Universal Pad\'e approximants on simply connected domains

The theory of universal Taylor series can be extended to the case of Pad\'e approximants where the universal approximation is not realized by polynomials any more, but by rational functions, namely the Pad\'e approximants of some power series. We present the first generic result in this direction, for Pad\'e approximants corresponding to Taylor developments of holomorphic functions in simply connected domains. The universal approximation is required only on compact sets $K$ which lie outside the domain of definition and have connected complement. If the sets $K$ are additionally disjoint from the boundary of the domain of definition, then the universal functions can be smooth on the boundary.