Thirteenth International Conference on Approximation Theory for March 7-10, 2010 in San Antonio, TX

SchumakerDMS-0931107 研究人员和他的同事组织了一次关于近似理论及其应用的国际会议，强调了最近的理论进展，新兴领域和应用领域的发展。 会议包括全体讲座抽象近似，多元样条，非线性近似，径向基函数，细分方法，成像和信号处理，小波。 包括在新兴领域的minisymphopsia和贡献的文件的平行会议。 粗略地说，近似理论是一个数学领域，它寻求通过其他更简单的数学对象的组合来有效地表示一种数学对象。 例如，一个区间上的连续函数或多或少可以用一个与原始函数相交的多项式函数来表示，也许更好的方法是将区间分解成子区间，并用不同的多项式来表示每个子区间上的函数。 这一思想出现在数学的许多领域，并在整个科学和工程中得到应用。 研究者和他的同事组织了一次国际会议，专门讨论近似理论及其应用，强调最近的理论进展，新兴领域和应用领域的发展。 会议汇集了成熟的研究人员和学生，为思想提供了一个市场，并有助于确定科学，工程和信息技术的新机遇的趋势和领域。

SchumakerDMS-0931107 The investigator and his colleague organize an international conference on approximation theory and its applications, emphasizing recent theoretical advances, emerging areas, and developments in areas of applications. The meeting includes plenary lectures in abstract approximation, multivariate splines, nonlinear approximation, radial basis functions, subdivision methods, imaging and signal processing, and wavelets. Parallel sessions of minisymposia in emerging areas and of contributed papers are included. Roughly speaking, approximation theory is an area of mathematics that seeks effective representations of one sort of mathematical object by a combination of other, simpler sorts of mathematical objects. For instance, a continuous function on an interval can be represented more or less well by a polynomial function that intersects the original function, and perhaps better by breaking up the interval into subintervals and representing the function on each subinterval by a different polynomial. This idea arises in a great many areas of mathematics and has application throughout science and engineering. The investigator and his colleague organize an international conference devoted to approximation theory and its applications, emphasizing recent theoretical advances, emerging areas, and developments in areas of applications. The conference brings together established researchers and students, provides a marketplace for ideas, and helps identify trends and areas of new opportunity in science, engineering, and information technology.