o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o - - - March 14, 1996 - - O P - S F N E T Volume 3, Number 2 - - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - Editors: - - Tom H. Koornwinder thk@fwi.uva.nl - - Martin Muldoon muldoon@mathstat.yorku.ca - - - - The Electronic News Net of the SIAM Activity Group - - on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions - - - - Please send contributions to: poly@siam.org - - & address changes to: poly-request@siam.org - - - o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o Today's Topics: 1. Appointment of Officers 2. Announcing OP-SF WEB 3. Minisymposium at SIAM Annual Meeting in Kansas City 4. SIAM Student Paper Prizes 5. Errata and Additions to OP-SF NET 3.1 6. Special Session at Antwerp meeting 7. International Workshop on Orthogonal Polynomials in Mathematical Physics {Madrid) 8. Meeting (Trondheim) on Continued Fractions and Geometric Function Theory 9. New Book: Quantum group symmetry and q-tensor algebras (Biedenharn and Lohe) 10. New Book: Special Functions (Temme) 11. Koekoek-Swarttouw report on Askey scheme 12. Problem on Infinite Series 13. Positions Available 14. Change of address for AT-NET 15. Searching aid for JAT home page 16. WWW and ftp addresses 17. Changes of address 18. ftp site for papers in Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions 19. Obtaining back issues of OP-SF Net and submitting contributions to OP-SF Net and Newsletter Calendar of events: see issue/topic: 1996 April 22-23: Umbral Calculus Workshop at MIT 3.1 #7 May 6-26: CRM Workshop on the Theory of Special Functions 3.1 #8 May 22-24: Special Functions session at International Joint Mathematics Meeting (Antwerp) 3.2 #6 June 23-27: Joint summer research conference on Random Matrices, Statistical Mechanics, and Painleve Transcendents 2.6 #8 (South Hadley, Mass., USA) June 24-26: International Workshop on Orthogonal Polynomials in Mathematical Physics (Madrid) 3.2 #7 July 1-5: Meeting in Canterbury on Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations 2.4 #6 July 1-7: XVth Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics, Poland 3.1 #10 July 15-20: International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Goslar, Germany 3.1 #11 July 21-26: ICCAM 96, Leuven, Belgium 3.1 #12 July 22-26: SIAM Annual Meeting in Kansas City 3.2 #3 August 23-30: Workshop Transform Methods & Special Functions 2.6 #10 (Varna, Bulgaria) September 23-28: III International Conference on Functional Analysis and Approximation Theory (Italy) 3.1 #13 1997 June 24-28: Continued Fractions and Geometric Function Theory 3.2 #8 (Trondheim, Norway) Topic #1 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Charles Dunkl Subject: Appointments Wolfram Koepf has accepted an appointment as Editor of the (printed) Newsletter of the Activity Group for the period Jan 1996 to Dec 1998. Martin Muldoon has accepted an appointment for the same period as Webmaster and co-editor of OP-SF NET. On behalf of the elected officers, I express our appreciation to Martin and Wolfram, and we look forward to continuing to work together with them in the Activity Group. Topic #2 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Martin Muldoon Subject: OP-SF WEB This Newsletter (including back issues) is available in two places on the World Wide Web, either from Tom Koornwinder's archive: ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/mathematics/reports/Analysis/koornwinder/opsfnet.dir or (generally faster in North America) from: http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/JAT/DATA/OPSFNET/opsfnet.html an archive maintained by Paul Nevai. (Indeed, with lynx, you can use Paul's "wjat" (see Topic #15) to search the archive.) But we have also started OP-SF WEB, a version of OP-SF NET designed for World Wide Web browsing. You can link to it from our Home Page: http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Muldoon/siamopsf/ At present, it has a number of headings: Conference Calendar Books, etc. Meeting Reports Projects Problems Personal, Obituaries, etc. Miscellaneous and more will be added. Much of the information is the same as what you read here in OP-SF NET. But the WWW format offers a number of advantages: - Links can be added to other resources on the Web. So, for example, whenever possible, an announcement of a forthcoming meeting includes a link to the Web location maintained by the organizers. - Meeting reports can be supplemented by links to related information, abstracts, photographs, etc. - Information can be posted soon after it is received (generally within 24 hours). Of course, OP-SF NET and the printed Newsletter will continue to be provided, and information submitted to them will be considered for inclusion in OP-SF WEB. Topic #3 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Willard Miller, Jr. Subject: Minisymposium at SIAM Annual Meeting in Kansas City The 1996 SIAM Annual Meeting will be held on July 22-26, 1996 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. See WWW: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an96/an96home.htm for further information, or send an email to meetings@siam.org . A major theme is "New Tools of Applied Mathematics". Carl de Boor will receive the von Neumann prize at this meeting. In OP-SF Net 3.1, Topic #4 we wrote that our Activity Group probably would not sponsor or organize any Minisymposium during this Annual Meeting. Fortunately, some