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                               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/

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                  (registration is open from now on)

The 15th Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions and
Applications (OPSFA) will take place

         from July 22 to July 26, 2019, in Hagenberg, Austria.

It is organized by the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC).
The conference venue is on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences
in Hagenberg.  Hagenberg im Muehlkreis is a small town in Upper Austria,
surrounded by green hills and located halfway between Salzburg and Vienna.
All interested colleagues are cordially invited to attend this meeting.

Important deadlines:
- 30.04.2019: application for student support (see below)
- 15.05.2019: title and abstract submission for talks
- 30.06.2019: early bird registration

The conference features plenary lectures given by
- 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)

The contributed talks will be organized in topical sessions (mini-symposia).
If you are interested in giving a talk, please refer to the list of mini-
symposia on the website and check to see which topic fits best; then get
into contact with the respective mini-symposium organizers. If none of the
topics are suitable, the talk can be presented in the general session for
contributed talks.  Posters are also accepted for display at the meeting.
In both cases, please contact the conference chair.

The early registration fee (until June 30) is 300 EUR. A reduced registration
fee of 190 EUR is available for students and for participants from developing
countries. In addition, they are eligible to apply to have their registration
fee waived (this selection is made by the scientific committee). If you would
like to apply, please send a CV, a recommendation letter, and a short
statement describing your situation to the conference chair.

The registration fee covers all lunches, coffee breaks, and a welcome
reception on Sunday evening (July 21). It also includes an excursion on
Wednesday afternoon to the lovely medieval city of Freistadt, and the
conference dinner. Moreover, a complimentary shuttle service is provided from
the Linz airport / Linz train station to the conference hotel on Sunday (July
21), and in the opposite direction on Friday afternoon (July 26) and Saturday
morning (July 27). Accomodation can be booked via the conference registration
form at a rate of 44 EUR per night in a single room, including breakfast, but
payment is done directly at the hotel upon checkout. The hotel is in walking
distance to the lecture rooms.


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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.

Scientific Committee:
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- 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:
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- 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 Szego Prize every two years to an early-career researcher for
outstanding research contributions in the area of orthogonal polynomials
and special functions.