Kent to Host 4th OPSFOTA

The School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS) at the University of Kent will host the 4th Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Operator Theory and Applications (OPSFOTA) meeting on Wednesday 16 January.

The meeting is supported by a London Mathematical Society Joint Research Groups grant.

 

Speakers: Marta Betcke (University College London), Niels Bonneux (KU Leuven, Belgium), Rod Halburd (University College London), Andy Hone (University of Kent)
and Nick Simm (University of Sussex).

Registration: There is no registration fee, but it would be helpful if you could register in advance by emailing Ana Loureiro (A.Loureiro@kent.ac.uk).

Venue: School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science in the new Sibson building.

TIMETABLE  – Full programme available HERE.

11.00 – 11.50:   Nick Simm

Title: Critical behaviour in non-Hermitian random matrices and Painlevé transcendents
Location:  Sibson SR4

12.00-13.00: Lunch in Sibson cafe

13.00-13.50: Marta Betcke

Title: Photoacoustic tomography with incomplete data: subsampled and dynamic problems
Location: Sibson SR3

14.00-14.50: Rod Halburd

Title: Special functions and integrable equations in characteristic p
Location:  Sibson SR3

14.50-15.30: Coffee/Tea break

15.30-16.20: Niels Bonneux

Title: Wronskian Appell polynomials
Location: Sibson SR3

16.30-17.20: Andy Hone

Title: Chebyshev polynomials, Lehmer numbers, and huge primes
Location:  Sibson SR3

PARTICIPANTS 

Marta Betcke (University College London)
Niels Bonneux (KU Leuven)
Peter Clarkson (University of Kent)
Alfredo Deaño  (University of Kent)
Clare Dunning (University of Kent)
Marco Fasondini (University of Kent)
Rod Halburd (University College London)
Andy Hone (University of Kent)
Sanjida Islam (University of Kent)
Arno Kuijlaars (KU Leuven)
Bas Lemmens (University of Kent)
Helder Lima  (University of Kent)
Ana Loureiro (University of Kent)
Philipp Lampe (University of Kent)
Jordan Makwana (University of Kent)
Nick Simm (University of Sussex)
Walter Van Ascche (University of Leuven)
Jani Virtanen (University of Reading)

 

For more information about the 4th OPSFOTA, click here