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                                            September 15, 2003

       O P - S F   N E T                   Volume 10, Number 5
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       Editor:
       Martin Muldoon                       muldoon@yorku.ca

       The Electronic News Net of the SIAM Activity Group
       on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions

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Today's Topics:
      1. Joaquin Bustoz 1939-2003
      2. Witten-Bommerholz Meeting on Constructive Approximation
      3. Georgia Tech: Constructive Functions Tech-04
      4. Lee Lorch honoured by ISAAC
      5. Call for Nominations - Richard C. DiPrima Prize
      6. Call for Nominations - George Polya Prize
      7. Call for Submissions - SIAM Student Paper Prize
      8. Trott's Corner in The Mathematical Functions Website
      9. New paper on matrix-valued hypergeometric functions
     10. Preprints in xxx Archive
     11. About the Activity Group
     12. Submitting contributions to OP-SF NET and Newsletter


Calendar of Events:

2003

September 15-19: Sturm Colloquium, Geneva, Switzerland            10.2 #4
http://theory.physics.unige.ch/main.html

September 23-26: Workshop on Jack, Hall-Littlewood and Macdonald
                polynomials, Edinburgh, Scotland                 10.4  #1
See http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/icms/meetings/2003/polynomials/

October 18-22: International Workshop on Special Functions,
     Orthogonal Polynomials, Quantum Groups and Related Topics
     dedicated to Dick Askey's 70th birthday, Bexbach, Germany    10.3 #2
http://hahn.la.asu.edu/~suslov/bexbach/

2004
January 7-10: Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
          (including Special Sessions on
        "Classical and Nonlinear Special Functions" (Jan 9-10) on
        "Theory and Applications of Orthogonal Polynomials" (Jan 7-8)
       and on "Continued Fractions" (Jan 9)
                                                                 10.3 #3
http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2078_intro.html

February 15-20: International Meeting on Constructive
         Approximation, Witten-Bommerholz, Germany               10.5 #2
http://www.sbg.ac.at/mat/events/idomat2004/idomat01.htm

July 12-16: SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA
http://www.siam.org/meetings/an04/

November 7-9: CONSTRUCTIVE FUNCTIONS TECH-O4,  Atlanta, Georgia, USA
                                                                10.5 #3
www.math.gatech.edu/news/conferences/at04/

Future Plans:
Dan Lozier (OP-SF NET 9.4, Topic #2) suggests a SIAM-sponsored meeting in
Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions to be held in Washington, DC.
Present planning suggests a date in the fall of 2005 or in 2006.



Topic #1  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: OP-SF NET Editor <muldoon@yorku.ca>
Subject: Joaquin Bustoz 1939-2003

His many friends and collaborators in the OP-SF community are saddened by
news of the passing on August 13, 2003 of Joaquin Bustoz, Professor of
Mathematics at Arizona State University (ASU). His death was the result of
injuries received in a car accident on July 6.

Joaquin did his degrees at ASU and spent much of his career there, but
also worked at other places notably the University of Cincinnati. A period
at Universidad Nacional de Colombia led to the joint publication of a
booklet in Spanish on Fourier Series with Jairo Charris whose untimely
death was reported in our July 15 issue.

Joaquin's early work was in summability theory and approximation theory
with later contributions to inequalities for special functions, q-analogs,
sieved orthogonal polynomials, Turan inequalities and basic analogs of
Fourier series, among other things.

Joaquin Bustoz served as Chair of his Department at Arizona State and was
very successful in mentoring activities for minority students. He received
at least two major national awards for this activity. He was one of the
organizers of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Special Functions, held
at ASU.  His accident came only about a week before our Activity Group's
Summer School in Coimbra, Portugal where he was scheduled to be one of the
principal lecturers.

