o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o O P - S F N E T Volume 14, Number 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editors: Diego Dominici dominicd@newpaltz.edu Martin Muldoon muldoon@yorku.ca The Electronic News Net of the SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions Please send contributions to: poly@siam.org Subscribe by mailing to: poly-request@siam.org or to: listproc@nist.gov o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - o Today's Topics: 1. OPSFA 2007 submission deadline 2. AMS Special Session at Tucson 3. Congress in Honor of Prof. J. S. Dehesa 4. Conference on Quantum Probability and Related Topics 5. Special Session in New Zealand 6. Ramanujan Journal - Askey Special Issue 7. Proceedings of Kloster Irsee Workshop 8. Advances in mock theta functions 9. Mathematics Subject Classification Revision 10. Call for Nominations - SIAG/APDE Prize 11. Preprints in arXiv.org 12. About the Activity Group 13. Submitting contributions to OP-SF NET Calendar of Events: 2007 April 21-22: American Mathematical Society meeting in Tucson, Arizona, USA including Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials 13.6 #2 14.2 #2 http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2135_program_ss15.html#title June 24-30: Seventh International Conference: Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine 13.6 #3 http://www.imath.kiev.ua/~appmath/conf.html July 2-6: The 9th Conference on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Marseille, France 13.6 #1, 14.2 #1 http://www.cirm.univ-mrs.fr/liste_rencontre/Rencontres2007/Valent07/Valent07.html July 9-13: International Conference on SCIentific Computation and Differential Equations, Saint-Malo, France http://scicade07.irisa.fr/ July 16-20: ICIAM 2007 - 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, including Minisymposium on Web Math Zurich, Switzerland http://www.iciam07.ch 13.4 #2 13.6 #4 September 2-8: 28th Conference on Quantum Probability and Related Topics, Guanajuato, Mexico. See http://www.cimat.mx/Eventos/28quantum/ 14.2 #4 September 9-14: Applications of Macdonald Polynomials, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada www.pims.math.ca/birs/birspages.php?task=displayevent&event_id=07w5048 13.5 #1 September 17-19: Interdisciplinary conference "SPECIAL FUNCTIONS, INFORMATION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS", in honor of Jesus S. Dehesa's 60th birthday, Granada, Spain 14.2 #3 http://www.ugr.es/~jsd60th December 12-15: Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society including Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials 14.2 #5 http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/%7Emathmeet/amsnzms2007/index.shtml Topic #1 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors Subject: OPSFA 2007 submission deadline As mentioned in OP-SF NET 13.6, Topic #1, The 9th Conference on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications will take place from the 2nd to 6th of July 2007 at the International Center for Mathematical Meetings (CIRM), Marseille, France. The Conference now has a regular page on the CIRM site. People interested should go to the site http://www.cirm.univ-mrs.fr/liste_rencontre/Rencontres2007/Valent07/Valent07.html and FIRST consult the PDF file: Description de la Conference, where all the practical information is gathered. Galliano Valent would like to inform readers that there is a CIRM deadline of APRIL 15, 2007 (not May 11, as stated in the web site) for submitting communications. Topic #2 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors Subject: AMS Special Session at Tucson As announced in OP-SF NET 13.6, Topic #2, the meeting of the American Mathematical Society to be held April 21-22, 2007 in Tucson, Arizona will include a Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials. Here are some details about the Session: Organizers: Diego Dominici, State University of New York at New Paltz Robert S. Maier, University of Arizona Speakers: Infinite products with nonnegative integer coefficients. Alexander Berkovich, University of Florida , Gainesville Tridiagonal pairs and the $q$-tetrahedron algebra Paul M Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin Inequalities and bounds for elliptic integrals. Edward George Neuman, Southern Illinois University New Cyclic Identities and Generalized Landen Transformation Formulas for Jacobi Elliptic Functions. Uday P Sukhatme*, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Avinash Khare, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India Rational Landen transformations. Victor H. Moll, Tulane University C_\ell mock theta functions and ``positivity'' conjectures. Stephen C. Milne, The Ohio State University Ramanujan's symmetric theta functions and their equations. Seung H. Son, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Well-poised basic and elliptic Taylor expansions. Michael J Schlosser, University of Vienna The Schottky-Klein prime function. Darren G Crowdy, Imperial College London & MIT A generating function for the N-soliton solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II equation. Sarbarish