o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o - - - May 15, 1998 - - O P - S F N E T Volume 5, Number 3 - - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - Editors: - - Tom H. Koornwinder thk@wins.uva.nl - - Martin Muldoon muldoon@yorku.ca - - - - The Electronic News Net of the SIAM Activity Group - - on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions - - - - Please send contributions to: poly@siam.org - - Subscribe by mailing to: poly-request@siam.org - - or to: majordomo@wins.uva.nl - - - o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o Today's Topics: 1. SIAM Annual Meeting 2. Minisymposium on Problems and Solutions in Special Functions 3. Election of SIAG/OP-SF officers 4. SIAM News article on Handbooks 5. opsftalk needs more postings 6. Conference on Combinatorics and Physics (Los Alamos) 7. 42nd Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 8. Book Review of "Computation of Special Functions" (Zhang and Jin) 9. Proceedings of Madras Workshop 10. New Journal "Computational Analysis and Applications" 11. SIAM Journal Alerting Service 12. W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize Winner 13. Polya and DiPrima Prize Winners Announced 14. Classical Analysis preprint archive 15. Hans Haubold's archive 16. Changes of Address, WWW Pages, etc. 17. Subscribing to OP-SF NET 18. Obtaining back issues of OP-SF NET and submitting contributions to OP-SF NET and Newsletter Calendar of Events: 1998 May 14-16, 1998: 7th Krawtchouk Conference, Kiev, Ukraine 5.1 #2 May 16-22: Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations, Sabaudia, Italy 4.5 #5 May 20-23, 1998: Continued Fractions: From Analytic Number Theory to Constructive Approximation, Columbia, Missouri, USA 5.2 #4 June 15-19: Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Toronto, Canada 4.6 #3 June 21-25: q-Series, Combinatorics and Computer Algebra, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA 4.6 #4, 5.2 #5 June 29-July 2: Workshop on Orthogonal Polynomials: Numerical and Symbolic Algorithms, Madrid, Spain 4.6 #5 July 8-10: Conference on Lattice Paths Combinatorics and Applications, Vienna, Austria 4.6 #6 July 13-17: SIAM Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada 5.1 #3, 5.2 #2, 5.3 #1 July 30 - August 7: International Workshop on Self-Similar Systems Dubna, Russia 4.6 #7, 5.2 #6 August 10-12, 1998: Conference on Combinatorics and Physics, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA 5.3 #6 August 31 - September 6, 1998: 42nd Seminaire Lotharingien de combinatoire, Maratea, Basilicata, Italy 5.3 #7 1999 June 21-25: Conference on Special Functions, Hong Kong 5.2 #7 Topic #1 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: SIAM Subject: Annual Meeting Complete information for the 1998 Annual Meeting/Ninth SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics is available on the SIAM web site. Go to www.siam.org/meetings/an98/ www.siam.org/meetings/dm98/ for up to date program, registration, and accommodation information. SIAM is anticipating a great program and successful meeting. Please join us in Toronto this summer. 1998 SIAM Annual Meeting July 13-17, 1998 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada being held jointly with Ninth SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics July 12-15, 1998 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Topic #2 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Willard Miller Subject: Brief Presentations Solicited for Minisymposium on Problems and Solutions in Special Functions Our Activity Group will sponsor a Minisymposium "Problems and solutions in Special Functions" (Organizers: Willard Miller, Jr. and Martin E. Muldoon) during the SIAM Annual Meeting to be held in Toronto, July 13-17,1998. (See OP-SF NET 5.1, Topic #3; the meeting web site is at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an98/an98home.htm). The Minisymposium has been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday July 14. We are soliciting brief presentations at the Minisymposium by SIAG-OS members; see the abstract of Willard Miller below. If you wish to speak, or submit a written statement, contact Miller (miller@ima.umn.edu) to see if time is available. Here is the Minisymposium description: "Problem sections in journals such as SIAM Review and the American Mathematical Monthly have been responsible for attracting many young people to the mathematical profession, by providing them with concrete and significant problems they can attack directly. Furthermore, problems sections have traditionally been influential in advancing mathematical research. At this time, when the SIAM Review is phasing out its problem sections, it is appropriate to assess the history and impact of the problems sections and their future evolution." Speakers: Cecil C. Rousseau, University of Memphis " Special Function Problems in the SIREV Problems and Solutions Section - a Retrospective" Abstract: On the basis of his experience as a collaborating editor and then as an editor of the Problems and Solutions section of SIAM Review, the author will give a personal perspective on some problems concerning special functions that have appeared therein. No attempt will be made to give an exhaustive or authoritative review, but instead an eclectic group of problems will be discussed along with personal experiences of