See the tribute by John N. MacDonald at
http://www.asu.edu/asunews/faculty_students/bustoz_090403.htm
the biographical information by Florence Fasanelli at
http://www.maa.org/summa/archive/bustoz_J.htm
and the information on Joaquin's mentoring activity at
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/hrd/Paesmem/bustoz96.html
http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/reaching.html



Topic #2  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: OP-SF NET Editor <muldoon@yorku.ca>
Subject: Witten-Bommerholz Meeting on Constructive Approximation

>From AT-NET:
(edited and slightly shortened)

***********************************************
**         International Meeting on          **
**        CONSTRUCTIVE APPROXIMATION         **
**           February 15 - 20, 2004          **
**                                           **
**        Witten - Bommerholz (Germany)      **
***********************************************

-----------------------------------------------
**********   FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT   *************
-----------------------------------------------

Scientific Committee:
---------------------
        Marcel de Bruin, TU Delft (Netherlands)
        Doron S. Lubinsky, Georgia Tech (U.S.A.)
        Detlef H. Mache, Bochum (Germany)
        Michael Revers, Salzburg (Austria)
        Jozsef Szabados, Budapest (Hungary)

Scope of the Conference:
------------------------
  The success and positive resonance of the three IDoMAT
  conferences in the years 1995, 1998 and 2001 will encourage
  us to continue in 2004 this series of International Meetings
  with new developments in approximation theory and applied
  mathematics in Witten-Bommerholz.
  The purpose of the 4th International Meeting on Constructive
  Approximation in Witten-Bommerholz is to bring together national
  and international researchers from academia and industry to
  discuss new developments, interesting results and open problems
  in the fields of Applied Mathematics.

 Themes and Topics
-----------------
 - (Multivariate) Approximation Methods & Constructive Approximation
 - Approximation by Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions &
   Applications
 - Quasi-Interpolation Methods & Interpolation
 - Neuro-Fuzzy Methods and Industrial \& Engineering Applications

Invited Speakers
----------------
  Altomare, Francesco
  Assche, Walter van
  Beatson, Rick
  LeMehaute, Alain
  Lubinsky, Doron S.
  Mazure, Marie-Laurence
  Mhaskar, Hrushikesh
  Michels, Kai
  Schumaker, Larry
  Szabados, Jozsef
  Szwarc, Rysiek

Types of Presentation
---------------------
There will be three types of presentation:
 - Invited plenary lectures (55 min.)
 - Contributed talks (25 min.)
 - Poster presentations

Location
--------
is, like the past IDoMAT meetings, the conference center
Haus Bommerholz located in Witten (Germany) (see the websites:
     http://www.uni-dortmund.de/bomholz/} or
     http://ls12-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/cgep-98/venue.html).

Conference Proceedings (Birkhäuser Verlag):
-------------------------------------------
We expect to publish the conference proceedings containing
papers by the invited speakers and contributed talks in
the International Series of Numerical Mathematics with the title

 Trends & Applications in Constructive Approximation
            (Birkhäuser Verlag)

Important Deadlines:
--------------------
September, 1, 2003: Preregistration deadline
              Submission of lectures and talks (title and abstract)
November, 30, 2003: Hotel reservation deadline
January 15, 2004: Authors can make final changes to their abstracts until
              this date

Further information
-------------------
Please ask for details and further information from:
  Detlef H. Mache
  University of Applied Science TFH Bochum
  FB 3, Constructive Approximation
  Herner Str. 45,
  D-44787 Bochum (Germany)

or use eMail: mache@math.uni-dortmund.de

http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/user/mache/mache.htm

Conference-Homepage
-------------------
You will find "updates" at the following homepage:

http://www.sbg.ac.at/mat/events/idomat2004/idomat01.htm

or under "Conferences" at
http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/user/mache/mache.htm



Topic #3  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Doron Lubinsky <lubinsky@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Georgia Tech: Constructive Functions Tech-04

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: CONSTRUCTIVE FUNCTIONS TECH-O4
An International Conference
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
November 7-9, 2004

This conference, honoring the 60th birthday of Ed Saff, will be an
international conference covering all aspects of constructive function
theory, potential theory and approximation theory. Ed Saff has played a key
role in building scientific cooperation between mathematicians of many
nations. Accordingly, the conference aims to attract mathematicians from
all around the world, especially young graduate mathematicians and graduate
students.

Georgia Tech is conveniently located in Atlanta, close to the subway, and
just a subway ride from Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport. The
latter is the hub of Delta, and an ideal entry into the United States.
Early November in Atlanta sees the tail end of Fall, and the weather is
mild and pleasant. If you are interested in attending, please visit our
website and fill in the online preliminary registration form. The main page
is at:

www.math.gatech.edu/news/conferences/at04/

Registration is at:
www.math.gatech.edu/news/conferences/at04/register.html

The website will be updated as organisation of the conference progresses.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
These will be selected in due course from those that will be attending.

