• Potential advisor/consultant(s): Mike Stillman
• Goal: speed up the computation of determinants and minors over a polynomial ring, or even a sparse matrix over a field
• Current status: available!
• Macaulay2 skill level: beginner/intermediate, and C++ experience
• Mathematical experience: undergraduate
• Reason(s) to participate: Learn internals of M2, or you need or want faster determinants for your research

Xianglong Ni (math graduate student at Berkeley) has started doing this in top level Macaulay2. Migrating the methods to the engine would produce a very useful speedup in many cases. The package FastLinAlg is designed to do some of this as well. This project, besides adding C++ determinant and minors code, might integrate this with that package, and/or create a new package.

Related issues: #1899 , #1705