[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'17 participation?

[Joshua Wilson]

> 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

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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