Maplesoft and LHCPhenoNet, Valencia, Spain February, 2011 Dr. David Hare, Maplesoft

Maplesoft – A brief historyMaplesoft – A brief history Symbolic computation system, Maple, developed at the University of Waterloo, starting in 1981 Company incorporated in 1988 Joined the Cybernet Group in 2009

Principal productsPrincipal products Maple: Symbolic computation system (computer algebra system) covering a wide range of application, research and education areas MapleSim: Physical modeling tool, built on top of Maple, enabling significant performance gains resulting from symbolic analysis and transformation of the model equations MapleTA: On-line testing and grading system MapleNet: Web application for displaying and interacting with Maple worksheets

Development teamDevelopment team I manage the Mathematical Software Development Group – Doctorate in Pure Mathematics – 20 years researching and implementing algorithms for the arbitrary precision evaluation of special functions Solid team of developers – most with doctorates in mathematics, computer science, engineering – active in current research – Editor of 2009 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation proceedings – Open problems in modern algebra solved using a new package in Maple – Symbolic-numeric computation – Optimization – Fast numeric algorithms

Collaboration with universitiesCollaboration with universities Leading edge research in optimization, differential geometry, polynomial system solving, other areas all incorporated in Maple through collaborations with a variety of universities around the world Long history of working with university co-operative education programs to seek out top quality students to work as part of our development team Have had graduate students from across Canada and some strong undergraduate students from around the world join us for 2-6 month internships

Projects for internsProjects for interns We would like to have a series of intern placements, with each intern building on the work of the previous one. This would allow us to have interns working on significant, large projects in a meaningful way. Components for MapleSim – MapleSim relies on comprehensive component libraries – always room for more – Contact dynamics, battery models, synchronous and asynchronous motors, circuits Special functions – For Maple itself and to support MapleSim, we need to continue to expand our special functions library – Both hardware precision and arbitrary precision implementations are required

Projects for interns - 2Projects for interns - 2 Grid computing – We have been actively pursuing grid (distributed) computing implementations of algorithms in Maple, using both multiple cores on a single machine and more widely dispersed computer grids Other parallel computing – We are also developing parallel algorithms for execution by a single Maple kernel

Logistics There are various programs under which internships may be arranged – International Experience Canada – International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience – AIESEC –…–… It is the intern’s responsibility to obtain the necessary visa, work permit and any other required documents Maplesoft can provide some assistance, but has no say in the final decision by the Canadian government

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