the author in working on the Problems and Solutions section for 25 years. Otto G. Ruehr, Michigan Technological University "Remarks on the SIAM Review Problem Section" Abstract: We will discuss the forty-year history of the Section with particular attention to the second half. An anecdotal description of the trials, tribulations and satisfactions of being editor will be offered. Special attention will be paid to problems in classical analysis, particularly those relating to orthogonal polynomials and special functions. Willard Miller, Jr., University of Minnesota "The Value of Problems Sections in Journals" Abstract: The speaker will serve a chair of a session of brief presentations by invited members of the research community that has found problem sections to be of great value. Included will be anecdotes on interesting solved/unsolved problems that have appeared in problems sections; new problems; the future evolution of problems sections. Topic #3 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder Subject: Call for nominations for fall election of SIAG/OP-SF officers SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions will be having its election of officers this year. According to the rules of SIAM such elections take place once every three years. A Nominating Committee has been formed consisting of George Gasper and Martin Muldoon (selected by the SIAM Council), and the four present elected officers (Charles Dunkl, Tom Koornwinder, Willard Miller and Nico Temme). Tom Koornwinder, Nico Temme and Willard Miller have decided not to be candidates for the next three-year term. Tom Koornwinder will also end his co-editorship of OP-SF NET. Charles Dunkl (present Chair) may be a candidate for officer, but no longer for Chair. So we urgently need 7 or 8 candidates for the four elected officer positions (Chair, Vice-Chair, Program Director, and Secretary). It would also be a nice (but not absolutely necessary) if one of the officers would be willing to be co-editor of OP-SF NET (jointly with Martin Muldoon). Nominations may be submitted NO LATER THAN JUNE 1 to: Martin E. Muldoon or Tom H. Koornwinder Ballots for electing new SIAG/OP-SF officers for a three-year term beginning January 1, 1999 will be mailed in September 1998 to all members. Topic #4 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder Subject: SIAM News article on Handbooks The March 1998 issue of SIAM News has an article by Barry A. Cipra entitled "A new testament for special functions?". It is inspired by the minisymposium "Handbooks for Special Functions and the World Wide Web" which was held at the SIAM 40th Anniversary Meeting last year. I think the article does a good job. It is also on the web at http://www.siam.org/siamnews/03-98/function.htm The article has one news item which was not mentioned earlier in OP-SF NET: [Mourad] Ismail [University of South Florida] and Walter van Assche at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium are heading an international effort to bring the Bateman Project up to date. ... Ismail envisions the production of seven or eight volumes over the next decade. He and [Richard] Askey [University of Wisconsin], along with Roelof Koekoek at the Delft University of Technology and Rene Swarttouw at the Free University of Amsterdam, are working on the first volume, on orthogonal polynomials. (Information can be found on the Web, at http://aw.twi.tudelft.nl/~koekoek/). Work is also under way on a second volume, on special functions in number theory and combinatorics. Topic #5 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder Subject: opsftalk needs more postings The listserv opsftalk is a discussion forum in orthogonal polynomials and special functions. It started last November. Presently, there are 32 subscribers, but the number of postings is low. A little more animation, and not just by one or two persons, would be welcome. I am sure there are potentially plenty of meaningful topics for postings. To subscribe, send a message to majordomo@wins.uva.nl and put in the body of the message only the words: subscribe opsftalk You can post messages by sending mail to opsftalk@wins.uva.nl Your message will then be automatically forwarded to everybody on the opsftalk list. The postings received during January 13 - March 12, 1998 were archived by Tom Koornwinder at URL http://turing.wins.uva.nl/~thk/opsftalk/archive.html. Postings received from March 14, 1998 onwards will be automatically archived at URL http://www.findmail.com/listsaver/opsftalk/ Please note that email addresses in the messages posted at findmail look incomplete, but become complete when you click on it. Topic #6 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: William Chen Subject: Conference on Combinatorics and Physics Conference on Combinatorics and Physics'98 - CAP'98 August 10 - 12, 1998 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico Sponsored by Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS, LANL) Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Group (T-7, LANL) College of Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas * Conference Theme Interdisciplinary research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory offers many opportunities for applications of combinatorics to physical problems. The aim of this conference is to highlight applications of combinatorics