Computational Harmonic Analysis
May 24-28, 2004
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

The conference featured several tutorial lectures about established and growing links between Analysis in general, and Harmonic Analysis in particular, to Applied Mathematics, Natural and Life Sciences, and Industrial Mathematics.
Organizing committee: Akram Aldroubi, Charles Chui, Doug Hardin, Edward Saff More Information: Conference website

Eleventh International Conference in Approximation Theory
May 18-22, 2004
Gatlinburg, TN

This conference was a continuation of the earlier conferences on approximation theory held in Austin (1973, 1976, 1980, 1992), College Station (1983, 1986, 1989, 1995), Nashville (1998), and St. Louis (2001). These meetings have been well attended by mathematicians from academia, industry, and government. During the conference, the Fourth Popov Prize was awarded to Serguei Denissov of the California Institute of Technology (shown.) The Popov Prize is awarded every third year to a young mathematician who has made outstanding research contributions to approximation theory and/or related areas.

Organizing committee: Charles Chui, Mike Neamtu, Larry Schumaker More Information: Conference website

Computational Analysis on the Sphere Workshop
December 5-7, 2003
Nashville, TN

The Sphere Workshop was conducted by the Center for Constructive Approximation in cooperation with the Australian Center of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems. Topics included approximation and interpolation on the sphere, minimum energy and related points, and spherical designs.
Organizing committee: Edward Saff, Ian Sloan More Information: Conference website

Advances in Constructive Approximation
May 14-17, 2003
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

This four-day international conference was attended by 130 mathematicians from 24 countries. Eight one-hour survey talks and 93 contributed research talks presented the latest research in approximation theory from around the world. The Proceedings of the Conference were recently published under the title, Advances in Constructive Approximation, Vanderbilt, 2003 (edited by Profs. Mike Neamtu and Edward B. Saff.)

Organizing committee: Akram Aldroubi, Doug Hardin, Mike Neamtu, and Edward Saff More Information: Conference website