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January 19-23, 2026:

Juan J. Moreno-Balcázar and Francisco Marcellán organized a special session titled "Polinomios Ortogonales y Funciones Especiales: Teoría y Aplicaciones" in the Congress Bienal de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME26) which takes place in Alicante (Spain). Moreover, in this special session Cristina Rodríguez-Perales has been invited to give a talk titled "Ecuación en diferencias para polinomios cuasi-ortogonales".

November 17-20, 2025:

Cristina Rodríguez-Perales gives a talk titled "Difference equation for quasi-orthogonal polynomials related to a general operator" in the 7th BYMAT Conference: Bringing Young Mathematicians Together (Sevilla, Spain).

October 17, 2025:

Elena Carreras Casanova from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Miguel Piñar from Universidad de Granada give a seminar at the Universidad de Almería.

From October 1, 2025 to November 30, 2025:

Professor Elena Carreras Casanova from Rey Juan Carlos University is carrying out a research stay at the University of Almería with Professor Darío Ramos-López.

August 19-22, 2025:

Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein has given a plenary talk titled "Do polynomials dream of symmetric curves? – ten years after" in the congress Extremal Polynomials and Dynamical Systems which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark.

July 7-11, 2025:

Sergio Díaz-Elbal has attended and presented a poster at the 21st Hispano-French Jacques-Louis Lions School on Numerical Simulation in Physics and Engineering, organized by SEMA in Ciudad Real.

June 16-20, 2025:

Attendance of Darío Ramos-López at the school ProbAI - Nordic Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence School  in Trondheim, Norway.

May 19-22, 2025:

Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein has given a plenary talk titled "The many facets of iterated differentiation" in the “Constructive Functions 2025” dedicated to Ed Saff’s 80th birthday which took place in Vanderbilt University, Nashville (USA).

May 19-22, 2025:

Cristina Rodríguez-Perales has given a invited talk titled "Connection between generalized Krawtchouk polynomials and the fifth Painleve equation" in the “Constructive Functions 2025” dedicated to Ed Saff’s 80th birthday which took place in Vanderbilt University, Nashville (USA).

March 27-28, 2025:

Cristina Rodríguez-Perales has won one of the 7 awards for best presentations at the II UAL Doctoral Conference, organized by the International Doctoral School of the University of Almería, for the presentation “Generalized Krawtchouk Polynomials and the Fifth Painlevé Equation”, University of Almería (Spain).

February 6, 2025:

Sergio Díaz-Elbal has taken up a predoctoral research training contract under the UAL’s Own Research and Transfer Plan (PPIT-UAL).

December 18-19, 2024:

Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein has given a plenary talk titled "Flow of the zeros of polynomials under iterated differentiation" in the VI Meeting of the Orthonet Network which took place in Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain).

December 10-17, 2024:

Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein has taught the course titled "Logarithmic Potential Theory" in the Orthonet Winter School which took place at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

December 10-17, 2024:

Sergio Díaz-Elbal and Cristina Rodríguez-Perales have attended the Orthonet Winter School which took place at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

November 20-22, 2024:

Rafael Rumí gives the lecture entitled Contributions on Mixtures of Polynomials for Hybrid Bayesian Network (joint work with Darío Ramos-López), in the congress 25th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (Valencia, Spain).

From November 10 to December 8, 2024:

Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein has carried out a research stay at the Departament of Mathematics, Universidade do São Paulio USP, São Carlos, Brazil.

October 17-18, 2024:

Darío Ramos-López is co-organizer of the conference International Conference on Optimization and Applications which took place at the University of Almería.

October 4, 2024:

Cristina Rodríguez-Perales gives a seminar titled "Generalized Charlier polynomials: regularisation and composition of birational transformations" in the Ibero-American Network of Researchers in Orthogonal Polynomials, Functional Equations and Applications (RIPOEFA).

July 1-5, 2024:

Cristina Rodríguez-Perales has given a invited talk titled "On differential systems related to Generalized Charlier Orthogonal Polynomials" in the “CVI Encuentro Conjunto RSME-SMM” which took place in Valencia, Spain.

June 24-28, 2024:

Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein gave a plenary lecture at the congress IMAG Conference on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications - OPSFA17 titled Hypergeometric Polynomials with Free Probability Tools.

March 10 - June 16, 2024:

Cristina Rodríguez-Perales is doing a research stay at the University of Warsaw (Poland) with Professor Dr. Galina Filipuk.