PROCEEDINGS
We hope to publish a proceedings. More details will be presented on this
later.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Laurent Baratchart
Ron DeVore
Jeff Geronimo
Xin Li
Doron Lubinsky
Nicholas Papamichael
Igor Pritsker
Vili Totik
Richard Varga



Topic #4  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
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From: OP-SF NET Editor <muldoon@yorku.ca>
Subject: Lee Lorch honoured by ISAAC

Lee Lorch (York University) was appointed an Honorary Member Life of ISAAC
(International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation) by
decision of the ISAAC Board at its recent meeting in Toronto. He was
presented with this honour by ISAAC President Heinrich Begehr (Freie
Universität Berlin) at the closing ceremony of the ISAAC 2003 Congress held
at York University, Toronto, August 11-16, 2003. A citation read by
Victor Burenkov (Cardiff University) referred to Lorch's contributions to
real analysis, special functions, ordinary differential equations,
summability theory, approximation theory and Fourier analysis, his
struggles on behalf of the disadvantaged and his continuing efforts for
world peace and understanding between peoples.

Founded by Robert P. Gilbert in 1994, (ISAAC) is a non-profit organization
to promote and advance analysis, its applications, and its interaction with
computation. See the ISAAC web site at
http://www.math.udel.edu/isaac/



Topic #5  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: A. G. Bogardo <bogardo@siam.org>
Subject: Call for Nominations - Richard C. DiPrima Prize

                                CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
                                        for
                               RICHARD C. DiPRIMA PRIZE

      The DiPrima Prize
      --------------------------
      SIAM will present the award at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Portland,
      Oregon, July 12-16, 2004.  The award honors the memory
      of Richard C. DiPrima, long-time chair of the Department of
      Mathematical Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and past
      President and energetic supporter of SIAM.  The award, to be given to
      a young scientist, will be based on an outstanding doctoral
      dissertation in applied mathematics.

      Eligibility
      ------------
      Candidates for the prize must have completed their doctoral
      dissertations and all other requirements for their doctorates during
      the period running from three years prior to the award date to one
      year prior to the award date (July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2003). The
      doctorate must have been awarded at least eight months prior to the
      award date.  The requirements for the doctorate must have been
      equivalent to those for an American doctorate.  It is preferable but
      not necessary that the recipient be a member of SIAM.  Selection is
      based on the dissertations of the candidates.  The dissertations must
      represent topics of applied mathematics (defined as those topics
      covered by the SIAM journals).  They must be submitted in English.  An
      English translation is acceptable.

      Nominations
      ------------------
      Nominations, along with a copy of the dissertation (in English),
      should be sent by December 31, 2003 to:

                 Richard C. DiPrima Prize Selection Committee
                 c/o Joanna Littleton
                 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
                 3600 University City Science Center
                 Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688

      Description of the Award
      -----------------------------------
      The award consists of a framed, hand-calligraphed certificate and a
      cash prize of $1,000.  Travel expenses to the award ceremony will be
      paid by the prize fund.



Topic #6  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Joanna Littleton <littleton@siam.org>
Subject: Call for Nominations - George Polya Prize

                                 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
                                        for
                                THE GEORGE POLYA PRIZE

The Polya Prize

The award will be presented at the 2004 SIAM Annual Meeting scheduled for
July 12-16, 2004, in Portland, Oregon.

The award honors the memory of George Polya and is given in even-numbered
years for notable contributions in two alternating categories.  The 2004
Prize will be given for a notable application of combinatorial theory.

Eligibility

There are no restrictions except that the prize is broadly intended to
recognize specific recent work.

Description of Award

The award will consist of an engraved medal and a $20,000 cash prize.
Travel expenses to the award ceremony will be provided by the prize fund.

Nominations

A letter of nomination, including a description of achievement(s) should be
sent by December 31, 2003 to:

Chair, Selection Committee
George Polya Prize
c/o Joanna Littleton
SIAM
3600 University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA   19104-2688
Telephone:  215-382-9800 ext. 303
Fax:  215-386-7999
E-mail:  littleton@siam.org



Topic #7  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Joanna Littleton <littleton@siam.org>
Subject: Call for Submissions - SIAM Student Paper Prize

                             CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
                                     for
                           SIAM Student Paper Prize

The 2004 SIAM STUDENT PAPER PRIZE will be presented at the 2004 SIAM Annual
Meeting scheduled for July 12-16, 2004, in Portland, Oregon.

