Topic #2 ----------- OP-SF NET 15.6 ---------- November 15, 2008 From: atsa@helmholtz-muenchen.de Subject: Workshop "Approximation Theory and Signal Analysis" This is the first announcement for the workshop "APPROXIMATION THEORY AND SIGNAL ANALYSIS" organized by the Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry at the Helmholtz Center Munich. The workshop will take place at the Hotel "Bayerischer Hof" in Lindau (Lake Constance), Germany on on March 21-24, 2009. The workshop is dedicated to Professor Paul Leo Butzer on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from the various areas of Approximation Theory and Signal Analysis and to stimulate a fruitful research tmosphere. The workshop program consists of invited one-hour lectures and contributed 25-minute talks. The one hour lectures will be given by Karlheinz Groechenig, Universität Wien, Austria Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of Central Florida, U.S.A. Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar, California State University, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Paul Nevai, Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A. Winfried Sickel, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany Rudolf Stens, RWTH Aachen, Germany Walter Trebels, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Further information on the workshop including accommodation, travel directions, etc. will be available soon on a web page which is currently in preparation. If you have any question please contact atsa@helmholtz-muenchen.de We would like to invite you to contribute to the workshop. Sincerely yours, Wolfgang zu Castell Frank Filbir Rupert Lasser Juergen Prestin