From: Tom H. Koornwinder thk@fwi.uva.nl
Subject: Foata Festschrift

A special issue of The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics appeared which is dedicated to Dominique Foata on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It is Volume 3 (2) (1996),

It contains 25 contributions, some of which are in the field of orthogonal polynomials or relevant for this field. I mention a few and I recommend the reader to inspect the contents for other titles:

R1: Daniel Barsky and Michel Carpentier, Polynômes de Jacobi généralisés et intégrales de Selberg (33pp)

R13: Doron Zeilberger, Proof of the alternating sign matrix conjecture (84pp) (see also the comments file)

R16: Shalosh B. Ekhad and J. E. Majewicz, A short WZ-style proof of Abel's identity (1 p)

R17: Dominique Dumont and Armand Ramamonjisoa, Grammaire de Ramanujan et arbres de Cayley (18pp)

R19: Marko Petkov\vsek and Herbert S. Wilf, A high-tech proof of the Mills-Robbins-Rumsey determinant formula (3pp)

R20: Alun Morris and A. A. Abdel-Aziz, Schur Q-functions and spin characters of symmetric groups I (14pp)

R21: George E. Andrews, Pfaff's method (III): Comparison with the WZ method (18pp)

R24: A. M. Garsia and M. Haiman, Some natural bigraded S_n-modules (60pp) (related to Macdonald polynomials)