-Principal Guidelines-

The SIAM Student Paper Prize is awarded every year to the student author(s)
of the most outstanding papers submitted to the SIAM Student Paper
Competition.  This award is based solely on the merit and content of the
student's contribution to the submitted paper.  Up to three papers will be
selected for the prizes.

The purpose of the Student Paper Prize is to recognize outstanding
scholarship by students in applied mathematics and scientific computing.

-Selection Procedures-

Eligibility is restricted to students in good standing who have not
received their Ph.D. as of January 1 of the year in which the prizes are
awarded.

Submissions may be based on co-authored papers, provided that the student's
advisor will attest that the student's work played a pivotal role in the
results.  A letter from the student's advisor or department chair must
accompany each entry to verify these conditions.

To enter the competition, a student must submit: (1) an extended abstract,
in English, of a paper, and (2) a short biography.  The total length of the
submitted abstract (including bibliography) may not exceed five pages.
The student also must submit (3) the complete paper, which will be used for
clarification of any questions the committee may have about the extended
abstract.  In addition, the student's advisor or an interested faculty
member must submit (4) a letter describing and evaluating the paper's
contribution to the literature and the student's role in the scholarship.

-Deadline for Submissions-

All papers and accompanying documentation must be received at the SIAM
office by February 13, 2004.

-Notification of Prize Winners-

The SIAM President will notify the recipient(s) at least six weeks before
the award date.

Each recipient is required to present his or her paper at the meeting where
the prize(s) are awarded.  If attending the meeting poses a serious
hardship, an exception may be granted by the SIAM President.

-Description of the Award-

Each recipient of the SIAM Student Paper Prize shall receive a framed
certificate and a cash award of $1,000.  Winners also receive $500 toward
travel expenses and gratis registration for the meeting.

Please direct your submission and any questions you may have to:

Joanna Littleton
Student Paper Prize
SIAM
3600 University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA   19104-2688
USA
Telephone:  (215) 382-9800 ext. 303
E-mail:  littleton@siam.org



Topic #8  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Tom Koornwinder <thk@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Trott's Corner in The Mathematical Functions Website

In Trott's Corner in the Mathematica Journal, at webpage

http://www.mathematica-journal.com/issue/v9i1/FunctionsWebsite.html

Michael Trott describes The Mathematical Functions Website of Wolfram,
see http://functions.wolfram.com/.
He also mentions an NSF grant for digital libraries
The following description is at
www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/zia/11zia.html :

DUE 0226327. Second Generation Digital Mathematics Resources with
Innovative Content for Metadata Harvesting and Courseware Development.
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. PI: Bill Mischo.
This project is developing second-generation capabilities for two
mathematical digital collections that support mathematics, engineering,
physics, and applied sciences education and research: the "MathWorld" and
the "Functions" sites at Wolfram Research. Functional enhancements are
being added to these sites, and collection and item-level metadata from
these resources are being integrated into the NSDL Metadata Repository
framework via maintenance of an Open Archives Initiative (OAI) server.



Topic #9  -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Tom Koornwinder <thk@science.uva.nl>
Subject: New paper on matrix-valued hypergeometric functions

Juan A. Tirao,
The matrix-valued hypergeometric equation,
Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 100 (2003), no.14, pp. 8138-8141
(not on arXiv, not yet in MathSciNet)

http://www.pnas.org/content/vol100/issue14/index.shtml#MATHEMATICS

Abstract:

The hypergeometric differential equation was found by Euler [Euler, L.
(1769) Opera Omnia Ser. 1, 11­13] and was extensively studied by Gauss
[Gauss, C. F. (1812) Comm. Soc. Reg. Sci. II 3, 123­162], Kummer [Kummer,
E. J. (1836) Reine Ang. Math. 15, 39­83; Kummer, E. J. (1836) Reine Ang.
Math. 15, 127­172], and Riemann [Riemann, B. (1857) K. Gess. Wiss. 7,
1­24]. The hypergeometric function known also as Gauss' function is the
unique solution of the hypergeometric equation analytic at z = 0 and with
value 1 at z = 0. This function, because of its remarkable properties, has
been used for centuries in the whole subject of special functions. In this
article we give a matrix-valued analog of the hypergeometric differential
equation and of Gauss' function. One can only speculate that many of the
connections that made Gauss' function a vital part of mathematics at the
end of the 20th century will be shared by its matrix-valued version,
discussed here.



