14th International Conference on Approximation Theory

舒马克DMS-1243266这位研究人员和他的同事组织了一次关于近似理论的国际会议，将于2013年4月7日至10日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行。来自世界各地的学术界、工业界和政府实验室的约150名数学科学家参加了这次会议。它延续了1973年开始的三年一度的关于这一主题的会议的传统，这是该领域的主要全面会议。会议有八个小时的综述讲座，内容涉及当前感兴趣的主题(包括径向基函数在偏微分方程式、等距分析、多元正交多项式、非线性逼近、有理插值法、细分方法和小波中的应用)。第七届Vasil A.Popov逼近理论奖在会上颁发，获奖者将作一次全体演讲。会议为期四天，包括大约130个额外的受邀和投稿的演讲。同以往的所有会议一样，计划对会议记录进行仔细审查和编辑。这次会议的与会者介绍了近似论的最新进展，这是一个对科学和工程产生重大影响超过100年的数学领域，并使美国取得了具体的技术进步。例如，该领域的数学对计算机辅助设计和制造(飞机和汽车行业的关键工具)、动画和计算机图形(视频游戏和电影行业的主要工具)、数据压缩和处理(对HDTV或医学成像等信息技术应用至关重要)、地球物理问题(如天气建模和石油勘探)、不确定性量化(在环境和气候建模以及纳米技术中发挥重要作用)以及商业世界的建模产生了重大影响。这次会议汇聚了来自世界各地的学生、初级研究人员和该领域的领导者，帮助年轻的研究人员推进他们的职业生涯，并吸引博士生从事这一学科的工作。

SchumakerDMS-1243266 The investigator and his colleagues organize an international conference on Approximation Theory, to be held in San Antonio, TX on April 7-10, 2013. The meeting engages about 150 mathematical scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories from around the world. It continues the tradition of triennial meetings in the subject which began in 1973, and which have been the premier comprehensive meetings in the area. The meeting features eight one-hour survey lectures on topics of current interest (including applications of radial basis functions in partial differential equations, isogeometric analysis, multivariate orthogonal polynomials, nonlinear approximation, rational interpolation, subdivision methods, and wavelets). The Seventh Vasil A. Popov Prize in Approximation Theory is awarded at the meeting, with the winner giving one of the plenary lectures. The conference runs for four days, and includes about 130 additional invited and contributed presentations. As with all of the previous meetings, a carefully reviewed and edited conference proceedings is planned. Participants in this conference present recent advances in approximation theory, a field of mathematics that has had a major impact on science and engineering for well over 100 years, and that has enabled concrete technological advances in the United States. For example, the mathematics in this area has had significant impact on computer-aided design and manufacture (a key tool in the aircraft and automotive industries), animation and computer graphics (major tools in the video gaming and movie industries), data compression and processing (critical to information technology applications such as HDTV or medical imaging), geophysical problems (such as weather modeling and oil exploration), uncertainty quantification (which plays an important role in environmental and climate modeling as well as nanotechnology), and modeling in the business world. This conference brings together students, junior researchers, and leaders in the field from around the world, aids young researchers in advancing their careers, and attracts PhD students to work in the subject.