proposal has still come up: The SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions will present a Minisymposium on Modern Topics in Orthogonal Systems. (There are expected to be 4-6 speakers.) The Minisymposium will feature two main topics: 1) Wavelets, organized by Gilbert G. Walter of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and 2) Multivariate Orthogonal Polynomials that generalize Jacobi Polynomials, organized by Robert Gustafson of Texas A&M University. (Both Walter and Gustafson will speak. The wavelet topic will involve approximation theory issues and should be closest to DeBoor's work.) Topic #4 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Allison Bogardo Subject: SIAM Student Paper Prizes The annual SIAM Student Paper Prizes will be awarded during the 1996 SIAM Annual Meeting. If you are a student or know of a student who would like to take part in the competition, here are the details: The authors of the three best papers in applied and computational mathematics written by students and submitted to SIAM will be invited to attend the 1996 annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, July 22-26. Each winner must present his/her paper at the meeting and will receive a $750 cash award as well as gratis registration for the meeting. Winners will be awarded calligraphed certificates at a special prize ceremony at the meeting. Papers must be singly authored and not previously published or submitted for publication to be eligible for consideration. To qualify, authors must be students in good standing who have not received their PhDs at the time of submission. In submitting their work for publication, authors are asked to consider SIAM journals. Submissions must be received by SIAM on or before March 15, 1996. Submissions, which must be in English, can be sent by regular mail or fax. Each submission must include (1) an extended abstract NOT LONGER THAN 5 PAGES (including bibliography); (2) the complete paper, which will be used solely for clarification of any questions; (3) a statement by the student's faculty advisor that the paper has been prepared by the author indicated and that the author is a student in good standing; (4) a letter by the student's faculty advisor describing and evaluating the paper's contribution; and (5) a short biography of the student. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, and quality of exposition. The winners will be notified by June 10, 1996. If you have any questions, please contact: Allison G. Bogardo, SIAM, 3600 University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688; telephone: (215) 382-9800; e-mail to bogardo@siam.org; fax to (215) 386-7999. Topic #5 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder Subject: errata and additions to OP-SF Net 3.1 Re: Topic #14 (CD-ROM version of Gradshteyn & Ryzhik) Rachel Bridgman writes: The USA and Canada are covered by the US office of Academic Press. Anyone from these areas wishing to purchase the CD-ROM should contact Nomi Schalit . Anyone in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa should contact myself . Re: Topic #15 (Szego memorial) Paul Nevai pointed out an error in the WWW address. It should read as follows: Pictures of the Szego bust (see OP-SF Net 2.5, Topic #9) can be viewed on WWW: http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai/SZEGO Topic #6 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Walter Van Assche Subject: Special Functions session at International Joint Mathematics Meeting, Antwerp, Belgium The first joint meeting of the AMS and the mathematical societies of the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg) will be held on May 22-24, 1996 in Antwerp, Belgium. The organizers of the meeting have allocated Wednesday afternoon, May 22 to Walter Van Assche (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Marcel G. de Bruin (Technical University Delft) for organizing a contributed papers session on "Special Functions". The program is as follows: FIRST SESSION (twenty minutes for each talk) 1) M. G. de Bruin (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands) "Continuous Sobolev-Laguerre polynomials and their continued fractions" 2) H. G. Meijer (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands) "Coherent pairs for Sobolev orthogonal polynomials" 3) H. Bavinck (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands) "Linear perturbations of differential and difference operators with polynomial eigenfunctions" 4) J. Van Der Jeugt (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) "Transformation and summation formulas for multiple hypergeometric functions" SECOND SESSION (twenty minutes for each talk) 1) M. Schlosser (Universit\"at Wien, Austria) "Multidimensional matrix inversion and $A_r$ and $C_r$ basic hypergeometric functions" (joint work with Ch. Krattenthaler) 2) W. Koepf (Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany) "Efficient computation of orthogonal polynomials in computer algebra" 3) W. Koepf (Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany) "Orthogonal polynomial identities in Maple V.4" 4) R. F. Swarttouw (Computer Algebra Nederland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) "An interactive electronic version of the Askey-Wilson table for classical orthogonal polynomials" For further information about the meeting, see the meetings part of the AMS e-MATH home pages WWW: http://e-math.ams.org/committee/meetings/ or consult a news bulletin of one of the organizing societies (e.g. Notices AMS). Registration: Kristel Van Rompay Hotel Information: Luc Willaert Topic #7 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: R. Alvarez-Nodarse (slightly revised by editors) Subject: International Workshop on Orthogonal Polynomials, Madrid International Workshop on Orthogonal Polynomials in Mathematical Physics in honour of Prof. Andre Ronveaux June 24-26, 1996 Madrid, Spain Invited talks: N. Atakishiev: "Difference equations and some of their solutions" Jesus S. Dehesa: "Information theory, quantum entropy and orthogonal polynomials" Yuri F. Smirnov: "The Wigner-Racah algebra for $SU_q(2)$ and $SU_q(1,1)$ and q-analogs of Hahn, Kravchuk and Racah polynomials. The (quasi) exact solvability concept on the finite difference equations" H.T. Koelink: "Addition formulas for $q$-special functions. Hecke algebras and $q$-Krawtchouk polynomials" A. Aptekarev: "Toda-type dynamics for the coefficients of recurrence relations" R. Koekoek: "Recent developments in the research of differential operators for generalized (Sobolev) orthogonal polynomials" A. Ronveaux: "Orthogonal polynomials: connection and linearization coefficients" Location: Main Building of the Escuela Politecnica Superior. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Leganes, Madrid, Spain Contributed Lectures: There will be room for 10 short communications, preferably related to the main subject of the workshop. If you want to contribute, please send an abstract (not more than one page) as soon as possible. Proceedings: A Special Monograph with the Proceedings of the Workshop will be prepared. Registration fee: 10.000 ptas including lunch and Proceedings. Ten grants for young researchers will be available. Further information: R. Alvarez-Nodarse and F. Marcellan For further information, contact: R. Alvarez-Nodarse or F. Marcellan or visit the WWW site: http://dulcinea.uc3m.es/users/workshop/con.html Topic #8 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Lisa Lorentzen Subject: meeting on Continued Fractions and Geometric Function Theory Haakon Waadeland celebrates his 70th birthday on 20 May 1997. He is responsible for a long list of valuable contributions to the two fields of continued fractions and geometric function theory, and he is still very active. In recognition of his work we have decided to organize a conference in his honour. The conference will be held in Trondheim, Norway from 24 to 28 June 1997 under the title Continued Fractions and Geometric Function Theory. We hope to get together a group of people representing both fields, and we would very much appreciate if you would participate. You are all welcome to present talks of 25 minutes + 5 minutes for questions. (If somebody has material suited for longer or shorter presentations, we may be able to arrange this.) We plan to publish proceedings from the conference. The conference has its own world wide web page on http://www.matstat.unit.no/CFGT, where we will put new information when it is available. From this page you can also link to pages about Trondheim and about the university, NTNU. If you want to receive the second announcement, please give a YES by e-mail to the conference address: confun@imf.unit.no before 31 May 1996. With kind regards, Lisa Lorentzen, Olav Njastad, Frode Ronning Topic #9 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder Subject: new book The following book appeared: L.C. Biedenharn and M.A. Lohe, Quantum group symmetry and q-tensor algebras, World Scientific, 1995, x+293 pp. The aim of the monograph is to develop and extend to quantum groups the symmetry techniques familiar from the application of classical groups to models in physics. The authors have taken a uniform approach to quantum groups based on the fundamental concept of a tensor operator. The book contains some results about q-special functions in connection with quantum groups: in particular on q-analogues of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients and Racah coefficients, and about q-hypergeometric functions in connection with induced representations of the quantized universal enveloping algebra for U(3). Topic #10 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Martin Muldoon Subject: New book on special functions Nico M. Temme, Special Functions: an Introduction to the Classical Special Functions of Mathematical Physics, Wiley, New York-Chichester-Brisbane-Toronto-Singapore, 1996, xii + 374 pp, ISBN 0-471-11313-1. Contents: 1. Bernoulli, Euler and Stirling Numbers 2. Useful Methods and Techniques (Theorems from Analysis, Asymptotic Expansions of Integrals) 3. The Gamma Function 4. Differential Equations (Separating the Wave Equation, DE's in the Complex Plane, Sturm's Comparison Theorem, Integrals as Solutions, Liouville Transformation) 5. Hypergeometric Functions (includes very brief introduction to q-functions) 6. Orthogonal Polynomials 7. Confluent Hypergeometric Functions (includes many special cases) 8. Legendre Functions 9, Bessel Functions 10. Separating the Wave Equation 11. Special Statistical Distribution Functions (Error functions, Incomplete Gammma Functions, Incomplete Beta Functions, Non-Central Chi-Squared Distribution, Incomplete Bessel Function) 12. Elliptic Integrals and Elliptic Functions 13. Numerical Aspects of Special Functions (mainly recurrence relations) Bibliography Notations and Symbols Index The