New Developments in Approximation Theory

Michael Felten, geb. 1951, arbeitet seit 28 Jahren als Gymnasiallehrer für Mathematik und Kunst in Köln. Er ist Autor von Unterrichtsmaterialien und Präventionsmedien, Erziehungsratgebern und pädagogischen Essays.

Feller Semigroups, Bernstein type Operators and Generalized Convexity Associated with Positive Projections.- Gregory's Rational Cubic Splines in Interpolation Subject to Derivative Obstacles.- Interpolation by Splines on Triangulations Oleg Davydov.- On the Use of Quasi-Newton Methods in DAE-Codes.- On the Regularity of Some Differential Operators.- Some Inequalities for Trigonometric Polynomials and their Derivatives.- Inf-Convolution and Radial Basis Functions.- On a Special Property of the Averaged Modulus for Functions of Bounded Variation.- A Simple Approach to the Variational Theory for Interpolation on Spheres.- Constants in Comonotone Polynomial Approximation - A Survey.- Will Ramanujan kill Baker-Gammel-Wills? (A Selective Survey of Padé Approximation).- Approximation Operators of Binomial Type.- Certain Results involving Gammaoperators.- Recent research at Cambridge on radial basis functions.- Representation of quasi-interpolants as differential operators and applications.- Native Hilbert Spaces for Radial Basis Functions I.- Adaptive Approximation with Walsh-similar Functions.- Dual Recurrence and Christoffel-Darboux-Type Formulas for Orthogonal Polynomials.- On Some Problems of Weighted Polynomial Approximation and Interpolation.- Asymptotics of derivatives of orthogonal polynomials based on generalized Jacobi weights. Some new theorems and applications.- List of participants.