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The seminar series finished on 12 July 2021.

Each seminar presented a seminar on the topics of orthogonal polynomials and special functions, operator theory and their remarkable applications to other fields of mathematics including analytic number theory, random matrix theory, numerical and computational methods and mathematical physics. The focus of discussion was on the fruitful interactions between numerical analysis, approximation theory, operator theory, spectral methods, combinatorics and the modern theory of orthogonal polynomials and special functions.

The series was organised by the OPSFOTA research network group funded by LMS. Due to the funding limitations it was restricted to researchers that are based in geographically close institutions: in the UK, University of Kent, University of Reading, King’s College London, Imperial College, University of Sussex, University College London and elsewhere in Europe KU Leuven (Belgium), Radboud Universiteit (the Netherlands) and Université Lille (France). The covid pandemic gave the opportunity to open the seminar series to anyone who liked to participate.