Administrative Experience
- Served on the graduate committee for several years and was in charge of
recruiting graduate students and teaching assistants at Arizona State
University.
- Served on various committees at McMaster University, Arizona State
University, and the University of South Florida.
- Organized a special session on spectral properties of Jacobi matrices and
orthogonal polynomials at the summer meeting of the Canadian Mathematical
Society in Edmonton, 1984.
- Co-principal investigator and organizer of a CBMS conference held at
Arizona State University in May 1985. The principal speaker was George
Andrews, who lectured on “q-Series, Mathematical Physics and Computer
Algebra.”
- Co-principal investigator and organizer of a NATO Advanced Study
Institute, Columbus, Ohio, May 1989. The topic is “Orthogonal polynomials.”
- Co-principal investigator of an NSF grant for a special year in
Approximation Theory, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 1989-90. Chair
of the local organizing committee.
- Organized a special session on classical analysis at the winter meeting of
the Canadian Mathematical Society in Victoria, 1991.
- Organized a mini-symposium (special session) on special functions and
their applications at the summer meeting of SIAM in Los Angeles, 1992.
- Guest editor of a special issue of SIAM J. Math. Anal. 25 (1994),
450 pages.
- Guest editor of a special issue of Journal of Computational and Applied
Mathematics 68 (1996), 230 pages.
- Co-organizer (co-chair) of the Fields Institute workshop on Special
Functions and q-Series, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2
weeks in June 1995.
- Co-organizer (co-chair) of the American Mathematical Society Summer
Conference on q-Series, Combinatorics and Computer Algebra, Mount
Holyoke College, June 1998.
- Co-organizer of the second meeting of the Palestinian Mathematical
Society, Birzeit, West Bank, August 1998.
- Co-organizer of an international workshop on Special Functions,
Asymptotics, Harmonic Analysis, and Mathematical Physics, City University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 1999.
- Co-organizer of a conference on Symbolic Computation, Number Theory,
Special Functions, Physics, and Combinatorics, University of Florida,
Gainesville, 1999.
- Co-organizer of a NATO ASI on Special Functions, Tempe, Arizona, May-June
2000.
- Co-organizer of an NSF-sponsored conference on Special Functions, Tempe,
Arizona, May-June, 2000.
- Co-organizer of a Summer School/Summer Seminar on Applied Analysis, City
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, July 2001.