want to do, is really the killer feature! As the Sage
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Marketing page says, "The SAGE GUI surely works on your computer box, because it just runs
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in Firefox!".  <a href="http://www.sagenb.org/">Try it Now!</a>
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<h4>Why should you attend?</h4>
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Sage Days 25 is being attended by the creator and lead developer of Sage, Prof. William Stein.
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It will also be attended by other developers of Sage. This would be a great opportunity to meet
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and interact with them!  
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The conference will be attended by a plethora of enthusiastic people from all over the country
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who use Sage or are interested in doing so. The conference will also see the presence of many
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mathematicians interested in software. Who knows, you may run into someone you'd want to
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collaborate with, for your future work!
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This event will be a great learning experience, if you are even remotely interested in math and software for it!
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<h4>When and Where?</h4>
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Venue: IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, India<br/>
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Dates: August 9-12, 2010<br/>
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<a href="/sage_days/schedule">Tentative Schedule</a><br/>
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<a href="/sage_days/registration/register">Register Here</a>
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