Sage Days Western Canada 2026: Rocky Mountains.
June 7-12 2026.
Barrier Lake Station, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.
Goal of the event
Sage Days are events that have been organized by the Sage community since 2005. Their goals and activities vary greatly. The goal of our event is threefold:
Welcoming and integrating newcomers. Sage Days is a fantastic opportunity for young researchers and complete beginners to get going with Sage. If you know you need SageMath for your own research or want to contribute to it, but don’t know where to start, this event is perfect for you.
Maintain and add new features to Sage. Sage is built and maintained by volunteers publicly on GitHub. We want to facilitate this process by gathering developers in a room and allow them to discuss new ideas, initiate new collaborations, and finish long-ongoing projects with as little friction as possible.
Gather the community to address governance and technical directions. SageMath is a decentralized and international project; it is crucial for its members to stay connected and united. We will discuss and reflect on how the project is led and foster its community.
In other words, Sage Days should either be directly beneficial to you as a scientist, or directly beneficial to SageMath itself (see Registration).
Dates
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Arrival and check-in | Sunday June 7th 2026, afternoon |
| Workshop start | Monday June 8th 2026, morning |
| Workshop end | Friday June 12th 2026, after lunch |
We encourage participants who travel through Calgary airport (YCC) to arrive at Calgary Airport on Sunday June 7th, as we will provide ground transportation from Calgary to the venue (see here).
Requirements
All are welcome, including complete beginners (no programming experience is required). We will have sessions on installing SageMath, the basics of SageMath, the basics of Git and GitHub, etc; more in Activities. The requirements are:
- A laptop (Windows, macOS, Linux).
- Be willing to learn, help and participate!
The venue has Eduroam, and we will provide power bars.
Codes of conduct
SageMath is an international, decentralized, free and open source project. Its future can only be viable if it is supported by a unified community, a safe space in which members are welcome to express new ideas.
We will strongly emphasize those aspects. Participants at Sage Days Western Canada are expected to adhere to all the policies described at these links. Violations may result in dismissal from the workshop.
Our code of conduct is the union of three codes of conduct: the SageMath code of conduct, the University of Calgary code of conduct, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) code of conduct.
Organizers and contact
- Antoine Leudière (University of Calgary, PIMS-CNRS post-doctoral fellow)
- Vincent Macri (University of Calgary, PhD student)
- Renate Scheidler (University of Calgary, professor)
For any questions, please contact us at sagedays.westerncan@ucalgary.ca.
Sponsors
We are financially supported by:
- The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
- The Mathematics and Statistics Department of the University of Calgary
- The Computer Science Department of the University of Calgary
We are also supported by in-kind contributions from: