Jess & Mildred Fisher College of Science & Mathematics

Department of Mathematics

Second International Workshop on
Algebraic Geometry and Approximation Theory

Schedule

Thursday, April 9
All lectures and the coffee break are held in AD-120.  Refreshments are in YR-320
Time Speaker Topic
  9:15 to 9:45 a.m. David Vanko* and Raouf Boules** Refreshments and opening remarks
10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Ron Goldman Introduction to geometric modeling
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Peter Alfeld Macro elements
12:30 to 2:00 p.m.   Lunch
  2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Carl de Boor The error in multivariate polynomial interpolation
  3:15 to 3:45 p.m. Stefan Tohaneanu Smooth planar r-splines of degree 2r
  4:00 to 4:30 p.m.   Coffee break
  4:30 to 5:15 p.m. Hal Schenck Polytopes, algebra, toric varieties
  5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Boris Shekhtman Introduction into approximation theory
*  Dr. David A. Vanko is the Acting Dean of the Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and
   Mathematics at Towson University.
** Dr. Raouf N.Boules is the Chairperson of the Department of Mathematics at Towson University.

Friday, April 10
All lectures are held in YR-205.  Refreshments and coffee break are in YR-320
Time Speaker Topic
  9:00 to 9:30 a.m.   Refreshments
  9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Frank Sottile Linear precision for toric surface patches
10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Hal Schenck An Alfeld-Schumaker formula for polyhedral splines
12:00 noon to 12:30 p.m Victoria Baramidze Scattered data fitting on the sphere using Bernstein-Bezier spherical splines
12:30 to 4:30 p.m.   Lunch and visit to the Baltimore Museum of Art
  4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Boris Shekhtman Twin problems in approximation and algebraic geometry
  5:30 to 6:00 p.m.   Coffee break
  6:00 to 6:30 p.m. Yuliya Babenko On one extremal property of a regular simplex
  6:45 to 7:15 p.m. Vera Rayevskaya A study of macro-elements with minimal energy


Saturday, April 11
All lectures are held in YR-205.  Refreshments, coffee and closing remarks are in YR-320
Time Speaker Topic
  9:00 to 9:15 a.m.   Refreshments
  9:15 to 10:15 a.m. Ron Goldman B-splines with knots in the complex plane
10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Luis Garcia-Puente Geometric properties of toric patches
11:30 a.m. 12:00 noon Sergiy Borodachov Optimal recovery of certain classes of twice differentiable multivariate functions
12:15 to 12:30 p.m.    Coffee break and closing remarks

Note that AD is the building code for the Administration Building, and YR is the building code for the 7800 York Road building.

For any additional information, please, contact the workshop organizers: Tatyana Sorokina, Towson University and Luis Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University.

 


 

 

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