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.