The Wavelet IDR Center

Constructive mathematics: a meeting honoring Carl de Boor

Schedule


Monday, 05/26
Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:15, Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00
Session Chair: H.-P. Seidel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
W. Dahmen
Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik
Splines as Linear Combinations of B-splines
D. Braess
Ruhr University Bochum
Approximation by Bernstein Polynomials in Learning Theory
R. DeVore
University of South Carolina
Adaptive Finite Element Methods
Lunch: 12:15 - 2:00
Monday, 05/26
Afternoon Session: 4:00 - 6:00, Coffee & Cakes: 3:30 - 4:00
Session Chair: K. Höllig, Universität Stuttgart
D. Askey
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
A New Look at Some Determinants
G. Golub
Stanford University
Shape from Moments
Tuesday, 05/27
Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:15, Coffee break: 10:45 - 11:15
Session Chair: K. Jetter, Universität Hohenheim
A. Dress
Universität Bielefeld
Characterization of Liouville Numbers and Mahler's U-numbers in Terms of Diophantine Approximatibility
M. Crandall
University of California Santa Barbara
A View of the Theory of Absolutely Minimizing Functions
P. Rabinowitz
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
On Some Results of Moser and of Bangert
Lunch: 12:15 - 2:00
Tuesday, 05/27
Afternoon Session: 2:30 - 6:00, Coffee & Cakes: 3:30 - 4:00
Session Chair: T. Lyche, University of Oslo
W. Gautschi
Purdue University
The Hardy-Littlewood Function: An Exercise in Slowly Convergent Series
J. Rice
Purdue University
Function Theory: Mathematical and Real World
L. Schumaker
Vanderbilt University
Splines and Applications
Wednesday, 05/28
Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:15, Coffee break: 10:45 - 11:15
Session Chair: Z. Ciesielski, Polish Academy of Sciences
V. Tikhomirov
Moscow State University
On Estimations of Uncertainty
V. Totik
University of South Florida
From a Contest Problem to a Method of Analysis
P. Oswald
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Some Approximation Problems Arising in Communications
Lunch: 12:15 - 2:00
Wednesday, 05/28
Afternoon Session: 2:30 - 6:00, Coffee & Cakes: 3:30 - 4:00
Session Chair: S. Riemenschneider, West Virginia University
R.-Q. Jia
University of Alberta
Approximation with Scaled Shift-Invariant Spaces by Means of Quasi-Projection Operators
A. Shadrin
Cambridge University
On Two Conjectures of de Boor in Spline Theory
V. Temlyakov
University of South Carolina
Nonlinear Approximation and Numerical Integration
Banquet and Discussion: 6:30 pm
New Directions in Constructive Mathematics
Thursday, 05/29
Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:15, Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00
Session Chair: R. Schaback, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
M.J.D. Powell
Cambridge University
On Thin Plate Spline Interpolation in Two and One Dimensions
N. Dyn
Tel Aviv University
Subdivision Schemes in Geometric Modelling
A. Pinkus
Technion - I. I. T.
Herman Müntz, 1884 -- 1956
Lunch: 12:15 - 2:00
Thursday Afternoon: Excursion
Friday, 05/30
Morning Session: 9:00 - 11:30, Coffee break: 10:00-10:30
Session Chair: Z. Shen, National University of Singapore
T. Grandine
Boeing
A Practical Guide to Splines as Used at Boeing
A. Ron
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
The Interplay Between the Exponentials and the Polynomials in the Span of the Integer Translates of a Compactly Supported Function
or My Early Days in Madison




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