February 5-7, 2024:

Roberto S. Costas-Santos from Universidad Loyola visit us.

January 25-27, 2024:

Ana Belén Castaño Fernández has given a talk at the conference LVI Congreso SAO (Sociedad Andaluza de Oftalmología) (Cordoba, Spain).

January 22-26, 2024:

Juan J. Moreno-Balcázar and Juan F. Mañas-Mañas have been invited to give a talk in the special session entitled Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications in the Congreso bienal de la Real Sociedad Matemática española which took place at the Universidad Pública de Pamplona.

December 14-15, 2023:

We organized the 4º workshop Two Days on Orthogonal Polynomials, it was dedicated to our colleagues Guillermo López Lagomasino (75th anniversary) and Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein (60th anniversary).

June 12-21, 2023:

Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein has organized a session on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference that took place at the Sorbonne Université (Paris, France) FoCM 2023.

March 31, 2023:

Publication of the website of 4º Workshop "Two Days on Orthogonal Polynomials.

February 2-3, 2022:

Alberto Lastra and Edmundo J. Huertas from Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) visit us and give a seminar (see seminar info here).

December 16, 2022:

Maria das Neves Rebocho (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) and Teresa E. Pérez (Universidad de Granada, Spain) visit us and give a seminar (see seminar info here).

December 2022:

Our research group, together with the colleagues, María José Cantero and Luis Velázquez from the University of Zaragoza, have obtained the research project New trends in Constructive Approximation: Theory and Applications funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Project website: PID2021-124472NB-I00.

November 2022:

Our research group TAPO has decided to organize the 4th edition of the Workshop "Two Days of Orthogonal Polynomials" (D2PO) that will take place in Almería at the end of the year 2023. The specific date and more details will be announced on this website.

November 15, 2022:

Darío Ramos López has just obtained the position of Associate Professor at the University of Almería.

November 15, 2022:

Ana Belén Castaño Fernández has been awarded one of the prizes for the best poster and communication in flash format at the Experimental Science Research Symposium of the University of Almería.

November 10-11, 2022:

Juan F. Mañas-Mañas and Juan J. Moreno-Balcázar have attended the third edition of the D2PO congress in Granada. In addition, Juan F. Mañas-Mañas has given an invited talk entitled "Asintótica tipo Mehler--Heine para diferentes familias de polinomios ortogonales".

July 16-23, 2022:

Veronica Pillwein and Diego E. Dominici have carried out a research stay at the University of Almería

June 29, 2022:

Ana Belén Castaño Fernández was interviewed in Onda Cero Radio Almería in order to talk about the the role of women in university.

June 13-17, 2022:

Francisco Marcellán and Juan J. Moreno-Balcázar have organized the mini-symposium " Orthogonal polynomials in Sobolev spaces and related topics" in the 16th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA16).

To access the congress website click here and to download the abstract book click here.

May 22-27, 2022:

Fritz Gesztesy and Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein have organized the congress Baylor Analysis Fest "From Operator Theory to Orthogonal Polynomials, Combinatorics, and Number Theory" in Baylor University, Texas (USA).

March 22-25, 2022:

Joaquín Sánchez Lara from the University of Granada visits us.

February 1, 2022:

Dieudonne Mbouna, Ph. D. in mathematics from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), has joined the UAL-FEDER project as a contracted researcher.

January 26, 2022:

Francisco Marcellán (UC3M) and Juan Francisco Mañas (UAL) have given two conferences entitled "Third degree linear functionals. Applications and open problems" and "A local asymptotics for some basic hypergeometric polynomials", respectively.

See poster here.

See photo here.

January 14, 2022:

Ana Belén Castaño Fernández has published for Diario de Almería the article titled "El ojo en el punto de mira de las matemáticas: No existe el ojo ideal. Entonces, ¿todos deberíamos llevar gafas?" See publication here.

June 20-26, 2021:

Galina Filipuk, Francisco Marcellán and Juan J. Moreno-Balcázar have organized the mini-symposium "Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions" in the European Congress of Mathematics (8ECM) that has taken place in online format.

The congress website is: https://www.8ecm.si/

Information about our mini-symposium (and others) is in: https://www.8ecm.si/minisymposia

November 27, 2020:

Juan J. Moreno Balcázar was interviewed in Onda Cero Radio Almería last November 14th in order to talk about the European Researchers' Night.

July 16, 2020:

Website available of the proyect UAL18-FQM-B025-A.