to physics and to identify further areas of interaction. Any topic that involves combinatorics and its connections or potential applications to any of the following areas of mathematical physics is welcome: symmetry methods, discrete dynamical systems, Kac-Moody algebra, Yang-Baxter equations, statistical mechanics, quasi-crystals, supersymmetries, string theory, quantum field theory, combinatorics of the symmetric group, computer simulation of physical systems, cellular automata and simulation, and related subjects. The conference will feature several principal lectures. There will also be sessions for contributed papers. * Call for Papers Selected papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of Annals of Combinatorics. Abstracts should be submitted by June 15, 1998. Notification of acceptance will be made by July 1, 1998. The collection of accepted abstracts will be given to each participant at check-in. * Organizing Committee Bill Chen (Los Alamos National Laboratory and Nankai University) David M. Jackson (University of Waterloo) James D. Louck (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Gian-Carlo Rota (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Peter Shiue (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) * List of Principal Speakers George Andrews (Pennsylvania State University) Richard Askey (University of Wisconsin) Paul Ginsparg (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Jay Goldman (University of Minnesota) B. L. Hao (Chinese Academy of Sciences) David Jackson (University of Waterloo) James D. Louck (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Robert V. Moody (University of Alberta) Gian-Carlo Rota (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Doron Zeilberger (Temple University) * Transportation Albuquerque is the major air terminal. Los Alamos may be reached from Albuquerque International Airport by a scenic two-hour drive. Rental cars are available at the Albuquerque airport through all major companies. Budget Rental Cars offers one-way service to Los Alamos in addition to daily or weekly rentals. The Laboratory has a contract with Budget which provides liability, collision and loss coverage on all official Laboratory rentals at NO EXTRA COST. Travellers in the U.S. should DECLINE coverage when offered, as the purchase of additional insurance is not necessary and cannot be reimbursed by the Laboratory. Unfortunately, commuter flights between Albuquerque and Los Alamos Airport are no longer available. The RoadRunner shuttle provides a door to door service to Los Alamos for $45 one way, subject to prior reservation: (505) 424-3367. Besides the option of van service, we will also arrange car pools for people who do not want to drive, or do not have US driver license. There is also a small airport in Santa Fe, serviced by United Airlines and American Airlines. United Airlines have four flights per day (including Sunday) from Denver to Santa Fe. Aspen Mountain Air, serving as a shuttle for American airlines, have three flights per day from Dallas to Santa Fe. >From Santa Fe airport to Los Alamos, the RoadRunner charges $25 one way. * Lodging There are three small hotels in town, the rates are about $80/day. The rates for conference participants may be slightly lower, and will be posted later. The Hilltop House, 800-462-0936, 1-505-662-2441. Los Alamos Inn, (800) 279-9279, 5050-662-7211. Holiday Inn Express, (800) Holiday, 505-661-1110. * Registration Fee: $60 * Information and Contact: For abstract submission or more detailed information, please contact: Bill Chen T-7, Mail Stop B284 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Email: chen@t7.lanl.gov or Peter Shiue Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV 89154 Telephone: (702) 895-3748; fax: (702) 895-4343 Email: shiue@nevada.edu For updated information, please look up the web page: http://cnls.lanl.gov/~chen/CAP98/ Topic #7 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Dominique Foata Subject: 42nd Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire First announcement: Apr. 3, 1998. See http://cartan.u-strasbg.fr/~slc/divers/slc42a1.html for further information. THE 42nd SEMINAIRE LOTHARINGIEN DE COMBINATOIRE Maratea, Basilicata, Italy August 31 - September 6, 1998 A CELEBRATION: Ten years after the 20th session of the Seminar that took place in Alghero, Sardinia it has been decided to return to Italy, this time to Southern Italy, in Maratea, province of Basilicata, on the Mediterranean sea, some 200 kilometers south of Naples. Ten years ago we could enjoy the fine lectures by I.G. Macdonald on the algebra of the polynomials named after him. This time we want to celebrate George E. Andrews on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. DATES: from August 31, 1998 (evening) to September 6 (morning). The seminar proper will start on September 1 (morning) to end up on September 5 (evening). LOCATION: Hotel Villa del Mare I-85041 Acquafredda-Maratea, Basilicata Tel. : [39] 973 878007 fax. : [39] 973 878102 email: hotelvilmar@pisacane.edinet-gdp.com http://www.edinit.gdp.com/villadelmare-htm ACCOMMODATION: Participants will be housed in Hotel Villa del Mare in double or single rooms. The rates are the following: On a double occupancy basis: Lit. 90.000 (board and lodging) per person, per day. On a single occupancy basis: Lit. 120.000 (board and lodging) per person, per day. Participants are expected to arrive for dinner on Monday, Aug. 31 and leave after breakfast on Sunday, Sept. 6. PATRONAGE: The seminar is being held under the auspices of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Strasburgo. It has received the financial support of the Regione Basilicata, the dipartimento di Matematica, Universita degli Studi della Basilicata and the I.R.M.A., Universite Louis Pasteur. REGISTRATION: If you are willing to participate, please register as soon as possible by using the participation form available from the organizers or directly from the web. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Jacques Desarmenien (Marne-la-Vallee), Dominique Foata (Strasbourg), Adalbert Kerber (Bayreuth), Peter Paule (Linz), Domenico Senato (Potenza), Volker Strehl (Erlangen). SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME: The seminar will be run as usual. However a special lecture on George E. Andrews' works will be scheduled, as well as a lecture by himself. Scientific reports from the schools that attend the seminar regularly will be given: Bayreuth, Erlangen, Marne-la-Vallee, Strasbourg. Other communications are welcome, depending on the number of participants who want to give talks. Please, indicate your wishes in the Participation form. The scientific programme will be updated after each proposal and the final one be posted on the web in Mid-August. THE ANDREWS FESTSCHRIFT: The Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire is also a regular electronic journal that publishes the proceedings of the seminar and also the papers that are submitted for publication independently. Have a look at http://cartan.u-strasbg.fr/~slc or at one of its 30 (yes indeed!) mirror-sites. Our intention is to transform the proceedings of this 42nd session into an Andrews Festschrift. Note that the papers are refereed and regularly reviewed by Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik and Mathematical Reviews. MISCELLANEOUS: For more information and details write to Dominique Foata (email: foata@math.u-strasbg.fr) or Domenico Senato (email: sd049sci@unibas.it). Topic #8 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Nico Temme Subject: Book Review of "Computation of Special Functions" Editor's note: The book "Computation of special functions" by S. Zhang and J. Jin was announced in OP-SF NET 4,3, Topic #10. The following review by Nico Temme of this book has also appeared in the April 1998 issue of the Dutch journal Mededelingen van het Wiskundig Genootschap. S. Zhang and J. Jin, Computation of Special Functions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1996. 717 p., price $70.- (hc). ISBN 0-471-11963-6. Disk with software included. A great number of special functions are considered here: Bernoulli and Euler numbers, orthogonal polynomials, gamma and related functions, Legendre, Bessel, Airy and Struve functions, integrals of Bessel functions, hypergeometric and confluent hypergeometric functions, parabolic cylinder functions, Mathieu functions, spheroidal wave functions, error functions and Fresnel integrals, cosine and sine integrals, elliptic integrals, Jacobian elliptic functions and exponential integrals. There is short chapter with some remarks on methods for computing special functions. There is an appendix containing the formulas for separating the Helmholtz equation in several kinds of coordinate systems, and another appendix on root-finding methods. An general author index is missing; each chapter has a separate list of references. Each chapter treats a group of functions. In a first section the major properties of the functions are given and some of the important formulas needed for their computation. This information is included to make the book self-contained. Next the algorithms and the software (Fortran-77) for the group of functions are described, and many numerical tables are included. A disk is provided giving over 100 programs for computing the functions. The tables give about 8 significant decimal digits. It is stated that the programs aim at double precision. I have not tested the software or compared this with other recent publications; see for example the books mentioned below, of which Baker and Moshier give C-programs; Press et al. give several software packages. Thompson's book appears in two versions with a CD-ROM for the software. By choosing Fortran-77 only, the present book does not keep up with modern programming environments. The authors are well aware of all kind of pitfalls and instabilities that may occur in certain algorithms. In many cases the approach is sound; an error analysis is incidentally given. In some cases just a certain loss of accuracy is accepted without choosing a different, more robust, approach. The book treats a rather complete selection of special functions. By taking into account so many functions, the authors could not avoid a certain loss of quality in the software. Many high quality approaches in the literature are not mentioned. I cannot see the use of so many tables; some of them are very trivial. [1] L. Baker (1992), C Mathematical function handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York. [2] S.L. Moshier (1989), Methods and programs for mathematical functions, Ellis Horwood Limited, New York. [3] W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling