Workshop on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials

Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Universidad de Cantabria in Santander, Spain, 30 June - 2 July 2005

 

Schedule

 

Day 1 – Thursday, June 30 

 

1:50 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.

Tom Koorwinder (Semi-Plenary)

Macdonald Polynomials: a Harish-Chandra Type Expansion and a Non-Polynomial Limit Case

 

2:40 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.

Antonio Durán

Orthogonal Matrix Polynomials Satisfying Second Order Differential Equations

 

Tea              3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.    

 

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Alexander Its

Quasi-linear Stokes Phenomenon for tronquée Painlevé Transcendents. The Riemann-Hilbert Approach

 

4:50 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.

Alicia Cachafeiro

Connection Between Sobolev Orthogonal Polynomials on the Bounded Interval and the Circle. Asymptotics on the Real Line

 

5:15 p.m. – 5:35 p.m.

Walter Gautschi

 

5:40 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Erwin Miña-Díaz

Electrostatic Mother Bodies and Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials

 

 

Day 2 – Friday, July 1

 

1:50 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.

Andrei Martinez Finkelshtein

Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle: the Riemann-Hilbert Perspective

 

2:40 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.

Herbert Stahl (Semi-Plenary)

Orthogonal Polynomials, Padé Approximants, and Sets of Minimal Capacity

 

Tea:             3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Roderick Wong

Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials – The Riemann-Hilbert Approach

 

4:50 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.

Kathy Driver

The Zeros of Linear Combinations of Orthogonal Polynomials

 

5:15 p.m. – 5:35 p.m.

Jesus Sanchez-Dehesa

 

5:40 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Peter Clarkson

Special Polynomials Associated with Rational and Algebraic Solutions of the Painlevé Equations

 

6:05 p.m. – 6:25 p.m.

Amilcar Branquinho

Matrix Interpretation of Multiple Orthogonal Polynomials

 

 

Day 3 – Saturday, July 2

 

1:50 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.

Franz Peherstorfer

Asymptotic Representation of L_p-minimal Polynomials, 1≤ p ≤ ∞, and Applications in Numerical Analysis

 

2:40 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.

Paco Marcellan

Coherent Pairs of Measures Supported in Jordan Arcs and Curves

 

Tea              3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Christian Berg (Semi-Plenary)

A Positivity Result for Bessel Polynomials

 

4:50 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.

María J. Cantero

From the Schur Parameters to the Support of the Orthogonality Measure

 

5:15 p.m. – 5:35 p.m.

Nico Temme

The ABC of Hyper Recursions II

 

5:40 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Ramón Orive

Hypergeometric Polynomials with Non-classical Parameters