CAA: Padova-Verona research group on
"Constructive Approximation and Applications"

We have been collaborating since 2005 in the field of Constructive Approximation and Applications in the broad sense, with a special interest in the study and implementation of effective approximation algorithms, and in the production of reliable numerical software.


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Here are the people belonging to the CAA research group (our average Erdos number: 2.6)

Len Bos (Computer Science, Verona)     Marco Caliari (Computer Science, Verona)    

Stefano De Marchi (Mathematics, Padova)     Alvise Sommariva (Mathematics, Padova)    

Marco Vianello (Mathematics, Padova)


Ph.D. students and post-docs:

Wolfgang Erb (post-doc, Mathematics, Padova)      Francesco Marchetti (Woman and Child's Health, Padova)     

Emma Perracchione (post-doc, Mathematics, Padova)      Federico Piazzon (post-doc, Mathematics, Padova)     

Davide Poggiali (post-doc, Mathematics, Padova)      Franco Zivcovich (Computer Science, Verona)

abroad:
Gaspare Da Fies (Aberystwyth)     Giacomo Elefante (Fribourg)      Gabriele Santin (Padova, post-doc at Stuttgart)

Past and present graduate collaborators:
Anna Bassi, Claudia Bittante, Matteo Briani, Mattia Festa, Mariano Gentile, Andrea Idda,
Martina Marchioro, Roberto Montagna, Mariangela Narduzzo, Valeria Piciocchi,
Alessandro Punzi, Amos Sironi, Martina Zaccaron

Coordinators:

   Stefano De Marchi       Marco Vianello

National collaborations:

RITA (Rete ITaliana di Approssimazione)

Local collaborations:

D. Cecchin (Diagnostic Imaging, Padova)

P. Gallo (Neurosciences, Padova)

F. Marcuzzi (Mathematics, Padova)

M. Putti (Mathematics, Padova)

International contacts and collaborations:

Kendall Atkinson (Iowa City)     Brian Bauman (LLNL, USA)     Leokadia Bialas-Ciez (Krakow)    

Jean-Paul Calvi (Toulouse)     Annie Cuyt (Antwerp)     Carl de Boor (Madison)     Wolfgang Erb (Honolulu)    

Greg Fasshauer (Golden)     Mahadevan Ganesh (Golden)     Walter Gautschi (Purdue)    

Kai Hormann (Lugano)     Armin Iske (Hamburg)     András Kroó (Budapest)     Paul Leopardi (Melbourne)    

Norm Levenberg (Bloomington)     Gerard Meurant (Paris)     Alexander Ostermann (Innsbruck)    

Leszek Plaskota (Warsaw)     Wieslaw Plesniak (Krakow)     Francesca Rapetti (Nice)    

Robert Schaback (Göttingen)     Ian Sloan (UNSW Sydney)     Shayne Waldron (Auckland)    

Holger Wendland (Bayreuth)     Grady Wright (Boise)     Yuan Xu (Eugene)