and B.P. Flannery (1992), Numerical recipes. The art of scientific computing, Cambridge University Press, second edition. [4] W.J. Thompson (1997), Atlas for Computing Mathematical Functions: An illustrated guide for practitioners. The book appears in two versions: one with programs in C and Mathematica, and one with programs in Fortran 90 and Mathematica; both editions have a CD-ROM included for software. John Wiley & Sons, New York. Topic #9 ------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------ May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: K. Srinivasa Rao Subject: Proceedings of Madras Workshop The following book has appeared: Special Functions and Differential Equations, Proceedings of a Workshop held at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India, January 13-24, 1997, K. Srinivasa Rao, R. Jagannathan, G. Vanden Berghe & J. Van der Jeugt (eds.), Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1998. xiv+486 pp., ISBN 81-7023-764-5 This is the workshop reported on in OP-SF NET 4.2, Topic #5. Topic #10 ------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------ May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: George Anastassiou Subject: new journal "Computational Analysis and Applications" COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS A quarterly international publication of PLENUM publishing corporation. EDITOR IN-CHIEF: George A. Anastassiou, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, U.S.A. SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL The main purpose of "Computational Analysis and Applications" is to publish high quality research articles from all subareas of Computational Mathematical Analysis and its many potential applications and connections to other areas of Mathematical Sciences. Any paper whose approach and proofs are computational, using methods from Mathematical Analysis in the broadest sense is suitable and welcome for consideration in our journal, except from Applied Numerical Analysis articles. The list of possibly connected mathematical areas with this publication includes and is not restricted to: Applied Analysis, Applied Functional Analysis, Approximation Theory, Asymptotic Analysis, Difference Equations, Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Analysis, Fractals, Fuzzy Sets, Harmonic Analysis, Inequalities, Integral Equations, Measure Theory, Moment Theory, Neural Networks, Numerical Functional Analysis, Potential Theory, Probability Theory, Real and Complex Analysis, Signal Analysis, Special Functions, Splines, Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Summability, Tomography, Wavelets, any combination of the above, etc. Working Analytically and Computationally in Mathematical Sciences has become a main trend in the last years, as well as mixing different branches, so we can understand better and deeper the important and complex problems of our real and scientific world. "Computational Analysis and Applications" will be a peer-reviewed Journal. We are calling for papers for possible publication. The contributor should send four copies of the contribution to the Editor-in-Chief typed in TEX, LATEX double space. EDITORIAL BOARD G.Anastassiou (editor-in-chief and assoc. editor) (Memphis), I.Argyros (Lawton,OK), M.Ash (Chicago), M.Balas (Boulder), J.Bona (Austin), P.Butzer (Aachen, Germany), L.Caffarelli (Austin), V.Corradi (Philadelphia), G.Cybenko (Hanover,NH), Ding-Xuan Zhou (Hong Kong), S.Elaydi (San Antonio), A.Esogbue (Atlanta), C.Floudas (Princeton), J.Goldstein (Memphis), H.Gonska (Duisburg, Germany), J.Higgins (Cambridge,UK), C.Houdre (Atlanta), M.Ismail (Tampa), J.Kemperman (New Brunswick, NJ), B.Lenze (Dortmund, Germany), H.Mhaskar (Los Angeles), Z.Nashed (Newark,DE), M.Nkashama (Birmingham,AL), C.Pearce (Adelaide, Australia), J.Pecaric (Zagreb, Croatia), E.Rodin (St.Louis, MO), M.Tasche (Rostock, Germany), G.Walter (Milwaukee), H.White (San Diego), Xin-long Zhou (Duisburg, Germany), X.M.Yu (Springfield, MO). Topic #11 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Laura Helfrich Subject: SIAM Journal Alerting Service SIAM is pleased to announce an alerting service to let our readers know when new papers are posted electronically as part of SIAM Journals Online (http://epubs.siam.org/). SIAM has switched to a paper-by-paper publication process. This means that when a paper has completed the production process, it is immediately posted electronically to SIAM Journals Online and can be viewed by subscribers. Under the old production process, entire issues were posted approximately four weeks prior to the mail date of the bound journal. Because there is now no set schedule for when the papers will be published electronically, it will be difficult for our readers to determine which papers are new. Our Journal Alerting Service will allow you to keep informed about newly posted papers that may be of interest to you. Even if you do not currently subscribe to a SIAM journal, the alerting service may be of value to you in keeping abreast of what is being published. If you decide to sign up for this service, you will receive an e-mail that lists journal, issue, title, authors, and URL for all papers posted to SIAM Journals Online. To limit the size and frequency of these e-mail messages, they will be sent no more than once a