Chakravarty, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Crossing Probabilities in Percolation and Stochastic L\"owner Evolution and Modular Forms. Peter Kleban*, University of Maine Don Zagier, Max-Planck Institut f\"ur Mathematik and Coll\`ege de France The 192 Solutions of the Heun Equation. Robert S. Maier, University of Arizona Fractional Integration and Fractional Differentiation for d-dimensional Jacobi Expansions. Cristina Balderrama, Universidad Central de Venezuela Wilfredo O Urbina*, University of New Mexico & Universidad Central de Venezuela Fractional Derivatives for Products of Airy Transforms. Vladimir V Varlamov, University of Texas - Pan American The Asymptotic Zero Distribution for Partition Polynomials. Robert P. Boyer*, Drexel University William M. Y. Goh, Drexel University Asymptotics of zeros of Hermite functions. Martin E. Muldoon, York University Asymptotics of the Painlev\'e Equations. Peter A Clarkson, University of Kent, England The theta-Laguerre calculus formulation of the Li/Keiper constants. Mark W Coffey, Colorado School of Mines Nonlinear Integral-Equation Formulation of Orthogonal Polynomials. Carl M. Bender, Washington University in St. Louis and CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory Orthogonal Polynomials and Left-definite Spectral Theory. Lance L Littlejohn, Baylor University Some examples of orthogonal matrix polynomials satisfying odd order differential equations. Manuel D. de la Iglesia*, Universidad de Sevilla Antonio J. Duran, Universidad de Sevilla Multivariable polynomials and Lie algebras. Alexander V Turbiner, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM Multiplicative Renormalization Method for Orthogonal Polynomials. Suat Namli, Louisiana State University For more information, see: http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2135_program_ss15.html#title Topic #3 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: jsd60th@ugr.es Subject: Congress in Honor of Prof. J. S. Dehesa [slightly edited; for more information, see the web site: http://www.ugr.es/~jsd60th ] FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS. Interdisciplinary conference "SPECIAL FUNCTIONS, INFORMATION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS", in honor of Jesus S. Dehesa's 60th birthday. An interdisciplinary conference in honor of Jesus S. Dehesa's 60th birthday, will take place in Granada (Spain), on September 17-19, 2007. We intend to bring together researchers both from mathematics and physics, reflecting the broad scientific interests of Prof. Dehesa. This includes a wide set of topics related to the following scientific areas: - Approximation theory, special functions and orthogonal polynomials. - Atomic and molecular physics. - Functional density methods and functional inequalities. - Information theory. - Mathematical physics. Please, visit our WEB SITE: http://www.ugr.es/~jsd60th for further information. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: - Antonio Duran (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) - Toshikatsu Koga (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan) - Guillermo Lopez Lagomasino (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) - Francisco Marcellan (Chair) (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) - Paul Nevai (Ohio State University, USA) - Angel R. Plastino (University of Pretoria, South Africa) - Edward B. Saff (Vanderbilt University, USA) - Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Brazil) - Walter Van Assche (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - Francisco Marcellan - Rafael Yanez - Alejandro Zarzo - Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein - Renato Alvarez-Nodarse - Antonio M. Lallena. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - Rafael Yanez - Carmen Garcia Recio - Enrique Ruiz Arriola - Juan Carlos Angulo Ibanez - Rosario Gonzalez Ferez - Pablo Sanchez Moreno. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAM: to be announced. This is a first call for contributed talks. It is our intention to publish the proceedings in an international journal (to be announced). Please do not hesitate to contact us at jsd60th@ugr.es Topic #4 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder thk@science.uva.nl Subject: Conference on Quantum Probability and Related Topics The 28th Conference on Quantum Probability and Related Topics will be held 2-8 September 2007 at CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico. Among the 10 thematic sessions is one on Interacting Fock Space and Orthogonal Polynomials, organized by Hui-Hsiung Kuo (Louisiana State University, USA) and Piotr Graczyk (University of Angers, France). See http://www.cimat.mx/Eventos/28quantum/ Topic #5 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors Subject: Special Session in New Zealand The first Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society will be held at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand from Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 December 2007. It will include a Special Session "Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials" organised by Diego Dominici, Ole Warnaar and Shaun Cooper. The keynote