10th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications

Leuven (Belgium), July 20-25, 2009

The tenth International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications took place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. The first announcement was sent out in December 2008. A poster of the meeting was sent out in February 2009.

Social programme

• There was an opening reception in the main building of the University on Monday, July 20, with a selection of Belgian beers.
• On Tuesday, July 21 there was an opening of an exhibition of the mathematician Gemma Frisius (1508-1555) in the Campus Library Arenberg, followed by a reception.
• On Wednesday, July 22 there was an excursion to Bokrijk, an open air museum with more than 100 historic buildings, rebuilt in their original condition. The excursion was followed by a dinner (and rain).
• The official conference dinner was on Thursday, July 23 in the 13th century infirmerie of the Grand Beguinage (Faculty Club).

Plenary speakers

The following people were invited to give a one hour talk

• Alexei Borodin, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA
  Interlacing particle systems (presentation)
• Jonathan Breuer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA
  Spectral theory and boundary behavior of power series (presentation)
• Annie Cuyt, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
  Representations of Special Functions: handbook and software (presentation)
• Holger Dette, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  Matrix measures, Geronimus relations and random moments (presentation)
• Antonio Durán, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
  How far is matrix orthogonality from scalar orthogonality? (presentation)
• Philippe Flajolet, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France
  Combinatorial models and algebraic continued fractions (presentation)
• Nalini Joshi, University of Sydney, Australia
  Hunting nonlinear mathematical butterflies (presentation)
• Ekaterina Karatsuba, Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
  Ramanujan's approximation of the Euler gamma function (presentation)
• Doron Lubinsky, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
  de Branges spaces, universality limits, and orthogonal polynomials (presentation)
• Hjalmar Rosengren, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  Three-coloured chessboards, the 8VSOS model, and related special polynomials (presentation)
• Vilmos Totik, University of Szeged, Hungary and University of South Florida, Tampa FL, USA
  Asymptotics of Christoffel functions (presentation)
• Ole Warnaar, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  (q,t)-Laguerre polynomials (presentation)
• Wadim Zudilin, University of Newcastle, Australia
  Hypergeometric (super)congruences (presentation)