Recent Progress in Special Functions

Galina Filipuk, University of Warsaw, Poland

Amilcar Branquinho, Ana Foulquie-Moreno, and Manuel Manas, Banded matrices and their orthogonality M. M. Castro, A. Foulquie-Moreno, and A. Fradi, Time-and-band limiting for matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials related with 2 x 2 hypergeometric operators Yang Chen and Shulin Lyu, Gaussian unitary ensembles with jump discontinuities, PDEs, and the coupled Painleve IV system Ewa Ciechanowicz, Properties of meromorphic solutions of certain equations via Nevanlinna theory Nicholas Ercolani, Joceline Lega, and Brandon Tippings, Map enumeration from a dynamical perspective Sean Gasiorek and Milena Radnovic, Periodic trajectories and topology of the integrable Boltzmann system P. R. Gordoa and A. Pickering, Higher-order nonlinear special functions: Painleve hierarchies, a survey Xing Li and Da-jun Zhang, The Lame functions and elliptic soliton solutions: Bilinear approach Egmont Porten and Cornelia Schiebold, From the operator KP equation to scalar and matrix-valued solutions