week. Please note that this is not a discussion list. You will receive only the weekly updates listing the new article postings. To subscribe to this list, please send a message to majordomo@mailer.siam.org containing the following two lines: subscribe siamnotify your.email.address(13364) end Please include (13364) along with your electronic mail address when you subscribe to this service. Doing so will facilitate the processing of your subscription request. Subscribing by electronic mail will be open only until December 31, 1998. After that date, please visit our web page at http://epubs.siam.org/. If you are not currently a subscriber to SIAM's electronic journals, please contact service@siam.org for additional information on subscribing, or see SIAM's Home Page at http://www.siam.org/ . If you have any questions about the Journal Alerting Service, please contact Laura Helfrich, SIAM's Online Services Manager, at helfrich@siam.org. Topic #12 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Allison Bogardo Subject: W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize Winner SIAM will present the 1998 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize to Jacques-Louis Lions of College de France for his seminal contributions to the areas of partial differential equations, distributed parameter control and variational theory. The award will be presented on Thursday, July 16, at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Toronto. Topic #13 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Allison Bogardo Subject: Polya and DiPrima Prize Winners Announced SIAM will award its 1998 George Polya Prize jointly to Professors Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Peter Sarnak (Princeton University), and Xin Zhou (Duke University). Deift and Zhou are recognized for their work on Riemann-Hilbert problems; Sarnak, for his work on the discrete spectrum of the Laplacian on curves. The awards will be presented on Thursday, July 16, at the SIAM Annual Meeting, which will take place at the University of Toronto the week of July 13-17. ________ SIAM will award its 1998 Richard C. DiPrima Prize to Bart De Schutter of Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium. De Schutter is awarded the prize for his thesis on "Max-Algebraic System Theory for Discrete Event Systems." The award will be presented on Thursday, July 16, at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Toronto. Topic #14 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET editor Subject: Classical Analysis preprint archive The following preprints in the field of orthogonal polynomials and special functions were recently posted or cross-linked to the Classical Analysis preprint archive (see URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.CA): math.CA/9803067. D. J. Broadhurst. Polylogarithmic ladders, hypergeometric series and the ten millionth digits of zeta(3) and zeta(5). 21 pages. math.QA/9803086. Atsushi Nakayashiki. Integral and Theta Formulae for Solutions of Sl_N Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov Equations at Level Zero. 38 pages. math.QA/9803146. T. H. Baker, P. J. Forrester. Transformation formulae for multivariable basic hypergeometric series. 17 pages. math.CA/9804027. Alexei Borodin. Biorthogonal ensembles. 26 pages. math.CA/9805010. Tom H. Koornwinder. Identities of nonterminating series by Zeilberger's algorithm. 12 pages. math.CA/9805023. Nicola Ciccoli, Erik Koelink, Tom H. Koornwinder. q-Laguerre polynomials and big q-Bessel functions and their orthogonality relations. 20 pages. Topic #15 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Hans Haubold Subject: preprint archive for papers in Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions Between 4 and 29 March 1998, the following papers were deposited in the "siam/submissions" directory at the homepage ftp://unvie6.un.or.at/siam/opsf_new/00index.html H.-J. Glaeske, A.A. Kilbas, M. Saigo, and S.S. Shlapakov, Integral transforms with H-function kernels on L[nu, tau]-spaces G. Bangerezako, The factorization method for the Askey-Wilson polynomials >From the Editors: In OP-SF NET 5.2 we forgot to mention the following two new contributions to the archive: A.A. Kilbas and M. Saigo, On the H-function, ftp://unvie6.un.or.at/siam/opsf_new/kilbas_saigo.tex M. Saigo and R.K. Saxena, Expansions of 4F3 when the upper parameters differ by integers. ftp://unvie6.un.or.at/siam/opsf_new/saigo_saxena.tex Topic #16 -------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------- May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors Subject: Changes of Address, WWW Pages, etc. An additional Home Page: Axel Riese: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/homepage.cgi?query=ariese >From AT-NET BULLETIN NO. 73, 31. 3. 1998: We would like to draw attention to the new item Approximation people (http://www.mi.uni-erlangen.de/at-net/homepages.html) on AT-NET's home-page, containing links to people working in approximation theory. New links are welcome. Topic #17 ------------- OP-SF NET 5.3 ------------ May 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors , Subject: Subscribing to OP-SF NET There are two ways to subscribe to OP-SF NET: 1. Send a message to poly-request@siam.org with your name and email address in the body of the message. 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