Approximation Theorists in Australasia

You can send mail to all those listed below by writing to their collective e-mail address which is anz.approx@math.auckland.ac.nz.

Jump to: Adelaide, Auckland, Bendigo, Brisbane, Canberra, Christchurch, Hobart, Sydney

Adelaide, Australia

• Image Processing Group of the Land, Space and Optoelectronics Division, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury, South Australia
  • Garry Newsam (garry.newsam@dsto.defence.gov.au)
    Numerical approximation, smoothing splines, fast algorithms for radial basis functions, inverse problems, image processing
• Department of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
  • Sylvan Elhay (elhay@cs.adelaide.edu.au)
    Orthogonal polynomials, data fitting, gauss quadratures, etc (via numerical linear algebra). Inverse problems - partial pole assignment and reconstruction from spectral data - for quadratic pencils
• Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Levels Campus, University of South Australia, South Australia
  • Phil Howlett (p.howlett@unisa.edu.au)
    Approximation and interpolation of nonlinear operators in the modelling of dynamical systems, matrix approximation theory and algorithms, radial basis functions, sigmoidal functions etc
• Department of Pure Mathematics, The University of Adelaide, South Australia
  • Burkhard Polster (bpolster@maths.adelaide.edu.au)
    Chebyshev systems, unisolvent and varisolvent sets, non-linear Lagrange and Hermite interpolation, various notions of convexity

Auckland, New Zealand

• Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Norm Levenberg (levenber@math.auckland.ac.nz)
    Several Complex Variables and Approximation Theory
  • Andrew Reztsov (reztsov@scitec.auckland.ac.nz)
    Approximation Theory, Numerical Analysis and Computing
  • Shayne Waldron (waldron@math.auckland.ac.nz)
    Multivariate Peano kernel theory and related norm inequalities (applications to numerical rules)
• Department of Mathematics, Albany campus of Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Shaun Cooper (S.Cooper@massey.ac.nz)
    Special Functions

Bendigo, Australia

• Department of Mathematics, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia
  • Graeme Byrne (g.byrne@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au)
    Approximation by interpolation polynomials
  • Rob Champion (r.champion@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au)
    Variational splines, history of splines, applications of smoothing techniques to science and engineering
  • Christopher Lenard (c.lenard@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au)
    Variational splines, numerical linear algebra
  • Terry Mills (t.mills@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au)
    Interpolation, smoothing, history of algorithms
  • Joe Petrolito (j.petrolito@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au)
    Finite element methods and applications especially to engineering
  • Simon Smith (s.smith@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au)
    Interpolation polynomials, asymptotic estimates of errors, Lebesgue constants

Brisbane, Australia

• Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • Xian-Zhi (George) Yuan (xzy@maths.uq.oz.au)
    Nonlinear Functional Analysis related to Approximation Theory

Canberra, Australia

• Advanced Computation Group, School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  • Mike Osborne (mike@thrain.anu.edu.au)
    Optimisation, non-smooth analysis, statistical algorithms (especially smoothing splines)

Christchurch, New Zealand

• Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Rick Beatson (R.Beatson@math.canterbury.ac.nz)
    Fast algorithms and error estimates for radial basis functions (applications to image processing and natural resource modelling)
  • Allan McInnes (A.Mcinnes@math.canterbury.ac.nz)
    Padé approximation and generalizations such as quadratic approximation
• Centre for Computing and Biometrics, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Keith Unsworth (unsworth@whio.lincoln.ac.nz)
    Computer Aided Geometric Design

Hobart, Australia

• Department of Mathematics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
  • David Elliott (elliott@hilbert.maths.utas.edu.au)
    Approximate solution of (1-dimensional) singular integral equations (with Cauchy and/or Mellin kernels), quadrature for singular integrals

Sydney, Australia

• School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • Ian Sloan (I.Sloan@unsw.edu.au)
    Multiple integration, interpolation/linear approximation, boundary integral equations, finite element methods