15th International Conference on Approximation Theory

首席研究员将组织“第15届近似理论国际会议”，该会议将于2016年5月22日至25日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行。本次会议的参与者将介绍近似值理论的最新进展，近似值理论是一个数学领域，在100多年来对科学和工程产生了重大影响，并使美国的具体技术取得了进步。例如，该领域的数学对计算机辅助设计和制造（飞机和汽车工业的关键工具）、动画和计算机图形学（视频游戏和电影工业的主要工具）、数据压缩和处理（对信息技术应用至关重要，如高清电视或医学成像）、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），以及商业世界中的建模。本次会议将汇集来自世界各地的学生、初级研究人员和该领域的领导者，帮助年轻研究人员推进他们的职业生涯，并吸引博士生在该领域工作。除了提供一个交流思想的论坛外，会议还将有助于确定未来研究的趋势和领域。超过80%的拨款资金将用于支持学生和年轻研究人员的参与，特别是妇女和代表性不足的群体。会议将邀请来自世界各地学术界、工业界和政府实验室的约150名数学科学家参加。它将继续这一主题的三年一次会议的传统，这种会议始于1973年，是该领域最重要的综合性会议。会议将以八个一小时的调查讲座为特色，讨论当前的热门话题（包括拟蒙特卡罗方法和高维逼近、压缩感知、径向基函数在偏微分方程和金融中的应用、多元正交多项式、等几何分析、有理几何样条、多元多项式和样条逼近）。第八届Vasil A. Popov近似理论奖将在会议上颁发，获奖者将作一次全体演讲。会议将持续四天，并包括约130个额外的受邀和贡献演讲。与以往所有会议一样，会议记录将经过仔细审查和编辑。会议的网址是http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~AT15/

The Principal Investigators will organize the "15th International Conference on Approximation Theory", to be held in San Antonio, Texas on May 22-25, 2016. Participants in this conference will 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 manufacturing (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 will bring together students, junior researchers, and leaders in the field from around the world, aid young researchers in advancing their careers, and attract PhD students to work in the subject. In addition to providing a forum for the exchange of ideas, the meeting will also help identify trends and areas for future research. More than 80% of the grant funding will be devoted to supporting the participation of students and young researchers, especially women and underrepresented groups.The meeting will engage approximately 150 mathematical scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories from around the world. It will continue 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 will feature eight one-hour survey lectures on topics of current interest (including quasi-Monte Carlo methods and high-dimensional approximation, compressive sensing, applications of radial basis functions in partial differential equations and finance, multivariate orthogonal polynomials, isogeometric analysis, rational geometric splines, and multivariate polynomial and spline approximation). The Eighth Vasil A. Popov Prize in Approximation Theory will be awarded at the meeting, with the winner giving one of the plenary lectures. The conference will run for four days and include about 130 additional invited and contributed presentations. As with all of the previous meetings, a carefully reviewed and edited conference proceedings is planned. The web site for the conference is http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~AT15/