o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o - - - March 15, 1999 - - - - O P - S F N E T Volume 6, Number 2 - - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - Editor: - - 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. Introducing the New Officers 2. OPSF Social Event at SIAM Annual Meeting 3. Electronic "Problems and Solutions" 4. Lund Workshop on Special Functions and Applications 5. Third International Workshop "Transform Methods & Special Functions" (TMSF) 6. Fifth International Conference on Approximation and Optimization in the Caribbean 7. ICRA99: Final Call For Papers 8. Askey to be principal lecturer on Calculus and Counting 9. Computer Algebra in Fundamental and Applied Researches and Education 10. Memorial note about A. P. Prudnikov 11. Memorial article on Waleed Al-Salam (1926-1996 12. Journal "Fractional Calculus & Applied Analysis" (FCAA) 13. New Journal-first issue 14. New Book Series 15. Combinatorics Net 16. OP-SF preprints in xxx archive 17. Changes of Address, WWW Pages, etc. 18. Subscribing to OP-SF NET 19. Obtaining back issues of OP-SF NET and submitting contributions to OP-SF NET and Newsletter Calendar of Events: 1999 March 29 - April 2: Fifth International Conference on Approximation and Optimization in the Caribbean, Guadeloupe 5.4 #4 6,2 #6 April 23-26: Workshop on Orthogonal Polynomials: Approximation and Harmonic Analysis, Ballenstedt, Germany 6.1 #7 May 7: Workshop on Special Functions and Applications, Lund, Sweden 6.2 #4 May 12-15: SIAM Annual Meeting in Atlanta 5.6 #3 (May 14-15: Minisymposium: Orthogonal Polynomials; Theory and Practice 5.6 #4, 6.1 #4; Social Event 6.2 #2) June 6-11: International Conference on Rational Approximation, Antwerp, Belgium 5.5 #3 6.2 #7 June 21-25: International Workshop on Special Functions: Asymptotics, Harmonic Analysis, and Mathematical Physics, Hong Kong 5.4 #5 6.1 #5 July 5-9: ICIAM '99, Edinburgh 5.5 #4 (Minisymposium on asymptotics 5.6 #5) August 9-13: MAA Seminar "Calculus and Counting", Duluth, MN, USA 6.2 #8 August 9-14: Gyorgy Alexits Memorial Conference, Budapest Hungary 6.1 #8 August 13-20, 1999: Third International Workshop "Transform Methods & Special Functions, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria 6.2 #5 September 14-18: International Conference on Analytic Methods of Analysis and Differential Equations, Minsk, Belarus 5.6 #6 September 20-24: International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Their Applications, Patras, Greece 5.4 #3 6.1 #8 2000 July 10-14: SIAM Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico Topic #1 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net Editor Subject: Introducing the New Officers [This item on the new officers, elected for the period January 1, 1999 to December 31, 2001, appeared in the February Newsletter.] Chair: Daniel Lozier I grew up in Portland Oregon and attended Oregon State University. I graduated with my baccalaureate degree in mathematics in 1962. After a year at the University of Washington in Seattle, I took a job at the Army Engineer Center in Virginia near Washing ton, DC. This started my career with the United States government which has continued without interruption. Since 1969 I have been employed at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. While working I took graduate courses in mathematics at American University, George Washington University and the University of Maryland, receiving my doctoral degree in applied mathematics from Maryland in 1979 under the supervision of Frank Olver. I live with my wife Elaine in Washington, DC. I have a son who also lives in Washington. My current work is strongly connected with the NIST project to construct a Web-based successor to the popular 1964 NBS Handbook of Mathematical Functions, edited by Abramowitz and Stegun. The project was described in OP-SF NET 4.5, OP-SF Newsletter (October 1997) and SIAM NEWS 31, no 2, March 1998. The project Web address is http://math.nist.gov/DigitalMathLib, The project is expected to result in a Web site with many interactive and dynamic features to be maintained indefinitely by NIST, together with a book and CD-ROM. Its style and scope will be reminiscent of the old NBS Handbook but its content will be brought up to date and extended to include applications in physical sciences. My co-editors are Frank Olver, Charles Clark and Ron Boisvert. We are being assisted by a distinguished board of editors, in addition to several NIST staff. Vice-Chair: Walter Van Assche I was born and grew up in Kapellen, a village north of Antwerp, Belgium on the border of the Netherlands (but rest assured, I am Belgian, as Poirot would put it). I studied mathematics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and received my degree (licentiaat) In 1980. I prepared my doctoral dissertation as an research assistant of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and obtained my degree in 1985. My monograph "Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials" (Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1265) contains most of my doctoral dissertation. I am still a full time researcher (Research Director) of the National Fund for Scientific Research working at the university in Leuven, but since 1988 I am also teaching part-time at the university and presently I am part-time professor of the department of mathematics in Leuven. I have been a visiting professor at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA (1986 and again in 1999), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1988) and Facultes Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur (Belgium, 1993). I like travelling and attending