MITACS Seminar Series on Mathematics of Computer Algebra and Analysis
On DifferentialAlgebra.
Francois Boulier, University of Lille
3:30pm, Monday December 8th, 2008, in K9509.
Abstract: DifferentialAlgebra is the prototype of a new MAPLE package dedicated to differential elimination. Actually, this package is nothing but an interface package for the BLAD libraries, which constitute a tower of five standalone, open source (LGPL), C libraries. In this talk, after a short introduction to the theory, I will present some of the functionality provided by BLAD through the DifferentialAlgebra package and sketch the main issues that had to be solved in order to design BLAD. I will address also the most important issue: what is the point of having standalone, open source, C libraries, dedicated to differential elimination ? The home page of the BLAD libraries is: http://www.lifl.fr/~boulier/BLAD The reference book of Ritt on differential algebra is available at: http://www.ams.org/online_bks/coll33