Topic #13 ------------- OP-SF NET 6.4 ------------- July 15, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Vyacheslav SpiridonovSubject: Announcement of a book on self-similar systems "Self-Similar Systems", Proceedings of the International Workshop (July 30 - August 7, Dubna, Russia, 1998). Edited by V.B. Priezzhev and V.P. Spiridonov (JINR, E5-99-38, Dubna, 1999), 404 pp. ISBN 5-85165-525-9 This book consists of three parts: I. Wavelets and their applications. II. Self-structuring, quasicrystals, nonlinear equations. III. Orthogonal polynomials and special functions. The orthogonal polynomials session of the workshop was devoted to the centenary of the Soviet mathematician and mechanicist Ya.L. Geronimus. The contents of the corresponding part of the proceedings is given below. Complete information on the book is available on the web-page: http://thsun1.jinr.ru/meetings/98/sss/proceedings.html CONTENTS of PART III. Golinskii L., On the scientific legacy of Ya.L. Geronimus (to the hundredth anniversary) Andrievskii V.V. and Blatt H.-P., Local discrepancy theorems for the distribution of zeros of polynomials Aptekarev A.I. and Kaliaguine V.A., On a generalization of the nonlinear Langmuir chains Bangerezako G. and Magnus A.P., The factorization method for the semi-classical polynomials Belogrudov A., Semi-classical orthogonal polynomials and integrable chains Mantica G., Generalized Bessel functions: theoretical relevance, and computational techniques Marcellan F. and Petronilho J., Orthogonal polynomials and polynomial mappings on the unit circle Nikiforov A. and Skachkov M., Methods for computing the Hahn polynomials Osilenker B.P., Generalized trace formula for symmetric Legendre-Sobolev orthogonal polynomials Rodriguez J.M., Alvarez V., Romera E., and Pestana D., Generalized weighted Sobolev spaces Spiridonov V. and Zhedanov A., Self-similarity, spectral transformations and orthogonal and biorthogonal polynomials Stahl H., Rational best approximants in the Hardy space H^2 Steinbauer R., Considerations on Schur parameters with constant blocks Suetin P.K., Classical orthogonal polynomials in the theory of Schrodinger equation Van Assche W., Zero distribution of orthogonal polynomials with asymptotically periodic varying recurrence coefficients