author mentions that part of the material was collected from well-known books such as those by Hochstadt, Lebedev, Olver, Rainville, Szego, and Whittaker & Watson as well as lecture notes by Lauwerier and Boersma. But there is much recent material, especially in the areas of asymptotic expansions and numerical aspects. About half of the approximately 200 references are dated 1975 and later. The author states that the book "has been written with students of mathematics, physics and engineering in mind, and also researchers in these areas who meet special functions in their work, and for whom the results are too scattered in the general literature." Complex analysis (especially contour integration) would appear to be the main prerequisite. The book is clearly written, with good motivating examples and exercises. For example, the first chapter opens with a remarkable example of Borwein, Borwein and Dilcher (Amer. Math. Monthly 96 (1989), 681-687 which explains, using Euler numbers and Boole's summation formula, why the sum of 50 000 terms of the very slowly converging alternating series for Pi/4, though it gives an answer correct to only six digits, yet has nearly all its first 50 digits correct. Topic #11 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From R. Koekoek Subject: Koekoek-Swarttouw report on Askey-scheme The report R. Koekoek and R.F. Swarttouw, The Askey-scheme of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials and its q-analogue, Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Informatics, Delft University of Technology, Report 94-05, 1994; can now be retrieved electronically from Haubold's ftp site unvie6.un.or.at, directory siam/opsf/koekoek_swarttouw, or via WWW from: ftp://unvie6.un.or.at/siam/opsf/koekoek_swarttouw/ The directory contains the following files: - readme : the information given in this item - as_info.ps : PostScript-file with information - errata.ps : PostScript-file of the list of errata (February, 1996) - AskeyWilson.ps : PostScript-file of the latest version (February, 1996) So if you have a hardcopy of the original version (the above mentioned report) you can download the files as_info.ps and errata.ps in order to read the information and get the list of errata. Otherwise you can download the file AskeyWilson.ps instead of errata.ps to get the latest version (121 pages) of the report. The file AskeyWilson.ps is also available in compressed form at two different ftp sites (use binary mode for transmission): unvie6.un.or.at, directory siam/submissions, file AskeyWilson.ps.Z ftp.fwi.uva.nl, directory pub/mathematics/reports/Analysis/aboutothers, file AskeyWilson.ps.gz Topic #12 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ We would like to propose the following problem: Can the infinite series $$\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{x^n}{n!}\ln(n+\alpha)$$ be expressed in terms of known functions and constants? We do not know any solution of the problem and will be thankful for any comments, suggestions, solutions, etc. Victor Alexandrov & Rafail Krichevskii alex@math.nsk.su Topic #13 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net editor Subject: open positions K. Mimachi informed me about approximately five open positions at the assistant level (tenured) at the Graduate School of Mathematics of the Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan). J. Charris informed me about two open tenure-track positions in mathematics at Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. Since these positions are open for mathematicians of all kinds of specialization, not necessarily in Orthogonal polynomials and Special functions, I will not give any details here, but just recommend interested people to contact the email addresses mentioned above. Topic #14 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Editors of AT-NET Subject: Change of address for AT-NET As of the next issue, AT-NET is changing its address. It will be run from the University of Erlangen in Erlangen, Germany. The two new editors who will be handling AT-NET are Hans-Joachim Schmid and Hans Strauss. Submissions to At-Net should now be sent to one of: approx@mi.uni-erlangen.de schmid@mi.uni-erlangen.de strauss@am.uni-erlangen.de The same listproc program which runs At-Net at its present address will also run AT-NET at its future address, and thus the same commands should work. Thus to sign on to AT-NET one should send the message: sub at-net first_name last_name to at-net@mi.uni-erlangen.de and to get a list of subscribers, send the message: review at-net also to: at-net@mi.uni-erlangen.de Current subscribers of AT-NET need NOT subscribe to the new address. This will, of course, be automatically done. A new home page with back issues of AT-NET may be found at: http://www.mi.uni-erlangen.de/~approx Topic #15 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Paul Nevai (revised by editors) Subject: searching aid for JAT home page The home page of the Journal of Approximation Theory contains various valuable databases. These can now be searched in a quick and efficient way from your Unix shell, provided you have available the program lynx. Just get the shell script "wjat" from http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/JAT or http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/JAT/DATA/wjat.html and easily install it in your private directory. Type wjat -h to learn about the various flags with which