To celebrate the occasion of Richard Askey's 80th birthday in 2013 a two-day conference will be held in honor of Dick on Friday and Saturday December 6-7, 2013 in his hometown Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Location: The venue is the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus. Here is a map including the Pyle Center, the Lowell Center, and the UW-Madison campus.
Conference program: There will be talks from 9am-6pm on Friday and Saturday, December 6-7, see this schedule. All lectures will be by invitation. Here is a list of registered participants.
Conference Photos:
Taken by Patsy
Wang-Iverson, George Gasper, and Tom Koornwinder
Speakers, Titles, and Abstracts/pdf's of Talks:
George Andrews, Dick, Rogers and
Ramanujan -- The Aftermath of the 1975-76 Seminar (pdf)
Mourad Ismail, The Askey--Wilson
polynomials (pdf)
Tom Koornwinder,
Dick Askey's positive
addition to Amsterdam (pdf)
Hung-Hsi Wu, School mathematics education, a
status report (pdf)
Bruce Berndt,
The classical divisor problem and a double series of Bessel
functions from Ramanujan's Lost Notebook (pdf)
Shaun Cooper, Ramanujan's theories of elliptic
functions to alternative bases, and beyond (pdf)
Persi Diaconis, Orthogonal polynomials and
(random) tri-diagonal matrices (pdf)
Kathy Driver, Properties of zeros of
special function polynomials (pdf)
Charles Dunkl, Geometry and
Hypergeometry (pdf)
Plamen Iliev, Bispectral extensions
of the Askey-Wilson polynomials (pdf)
Christian Krattenthaler, Two
applications of useful functions (pdf)
Willard Miller, The theory of
contractions of 2D 2nd order quantum superintegrable systems and its
relation to the
Askey scheme for hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials (pdf)
Hjalmar Rosengren, Askey-Wilson
polynomials and the tetrahedron index (pdf)
Alan Sokal,
Complete monotonicity for
inverse powers of some combinatorially defined
polynomials (pdf)
Paul Terwilliger,
Leonard pairs and the
q-Tetrahedron algebra (pdf)
Walter Van Assche,
Multiple orthogonal polynomials
for modified Bessel functions and random matrices (pdf)
Ole Warnaar, The Rogers-Ramanujan
identities for A2n(2) (pdf)
Roderick Wong, Asymptotics of the discrete
Chebyshev and the Hahn polynomials
Doron Zeilberger, Jane McDougall's Amazing
Generalization of Ptolemy's Lovely Theorem (One of Dick Askey's
favorites)
Followed by a Diatribe against the Current Mathematics Education
(Dick Askey's Pet Peeve)
Hotel: The adjacent Lowell Center on Langdon Street has guest accommodations.
A block of rooms has been reserved for the conference, checkin December 5, checkout December 8. Breakfast is included. You should make reservations before November 7, 2013 when the rooms will be released. The rates (subject to change) are
Standard: $89 single and $101 double per night.
Deluxe: $110 single and $122 double per night.
Registration/Banquet: There is no registration fee, and all are invited to attend the talks and the banquet. There will be a banquet at the Pyle Center on Friday evening, December 6, 2013. There will be a banquet fee of $30, to be collected at the conference. For planning purposes, all people attending the banquet should register before noon, December 2, 2013 by sending an e-mail to Dennis Stanton, stanton@math.umn.edu.
Travel support: The conference offers no travel support.
Organizing Committee:
Tom Koornwinder T.H.Koornwinder@uva.nl
Dennis Stanton stanton@math.umn.edu
Paul Terwilliger terwilli@math.wisc.edu
Ole Warnaar o.warnaar@maths.uq.edu.au
Questions may be sent to any of us.