News and events

Doctoral defense of Bayram Ali Ibrahimoglu "A study of Lebesgue constants in barycentric rational and multivariate polynomial interpolation" (16.00, Campus Drie Eiken Q0.03).

Matteo Briani awarded the IWT (Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology) doctoral scholarship for strategic basic research​.

Annie Cuyt elected as a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.

Visit of Bernard Mourrain and Evelyne Hubert (INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France) funded by the Tournesol project "Extracting multidimensional shapes".

Lunch seminar "Sound models for music signals" by Matteo Briani (12:15, room G.004).

Visit of Stefano De Marchi (University of Padova, Italy) funded by EU's ERASMUS mobility grant. He gives lectures on Radial Basis Functions (October 14, 16 and 21).

Engelbert Tijskens joins CalcUA Core Facility as an HPC analyst.

Matteo Briani joins our research group as a PhD student.

Wen-shin Lee invited to give a seminar talk “Searching for sparsity” at Fukuoka University (Japan).

Geert Borstlap joins CalcUA Core Facility as an HPC analyst. Before joining our group, Geert worked at Telenet.

Workshop on Developments in Computer Algebra Research and Collaboration with Industry (DCAR 2013) at Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI) in Kyushu University (Japan).

Visit of Irem Yaman (Gebze Institute of Technology, Istanbul, Turkey) sponsored by EU’s ERASMUS mobility grant.

SIAM conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry (SIAM AG 13) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado (USA).  Three talks are contributed by our group:

• “Sparse interpolation and signal processing” (Annie Cuyt and Wen-shin Lee),
• “Numerical reconstruction of polytopes from directional moments”
  (Mathieu Collowald, Annie Cuyt, Evelyne Hubert, Wen-shin Lee),
• “Moment matrices and applications” (Annie Cuyt and Wen-shin Lee).

The session on “Sparse models, interpolation and polynomials” is co-organized by Wen-shin Lee (with Erich Kaltofen and Mark Giesbrecht).