[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'17 participation?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Joshua Wilson <josh.craig.wilson at gmail.com
> wrote:

> P.S. If anyone wants to co-mentor that would be welcome.
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Joshua Wilson <
> josh.craig.wilson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Would you be able to add this to the wiki?
>>
>> Here it is:
>>
>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-2016-project-ideas#
>> improve-the-parabolic-cylinder-functions
>>
>
I have created a new page for 2017:
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-2017-project-ideas
More ideas/mentors welcome, please edit!

A link from http://python-gsoc.org/#ideas to our ideas page will be
available within 24 hours I expect.

Cheers,
Ralf




>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Ted Pudlik <tpudlik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that it would be very challenging.  It would also be more of a
>>> research project in applied maths than a straightforward implementation
>>> exercise.  For the confluent hypergeometric function specifically (on which
>>> I've worked unsuccessfully), the main difficulty is that no known algorithm
>>> (https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7786) is reliable throughout parameter
>>> space, and in fact finding any combination of algorithms that works well is
>>> rather hard.
>>>
>>> I have more specific results tucked away somewhere, including
>>> interesting plots (one attached as an example---number of correct digits
>>> computed by the optimally-truncated asymptotic series as a function of the
>>> parameters).  I'll try to clean them up and post somewhere for posterity's
>>> sake, assuming I won't be able to finish this work myself.[image: 3.png]
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:32 AM Evgeni Burovski <
>>> evgeny.burovskiy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 3. hypergeometric functions would be great, but this might be too
>>>> difficult. Josh, Nikolay, Ted --- you guys looked at this at some
>>>> point; any comments?
>>>>
>>>
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