RECENT PROGRESS IN MULTIVARIATE APPROXIMATION 4th International Conference, Witten-Bommerholz, September 2000

Jochen W. Schmidt in Memoriam.- Best Approximation of Polynomials on the Sphere and on the Ball.- The Sign of a Harmonic Function Near a Zero.- Radial Basis Functions for the Sphere.- Cubature Formulae for Polyharmonic Functions.- On the Structure of Kergin Interpolation for Points in General Position.- Frames Containing a Riesz Basis and Approximation of the Inverse Frame Operator.- Kronecker Type Convolution of Function Vectors with one Refinable Factor.- Best One-Sided L1-Approximation by B2,1-Blending Functions.- Open Problem: Existence of Hermite Interpolatory Subdivision Schemes with Arbitrary Large Smoothnesses.- Asymptotic Formulas in Cardinal Interpolation and Orthogonal Projection.- Note on d-Extremal Configurations for the Sphere in ?d+1.- Some Cubature Formulae Using Mixed Type Data.- On an Extremal Problem Originating in Questions of Unconditional Convergence.- Node Insertion and Node Deletion for Radial Basis Functions.- Tangent Space Methods for Approximation on Compact Homogeneous Manifolds.- Open Problem Concerning Fourier Transforms of Radial Functions in Euclidean Space and on Spheres.- Local Lagrange Interpolation on Powell-Sabin Triangulations and Terrain Modelling.- The Geometry of Nodes in a Positive Quadrature on the Sphere.- Normalized Tight Frames in Finite Dimensions.- Publications of Jochen W. Schmidt.