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Tom H. Koornwinder
University of Amsterdam (UvA), Faculty of Science
Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdV Institute)

visiting address:
building F, Floor 3, Science Park 105-107, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
postal address:
P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, Netherlands

email: thkmathxs4all.nl
URL: https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/t.h.koornwinder/

Professional status and Research interests

I am professor emeritus of mathematics (analysis). My primary research interests are: Special functions and orthogonal polynomials
See a short CV (pdf; last modified October 6, 2020).
See my mathematical ancestors tree.

Publications

My research papers (html)
Publication list (pdf; last modified October 21, 2024)
My miscellaneous papers
My informal papers
My lecture notes for teaching
My popularizing papers (in Dutch)
My edited volumes
Some of my book reviews
Slides of my lectures
Open problems
Comments and errata about publications by others
My observation on two different meanings of Fourier-Jacobi series.
My software
CAOP: Computer Algebra and Orthogonal Polynomials: web tool; with Wolfram Koepf, Torsten Sprenger and René Swarttouw. Starting September 2007 this resides in Kassel, and it is maintained there by Wolfram Koepf.

News

Dick and Liz Askey's world trip in fall of 1987 to U.S.S.R., Japan, Australia and India:
See edited versions of the travel diaries by Liz Askey.
Askey-Bateman project: Volumes I and II were published in September and October 2020.
thk's mathematical news items

Dutch math

Dutch Math Institutes and Organisations
Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap (KWG)
Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde
Pythagoras (wiskundetijdschrift voor jongeren)
Nederlandse Wiskunde Olympiade
Platform Wiskunde Nederland (PWN)
- Wiskunde actueel (artikelen van Arnout Jaspers)
Digitization of Indagationes Mathematicae
Digitization of Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (in Dutch)
SWI – studiegroep wiskunde met de industrie

Upcoming events

Past activities

Past conferences on Special Functions, Lie theory, etc.

My past teaching (mostly in Dutch)

My old lecture notes (partially in Dutch)

Activities on occasion of my formal retirement

symposium Special Functions and Quantum Groups, KdV Institute, UvA, 11-12 December 2008
my farewell lecture (in Dutch): afscheidscollege De speciale functie van de wiskunde, aula UvA, 12 december 2008, 15.00 uur
See pictures of the symposium and pictures of the farewell lecture.
The text in Dutch of this farewell lecture with notes and references (pdf, version of 23 March 2010) can be downloaded.

The NWO project "Hall Algebras and Macdonald Polynomials"

The NWO project "Algorithmic Methods for Special Functions by Computer Algebra"

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF), NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
I was involved jointly with Roelof Koekoek (Delft University of Technology), René Swarttouw (VU University Amsterdam) and Roderick Wong (City University of Hongkong) in writing Chapter 18, Orthogonal Polynomials. This Handbook and Digital Library have appeared in May 2010.

Memorial issue of SIGMA for Vadim Kuznetsov.
I was one of the guest editors.

Papers dedicated to Tom Koornwinder, Indagationes Mathematicae, New Series 14 (2003), No. 3-4;
In connection with the Workshop on Special Functions, Representation Theory and Applications, Amsterdam, 25-27 August 2003, on the occasion of Tom Koornwinder's 60th birthday.

Workshop on Special Functions, Minneapolis, 5-7 August 2002, during the conference FoCM'02. This workshop was organized by Adri Olde Daalhuis and me.