July 14, 2020:

Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has been invited plenary speaker at the Second Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting (AN20).

May 14, 2020:

Juan J. Moreno Balcázar was interviewed in the magazine "Más de Uno" for Onda Cero Radio Almería last May 14th.

January 15, 2020:

Project concession "Polinomios ortogonales: Métodos Analíticos y funcionales, aplicaciones clásicas y cuánticas", UAL18-FQM-B025-A, funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Consejería de Economía, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad de la Junta de Andalucía.

January, 2020:

Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has been selected invited plenary speaker at the next Second Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting (AN20) in July, 2020.

November 21-22, 2019:

Our research group has organized  2º Workshop "Dos Días de Polinomios Ortogonales y Funciones Especiales" that has taken place in the Universidad de Almería.

October 4, 2019:

Galina Filipuk, Francisco Marcellán and Juan J. Moreno-Balcázar organize the mini-symposium "Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions" in the European Congress of Mathematics (8ECM) that will take place from July 5 to 11, 2020 in Portoroz, Slovenia.

The congress website is: https://www.8ecm.si/

Information about our mini-symposium (and others) is in: https://www.8ecm.si/minisymposia

July 29, 2019:

Publication of the website of 2º Workshop "Two Days on Orthogonal Polynomial and Special Functions".

July 22-26, 2019:

Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein, Guilherme Silva and Maxim Yattselev have organized a Mini-Symposium in the 15th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA), that took place in Hagenberg (Austria) titled "Asymptotics via non-standard orthogonality".

Francisco Marcellán and Juan José Moreno Balcázar have organized a Mini-Symposium in the 15th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA), that took place in Hagenberg (Austria) titled "Trends on orthogonal polynomials in weighted Sobolev spaces".

See photo here.

Juan Francisco Mañas Mañas, Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein and Juan José Moreno Balcázar gave talks in the 15th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA), that took place in Hagenberg (Austria).

See photo here.

April 29 to May 31, 2019:

Juan Francisco Mañas Mañas is conducting a research stay at the Universidad de Alcalá with Prof. Dr. Roberto S. Costas-Santos.

March 28-29, 2019:

Juan José Moreno Balcázar and Juan Francisco Mañas Mañas have attended the V Meeting of the Orthonet network (Orthonet 2019).

See photo here.

December 18, 2018:

Juan Francisco Mañas Mañas has read his doctoral thesis entitled Analytical properties of nonstandard orthogonal polynomials. Advisors: Juan José Moreno-Balcázar (University of Almería) and Francisco José Marcellán Español (University Carlos III of Madrid). He has got the highest mark.

See photos in the following links: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5, Photo 6.

November 15, 2018:

Juan Francisco Mañas Mañas has won the award for the best communication in poster format in  VII Simposio de Investigación en Ciencias Experimentales organized by Faculty of Experimental Sciences of the University of Almería.

July 8, 2018:

Juan Francisco Mañas Mañas has won the award for the best communication in poster format in  VII Iberoamerican Workshop in Orthogonal Polynomials and Aplications (EIBPOA2018).

March, 2018:

Second award in Fishackathon Cádiz 2018.

Ana Belén Castaño Fernández from our Research Group "Approximation Theory and Orthogonal Polynomials", Helena Palenzuela Rodríguez from CDTIME and Gustavo Rosell Romo have won the second prize in the international competition Fischackathon, which took place in Cádiz on February 10th and 11th. The goal of Fishackathon yields in finding solutions about fishing using mathematical and engineers tools.

January, 2018:

Juan Francisco Mañas Mañas is conducting a research stay at the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) with Dra. Galina Filipuk (she is there invited by the prestigious Humboldt scholarship).

November 27, 2017:

Ana Belén Castaño Fernández has read her doctoral thesis entitled Some mathematical problems from the biomedical optics and ophthalmology. Advisors: Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein (Universidad de Almería) and Daoud Robert Iskander (Wrocław University).

October, 2017:

How do maths help in ophthalmology?

January, 2017:

Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has been elected as vice-chair of Activity Group "Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions" of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), appointed from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2019.

December, 2016:

Juan José Moreno-Balcázar, delegate at University of Almería of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society from March 2016.

October 9 to November 18 and November 9 to December 19, 2016:

Prof. Dr. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein is conducting two research stay at the Department of Mathematics of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

September 5 to December 10, 2016:

Juan Francisco Mañas Mañas is conducting a research stay at the Department of Mathematics, Baylor University, Waco, USA.

