Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions, and Applications
Since 1984 there have been several conferences in which orthogonal polynomials, special functions and their applications were the main subject. A Steering Committee was founded during the OPSFA11 meeting in Spain in 2011 and consists of 3 local organizers from the past 5 OPSFA meetings and a representative of the SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions (not necesarilly the chair). Initially the conferences were in Europe but now they take place on various continents. At some point people started numbering these meetings, which took place approximately every two years. Here you can find information of all these conferences and of some other closely related conferences.
- OPSFA1 Polynômes Orthogonaux et Applications, Bar-le-Duc (France), October 15-18, 1984
- OPSFA2 Orthogonal Polynomials and their Applications, Segovia (Spain), September 22-27, 1986
- NATO-ASI Orthogonal Polynomials and their Applications, Columbus (Ohio, USA), May 22-June 3, 1989
- OPSFA3 Orthogonal Polynomials and their Applications, Erice (Sicily, Italy), May 31-June 9, 1990
- OPSFA4 Orthogonal Polynomials and their Applications, Evian-Les-Bains (France), October 19-23, 1992
- OMPCF Orthogonality, Moment Problems and Continued Fractions, Delft (The Netherlands), October 31-November 4, 1994
- OPSFA5 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications, Patras (Greece), September 20-24, 1999
- OPSFA6 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications, Rome (Italy), June 18-22, 2001
- OPSFA7 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications, Copenhagen (Denmark), August 18-22, 2003
- OPSFA8 Difference Equations, Special Functions and Applications, Munchen (Germany), July 25-30, 2005
- OPSFA9 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Luminy (France), July 2-6, 2007
- OPSFA10 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Leuven (Belgium), July 20-25, 2009
- OPSFA11 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Leganés (Madrid, Spain), August 29 - September 2, 2011
- OPSFA12 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Sousse (Tunisia), March 25-29, 2013.
- OPSFA13 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Gaithersburg (Maryland, USA), June 1-5, 2015; hosted by NIST and SIAM.
- OPSFA14 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, University of Kent, Canterbury (UK), July 3-7, 2017.
- OPSFA15 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Hagenberg (Austria), July 22-26, 2019.
- OPSFA16 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal (Canada), July 13-17, 2022.
- OPSFA17 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications, Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain), June 24-28, 2024.
- OPSFA18 Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications will be held at Doshisha University in Kyoto (Japan), August 17-21, 2026. More information will follow.
Other related conference in orthogonal polynomials and special functions were
- I-VI SPOA Simposium sobre Polinomios Ortogonales y Aplicaciones
- VIISPOA Simposium sobre Polinomios Ortogonales y Aplicaciones, Granada (Spain), September 23-27, 1991
- VIIISPOA Simposium sobre Polinomios Ortogonales y Aplicaciones, Sevilla (Spain), September 22-26, 1997
There have also been a number of Summer Schools on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions
- OPSF-S1: Summer school in Laredo (Spain), July 24-28, 2000 (Laredo Lecture Notes)
- OPSF-S2: Summer school in Inzell (Germany), September 17-21, 2001 (Inzell Lectures)
- OPSF-S3: Summer school in Leuven (Belgium), August 12-16, 2002 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1817)
- OPSF-S4: Summer school in Coimbra (Portugal), July 14-26, 2003 (Coimbra Lecture Notes)
- OPSF-S5: Summer school in Leganés (Spain), July 8-18, 2004 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1883)
- OPSF-S6: Summer school in College Park, Maryland , (USA), July 11-15, 2016 (Lectures on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions)
- OPSF-S7: Summer school in Canterbury (UK), June 26-30, 2017.
- OPSF-S8: Summer school in Sousse (Tunisia), June 25-29, 2018.
- OPSF-S9: Summer school at Radboud University (The Netherlands), August 8-12, 2022.
- OPSF-S10: Summer school in Rome (Italy), July 29-August 2, 2024.