conferences because it is an excellent way to find out what is going on in OPSF and to meet many of my international friends. My scientific interest is in orthogonal polynomials, in particular the analytic aspects of the theory, such as the asymptotic behaviour, and the analysis of the recurrence relation. I like to work with explicit examples, usually provided by classical orthogonal polynomials or terminating hypergeometric series, which give me insight and feeling for what to expect for general orthogonal polynomials. Recently I became interested in extensions of the notion of orthogonality and I am now working on matrix orthogonality, Sobolev orthogonality and my latest interest is multiple orthogonality, where the orthogonality conditions are spread over several measures. I believe that the SIAM activity group has done a very good job with the newsletter (both on paper and electronically), but I believe that the activity group should also organize international meetings, both in North America and Europe but certainly also on other continents, such as Africa and Asia, because there is a great potential of young researchers there. Program Director: Francisco Marcellan I was born in Zaragoza, Spain in 1951. I went to a public school in Jaca, a very nice city near the Pyrenees and attended the University of Zaragoza where I graduated in Mathematics in 1973 and got my PhD in 1976. I was involved with teaching activities from 1974 in several engineering schools (Zaragoza, Vigo, Madrid). Since 1991 I have been contributing, as a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics, to the development in the south of Madrid of a new State University, Universidad Carlos III. At the present time I am Vice-President for Research in this University. My research interests are orthogonal polynomials and approximation theory. I enjoy finding constructive approaches to polynomials orthogonal with respect to nonstandard inner products and trying to perform them, from a numerical point of view as well as their applications in several domains of science and technology. One of the most important activities of our activity group must be the promotion of our research area, in order to offer our colleagues (with special emphasis on young researchers) an active organization promoting dissemination of information, scientific exchanges through meetings and advanced seminars and the support of the activities of our members. Secretary: Charles Dunkl I was born in Vienna, went to school in Vienna and Toronto and got my PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The teachers that I consider most remarkable include P. G, Rooney, H.S.M. Coxeter, W. Kahan, R. Askey and my PhD Adviser, Walter Rudin. My research interests are in harmonic analysis and special functions. I enjoy finding exact answers and discovering structure. Thus I prefer functions and polynomials of orthogonal type to inequalities and estimates. I have been working with the activity group to promote our research area as an important and lively part of mathematics. It is a continued pleasure to have talented and energetic colleagues who work hard on the various aspects of our activities. [Editor's Note: Newcomers should know that Charles was effectively the founder of our group and its long-time Chair (1990-1998) - MM] Topic #2 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Dan Lozier Subject: OPSF Social Event at SIAM Annual Meeting An informal social event for members of the OPSF Activity Group and other interested individuals has been scheduled for the 1999 SIAM Annual Meeting on Friday, May 14, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. This is immediately after the first part of the minisymposium Orthogonal Polynomials: Theory and Applications, Friday, May 14, 4:30 - 6:30pm. Most elected and appointed officers of the Activity Group will be present. Light refreshments will be served. Please come if you are attending the SIAM meeting, and bring a friend! The place will be announced at the minisymposium. The minisymposium is being organized by OPSF member Jeff Geronimo. Its second part will be held on Saturday, May 15, from 10:45am to 12:45pm. Details can be found in OP-SF NET 6.1 #4 or the SIAM Annual Meeting Program. Topic #3 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editor Subject: Electronic "Problems and Solutions" Readers will recall the discussion of the discontinuation of the "Problems and Solutions" Section of SIAM Review in OP-SF NET 5.5. Topic #5 and OP-SF NET 4-6, Topics #17, #18 and #19. SIAM has now announced plans for the electronic replacement of the Section. The following is form the SIAM Web Page: Electronic Problems and Solutions Instructions for Authors SIAM is pleased to announce that Problems and Solutions has become its first all-electronic publication. Cecil Rousseau, long-time editor of the printed version, will continue to server as editor-in-chief of the electronic incarnation. Authors who wish to submit problems for consideration should send their problem, preferably in LaTeX, to: Cecil Rousseau Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152 Fax: 908-678-2480 rousseac@hermes.msci.memphis.edu The problem will be reviewed by a member of the Problems and Solutions editorial board. Authors will be informed by the editor of the decision to accept or reject the problem. Upon acceptance, the editor will forward a LaTeX version of the problem to SIAM for publication on the Problems and Solutions page on the SIAM website. This page will include instructions for submitting solutions to the problems. Solutions will undergo the same peer review. In the event that multiple solutions to the same problem are