Marian Neamtu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University. His current research interests are in approximation theory, splines, geometric design, and numerical analysis.
Larry L. Schumaker is Stevenson Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University. He is a fellow of the AMS, a SIAM fellow, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of three books on splines, and is a co-editor of over 40 proceedings volumes. He continues to do research on splines and their applications.