Center for Constructive Approximation

The Center for Constructive Approximation comprises faculty, students, and visiting researchers working in Approximation Theory and related areas in Analysis, Spline and Wavelet Theory, and Numerical Analysis. The list of people includes: Akram Aldroubi, Doug Hardin, Mike Neamtu, Alex Powell, Ed Saff, Larry Schumaker, and also other faculty with interest in this general area. The Center also houses the editorial headquarters of Constructive Approximation, an international journal for approximations and expansions.

News

Center Enters Cooperative Agreement With Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The Center for Constructive Approximation recently entered into a cooperative agreement with the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences to promote future research collaboration between the two.

Prof. Ed Saff, director of the Center for Constructive Approximation, and Julian Revalski, director of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, signed the agreement on February 27, 2014 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The meeting included discussions of future collaborative research efforts and the mentoring of young mathematicians. A workshop has already been planned for October, 2014 in Sofia.

Constructive Approximation JournalPublishes Special Issue on Painlevé Equations

Constructive Approximation recently published Part II of a two-part Special Issue on Painlevé Equations. Part II was released in June 2015 as Volume 41, Issue 3, while Part I was published in February 2014 as Volume 39, Issue 1.

The Special Issue covers Painlevé equations and their connections with orthogonal polynomials and special functions as well as related numerical methods. The editors of the Special Issue are Percy Deift (Courant Institute, New York) and Alexander Its (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis).

Both parts are available on the Springer web site.

Ed Saff Elected to Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Ed Saff, director of the Center for Constructive Approximation, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

According to Stefan Vodenicharov, president of the academy, Saff was selected in recognition of “our high esteem for his merits and activities as a world-renowned scientist in the field of mathematics and constructive approximation in particular.” President Vodenicharov also expressed gratitude on behalf of the Bulgarian community for Saff’s contributions to the enhancement of cooperation between scientists of Bulgaria and the United States. Read more.