Topic #10 -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: OPSF NET Editor <muldoon@yorku.ca>
Subject: Preprints in xxx Archive

The following preprints related to the fields of orthogonal polynomials
and special functions were recently posted or cross-listed to one of the
subcategories of the xxx archives. See especially:
 http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.CA
 http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.CO
 http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.QA
 http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/solv-int

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.CO/0307050
Title: Restricted 3412-Avoiding Involutions: Continued Fractions,
Chebyshev Polynomials and Enumerations
     Authors: Eric S. Egge
     Comments: 26 pages
     Subj-class: Combinatorics
     MSC-class: 05A05; 05A15

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.NT/0307058
Title: Well-poised generation of Ap\'ery-like recursions
     Authors: Wadim Zudilin (Cologne & Moscow)
     Comments: 7 pages; an extension of the talk at Journe\'es
arithm\'etiques Graz 2003
     Subj-class: Number Theory; Classical Analysis and ODEs
     MSC-class: 11J70, 33C20, 33F10

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.SP/0307061
Title: Asymptotic behaviour of quasi-orthogonal polynomials
     Authors: E. B. Davies
     Subj-class: Spectral Theory
     MSC-class: 33Cxx; 34Exx; 47Axx; 47Bxx; 81Q20

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.RA/0307063
Title: Two linear transformations each tridiagonal with respect to an
eigenbasis of the other; an overview
     Authors: Paul Terwilliger
     Comments: 14 pages, 1 figure
     Subj-class: Rings and Algebras; Combinatorics
     MSC-class: Primary 05E35; Secondary 33C45,05E30,33D45

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.CA/0307137
Title: Duality formulas of the Special Values of Multiple Polylogarithms
     Authors: Jun-ichi Okuda
     Comments: 18 pages (in 12pt)
     Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Number Theory
     MSC-class: 40B05; 33E20

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.CA/0307250
Title: On q-orthogonal polynomials, dual to little and big q-Jacobi
polynomials
     Authors: N. M. Atakishiyev, A. U. Klimyk
     Comments: 24 pages, LaTeX, the exposition is slightly improved and
          some misprints are corrected
     Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Quantum Algebra
     MSC-class: 33D80, 33D45, 17B37

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.NT/0307264
Title: Sum relations for multiple zeta values and connection formulas
for the Gauss hypergeometric functions
     Authors: Takashi Aoki, Yasuo Ohno
     Comments: 9 pages
     Subj-class: Number Theory; Classical Analysis and ODEs
     MSC-class: 11M06; 40B05

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.CO/0307315
Title: An analytic formula for Macdonald polynomials
     Authors: Michel Lassalle, Michael Schlosser
     Comments: 8 pages; research announcement submitted to Comptes
      Rendus Math. Acad. Sci. Paris for publication
     Subj-class: Combinatorics; Quantum Algebra
     MSC-class: 33D52

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.RT/0307343
Title: The Generalized Segal-Bargmann transform and Special Functions
     Authors: Mark Davidson, Gestur Olafsson
     Subj-class: Representation Theory

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.QA/0307356
Title: Generalized coherent states for q-oscillator connected with
q-Hermite polynomials
     Authors: Vadim V. Borzov, Eugene V. Damaskinsky
     Comments: Latex2e, 10 pages, Submitted to the Proceedings of the
       international seminar "DAY on DIFFRACTION'2003"
     Subj-class: Quantum Algebra; Classical Analysis and ODEs

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math-ph/0307055
Title: Random matrices with external source and multiple orthogonal
polynomials
     Authors: P.M. Bleher, A.B.J. Kuijlaars
     Comments: 17 pages
     Subj-class: Mathematical Physics; Classical Analysis and ODEs

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math-ph/0307063
Title: Gap Probabilities for Double Intervals in Hermitian Random
  Matrix Ensembles as $\tau$-Functions -- Spectrum Singularity case
     Authors: N.S. Witte
     Comments: AMSLatex, 9 pages
     Subj-class: Mathematical Physics; Classical Analysis and ODEs
     MSC-class: 15A52;33E17;34M55;58F07

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.NT/0308072
     Title: The 2-adic valuation of the coefficients of a polynomial
     Authors: G. Boros, V. Moll, J. Shallit
     Comments: 13 pages
     Subj-class: Number Theory; Classical Analysis and ODEs
     MSC-class: 11B50; 11C08
     Journal-ref: Scientia Series A: Mathematical Sciences, volume 7,
      2001, 37-50