submitted, the best will be chosen, forwarded to SIAM, and posted to the website. Other solvers will be acknowledged. There will be no charge for access to Problems and Solutions. Topic #4 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Hjalmar Rosengren Subject: Lund Workshop on Special Functions and Applications A Workshop on Special Functions and Applications will take place on Friday May 7, 1999, at the Centre of Mathematical Sciences, University of Lund. Sweden Speakers: C. Berg (Copenhagen) H. P. Jakobsen (Copenhagen) P. W. Karlsson (Copenhagen) T. H. Koornwinder (Amsterdam) B. Shapiro (Stockholm) Organizers: J. Peetre (jaak@maths.lth.se) H. Rosengren (hjalmar@maths.lth.se) L. Vretare (lv@maths.lth.se) For more information, please, contact the organizers. A detailed program will appear at http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklu/personal/hjalmar/snickarbod.html Hjalmar Rosengren Topic #5 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Virginia Kiryakova , Subject: Third International Workshop "Transform Methods & Special Functions" (TMSF) Institute of Mathematics & Informatics - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Mathematics & Informatics - Technical University Sofia, American University in Bulgaria are organizing: Third International Workshop "Transform Methods & Special Functions, AUBG'99" (Blagoevgrad, AUBG, 13-20 August, 1999) Second Announcement Place and Period: The 3rd Workshop "TMSF" is a continuation of the Workshops "TMSF, Sofia '94" and "TMSF, Varna '96". It will take place in the town of Blagoevgrad (situated 100 km south of Sofia), with the kind assistance and co-organization of the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG; http://www.aubg.bg). The working days of the meeting will be 14--19 August 1999, arrivals on 12--13 August and departure on 20 August. Organizing Committee: Profs. Peter Rusev (IMI-BAS), Shyam Kalla (Kuwait Univ.), Ivan Dimovski (IMI-BAS), Asso. Profs. Virginia Kiryakova (IMI-BAS), Lyubomir Boyadjiev (TU-Sofia). Topics: Integral Transforms, Special Functions, Series Expansions, Fractional Calculus, Algebraic Analysis, Generalized Functions, Operational Calculus, Univalent Functions; Applications of these topics to Complex Analysis, Differential and Integral Equations, Mathematical Physics; Related problems. Scientific Programme: will include plenary lectures (by invitation), half-hour talks and 20 min. communications. The deadline for submitting the titles of your talks and their abstracts is March 31, 1999. Abstracts should be prepared in LaTeX/TeX format, 12pt fontsize, up to 1 page, by filling in a special hard copy form, or better by filling in and sending us by e-mail the sample files "lxabstr.tex" or "txabstr.tex". These files are sent upon request by e-mail, or can be downloaded from the Workshop's web site on the Internet. A brochure with the abstracts will be included in the materials materials for the meeting. Proceedings: The Proceedings "TMSF, AUBG'99" will be published as a special issue of the new international journal "Fractional Calculus & Applied Analysis" (FCAA Journal). This will ensure its rapid publication, reviewing by MathRev and ZblMath, and wider circulation. Details and deadline for presentation of the papers, which must be LaTeX or TeX files, will be given in the next announcement (Spring'99). Instructions to authors for the "FCAA Journal", style- and template-files can be seen and download from the Journal's web sites: http://www.diogenes.bg/fcaa, http://www.math.bas.bg/~fcaa, or obtained by e-mail upon request. Specify if LaTeX or TeX-version is preferred. Participation fees: USD 140 (or USD 120, if sent in advance (before June 15, 1999) for participants in scientific programme, and USD 70 for accompanying persons. These fees include: organizational and administrative expenses, reservation fees, postage, transportation Sofia-Blagoevgrad-Sofia (in groups by minibuses), brochures with Abstracts and Scientific Programme and other conference materials (except for the volume of the Proceedings), coffee breaks, social programme - welcome party, excursion to several interesting places in Rila and Pirin Mountains, etc. The additional Fees for Publication in the Proc. "TMSF, AUBG'99" and obtaining a copy of this volume, are USD 40. Please note that the meeting has no budget and sponsors and the Organizers have no funds to support any participants, even the invited lecturers. The participation fees are due from all the participants, to ensure the meeting's organization and to cover all the arising expenses. It would be a great help, if some of the participants could send us the participation fees in advance (before June 15, 1999). Accommodation: Basically, the participants will be accommodated in the "Alen Mak" Hotel located in front of the AUBG, both at a beautiful square in the very centre of the town. Cheaper accommodation is possible in the student dormitories of South-West University in Blagoevgrad, a 10-15 minute walking distance from AUBG. Meals (lunch and supper) will be arranged on the basis of full board in the canteen of AUBG. Prices: (per person/per night) "Alen Mak" Hotel: USD 35 (single room), USD 25 (1 bed in double room) (these prices include breakfast in the hotel) Student Dormitory: USD 5 Meals: USD 10/day (lunch and supper in AUBG) Further Contacts: First and Second Announcements are available by request, as LaTeX files. In case of confirmed interest, second announcement and one official letter or letter of acceptance (for the purposes of obtaining grants, visas, etc) will be sent. All further correspondence and informations will be by e-mail. It will be available as LaTeX-, Postscript- or