Re: Introduction and SoCiS

[Jacopo Corno]

>
>>
>> On 6 May 2014, at 09:55, Jacopo Corno <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I read that Octave will participate to SoCiS 2014 and I would be really
>>> interested in giving my contribution.
>>>
>>> I will start by introducing myself: I got a Master degree in
>>> Mathematical
>>> Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and I am currently enrolled as a
>>> PhD
>>> student at TU-Darmstadt.
>>> In the last couple of years my main interest has been Isogeometric
>>> Analysis and I developed my applications (and still do!) with Octave. I
>>> worked, in particular, with the NURBS toolbox and GeoPDEs package (I
>>> had
>>> the possibility to collaborate with Carlo de Falco.
>>> I also have some experience with C++ coding since I worked for some
>>> months
>>> on a C++ library analogous to GeoPDEs.
>>>
>>> I think that participating to SoCiS would be a great possibility of
>>> improving my programming skills and of getting involved with Octave
>>> community, so I would love to be able to join the project this summer.
>>>
>>> I read the project list on the wiki page and I would be interested in
>>> taking care of the ODE solvers in Octave core. I think it would be of
>>> interest for a wide variety of users and, more personally, I could find
>>> it
>>> useful for my PhD.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> best regards,
>>> Jacopo Corno
>>>
>>> PS: I apologize for the mail that I just sent. It was clearly an error.
>>
>> Jacopo,
>>
>> As I wrote to other candidates, we like to see some patch submeitted by
>> candidates to help us evaluate their skills.
>>
>> It seems that one outstanding issue with Roberto's overhaul of odepkg
>> was that some tests that where present in the previous version were
>> removed.
>>
>> Could you work on fixing this issue and send a patch for evaluation?
>>
>> c.
>>
>
> Dear Carlo,
>
> I did have a look at Roberto's code and I already added the tests of the
> previous version to the 0de45 solver. I had to fix some minor bugs but
> everything seems to be working fine now.
>
> This was also useful to start understanding the current state of the code.
> From my understanding the only options not implemented yet are
> 'NormControl' and 'MaxStep'. Fixing this could for sure be part of SoCiS
> project. I will sum up my ideas for what could be the rest of my
> contribution as soon as possible and I will send you the link to the wiki
> with the public application.
>
> I believe the easiest way for me to submit my changes could be to have
> access to Roberto's repository. Is this possible or is there a better
> solution?
>
> best regards
> Jacopo
>
>

Dear all,

here is the link to my public application wiki:

http://wiki.octave.org/User:Jacopo

Any further suggestion on the project is appreciated. In particular I
could use some help form more experienced programmers on refining the
timeline for the different tasks.

Best regards,
Jacopo



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