Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions

October 1998 Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions Newsletter 4
Program Director: Peter A. McCoy
“The Orthogonal Polynomials and Special
Functions Activity Group will be strengthened
by a program that enhances global interdisciplinary
relations between academics,
laboratories and industry. This connectivity
broadens the scope of the discipline and expands
working relationships between its members.
I believe that establishment of a biannual
meeting and workshop would serve the
purpose of focusing the discipline on particular
areas and setting the direction for their
study. These initiatives would be highlighted
in our Newsletter, on the OP-SF Net, and
implemented through minisymposia at the
SIAM annual meeting. The initiatives will
also be coordinated with special sessions of
other societies.”
Finally, I would like to apologize for the poor quality
of the last issue of the Newsletter. It was
printed on only one side of the paper and the
pages were not stapled in the usual way. This
was the result of an internal problem at the SIAM
headquarters, and had nothing to do with our new
co-editors.
Here is the letter of explanation from Vickie
Kearn who is the responsible SIAM person.
Dear Wolfram:
When your newsletter came in I was out of
the office for a week with the flu. The person
who processed the newsletter was new
and did not understand the procedure.
I apologize for this and can assure you
that the procedure is understood and will
be correct in the future.
Vickie
September 30, 1998
Wolfram Koepf
(koepf@imn.htwk-leipzig.de)
As Wolfram Koepf already pointed out, we have
collaborated with him in editing the present issue,
the last one for him as editor. Again, a lot of material
was collected from OP-SF NET. We thank
all the people who have submitted items for this
issue, specially the Meetings reports.
As usual we hope you find this issue interesting
and useful, and remember that you can send items
for future issues to either of us.
September 30, 1998
Renato Álvarez-Nodarse
(nodar@math.uc3m.es)
Rafael J. Yáñez
(ryanez@ugr.es)
Reports from Meetings and Conferences
1. VIIth International Scientific Krawtchouk Conference:
Kiev, Ukraine, May 14-16, 1998
The 7th International Krawtchouk Conference took place
in Kiev, Ukraine, from May 14 to May 16, 1998. Below
are some titles of the reports related to orthogonal polynomials,
special functions and integral transforms.
• M. Khomenko, M. Krawtchouk’s background
• V. Zelenko, Recent development of M. Krawtchouk’s
ideas: related articles
• Yu. Bily, M. Krawtchouk on international mathematical
forums
• M. Babyuk, Integral Hankel type transforms of the 1st
kind and spectral parameter in a boundary condition
• N. Virchenko, About integral equations with generalized
Bessel type functions
• V. Gaidei, New generalization of integral transform of
the Bessel type
• V. Zelenkov, V. Savva, Orthogonal polynomials as a
tool to solve differential equations describing multilevel
systems dynamics
• V. Korolyuk, Stochastic Krawtchouk polynomials
• A. Mazurenko, V. Savva, Discrete variable polynomials:
Analog of the Christoffel formula and its application
to solve some differential equations
• Yu. Mamteev, V. Stukalina, T. Hoochraeva, Features
of an algorithm for calculating the modified function
by recurrence relations
• M. Mironenko, Pair adder equation in periodic contact
problems
• A. Mironov, On the integral equations for the Riemann
function
• G. Prizva, Generalization of classical orthogonal polynomials
of discrete variable
• E. Seneta, Characterization of Markov chains by orthogonal
polynomial systems