speakers are Mourad Ismail, University of Central Florida, Walter Van Assche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ernie Kalnins, University of Waikato. See the web site: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/%7Emathmeet/amsnzms2007/index.shtml Topic #6 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder thk@science.uva.nl Subject: Ramanujan Journal - Askey Special Issue The Ramanujan Journal 13 (2007), Numbers 1-3, consists of a collection of articles in honour of Richard Askey's 70th Birthday. Most of the papers are from speakers at the International Workshop on Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, Quantum Groups and Related Topics held in Bexbach, Germany, October 18-22, 2003. The issue is edited by George E, Andrews, George Gasper and Sergei Suslov. The link http://www.springerlink.com/content/1572-9303/ provides access to all content of the issue. Topic #7 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder thk@science.uva.nl Subject: Proceedings of Kloster Irsee Workshop The proceedings of the workshop SPECIAL FUNCTIONS IN HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, held at Kloster Irsee, Germany, July 19-23, 2004 have appeared in a special issue, vol 199 (2007), Issue 1 of Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, guest-edited by W. zu Castell, S. Ehrich and F. Filbir. Topic #8 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Tom Koornwinder thk@science.uva.nl Subject: Advances in mock theta functions An article "UW scientists unlock major number theory puzzle" on the University of Wisconsin - Madison web site http://www.news.wisc.edu/13497.html describes work of Ken Ono and Kathrin Bringmann which gives an explanatory framework for Ramanujan's "mock theta functions". The details are in Bringmann and Ono's article "Lifting elliptic cusp forms to Maass forms with an application to partitions", accepted for publication. in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. See a preprint at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ono/reprints/106.pdf Topic #9 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors Subject: Mathematics Subject Classification Revision From "Mathematical Reviews Database" (MathSciNet web site): http://www.ams.org/mr-database Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Zentralblatt MATH (Zbl) cooperate in maintaining the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) which is used by these reviewing services and others to categorize items in the mathematical sciences literature. The current version, MSC2000, is being revised for use in 2010. MR and Zbl welcome community input into this revision process. Comments can be submitted through the classification feedback form http://www.msc2010.org/msc-feedback.php or by email to feedback@msc2010.org . This input will be of great value as the process moves forward. Topic #10 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: J. M. Littleton Littleton@siam.org Subject: Call for Nominations - SIAG/APDE Prize CALL FOR NOMINATIONS SIAG/APDE Prize The SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (SIAG/APDE) will present the SIAG/APDE Prize at the SIAM Conference on Analysis of PDE (PD07) to be held December 10-12, 2007, in Mesa, Arizona. The SIAG/APDE Prize, established in 2005, is awarded to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper on a topic in PDE published in English in a peer-reviewed journal within the four calendar years preceding the year of the award. A candidate paper must bear a publication date between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2006. It must contain significant research contributions to the field of analysis of PDE, as commonly defined in the mathematical literature, with direct or potential applications. The award will consist of a plaque and a certificate containing the award citation. At least one of the awardees is expected to attend the award ceremony and to present the paper as a plenary lecture at the meeting. Travel expenses will be available to reimburse one speaker. Nominations should include a full bibliographic citation for the paper and a brief statement outlining the justification for the nomination in terms of its importance and impact. Nominations should be addressed to Professor Mary Pugh, Chair, SIAG/APDE Prize Committee and sent by May 15, 2007 to J. M. Littleton at littleton@siam.org . Inquiries should be addressed to littleton@siam.org . Complete calls for nominations for SIAM prizes can be found at www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php . Topic #11 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors Subject: Preprints in arXiv.org The following preprints related to the fields of orthogonal polynomials and special functions were posted or cross-listed to one of the subcategories of arXiv.org during January and February 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/math.SP/0702388 Title: Perturbations of Orthogonal Polynomials With Periodic Recursion Coefficients Authors: David Damanik (Rice), Rowan Killip (UCLA), Barry Simon (Caltech) Comments: 61 pages Subj-class: Spectral Theory; Mathematical Physics