wjat can be used. Paul Nevai adds: Get "wjat" the jack-of-all-trades lynx interface to the databases of Journal of Approximation Theory (JAT), with support of Constructive Approximation (CA), East Journal on Approximations (EJA), Mathematical Reviews (MR), Spline Bibliography Database (SPD), and (much) more. This will be the smartest investment you have ever made or your money back. From the editors: You can use "wjat -O" to search back issues of OP-SF NET. Topic #16 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net editor Subject: WWW and ftp addresses A more comprehensive list of ftp and WWW addresses relevant for our field is available at the home page of the Activity Group WWW: http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Muldoon/siamopsf/ under "Links to WWW pages of interest to members" This list will be regularly updated, and the changes will be mentioned in OP-SF Net. Please mail corrections and additions for this list to Martin Muldoon Between January 14 and March 5, 1996 the following addresses in this list were changed or added: Other information: Askey-Wilson computer algebra mini-project: WWW: http://star.cs.vu.nl/~rene/AskeyWilson.html Individuals: Charles Dunkl: WWW: http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~cfd5z/home.html Rene Swarttouw: WWW: http://star.cs.vu.nl/~rene/ Topic #17 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net editor Subject: Changes of address Vadim Kuznetsov has moved on February 1, 1996 to Leeds: Department of Applied Mathematical Studies, University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT U.K. email: vadim@amsta.leeds.ac.uk Topic #18 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net editor Subject: ftp site for papers in Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions Hans Haubold's ftp archive for preprints in the area of Orthogonal Polynomials and Special functions is the continuation of Waleed Al-Salam's preprint archive. One can approach the archive by anonymous ftp to unvie6.un.or.at, directory siam, or at the WWW address ftp://unvie6.un.or.at/siam . See the file 00contents.ftpsite in the submissions directory for the contents (titles, authors, filenames) of the directories opsf and abstracts. This list of contents is in chronological order of submission. The most recent contributions will just reside as files in the submissions directory, and are not yet documented in the list of contents. Hans Haubold is sending regular info about new submissions to a large mailing list. Please contact him if you want to be added to this mailing list or if your email address on the list is no longer correct. Between 4 December 1995 and 27 February 1996, the following papers were submitted: M.A. Pinsky, Speed of convergence of two-dimensional Fourier integrals. (see siam/opsf/pinsky.tex). M.S. Dijkhuizen, Some remarks on the construction of quantum symmetric spaces. (see siam/opsf/dijkhuizen1.tex). G. Olshanski and A. Vershik, Ergodic unitarily invariant measures on the space of infinite Hermitian matrices. (see siam/opsf/olsh- vershik.tex). M. Alfaro, F. Marcellan, and M.L. Rezola, Estimates for Jacobi-Sobolev type orthogonal polynomials. (siam/opsf/alfaro_marcellan_rezola.tex) R. W Koekoek and R.F. Swarttouw, The Askey-scheme of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials and its q-analogue. (directory siam/opsf/koekoek_swarttouw, files readme, as_info.ps, errata.ps, AskeyWilson.ps). The file AskeyWilson.ps is also available in compressed form in the directory siam/submissions as file AskeyWilson.ps.Z Topic #19 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- March 14, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net editor Subject: Obtaining back issues of OP-SF Net and submitting contributions to OP-SF Net and Newsletter Back issues of OP-SF Net can be obtained from ftp: ftp.fwi.uva.nl, in directory pub/mathematics/reports/Analysis/koornwinder/opsfnet.dir or WWW: ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/mathematics/reports/Analysis/koornwinder/opsfnet.dir or WWW: http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/JAT/DATA/OPSFNET/opsfnet.html Contributions to the OP-SF Net 3.3 should reach the email address poly@siam.org before May 1, 1996. The Activity Group also sponsors a Newsletter edited by Wolfram Koepf. Deadline for submissions to be included in the June 1996 issue is May 15, 1996. Please send your Newsletter contributions directly to the Editor: Wolfram Koepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Heilbronner Str. 10, D-10711 Berlin, Germany tel.: +49-30-896 04-216 fax: +49-30-896 04-125, email: koepf@zib-berlin.de preferably by email, and in latex format. Other formats are also acceptable and can be submitted by email, regular mail or fax. Please note that submissions to the Newsletter (if not containing mathematics symbols or pictures) are automatically considered for publication in OP-SF Net, and vice versa, unless the writer requests otherwise. Previous issues of the Newsletter, but not the most recent one, can be obtained as dvi or PostScript files from Wolfram Koepf's WWW homepage: http://www.zib-berlin.de/~bzfkoepf/ or by anonymous ftp at ftp.zib-berlin.de in directory pub/UserHome/Koepf/SIAM In order to join the SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions, and thereby receive the Newsletter, you have to become a member of SIAM. 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