Along with the many plenary speakers, the contributors to this proceedings provided inspiring talks and set a high standard of exposition in their descriptions of new directions for research. Many relevant topics in approximation theory are included in this book, such as abstract approximation, approximation with constraints, interpolation and smoothing, wavelets and frames, shearlets, orthogonal polynomials, univariate and multivariate splines, and complex approximation.
Marian Neamtu is Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Larry L. Schumaker is Stevenson Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.