http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0702157 Title: Monic non-commutative orthogonal polynomials Authors: Michael Anshelevich Comments: 10 pages Subj-class: Combinatorics; Operator Algebras MSC-class: Primary 05E35; Secondary 46N http://arxiv.org/abs/math.RT/0702 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.FA/0701097 Title: Meromorphic continuation of dynamical zeta functions via transfer operators Authors: Joachim Hilgert, Florian Rilke Comments: 34 pages Subj-class: Functional Analysis MSC-class: 46N55 (primary), 37C30 (secondary) http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0702034 math-ph/0702034 [abs, ps, pdf, other] : Title: H = x p with interaction and the Riemann zeros Authors: German Sierra Comments: 23 pages, 12 figures, minor corrections Subj-class: Mathematical Physics; Number Theory http://arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/0702300 Title: An efficient algorithm for the computation of Bernoulli numbers Authors: Greg Fee, Simon Plouffe Subj-class: Number Theory; Classical Analysis and ODEs MSC-class: 11B68 http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702107 Title: The Quantum Mellin transform Authors: J. Twamley, G. J. Milburn Comments: 23 pages, 6 Figures Journal-ref: New J Phys 8 328 (2006) http://arxiv.org/abs/math.RA/0701876 Title: Planar Analytic Functions Authors: Lothar Gerritzen Comments: 9 pages, no figures Subj-class: Rings and Algebras; Combinatorics MSC-class: 17A50; 05C05 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0701175 Title: Hardy-type theorem for functions orthogonal with respect to their zeros. The Jacobi weight case Authors: L. D. Abreu, F. Marcellan, S. Yakubovich Comments: 10 pages Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Complex Variables http://arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/0701362 Title: Integral ratios of factorials and algebraic hypergeometric functions Authors: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas Comments: Summary of talk at 2005 Explicit Methods in Number Theory, Oberwolfach Subj-class: Number Theory http://arxiv.org/abs/math.QA/0701242 Title: Representations of U_q[osp(1/2)] and basic hypergeometric functions Authors: N. Aizawa, R. Chakrabarti, S. S. Naina Mohammed, J. Segar Comments: 16 pages, no figures Subj-class: Quantum Algebra; Mathematical Physics http://aps.arxiv.org/abs/math.NA/0702360 Title: On the number of minima of a random polynomial Authors: Jean-Pierre Dedieu, Gregorio Malajovich Comments: 21 pages Subj-class: Numerical Analysis; Optimization and Control; Probability MSC-class: 65H20; 60D05; 90C30 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0701677 Title: An Analytic Formula for the A_2 Jack Polynomials Authors: Vladimir V. Mangazeev Comments: This is a contribution to the Vadim Kuznetsov Memorial Issue on Integrable Systems and Related Topics, published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/ Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Mathematical Physics; Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Journal-ref: SIGMA 3 (2007), 014, 11 pages http://arxiv.org/abs/math.RT/0701643 Title: Universal graded characters and limit of Lusztig $q$-analogues Authors: Cedric Lecouvey Subj-class: Representation Theory; Combinatorics http://arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/0701251v2 Title: Powers of Euler's q-Series Authors: Steven Finch Comments: 17 pages; simplified sections 7 and 8 Subj-class: Number Theory MSC-class: 11N37 (Primary) 11F20, 11Y60, 40A25, 65B99 (Secondary) http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CV/0701923 Title: Asymptotics of non-intersecting Brownian motions and a 4 x 4 Riemann-Hilbert problem Authors: Evi Daems, Arno Kuijlaars, Wim Veys Comments: 39 pages, 16 figures Subj-class: Complex Variables; Probability http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702037 Title: Two-particle Wigner functions in a one-dimensional Calogero-Sutherland potential Authors: A. Tegmen, T. Altanhan, B. S. Kandemir Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, The original publication is available at www.eurphysj.org Journal-ref: Eur Phys J D41 (2007) 397-402 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0701135 Title: Elliptic Biorthogonal Polynomials Connected with Hermite's Continued Fraction Authors: Luc Vinet, Alexei Zhedanov Comments: This is a contribution to the Vadim Kuznetsov Memorial Issue on Integrable Systems and Related Topics, published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/ Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Mathematical Physics Journal-ref: SIGMA 3 (2007), 003, 18 pages http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0701436 Title: Generalized elliptic integrals Authors: Ville Heikkala, Mavina K. Vamanamurthy, Matti Vuorinen Comments: 32 pages, 4 figures Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Complex Variables MSC-class: 33B15, 30C62 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0701438 Title: Generalized Elliptic Integrals II Authors: V. Heikkala, H. Lindén, M. K. Vamanamurthy, M. Vuorinen Comments: 28 pages Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Complex Variables MSC-class: 33B15 