Institute for Mathematical Sciences Event Archive

Workshop on Spline Approximation and its Applications on Carl de Boor's 80th Birthday

Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics, NUS

(4 - 6 Dec 2017)

Venue: IMS Auditorium
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Monday, 04 Dec 2017

09:10am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:30am

Estimating a quantity of interest from given data

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Ronald DeVore
Texas A&M University, USA
10:30am - 11:00amGroup Photo & Coffee Break
11:00am - 12:00pm

de Boor's conjecture, past and present

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Alexei Shadrin
University of Cambridge, UK
12:00pm - 02:00pmLunch Break
02:00pm - 03:00pm

The 'Big Bang Theory' of multivariate splines

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Amos Ron
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
03:00pm - 03:30pm

B-spline generated frames and their extensions to locally compact abelian groups

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Say Song Goh
National University of Singapore, Singapore
03:30pm - 04:30pmCoffee Break
04:30pm - 05:30pm

Parametric PDEs: adaptive high-dimensional polynomial approximation

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Wolfgang Dahmen
University of South Carolina, USA

Tuesday, 05 Dec 2017

09:20am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:30am

From B-splines to box splines - the insight and influence of Carl de Boor's work

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Rong-Qing Jia
University of Alberta, Canada
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
11:00am - 12:00pm

Solving systems of spline equations: a linear programming-based approach

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Thomas Grandine
The Boeing Company, USA
12:00pm - 02:00pmLunch Break
02:00pm - 03:00pm

Design and analysis on manifolds with irregular layout

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Jorg Peters
University of Florida, USA
03:00pm - 03:30pm

Inequality constrained spline interpolation

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Scott Kersey
Georgia Southern University, USA
03:30pm - 04:00pmCoffee Break
04:00pm - 04:30pm

From Bernstein approximation to Zauner's conjecture

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Shayne Waldron
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
04:30pm - 05:00pm

On B-spline framelets derived from the unitary extension principle

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Zhiqiang Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
05:00pm - 05:30pm

Wavelet frame based scattered data reconstruction

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Jianbin Yang
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Wednesday, 06 Dec 2017

09:20am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:30am

From analog to digital: on the unifying role of splines in science and engineering 4.0

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Michaël Unser
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
11:00am - 12:00pm

Spline tight frame for image restoration and beyond



Zuowei Shen
National University of Singapore, Singapore
12:00pm - 02:00pmLunch Reception at IMS
02:00pm - 02:30pm

B-spline wavelet based blind image recovery

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Hui Ji
National University of Singapore, Singapore
02:30pm - 03:00pm

Multivariate wavelet frames through constant matrix completion via the duality principle

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Andreas Heinecke
Yale-NUS College, Singapore
03:00pm - 03:30pmCoffee Break
03:30pm - 04:00pm

Wavelet frame transforms and differential operators: bridging discrete and continuum for image restoration

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Bin Dong
Peking University, China
04:00pm - 04:30pm

MRA-based wavelet frames and digital Gabor filters

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Yufei Zhao
National University of Singapore, Singapore
04:30pm - 05:00pm

Efficient numerical methods for L0-norm related minimizations

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Chenglong Bao
National University of Singapore, Singapore