September 5 to December  5, 2016:

Ana Belén Castaño Fernández is conducting a research stay at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland.

May 1  to 30 June, 2016:

Dr. Darío Ramos López is conducting a research stay at the Aalborg University, Denmark.

April 10 to 22, 2016:

We visit Cleonice Bracciali, from the UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil.

March 14 to 22  July, 2016:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein is conducting a research stay at the UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil.

November, 2015:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein is a Visiting Chair Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He visited the department from mid September to mid December 2015.

July 1, 2015:

New composition of the group (see members).

January 1, 2015:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein will take on his new position as coordinator of Mathematics at the National Evaluation Agency (ANEP) . More information here.

July 25 to December 24, 2014:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein is conducting a research stay at the Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA).

June 4 to July 5, 2014:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein is conducting a research stay at the Departament of Applied Mathematics, Instituto de Biociëncias, Letras e Ciëncias Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil, under the mobility project "Science without borders" of the Government of Brazil.

May 12, 2014:

Darío Ramos López defends his doctoral thesis entitled "Mathematical Modelling in Biomedical Optics and Ophthalmology" directed by Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein.

March 17 to 22, 2014:

Prof. Maxim Yattselev, from the Department of Mathematical Sciences Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, is visiting our group at the University of Almeria.

November 15 to 24, 2013:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has given the Masters Course "Logarithmic potential and applications" on the Faculty of Sciences of Gabes, Tunisia. See photo here.

September, 2013:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has been invited to participate in the Masterclass by Barry Simon on "Spectral Theory of Orthogonal Polynomials". More information here.

September 21 to 27, 2013:

We are expecting a visit from Guilherme Silva, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

September 16 to 20, 2013:

Prof. Darío Ramos López and Prof. Joaquín Sánchez Lara participate in the "2º Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores" of the RSME giving, respectively, lectures titled "Métodos de aproximación con funciones de base radial y aplicaciones a Óptica biomédica" and "Soporte de la medida de equilibrio bajo un campo externo con salto en la derivada". More information here.

September 13 to October 8, 2013:

We are expecting a visit from Cleonice Bracciali, from the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil.

September 11 to 13, 2013:

We are expecting a visit from Prof. Alexander I. Aptekarev, from the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow.

June, 2013:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has been selected member of the Scientific Committee of 13th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA) 2015.

June, 2013:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has been selected  plenary speaker at the next Conference Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM'2014).

May 1 to July 31, 2013:

Darío Ramos López is conducting a research stay at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw (Poland).

April 27 to May 11, 2013:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein visited the Department of Applied Mathematics, Instituto de Biociëncias, Letras e Ciëncias Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Sao José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

February 10 to March 3, 2013:

Prof. Juan José Moreno-Balcázar is conducting a research stay at the Mathematischen Forschungsinstituts Oberwolfach (MFO), Oberwolfach (Germany).

November 30, 2012:

We are expecting a visit from Ernesto Altshuler, from the Group "Henri Poincarè" of Complex Systems, Faculty of Physics, University of Havana, Cuba, who will deliver a lecture entitled "Cuantificando el tráfico de hormigas".

November 19 to 23, 2012:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has participated as an invited speaker at the Workshop "Signal, Image, Geometry, Modeling, and Approximation" (SIGMA 2012), Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Marseille, Francia, with the talk entitled "Math is in the eye of the beholder".

November 12 to 15, 2012:

We are expecting a visit from Prof. Alexander I. Aptekarev, from the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow.

November 10, 2012:

Prof. Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein has given a talk at the Seminar of Analysis, Department of Mathematics (CMI Chateau Gombert) of the University of Aix-Marseille, Francia, entitled "Phase transitions and equilibrium measures".

November 1 to 30, 2012:

Prof. Juan José Moreno-Balcázar is conducting a research stay at the University of Zaragoza.

November 4 to 9, 2012:

We are expecting a visit from Ramón A. Orive Rodríguez, from the Department of Mathematical Analysis of the University of La Laguna.

October 8, 2012:

We are expecting a visit from Edmundo J. Huertas Cejudo, from the Department of Mathematics of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, who will deliver a lecture entitled "A technique to study the behavior of zeros of orthogonal polynomials" on October 11.

September 1, 2012:

We have a new Coordinator: Juan José Moreno-Balcázar, who takes it over from Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein.

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