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Pre-registration deadline has been extended to Thursday, May 7th.  Online registration form will be disconnected at 4:00 PM EDT!  Register online at https://my.siam.org/conferences.aspx.

Sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group OPSF, NIST Applied and Computational Mathematics Division and Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions, and Applications Steering Committee.

All sessions and registration will take place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Description

The 13th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA-13), co-organized by SIAM and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is the 13th event in the OPSFA series. Conferences in this series provide a forum for mathematicians, physicists, computational scientists, and application scientists in other fields to communicate recent research results in the areas of orthogonal polynomials and special functions (OPSF). OPSF plays an essential role in analytical and computational investigations in applied mathematics. Information about previous conferences in the OPSFA series is available at http://wis.kuleuven.be/events/OPSFA/.

This symposium is an event of the SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions. The activity group promotes basic research in orthogonal polynomials and special functions; furthers the application of this subject in other parts of mathematics, and in science and industry; and encourages and supports the exchange of information, ideas, and techniques between workers in this field and other mathematicians and scientists. The activity group also awards the Gábor Szegö Prize every two years to an early-career researcher for outstanding research contributions in the area of orthogonal polynomials and special functions.

The community which attends OPSFA conferences provides the technical basis for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF), an online source of reference data for use in all areas of science and engineering, and the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Cambridge University Press, 2010).   These resources subsume and greatly expand the well-known NBS Handbook of Mathematical Functions (M. Abramowitz and I. Stegun, eds., 1964).

Plenary Speakers

Percy Deift, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
Charles F. Dunkl, University of Virginia, USA
Olga Holtz, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Mourad E.H. Ismail, University of Central Florida, USA
Teresa E. Pérez, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Sarah Post, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Nico Temme, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands
Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis, USA
Lauren Williams, University of California Berkeley, USA
Wadim Zudilin, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Alexei Zhedanov, Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine

Themes

Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions, including aspects within:

• classical analysis
• approximation theory
• continued fractions
• potential theory
• q-calculus
• asymptotics
• Riemann-Hilbert problems
• random matrix theory
• superintegrability and supersymmetry
• integrable systems
• Painlevé equations
• orthogonal polynomials and special functions of several variables
• orthogonal polynomials associated with root systems
• spherical functions
• orthogonality on the complex plane
• multiple orthogonal polynomials
• Sobolev orthogonal polynomials
• stochastic processes

with connections to other disciplines, including:

• science and industry
• handbooks
• numerical algorithms and tables
• symbolic computation
• combinatorics
• number theory
• theoretical physics
• probability theory and statistics

Scientific Committee

Richard A. Askey, University of Wisconsin, USA
Howard S. Cohl, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Kathy Driver, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Tom H. Koornwinder, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Robert S. Maier, University of Arizona, USA
Zeinab Mansour, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein, Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain
Willard Miller, University of Minnesota, USA
Victor H. Moll, Tulane University, USA
Adri Olde Daalhuis, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Audrey Terras, University of California San Diego, USA
Walter Van Assche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Luc Vinet, University of Montreal, Canada

Scientific Committee Co-chairs

Diego Dominici, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Daniel W. Lozier, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Funding Agencies

SIAM and the Conference Organizing Committee wish to extend their thanks and appreciation to the U.S. National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology for their support of this conference.

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