plain text-files. Please, always provide us with current e-mail address for correspondence and keep us in touch at: tmsf@math.bas.bg, or virginia@diogenes.bg. All the details on "TMSF'AUBG'99" (incl. announcement, sample files for abstracts and papers, information for the previous meetings "TMSF'94", "TMSF'96" and their proceedings) are available at our web-site, http://www.math.bas.bg/~tmsf. Note the change of the e-mail addresses in our Institute and its Web Site (IMI-BAS): "acad" is changed to ``bas''. Please post this announcement in your institutions and distribute it (by e-mail, postage, etc) to colleagues that might be interested. Addresses for Contact: "TMSF" Workshops (P. Rusev, I. Dimovski, V. Kiryakova) Institute of Mathematics & Informatics - Bulg. Acad. Sciences Sofia 1090, Bulgaria Fax: (+359) 2 971 3649 E-mail: tmsf@math.bas.bg (Workshop), virginia@diogenes.bg (V. Kiryakova) Web-site: http://www.math.bas.bg/~tmsf IMPORTANT NOTE: - Please confirm just now your interest to: tmsf@math.bas.bg (Preliminary Registration Form) - Deadline for Registration Forms (Accommodation, Title of Talk) and Abstracts: March 31, 1999 - Deadline for sending Participation Fees in advance: June 15, 1999 (for payment details, contact us) ------------------------------------------------------------- (Cut this and send us back, filled in. Tick where appropriate) ------------------- Registration Form ---------------------- 3rd Internat. Workshop "TMSF, AUBG'99" Yes, I will / I am interested to, but not yet sure / take part in the Workshop to be held in Bulgaria, August 13-20, 1999. Please, do send me the next informations. 1. Name and Surname ________________________________ Sex: M / F 2. e-mail address (OBLIGATORY): ________________________ 3. Mailing Address : ___________________________________ _____________________________________________________ 4. I would prefer accommodation in: "Alen Mak" Hotel: single room / 1 bed (2 beds) in double room Students Dormitory: 1 bed / 2 beds .... 5. I prefer the following kind of meals: common / vegetarian / without pork 6. (Maybe) I will be with accompanying persons: Yes / No 7. Preliminary Title of Talk: ______________________________ ________________________________________ Duration: ______ Section (One of the topics mentioned): ___________________ 8. I am / will be sending my participation fees in advance: Yes / No ; Payment details: ______________________________ 9. Please, send me next information by e-mail as: LaTeX-file / Postscript-file / Text-Only file 10. Comments: __ ___________________________________________ Please, fill in and return this form not later than March 31, 1999 to the address of the Org. Committee. ------------------------------------------------------------- Topic #6 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Marc Lassonde Subject: Fifth International Conference on Approximation and Optimization in the Caribbean The First Announcement of this conference (to be held in Guadeloupe, March 29-April 2, 1999 appeared in OP-SF NET 5.4, Topic #4. The web address given there is no longer correct. The new address, with Second Announcement, is http://www.univ-ag.fr/uag/mathinfo/conference/appopt5.html The e-mail address is appopt5@univ-ag.fr   Topic #7 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Int.Conf.Rat.Approx.99" Subject: ICRA99: Final Call For Papers ICRA99 ===FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS=== I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E on R A T I O N A L A P P R O X I M A T I O N June 6-11, 1999 UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP (UIA) BELGIUM The conference will focus on rational approximation theory in the broadest sense, including all computational aspects and applications. Contributions are welcomed on the subjects of Pade Approximation, Continued Fractions, Orthogonal Polynomials and Rational Approximation in general. More than in the past attention will be paid to the development of reliable algorithms and the use of symbolic techniques. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! INFORMATION UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (1) We have extended the list of hotels and reserved a block of rooms in both the Alfa Theater Hotel and the IBIS hotel, in view of the bustle surrounding the special Anthony Van Dyck year. These two hotels are located at opposite sides of the big square 'Theaterplein', where a special bus service will pick up the participants in the morning to take them to campus. (2) In view of the Easter holiday, the deadline of April, 1 for submission of abstracts and for registration is flexible. The book of abstracts will only be compiled after April, 15. Please send your abstract file (TeX or LaTeX) by electronic mail to icra99@uia.ua.ac.be. When formatting your abstract, do NOT forget to use the ICRA style file, which can be downloaded from the conference homepage (http://win-www.uia.ac.be/u/icra99/deadlines.html). Both a LaTeX and a TeX style file are available. (3) We would like to express thanks to our sponsors: - the Fund for Scientific Research -- Flanders (Belgium) - the University of Antwerp (UIA) - the Scientific Research Network `Advanced Numerical Methods for Mathematical Modelling' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Organizers: A. Cuyt (UIA, Antwerp), B. Verdonk (UIA, Antwerp) ================================================================================ Scientific Committee: A. Bultheel (KUL, Leuven), A. Cuyt (UIA, Antwerp), A. Magnus (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve), J. Schmets (ULg, Liege), J.