Sir/Mam, I, Rishav Agarwal, am a sophomore studing at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. I am interested in the working on implementing implicit routine for solving ODEs. I have done a semeser long on Numerical Methods in my third semester and am quite familiar with the algorithms used. Although I do not have much experience working with the Boost library, I am well aquaited with C++ and Python and can pick up the libraries easily. I would appreciate if the probable mentor could guide me through the application process and tell me about any pre-requisite/tests that I need to clear which could strengthen my proposal. A list of my previous projects can be found here http://github.com/rra94. Sincerely, Rishav Raj Agarwal I.I.T.Kanpur