Combinatorics, Special Functions and Computer Algebra
A workshop at the occasion of Peter Paule's 60th birthday
This workshop is dedicated to Peter Paule's 60th birthday and centered around the research areas of Combinatorics, Special Functions, and Computer Algebra. What these research fields share is that many of their outstanding results do not only have applications in Mathematics, but also other disciplines, such as Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, etc. A particular charm of these areas is how they interact and influence one another. For instance, combinatorial or special functions' techniques have motivated the development of new symbolic algorithms. In particular, first proofs of challenging problems in Combinatorics and Special Functions were derived by making essential use of Computer Algebra.
For two group pictures of this great event see group photo 1 and group photo 2 .
Invited speakers
- Sergei A. Abramov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
- George E. Andrews (Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.)
- Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University, U.S.A.)
- Bruno Buchberger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
- Bill Chen (Center of Combinatorics, Nankai Universiy, China)
- Johann Cigler (Universität Wien, Austria)
- Joachim von zur Gathen (Universität Bonn)
- Mark Giesbrecht (University of Waterloo)
- Mourad Ismail (University of Central Florida)
- Adalbert Kerber (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)
- Marko Petkovšek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Volker Strehl (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Selected short contributions
- Johannes Blümlein (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Zeuthen, Germany)
- Stefan Gerhold (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Christian-Silviu Radu (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)