New Developments in Approximation Theory: 2nd International Dortmund Meeting (IDoMAT 98), February 23-27, 1998 (International Series of Numerical Mathematics)

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.