-P. Thiran (FUNDP, Namur), M. Van Barel (KUL, Leuven), P. Van Dooren (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve), B. Verdonk (UIA, Antwerp) ================================================================================ Logistic Support: S. Becuwe, P. Van Tilborgh ================================================================================ Invited Speakers: Several one-hour survey lectures will be given by specialists in the field. The invited speakers are (in alphabetical order): G. Baker Jr. (Los Alamos) P. Borwein (Burnaby) P. Graves-Morris (Bradford) W. B. Jones (Boulder) G. Labahn (Waterloo) L. Lorentzen (Trondheim) D. S. Lubinsky (Johannesburg) H. J. Stetter (Wien) ================================================================================ Call for papers: Participants are invited to present a 25-minute research talk. To this end, please submit a title and a short abstract of at most 1 page not later than April 1, 1999. Registration forms are due at the same date. Participants are encouraged to register electronically at http://win-www.uia.ac.be/u/icra99/. The registration fee of 9500 BEF includes lunch on campus from Monday to Friday, all social events, the conference dinner, transportation from and to town, the coffee-breaks and a copy of the proceedings. For a small number of participants with limited funding, the registration fee can be waived and travel grants are available. Please contact one of the organizers. ================================================================================ Proceedings: Kluwer Academic Publishers and Baltzer Science Publishers have agreed to publish the proceedings of the ICRA99 conference, which will be distributed over issues of the following three journals: Numerical Algorithms, Reliable Computing and Acta Applicandae Mathematicae. ================================================================================ Conference Location: The conference takes place at the campus of the University of Antwerp (UIA). Antwerp is perhaps most famous as the city of Rubens and diamonds. It is also the hometown of world famous artists such as Van Dyck, Jordaens, Bruegel and Plantijn. A large number of museums and churches testify to a glorious past, while the cosy downtown area offers endless opportunities for historical excursions and leisurely strolls. Right in the heart of the city is one of the world's oldest and most famous zoos. The Antwerp port, the second largest in Europe and the second largest containerport in the world, is a whirlpool of activity. In short, Antwerp is a bustling, hospitable, cosmopolitan city that shines with all the facets of a real diamond. ================================================================================ For more information: Visit the conference Web page at http://win-www.uia.ac.be/u/icra99/ or contact one of the organizers at Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Antwerp (UIA) Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Antwerp Belgium Tel: +32 3 820 24 01 Fax: +32 3 820 24 21 E-mail: icra99@uia.ua.ac.be Topic #8 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editor Subject: Askey to be principal lecturer on Calculus and Counting The Mathematical Association of America has made the following announcement concerning a seminar this August sponsored by the North Central Section. 1999 MAA North Central Section Summer Seminar: Calculus and Counting Principal Lecturer: Richard Askey University of Wisconsin - Madison To be held at University of Minnesota - Duluth August 9 - 13, 1999 The Program: Counting aspects of binomial coefficients date back over 2000 years, and Pascal's triangle more than 1000. In spite of their great age, new aspects of binomial coefficients have been discovered in each of the past four centuries. Newton discovered the infinite series version of the binomial theorem over 300 years ago. Euler discovered the gamma function and how it could be used to evaluate the beta integral. There is a strong connection between the binomial theorem and the beta integral. There are extensions to Gaussian binomial coefficients and both commutative and non-commutative forms of the q-binomial theorem. There are also multivariate extensions of both the sums and integrals. Many of these extensions will be explored in this seminar, which will present the historical development of binomial coefficients from their origins to the present day. Sessions for a small number of contributed presentations will be available, as well. The Principal Lecturer: Professor Richard Askey is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his PhD in 1961 from Princeton University. He has held visiting positions at the University of Paris, the University of Minnesota, the University of Strasbourg, the Mathematical Institute in Budapest and the Mathematical Center in Amsterdam. His research interests are in special functions, especially orthogonal polynomials and q-series. He is the author of over 150 research papers, books and expository articles and has delivered more than 50 invited lectures. Conference Information: Scheduled during the traditional "dog-days" of summer, this conference provides the perfect opportunity to visit one of the most picturesque cities in the country. Duluth attracts thousands of tourists each year with its cool summer temperatures, beautiful sights and nearby wilderness areas. For entertainment and recreation, Duluth offers many fine restaurants; numerous parks and golf courses; marine, railroad, and art museums; boat cruises and railroad excursions; sailboat rental and charter fishing; and ready access to canoeing, camping, and hiking. The conference coincides with a Duluth Yacht Club race, and concludes just as Duluth's Bayfront Blues Festival