DWCAA09 aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss ideas, theories, and applications of constructive approximation.
We propose 8 main invited lectures, 4 sessions of contributed talks and a poster session.

Keynote speakers

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• C. de Boor (Madison, USA)
• N. Dyn (Tel-Aviv, IL)
• G. Meurant (Paris, F)
• R. Schaback (Göttingen, D)
• I.H. Sloan (Sydney, AU)
• L.N. Trefethen (Oxford, UK)
• H. Wendland (Sussex, UK)
• Y. Xu (Eugene OR, USA)

Sessions

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• Session A. Polynomial and rational approximation (multivariate interpolation, orthogonal bases, ...).
  Organizers: J. Carnicer (Zaragoza, E) and A. Cuyt (Antwerp, B)
  
  
• Session B. Meshfree methods (RBF, MLS, PU, applications to PDEs, ...).
  Organizers: A. Iske (Hamburg, D) and J. Levesley (Leicester, UK)
  
  
• Session C. Quadrature and cubature formulas, numerical methods for integral equations
  Organizers: E. Venturino (Turin, I)
  
  
• Session D. Approximation methods in numerical linear algebra
  (ill-conditioned systems, matrix functions, ...).
  Organizers: C. Brezinski (Lille, F) and M. Eiermann (Freiberg, D)
  
  
• Session E. Posters
  (general).
  

Tutorial

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• Monday Sept. 7 afternoon.
  The chebfun software system
  Speaker: L.N. Trefethen (Oxford, UK)

Sponsors

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