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Sage Prize Presentation

Opening Remarks

Video of the presentation: https://youtu.be/7qnBsvOyiMA

The original "Annual Spies SageMath Development Prize" was an annual award to one person who makes major and inspiring contributions to the development of Sage. The goal of that prize was to acknowledge the recipient and to encourage them to continue to do excellent development work on SageMath. It was $500 entirely funded by Jaap Spies and was awarded each year 2008-2014 to M. Abshoff, M. Hansen, M. Nguyen, R. Bradshaw, J. Grout, J. Demeyer, and V. Braun.

The new "SageMath Prize" will be funded by donations to Sage via OpenCollective. At least two prizes will be awarded each year to acknowledge and encourage:

  • contributions to the Sage codebase and third party ecosystem,

  • spread of the use of Sage via workshops and other mechanisms,

  • maintenance of infrastructure, and

  • organization and funding of Sage development.

This year's prize committee was Eric Gourgoulhon, John Cremona, William Stein, Samuel Lelièvre, and Karl-Dieter Crisman. (Note: nobody on this committee was a past winner of the sage dev prize. In the future, the committee should mostly consist of past prize winners.) The committee has named 10 winners for their contributions during the period from 2015 until now. Each winner receives our congratulations and thanks, and also $300!

The Ten Prize Winners

(in alphabetical order, like mathematics paper authors)

Introduced by William and John alternately, starting with John.

E Madison Bray

For numerous developments in the Sage code base, porting Sage to Microsoft Windows, improving the documentation of Sage, and organizing Sage Days.

  • E. Madison Bray (they)

Frédéric Chapoton

For incredible amounts of development contributions to the core codebase, especially regarding the migration from Python 2 to Python 3, high quality reviewing of trac tickets, general quality improvements and support of infrastructure.

Matthias Köppe

For incredible and consistent contributions to the core Sage library, especially the modularization effort, which has the potential to massively extend the sustainability and broad impact of the Sage Python codebase.

Thierry Monteil

For an extraordinary amount of user support and deploying and maintaining the thriving ask.sagemath.org server. Also, for spreading sage via the Sage Debian Live USB key project and by strong participation in many Sage Days.

Andrey Novoseltsev

For longterm maintenance, support and development of the Sage cell server, which is the most immediately accessible way to run Sage. Also, many contributions to UTMOST and PreTeXt.

  • Andrey Novoseltsev, no current academic affiliation

Dima Pasechnik

For overall contributions, including care of orphaned packages, thoughtful discussion of important issues on mailing lists, longterm math and code contributions, user support, support of Google Summer of Code and opencollective.

Viviane Pons

For community building, training, and Sage Days organization and outreach far and wide. Also for contributions to documentation and publicity about Sage via OpenDreamKit, and core contributions to the Sage codebase and related packages.

Harald Schilly

For consistent contributions since 2007, including design and maintenance of the very functional Sage website (e.g., Sage is on the first page of Google for searching for "math software"), debugging and maintaining doc.sagemath.org, administering Sage's Google Summer of Code involvement, helping with OpenCollective, and maintaining many Sage distributions as part of CoCalc.

Travis Scrimshaw

For major contributions to the core library, his excellent review of trac tickets, and his major longterm contributions to Sage's participation in Google Summer of Code.

  • Travis Scrimshaw (he/him), https://tscrim.github.io, Osaka Metropolitan University (before April, this was called Osaka City University; this changes next month to Hokkaido University)

Nicolas M. Thiéry

For having a massive impact on the development of Sage over the last decade by leading sage-combinat, his core code structure contributions (e.g., categories), and leading the OpenDreamKit grant. He was a driving force behind make Sage the world's best software for algebraic combinatorics.