The general topic of this conference is algebraic and transcendental
aspects of special functions and special numbers arising in combinatorics,
number theory, statistical mechanics and probability theory.
The meeting is organized by Alin Bostan and Kilian Raschel and it is
funded by the ERC grant "Elliptic
Combinatorics" and by Inria.
Many thanks to the Faculty of
Mathematics and Computer Science of Transylvania University in Brașov for the
support provided in the organization of this event.
Invited speakers
| Jason Bell (Waterloo, Canada) |
| Frits Beukers (Utrecht, Netherlands) |
| Kathrin Bringmann (Cologne, Germany) |
| Vasile Brînzănescu (Bucharest, Romania) |
| Xavier Caruso (Bordeaux, France) |
| * David V. Chudnovsky (New York, USA) |
| * Gregory V. Chudnovsky (New York, USA) |
| Frédéric Chyzak (Paris, France) |
| Mihai Ciucu (Bloomington, USA) |
| Charlotte Hardouin (Toulouse, France) |
| Herwig Hauser (Vienna, Austria) |
| Mark van Hoeij (Tallahassee, USA) |
| Christoph Koutschan (Linz, Austria) |
| Christian Krattenthaler (Vienna, Austria) |
| Florian Luca (Johannesburg, South Africa) |
| Mircea Merca (Craiova, Romania) |
| Preda Mihăilescu (Goettingen, Germany) |
| Alexandru Popa (Bucharest, Romania) |
| Dorin Popescu (Bucharest, Romania) |
| Tanguy Rivoal (Grenoble, France) |
| Michael F. Singer (Raleigh, USA) |
| Andrea Sportiello (Paris, France) |
| Adrian Tanasa (Bordeaux, France) |
| Masha Vlasenko (Warsaw, Poland) |
| Alexandru Zaharescu (Urbana, USA) |
News
- Arrival of participants: Sunday 12 May 2019.
- Departure of participants: Friday 17 May 2019.
- The conference will start with a banquet (!) on Sunday 12 May at 8pm.
- There will be a second banquet on Thursday 16 May at 7:30pm.
- An excursion to Dracula's Castle will be organized on Wednesday 15 May from 2pm to 6pm, followed by a piano concert at the Aula Magna.
- David V. Chudnovsky and Gregory V. Chudnovsky will give a lecture by teleconference, live from New York, on Tuesday 14 May at 6:30pm.
- Preda Mihăilescu will give a talk related to the conference, on Tuesday 14 May, at 2:30pm, in room P.III.1 of the Faculty of Mathematics (Iuliu Maniu, 50).