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.AP/0701204 Title: Remarks on the general Funk-Radon transform and thermoacoustic tomography Authors: Victor Palamodov Subj-class: Analysis of PDEs; Numerical Analysis MSC-class: 44A12; 65R32; 92C55 http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702096 Title: The method of partial wave functions and the structure of time interval between the subsequent quantum transitions Authors: A.G. Shkorbatov Comments: 45 pages, 3 figures http://arxiv.org/abs/math.RT/0702137 Title: Bilinear forms on $\mathfrak{sl}_2$-modules and a hypergeometric identity Authors: Johan Kĺhrström Comments: Changed claims of new identity to references of known identity. Added reference to book by Klimyk and Vilenkin Subj-class: Representation Theory; Combinatorics http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0701001 Title: Hypergeometric solutions to the q-Painlev\'e equation of type $A_4^{(1)}$ Authors: Taro Hamamoto, Kenji Kajiwara Comments: 16 pages, IOP style Subj-class: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems; Classical Analysis and ODEs http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0702082 Title: The Wigner function of a q-deformed harmonic oscillator model Authors: E.I. Jafarov, S. Lievens, S.M. Nagiyev, J. Van der Jeugt Comments: 16 pages, 24 EPS figures, uses IOP style LaTeX Subj-class: Mathematical Physics; Dynamical Systems MSC-class: 81S30; 39A13; 33D45; 33D90 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0702275 Title: Remarks on the Zeros of the Associated Legendre Functions with Integral Degree Authors: J.F. van Diejen Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs MSC-class: 33C05 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CV/0701822 Title: Meromorphic almost periodic functions Authors: S. Favorov, N. Parfyonova Subj-class: Complex Variables; Classical Analysis and ODEs MSC-class: 30D30; 42A75 Journal-ref: Matematichni Studii, v.13, No.2 (2000), p.190-198 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0702595 Title: A new method for computing asymptotics of diagonal coefficients of multivariate generating functions Authors: Alexander Raichev, Mark C. Wilson Comments: 9 pages, no figures Subj-class: Combinatorics MSC-class: 05A16; 05A15 http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0702446 Title: The fixed point for a transformation of Hausdorff moment sequences and iteration of a rational function Authors: Christian Berg (University of Copenhagen), Antonio J. Durán (Universidad de Sevilla) Comments: 29 pages,1 figure Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Complex Variables MSC-class: 44A60;30D05 Topic #12 ----------- OP-SF NET 14.2 ----------- March 15, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF NET Editors Subject: About the Activity Group The SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions consists of a broad set of mathematicians, both pure and applied. The Group also includes engineers and scientists, students as well as experts. We have around 140 members scattered about in more than 20 countries. Whatever your specialty might be, we welcome your participation in this classical, and yet modern, topic. Our WWW home page is: http://math.nist.gov/opsf/ This is a convenient point of entry to all the services provided by the Group. Our Webmaster is Bonita Saunders (bonita.saunders@nist.gov). The Activity Group sponsors OP-SF NET, which is transmitted periodically by SIAM. It is provided as a free public service; membership in SIAM is not required. The OP-SF Net Editors are Diego Dominici (dominicd@newpaltz.edu) and Martin Muldoon (muldoon@yorku.ca). To receive the OP-SF NET, send your name and email address to poly-request@siam.org . Back issues can be obtained at the WWW addresses: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~thk/opsfnet http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/JAT/DATA/OPSFNET/opsfnet.html http://cio.nist.gov/esd/emaildir/lists/opsfnet/maillist.html For several years the Activity Group sponsored a printed Newsletter, most recently edited by Rafael Yanez. Back issues are accessible at: http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/~koepf/siam.html Given the widespread availability of email and the Internet, the need for the printed Newsletter has decreased. Discussions are underway concerning whether an annual printed Newsletter or Annual Report should be instituted. SIAM has several categories of membership, including low-cost categories for students and residents of developing countries. For current information on SIAM and Activity Group membership, contact: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 3600 University City Science Center Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688 USA phone: +1-215-382-9800 email: service@siam.org WWW : http://www.siam.org http://www.siam.org/membership/outreachmem.htm Finally, the Activity Group operates an email discussion group, called OP-SF Talk. To subscribe, send the email message subscribe opsftalk Your Name to listproc@nist.gov . To contribute an item to the discussion, send email to opsftalk@nist.gov . 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