Asymptotic and Computational Analysis :Conference in Honor of Frank W. J. Olver's 65th Birthday

Contents
Preface
Contributors
Invited Papers
	Graphs as an Aid to Understanding Special Functions
	Asymptotics of Integals, Series, and Operators
	Asymptotic Expansions for the Coefficient Functions Associated with Linear Second-Order Differential Equations: The Simple Pole Case
	Landen Transformations of Integrals
	Accelerating the Convergence of Chebyshev Series
	Practical Methods for the Uniform Asymptotic Evaluation of Oscillating Integrals with Several Coalescing Saddle Points
	New Inequalities for the Zeros of Confluent Hypergeometric Functions
	How (Un)stable Are Vandermonde Systems?
	Singular Point and Exponential Asymptotics
	Uniform Asymptotic Remainders
	Period Tripling and Subharmonic Oscillations in Marangoni Flows in a Cylindrical Liquid Bridge
	Positive Solutions for Degenerate and Nondegenerate Elliptic Systems: Existence and Numerical Approximations
	Observable Tunneling in Several Dimensions
	On Stokes' Phenomenon and Converging Factors
	Singularly Perturbed Boundary Value Problems Viewed in the Liénard Plane
	On the Asymptotic Theory of the Orr-Sommerfeld Problem
	Gevrey Property of Formal Solutions in a Parameter
	A Riccati Approach to the Airy Equation
	A System of Polynomials Associated with the Chester, Friedman, and Ursell Technique
	Rational Approximation of the Step, Filter, and Impulse Functions
	Polynomial Asymptotic Estimates of Gegenbauer, Laguerre, and Jacobi Polynomials
	Integrals with a Large Parameter and the Maximum - Modulus Principle
	Finite Axial Extension and Torsion of Elastic Helicoidal Shells
	Some Properties of Convolution Sequences and Asymptotics for the Taylor Coefficients for Products of Bessel Functions
	A Generalization of Olver's Algorithm for Linear Difference Systems
Contributed Papers
	Continental Shelf Wave Scattering: Partial Removal of the Rigid Lid
	Some Aspects of Invariant Subspaces Computation
	Error Bounds via Complete Monotonicity for a Uniform Asymptotic Expansion of the Legendre Function P[sup(-m)][sub(n)](cosh z)
	Computational Asymptotics of Fourth-Order Operators
	Universal Asymptotic Distribution Functions mod 1
	On the n-Variable Saddle Point and Steepest Descent Methods
	Applications of the Method of Steepest Descents in Wave-Propagation Problems
	The Asymptotics of Pearcey's Integral for Complex Variables
	Asymptotic Methods in Magnetoconvection
	The Interior Layer Structure for a Linear Parabolic Problem with Discontinuous Data
	Asymptotic Expansions of Solutions to Δu – u = f at Infinity
	Approximating Zeros of Solutions of Second-Order Linear ODEs by "Phase Function" Methods
	Asymptotic Expansions of Integrals of Two Bessel Functions
	On Eigenvalues with Exponentially Small Imaginary Part
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