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.CA/0308074
     Title: Multiple Gamma Function and Its Application to Computation
         of Series
     Authors: V. S. Adamchik
     Comments: 20 pages, Latex, uses kluwer.cls, will appear in The
         Ramanujan Journal
     Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Mathematical Physics
     MSC-class: 33E20, 33F99, 11M35, 11B73

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.NT/0308075
     Title: Some examples of Mahler measures as multiple polylogarithms
     Authors: Matilde N. Lalin
     Comments: 21 pages, 1 figure
     Subj-class: Number Theory
     MSC-class: 11C08; 11G55; 11M06

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.CA/0308086
     Title: Contributions to the Theory of the Barnes Function
     Authors: V.S.Adamchik
     Comments: 18 pages, AMS-LATEX
     Subj-class: Classical Analysis and ODEs; Mathematical Physics
     MSC-class: 33E20, 11M35

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.AG/0308221
     Title: The Klein solution to Painleve's sixth equation
     Authors: Philip Boalch
     Comments: 38 pages
     Subj-class: Algebraic Geometry; Exactly Solvable and Integrable
            Systems

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.AG/0308233
     Title: A geometric view of rational Landen transformations
     Authors: John Hubbard, Victor H. Moll
     Subj-class: Algebraic Geometry; Dynamical Systems
     MSC-class: 33E20, 14K20
     Journal-ref: Bull. London Math. Soc. 35 (2003), 293-301

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math-ph/0308036
     Title: Discrete Painlev\'e equations, Orthogonal Polynomials on
      the Unit Circle and $N$-recurrences for averages over U(N) --
      \PVI $\tau$-functions
     Authors: P.J. Forrester, N.S. Witte
     Comments: 46 pages, AMSLatex
     Subj-class: Mathematical Physics
     MSC-class: 05E35;39A05;37F10;33C45;34M55

http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math-ph/0308039
     Title: Hyperspherical Functions and Harmonic Analysis on the
      Lorentz Group
     Authors: V. V. Varlamov
     Comments: 51 pages, Invited contribution to "Progress in
      Mathematical Physics Research", Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
      New York (to appear)
     Subj-class: Mathematical Physics; Representation Theory
     MSC-class: 22E70; 33C70



Topic #11 -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: OP-SF NET Editor <muldoon@yorku.ca>
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
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Topic #12 -----------  OP-SF NET 10.5 ------------ September 15, 2003
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From: OP-SF NET Editor <muldoon@yorku.ca>
Subject: Submitting contributions to OP-SF NET and Newsletter

To contribute a news item to OP-SF NET, send email to poly@siam.org
with A copy to the OP-SF Editor <muldoon@yorku.ca>.  Please note that
Submissions to the Net are automatically considered for the Newsletter,
and vice versa, unless the contributor requests otherwise.

Contributions to OP-SF NET 10.6 should be sent by November 1, 2003.

Please send your (printed) Newsletter contributions directly to the
Editor:

Rafael J. Yanez
Departamento de Matematica Aplicada
Universidad de Granada
E-18071 Granada, Spain
phone: +34-58-242941
fax: +34-58-242862
e-mail: ryanez@ugr.es

preferably by email, and in latex format. Other formats are also
acceptable and can be submitted by email, regular mail or fax.

The deadline for submissions to be included in the February 2004 issue
is January 15, 2004, and for the June 2004 issue is May 15, 2004.

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   OP-SF NET is a forum of the SIAM Activity Group on
   Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials.
   We disseminate your contributions on anything of interest to the
   special functions and orthogonal polynomials community.  This
   includes announcements of conferences, forthcoming books, new
   software, electronic archives, research questions, job openings.
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   Send submissions to:              poly@siam.org
   Subscribe by mailing to:  poly-request@siam.org
                     or to:  listproc@nist.gov
   Back issues can be obtained at the WWW addresses:
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   http://math.nist.gov/opsfnet/archive
   WWW home page of this Activity Group:
            http://math.nist.gov/opsf/
   Information on joining SIAM
      and this activity group:  service@siam.org
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       The elected Officers of the Activity Group (2002-2004) are:
               Daniel W. Lozier, Chair
               Walter Van Assche, Vice Chair
               Peter Clarkson, Secretary
               Francisco Marcellan, Program Director
       The appointed officers are:
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               Martin Muldoon, OP-SF NET editor
               Bonita Saunders, Webmaster
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