1st April 2019: The Umbral calculus

Simone Melchiorre Chiarello (Université de Genève)  Title: The umbral calculus

Abstract: 

Umbral calculus is a simple and elegant device to handle diverse polynomial sequences in a unified way. It allows, among the other things, to easily obtain classical identities otherwise found by complicated ad hoc arguments, and to generalize them. In this talk I will introduce the most basic techniques of umbral calculus and will apply them to study classical examples like finite difference calculus, Bernoulli and Hermite polynomials.

Villa Battelle, Wednesday 10th April, 14:00