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Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications

Join Radboud Summer School 2020!

Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications (OPSFA) is a topic in mathematics having close ties to many other fields of mathematics as well as applications in mathematical physics.

The 2020 summer school is part of a series of OPSFA-summer schools. The topics for the 2020 summer school consist of the relation of OPSFA to modular forms, numerical analysis, harmonic analysis as well as the new developments in matrix orthogonal polynomials, and the application to quantum information and quantum computing. You will study the role of orthogonal polynomials and special functions in the above mentioned topics under the supervision of five leading experts in their fields. During the summer school you will have ample time to interact with the lecturers, the organisers and some visitors, who are all active and leading researchers in the field. Apart from lectures you will take part in tutorials and you will have the opportunity to present your own research in OPSFA. Moreover, you will interact with other participants, ranging from master students and PhD-students to post-docs. This will give you the opportunity to discuss mathematics and to participate in modern day research in OPSFA.

The topics of the summer school have relations to topics in the standard curriculum of a degree programme in mathematics and/or physics, such as complex analysis, group theory, representation theory, analysis, linear algebra. We expect you to be familiar with these topics.

After this course • you are familiar with hypergeometric

functions of several variables and understand the relation to harmonic analysis.

• you understand the role of orthogonal polynomials and special functions in quadrature rules and Krylov subspace methods.

• you know what modular functions are, and understand its relation to group theory and complex analysis.

• you understand the role of orthogonal polynomials and quantum information, in particular in relation to perfect state transfer.

• you are familiar with the basic results on matrix orthogonal polynomials, and its relation to matrix differential operators.

Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications

Course leaders• Professor Erik Koelink

Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University

• Professor Walter Van Assche Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven

This course is designed forPhD students, Postdocs or advanced master students working, or interested to work, in the fields where orthogonal polynomials and special functions are used and applied.

Academic levelMaster, PhD and Postdoc

Course fee€ 300

Course dateMonday 10 August - Friday 14 August

Deadline application1 June 2020

Scholarships and discounts!This course has a substantial amount of scholarships available!

Please note that there are also (10-25%) discounts available for students and PhD candidates from our partner universities.

Detailed course informationwww.ru.nl/summerschool/opsfa

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Why join us?• Be taught by renowned and dedicated

lecturers from Radboud University and our international partners.

• Get valuable in-depth insights and train your academic skills.

• Become part of our international community.• Get great value for money.• Spend your summer in the oldest city of the

Netherlands.• Have fun during our social activities. Previous

editions included a river cruise, bubble football and our famous city game.

What do our previous students think?"I was returning home having made new friends, built stronger international networks and more importantly gained more knowledge in my field of study." - Noluvuyo

"Nijmegen is the most underrated town in The Netherlands. [..] Over the two weeks at Radboud University I was able to interact with people from every corner of the world!" - Nicola

In the end, our former participants are our best ambassadors! You will find more impressions on our website.

Contact+31 24 [email protected]/radboudsummerschool

The smart way to spend your summer!