AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:30

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday October 5, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Sphere-Related Approximation and Applications, I
Room 212, Metro Complex
Organizers:
Edward B. Saff, University of South Florida esaff@math.usf.edu
Larry L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt University s@mars.cas.vanderbilt.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  High Order Approximation on the Sphere using Polynomial Reconstruction.
  Paul O. Frederickson*, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  Howard W. Frederickson, Math Cube Associates, Inc.
  (970-41-214)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Approximation Order of Splines on Spherical Triangulations.
  Mike Neamtu*, Vanderbilt University
  Larry L Schumaker, Vanderbilt University
  (970-65-191)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Approximation in Sobolev Spaces by Kernel Expansions.
  Francis J. Narcowich, Texas A\&M University
  Robert Schaback, Universitat Gottingen
  Joseph D Ward*, Texas A\&M University
  (970-41-16)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Approximation of functions via scattered-data interpolants constructed from smoother spherical basis functions.
  Francis J Narcowich*, Texas A\&M University
  Joseph D Ward, Texas A\&M University
  (970-41-222)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Distribution of points on spheres using finite fields.
  Steven B Damelin*, GSU
  (970-41-61)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Logarithmic points on the sphere.
  Peter D Dragnev*, Indiana-Purdue University
  (970-31-18)

Saturday October 6, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
Special Session on Sphere-Related Approximation and Applications, II
Room 212, Metro Complex
Organizers:
Edward B. Saff, University of South Florida esaff@math.usf.edu
Larry L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt University s@mars.cas.vanderbilt.edu

Inquiries: meet@ams.org