begins. Conference activities include a welcoming reception, a conference banquet, ample time to enjoy the sights, and some very stimulating mathematics. The UMD campus offers excellent single and double occupancy dorm rooms and two or three bedroom furnished apartments at very reasonable rates. The Best Western Hotel (located on the shore of Lake Superior, and a mile from the UMD campus) has set aside a block of rooms with special conference rates. A campus meal plan is also available to conference participants. Online information is available at http://www.d.umn.edu/math/maa99.html. Address inquiries to: 1999 MAA Summer Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 140 Campus Center, University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812. Topic #9 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Vadim Zelenkov Subject: Computer Algebra in Fundamental and Applied Researches and Education The following information was sent to opsftalk by Vadim Zelenkov who asks that any questions or requests for further information be sent to Dr. Yuri Poznjak (see below). Dates: 20 - 24 September 1999, Minsk, Belarus Computer Algebra in Fundamental and Applied Researches and Education SECOND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE The main goal of the conference is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas how to obtain the mathematical knowledge on different levels of education and scientific investigations based on computer algebra methods. Organization Committee CAS-99 Belarussian State University, Skarina Ave. 4, 220050 Minsk Belarus Tel: (+375) 17 226-58-95 Fax:(+375) 17 220-77-52 cas@cit.bsu.unibel.by poznjak@cit.bsu.unibel.by WWW: http://www.bsu.unibel.by/2310/gloweb/cas.htm Topic #10 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Oleg Marichev Subject: Memorial note about A. P. Prudnikov [Editor's note: This is a slightly revision version of a note which appeared in the February (printed) Newsletter] The sad messages from Moscow and Sofia were distributed at the beginning of 1999. The well-known mathematician, co-author of five volumes of "Integrals and Series" and author of many other books and article on operational calculus (Laplace transforms, etc.) Professor Anatolii Platonovich Prudnikov, died of a heart attack in Moscow on January 9, 1999. Anatolii Platonovich Prudnikov was a very active and enthusiastic man with a huge internal energy which he spent on mathematical research and various organizational jobs of a mathematical nature. In spite of ill-health, he was consumed by these activities. Prudnikov was 72 at the time of his death and had devoted his life to mathematics and related activities. At the beginning of his scientific career, together with Professor V. A. Ditkin, he published several handbooks on Laplace transforms and operational calculus; these were translated in to English and became classics. But he was probably best known for the publication (together with Yu. A. Brichkov and O. I. Marichev) of the five-volume "Integrals and Series" (1981-1992), the largest-ever handbook project on these subjects. I met him and cooperated with him from 1969 to 1971. But we started our co-authorship in 1978 and our collaboration became the brightest period in my life. I have to point out that without Anatolii Platonovich the world would not have seem the five volumes of "Integrals and Series" . They were published first by the Russian Publishing House "Nauka" (in 1981-86, vols. 1-2) then in 1986-92 by Gordon and Breach (all five volumes) and in Japan in 1991 (vols 1-2). In more recent years (starting in 1993) Anatolii Platonovich organized the new journal "Integral Transforms and Special Functions" and the book series "Analytical Methods and Special Functions" (Gordon and Breach) which brought people in these areas together. Anatolii Platonovich Prudnikov was far from the world of computers. But his books had a large influence on the development of the world's best integration system in the computer-algebra system Mathematica. They are constantly used by the developers as very convenient and complete handbooks which contain the largest tables of integrals and series and algorithms and for their evaluation. This is a great loss for the entire mathematical community and for all who knew him and had the pleasure of working with him. I have lost a nice friend, co-author and collaborator in a huge project. The mathematical world lost a great mathematician and organizer of mathematical activities from the (now sadly depleted) classical mathematical school. With condolences to his family, friends and colleagues, Oleg Marichev (oleg@wolfram.com) Topic #11 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Martin Muldoon Subject: Memorial article on Waleed Al-Salam (1926-1996) There is an article "In Memoriam: Waleed Al-Salam" by T. S. Chihara and M. E. H. Ismail, in Journal of Approximation Theory, vol 95, no. 2, November, 1998, pages 153-160. It includes a photograph of Waleed, a description of his contributions and a list of his publications. (We have published memorial notes about Waleed by Martin Muldoon (OP-SF NET 3.3, Topic #7) and Richard Askey (3.4, Topic #14)). Topic #12 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Virginia Kiryakova , Subject: Journal "Fractional Calculus & Applied Analysis" (FCAA) The journal started in 1998 with Vol. 1 (4 issues: No 1 - No 4). It is an international journal, published in English by the Institute of Mathematics & Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Managing Editor: Virginia Kiryakova (Bulgaria, IMI-BAS). Honorary Members of Editorial Board: P. Butzer (Germany), M. Caputo (Italy), E.R. Love (Australia), K. Oldham (Canada), I. Sneddon (UK), J. Spanier (USA). Members of Editorial Board: P. Antosik (Poland), L. Boyadjiev (Bulgaria), I. Dimovski (Bulgaria), R. Gorenflo (Germany), M. Ismail (USA), R.N. Kalia (USA), S.L. Kalla (Kuwait), A. Kilbas (Belarus), F. Mainardi (Italy), O.I. Marichev (USA), A. McBride (UK), P. Mikusinski (USA), I. Podlubny (Slovak R.), D. Przeworska-Rolewicz (Poland), B. Rubin (Israel), P. Rusev (Bulgaria), M. Saigo (Japan), S. Samko (Russia-Portugal), H.M. Srivastava (Canada), Vu Kim Tuan (Kuwait). Topics: Fractional Calculus, Special Functions, Integral Transforms (Main) & Related Topics of Applied Analysis (Secondary): Algebraic Analysis, Operational & Convolutional Calculi, Harmonic Analysis; Series, Orthogonal Polynomials, Classes of Analytic Functions; Generalized Functions, Approximations & Numerical Methods (if concerned with the main topics); Applications of these techniques to Differential and Integral Equations, Problems of Mathematical Physics, Mechanics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Fractal and Integral Geometry; Contributions revealing the connections (if any) between Fractional Calculus and Fractals and Applications of above-mentioned techniques to solving and clarifying problems of the Real Physical and Social World will be also encouraged. Contents of Vol.1 (1998, No 1 - No 4): * Carleman operators in commutative algebras with logarithms (D. Przeworska-Rolewicz) * Binary exponential functions (Bl. Sendov, P. Marinov) * Some recurrence relations for the generalized hyper- geometric functions of the Gauss type (L. Galue, S.L. Kalla) * Scale-invariant solutions of a partial differential equation of fractional order (Yu. Luchko, R. Gorenflo) * Some criteria for univalence of analytic functions involving generalized fractional calculus operators (V. Kiryakova, M. Saigo, H.M. Srivastava) * Multiresolution analysis with sampling subspaces (G.G. Walter, A. Zayed) * The Fourier-Jacobi transform of analytic functions which are (almost) periodic in the imaginary direction (C.A.M. van Berkel, J. de Graaf) * Compositions of Bessel type integral transform with fractional operators on spaces $F_{p,\mu}, F^{'}_{p,\mu}$ (A. Kilbas, B. Bonilla, M. Rivero, J. Rodriguez, J. Trujillo) * On the asymptotics of the Weber-Hermite function in the complex domain (P. Rusev) * Random-walk models for space-fractional processes (R. Gorenflo, F. Mainardi) * Fractional calculus and wavelet transforms in integral geometry (B. Rubin) * A new approach to the inversion of the Riesz potential operator (S. Samko) * An algebraic derivative and some of its applications (V.M. Almeida, J. Rodriguez) * The abstract Cauchy problem for the fractional evolution equation (E. Bazhlekova) * Some Sonine-Gegenbauer integrals (M.L. Glasser, A.A. Al-Jarrah) * Shift operators and fractional calculus (G.R. Miller) * On the non-convolution transformation with the Macdonald type kernel function (S.B. Yakubovich, L.D. Gusarevich) * Univalent functions with positive coefficients involving a certain fractional integral operator and its partial sums (Jae Ho Choi) * $S$-bounded Fourier hyperfunctions (B. Stankovic) * Characterizations for subclasses of analytic functions connecting linear fractional calculus operators (R.K. Raina, R.N. Kalia) * Causality criteria for solutions of linear fractional differential equations (S. Kempfle) * On inversion of $B$-elliptic potentials by the method of Balakrishnan-Rubin (I.A. Aliev, S. Bayrakci) * On the solution of a fractional free electron laser equation (L.Boyadjiev, H.-Y. Dobner) * Open problem: Who knows about the $\Aleph$-functions? (N. Sudland, G. Baumann, T.F. Nonnenmacher) * The mathematical functions of "Mathematica" (O. Marichev, M. Trott). Each issue contains also information on past or future meetings in the close topics. In next ones, we plan also information on recent or forthcoming books, proceedings and other current information. Call for Papers: Original, unpublished results as well as surveys on relatively completed studies in above-mentioned topics are welcome. The papers should be submitted to the Managing Editor in 3 hard copies together with a LaTeX or TeX-file (obligatory in advance (!), by e-mail or on a diskette). The contributions are subject to peer review process. All the contacts among the editors, authors and reviewers, proofreadings, etc. are exclusively by e-mail, by exchanging the TeX- and PS-files. The contents of published issues, abstracts of the papers, instructions to authors, style files, subscription details, hot news and other current informations are available on the web sites of "FCAA" or via e-mail request. For any inquires and subscription information, contact the Managing Editor. Contacts (Preferably by e-mail!): Prof. Virginia Kiryakova, Managing Editor "FCAA Journal" Institute of Mathematics & Informatics, Bulgarian Academy Sciences Sofia 1090, Bulgaria ( fax: + 0359-2-971-3649 ) E-mail: fcaa@math.bas.bg , virginia@diogenes.bg Web Sites: http://www.math.bas.bg/~fcaa, http://www.diogenes.bg/fcaa Colleagues interested in these topics are kindly asked to support the journal by its popularization and proposing to their libraries. Private subscriptions and any kind of donations, as well as suggestions and comments, are also well appreciated. Advertising leaflets, order forms and sample issues of the "FCAA" journal are available on request. Topic #13 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: George Anastassiou Subject: New Journal-first issue J. of Computational Analysis and Applications, an international Kluwer/Plenum quarterly publication has published its first issue. Annual subscription rates $160(US), $185(non-US); $65(personal- US), $75(personal-non-US). For more information please visit: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~anastasg/anlyjour.htm and http://www.plenum.com/title.cgi? 2211 Plenum tel. 1-800-221-9369 Please find attached the following table of contents: Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1999 CONTENTS Page 1. Introductory Statement By: George A. Anastassiou Page 3. " Some Shift-Invariant Integral Operators, Univariate Case, Revisited" By: George A. Anastassiou and Sorin G. Gal Page 25. " Periodic Wavelets from Scratch" By: Gilbert G. Walter and Luchuan Cai Page 43. "Best Fourier Approximation and Application in Efficient Blurred Signal Reconstruction" By: Sam Efromovich and Michael Ganzburg Page 63. "Metrization of Epi-Convergence: An Application to the Strong Consistency of M-Estimators" By: Marco Dall'Aglio and Svetlozar T. Rachev Page 87. "Convergence Domains for Some Iterative Processes in Banach Spaces Using Outer or Generalized Inverses" By: Ioannis K. Argyros Page 105. "Ewald's Method Revisited: Rapidly Convergent Series Representations of Certain Green's Functions" By: Vassilis G. Papanicolaou Page 115. " A Note on Some Inequalities for Finite Sums and an Application to Entropies of Probability Distributions" By: Cvetan Jardas, Josip Pecaric, Rajko Roki, and Nikola Sarapa Topic #14 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: George Anastassiou Subject: New Book Series I have been appointed a KLUWER/PLENUM publishers book series Editor for the new book series "Computational Mathematics and Applications"(CMAA). This series basically intends to publish high quality strictly refereed books in all of Mathematics and their applications including Probability, Stochastic Processes and Statistics, EXCEPT FOR PURE MATHEMATICS. SO THIS MESSAGE IS TO CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS AND MANUSCRIPTS. The books we will consider should be in one of the following groups: upper level undergraduate, graduate level, research level. We intend to publish texts, monographs, proceedings of conferences, handbooks and compilations of papers. The published books will be suitable for students, researchers, libraries in Mathematical Sciences, Engineering, etc. Interested potential authors should send 3 hard copies of their book proposal (about 10 pages) or 2 hard copies of their book in final form(at least 125 printed pages),along with 2 discs with book content to Dr. George Anastassiou Department of Mathematical Sciences The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152 USA Tel (901) 678-3144 office (901) 678-2482 secretary (901) 678-2480 FAX (901) 371-9752 home e-mail anastasg@hermes.msci.memphis.edu http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~anastasg/anlyjour.htm Topic #15 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Bill Chen Subject: Combinatorics Net I wish to inform you that Annals of Combinatorics (Springer) is building up a web site: http://www.combinatorics.net/, which is called the Combinatorics Net, this site is also intended to serve the combinatorics community. It includes a useful Who's Who in Combinatorics list. Topic #16 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET editor Subject: OP-SF preprints in xxx archive The following preprints related to the field of orthogonal polynomials and special functions were recently posted or cross-listed to one of the subcategories of the xxx archives. See: http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.CA http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.CO http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.QA http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/solv-int math.CA/9902121. Mary Beth Ruskai, Elisabeth Werner. Study of a Class of Regularizations of 1/|x| using Gaussian Integrals. 41 pages. CA (MP). math.CO/9902004. Christian Krattenthaler (Universitat Wien). Advanced Determinant Calculus. 55 pages. CO (CA LA MP NT). math.AG/9901054. M. Mazzocco. Picard and Chazy solutions to the Painleve VI equation. 37 pages. SISSA 89/98/FM. AG (CA). math.CO/9903020. Michel Lassalle (CNRS, Paris). Une identite remarquable en theorie des partitions. 15 pages. CO. math.CO/9902020. Miklos Bona, Richard Ehrenborg. A combinatorial proof of the log-concavity of the numbers of permutations with $k$ runs. 10 pages. CO. solv-int/9903005 Title: The Pfaff lattice and skew-orthogonal polynomials Authors: M. Adler, E. Horozov, P. van Moerbeke Comments: 21 pages Journal-ref: Intern. Math. Research Notices, 1999 solv-int/9902011 Title: Orthonormal Polynomials on the Unit Circle and Spatially Discrete Painleve II Equation Authors: Chie Bing Wang Comments: 16 pages solv-int/9901004 Title: Airy Kernel and Painleve II Authors: Craig A. Tracy, Harold Widom Comments: 12 pages, 1 figure. Lecture given at the MSRI Introductory Workshop: Random Matrix Models and their Applications, Jan 19-23, 1999 Topic #17 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors Subject: Changes of Address, WWW Pages, etc. Marcel de Bruin has a web page: http://aw.twi.tudelft.nl/~debruin/ Lance Littlejohn has a web page: http://www.math.usu.edu/~lance/ Panos Siafarikas has a web page: http://www.math.upatras.gr/opsfa/PUBLICATIONS1.html Wolfram Koepf's Web page address has been changed to: www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~koepf Topic #18 ------------ OP-SF NET 6.2 ------------ March 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editor 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. If everything works well, you will be put on the mailing list of OP-SF NET which is maintained by SIAM. 2. 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