Topic #8 ----------------- OP-SF NET ------------------ May 16, 1996 ~~~~~~~~~ From: Martin MuldoonSubject: Contents of Delft Proceedings The Proceedings of the International Conference on "Orthogonality, Moment Problems and Continued Fractions" (dedicated to Thomas Jan Stieltjes Jr.) and held October 31--November 4, 1994 at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, have now appeared, in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Volume 65, December 1995. We thank the volume editor, Marcel G. de Bruin, for supplying us with a LaTeX version of the table of contents, from which the text below has been prepared. CONTENTS M. G. de Bruin, Preface, p.1 R. \'Alvarez-Nodarse, A.G. Garc\'ia, and F. Marcell\'an, On the properties for modifications of classical orthogonal polynomials of discrete variables, p.3 H. Bavinck, The zeros of a certain linear combination of Chebyshev polynomials, p.19 C. Berg, Indeterminate moment problems and the theory of entire functions, p.27 A. Bultheel, p. Gonz\'alez-Vera and R. Orive, On the convergence of general two-point Pad\'e approximants to Stieltjes functions. Part I. Algebraic aspects, p.57 W. C. Connett and A.L. Schwartz, Subsets of R which support hypergroups with polynomial characters, p.73 H. Dette, On the minimum of the Christoffel function, p. 85 K. Diethelm, Gaussian quadrature formulae of the third kind for Cauchy principal value integrals: Basic properties and error estimates, p. 97 J. Dombrowski and S. Pedersen, Orthogonal polynomials, spectral measures and absolute continuity, p. 115 K.A. Driver, Nondiagonal quadratic Hermite-Pad\'e approximation to the exponential function, p. 125 S. Ehrlich, Asymptotic behaviour of Stieltjes polynomials for ultraspherical weight functions, p. 135 D. Fasino, Spectral properties of Hankel matrices and numerical solutions of finite moment problems, p. 145 D.P. Gupta and D.R. Masson, Contiguous relations, continued fractions and orthogonality: an _8\phi_7 model, p. 157 E.K. Ifantis and P.D. Siafarikas, An alternative proof of a theorem of Stieltjes and related results, p. 165 I.H. Jung, K.H. Kwon, D.W. Lee and L.L. Littlejohn, Differential equations and Sobolev orthogonality, p. 173 V.A. Kaliaguine, The operator moment problem, vector continued fractions and an explicit form of the Favard theorem for vector orthogonal polynomials, p. 181 M. Kijima and E.A. van Doorn, Weighted sums of orthogonal polynomials with positive zeros, p. 195 A.B.J. Kuijlaars, Chebyshev quadrature for measures with a strong singularity, p. 207 S. Lewanowicz, Results on the associated classical orthogonal polynomials, p. 215 L. Lorentzen, A convergence question inspired by Stieltjes and by value sets in continued fraction theory, p. 233 A.P. Magnus, Special non uniform lattice (snul) orthogonal polynomials on discrete sets of points, p. 253 F. Marcell\'an, J.C. Petronilho, T.E. P\'erez and M.A. Pi\~nar, What is beyond coherent pairs of orthogonal polynomials?, p. 267 G. Mastroianni, Some weighted polynomial inequalities, p. 279 D.M. Matjila, Bounds for weighted Lebesgue functions for Freud weights on a larger interval, p. 293 M.E. Muldoon, Electrostatics and zeros of Bessel functions, p. 299 O. Nj\aa stad, Extremal solutions of the strong Stieltjes moment problem, p. 309 F. Peherstorfer, Stieltjes polynomials and functions of the second kind, p. 319 F. Peherstorfer and R. Steinbauer, Characterization of orthogonal polynomials with respect to a functional, p. 339 M. R\"osler, Trigonometric convolution structures on Z derived from Jacobi polynomials, p. 357 A. Sinap, Gaussian quadrature for matrix valued functions on the real line, p. 369 F.H. Szafraniec, A method of localizing the spectra of sequences of orthogonal polynomials, p. 387 N.M. Temme, Uniform asymptotic expansions of integrals: a selection of problems, p. 395 G. Valent and W. Van Assche, The impact of Stieltjes' work on orthogonal polynomials: additional material, p. 419 M. Voit, Limit theorems for random walks on the double coset spaces U(n)/U(n-1) for n \to \infty, p. 449 List of talks presented at the conference, p. 461 List of registered participants, p. 464 Author Index, p. 469