1st DOLOMITES WORKSHOP ON CONSTRUCTIVE APPROXIMATION AND APPLICATIONS

dedicated to Walter Gautschi for his 50 years of professional activity
Alba di Canazei, Trento (Italy), September 8-12, 2006


Canazei
University of Verona, at Alba di Canazei



General info (updated on June 7, 2006)

A workshop dedicated to Walter Gautschi for his 50 years of professional activity will be held in

Alba di Canazei, Val di Fassa (Trento), Italy.
University of Verona, via de Sorapera, 25-27, 38030 Alba di Canazei (TN).

We propose 15 main invited lectures, a session of contributed talks, a poster session and a special session on Applications to Finance.

DWCAA06 aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss ideas, theories, and applications. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together people working in approximation and in particular we intend to cover the following


Main Topics

- Approximation by Multivariate Polynomials (Interpolation, Orthogonal Polynomials, ...)
- Approximation by Radial Basis Functions and other Meshfree Methods
- Cubature Methods
- Computational Tools
- Applications to Scientific Computing
- Applications to Numerical Modelling in Engineering and Finance


Invited speakers

- B. Bojanov (University of Sofia, BG)
- L. Bos (University of Calgary, CA)
- M. Bozzini (University of Milan, I)
- C. Brezinski (University of Lille, F)
- M. Buhmann (University of Giessen, D)
- C. de Boor (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA).
- G. Fasshauer (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA)
- A. Iske (University of Hamburg, D)
- J. Levesley (University of Leicester, UK)
- L. Montefusco (University of Bologna, I)
- T. Sauer (University of Giessen, D)
- R. Schaback (University of Goettingen, D)
- I. H. Sloan (University of New South Wales, Sydney, AU)
- H. Wendland (University of Dresden, D)
- Y. Xu (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA)

Sponsors