Please do drop in (room 437 IT Building) or send an email (michael.mcgettrick@nuigalway.ie) for more info on this project.


1. DEVELOPMENT OF OGB (Online Gröbner Basis) VERSION 2.0
This project is based on the software OGB at http://grobner.nuigalway.ie/ , version 1.0. The major work for version 2.0 will be to add arbitrary term ordering to the terms x1bij1 x2bij2 x3bij3 . . . xrbijr of r variables x1, x2, x3, . . . xr. Version 1.0 of OGB allows only one ordering (lexicographic). Other orderings have turned out to be useful for various calculations, and often give a quicker result. Term orderings are specified in a consistent manner by listing an r-vector with certain properties [1]: It will be a task of the project to make sure the software only allows the user to enter admissible orderings. OGB uses APACHE, LINUX, PHP, GMP. An interest in/knowledge of (some of) these, and mathematics, would help in the project.

[1] Robbiano, L. (1985). Term orderings on the polynomial ring. In: Caviness, B.F. (ed.), EUROCAL '85, European Conference on Computer Algebra, Vol. II, Springer LNCS 204, 513-517.