(please forward this e-mail to anyone who might be interested) ======================================================================== OPSFA 2019 15th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications July 22 - 26, 2019 RISC, Johannes Kepler University Hagenberg (Linz), Austria http://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/opsfa2019/ ======================================================================== CALL FOR MINI-SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS The contributed talks at OPSFA 15 will be organized in topical sessions ("mini-symposia"). If you are interested in organizing a mini-symposium, please send your proposal, including - title and (one-paragraph) abstract of the MS, - name(s), e-mail, and affiliation(s) of the MS organizer(s), - [optional] tentative list of speakers, by email to the conference chair (christoph.koutschan@ricam.oeaw.ac.at). All proposals need to be approved by the Scientific Committee. Accepted mini-symposia will be immediately announced on the website http://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/opsfa2019/?content=program Therefore, early submission is recommended (deadline: Feb 28, 2019). Contributed talk submissions should be directed to the organizers of an appropriate mini-symposium. It is also expected that MS organizers actively contact potential speakers. Please note that there is no financial support for the MS organizers and no budget to invite people. At least one of the MS organizers should be present at the conference and chair the session. Ideally, the length of a mini-symposium should not exceed 6 hours (i.e., 12 talks). ======================================================================== Conferences in the OPSFA series provide a forum for mathematicians, physicists, and computational scientists to communicate recent research results in the areas of orthogonal polynomials and special functions. Invited speakers: ================= - Peter Clarkson (University of Kent, UK) - Christian Krattenthaler (University of Vienna, Austria) - Irina Nenciu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) - Veronika Pillwein (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) - Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University, Israel) - Alan Sokal (New York University, USA) - Armin Straub (University of South Alabama, USA) - Luc Vinet (University of Montreal, Canada) Scientific Committee: ===================== - Walter van Assche (University of Leuven, Belgium) - Diego Dominici (State University of New York, New Paltz, USA) - Kathy Driver (University of Cape Town, South Africa) - Galina Filipuk (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Frank Garvan (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA) - Mourad Ismail (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA) - Doron Lubinsky (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) - Zeinab Mansour (Cairo University, Egypt) - Francisco Marcellan (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain) - Bruno Salvy (Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France) - Michael Schlosser (University of Vienna, Austria) - Thomas Trogdon (University of California, Irvine, USA) Organizing Committee: ===================== - Christoph Koutschan (RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) - Peter Paule (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) The 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, as well as applications of this subject in other parts of mathematics, and in science and industry. It 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 Gabor Szegoe Prize every two years to an early-career researcher for outstanding research contributions in the area of orthogonal polynomials and special functions.