Guangzhou International Symposium on Computational Mathematics August 11-15, 1997 Zhongshan University Guangzhou People's Republic of China Invited Speakers Scope: The purpose of this symposium is to bring together experts in the field The folowing people have accepted of computational mathematics to present an invitation to give a lecture state-of-the-art developments in the at the conference: field, to exchange points of view and especially to encourage interaction and collaboration among mathematicians from Carl deBoor (USA) the region and their international James Bramble (USA) colleagues. The symposium also aims at Susanne Brenner (USA) promoting the mathematical activities in Claude Brezinski (France) the field of computational mathematics Raymond Chan (Hong Kong) by fostering cooperation among Tony Chan (USA) practitioners and theoreticians in this Zhongying Chen (China) field. C. K. Chui (USA) Andrew Conn (USA) Those who are interested in Wolfgang Dahmen (Germany) participating in the meeting should send Ronald DeVore (USA) titles and abstracts of their proposed Craig C. Douglas (USA) talks by Feb. 15, 1997. A schedule of Jim Douglas (USA) the lectures will b by May 31, 1997. Iain Duff (UK) Alan Edleman (USA) Topics: approximation, optimization, Mariano Gasca (Spain) wavelet analysis, numerical solutions of Roland Glowinski (USA) differential equations and integral Gene Golub (USA) equations, inverse and ill-posed T. N. T. Goodman (UK) problems, numerical linear algebra, Bill Gragg (USA) geometrlc modellng, neural network Benyu Guo (China) approximation, signal and image Weimin Han (USA) processing and applications. Hongci Huang (Hong Kong) Ilse Ipsen (USA) Proceedings: Referred conference R.-Q.Jia (Canada) proceedings will be published. M. J. Lai (USA) Wayne Lawton (Singapore) Organizing Committee: Yue-Sheng Li Seng Luan Lee (Singapore) (China), Charles A. Micchelli (USA), Alain LeMehaute (France) Rizhang Hu (China), Yuesheng Xu (USA). Xin Li (USA) Tom Lyche (Norway) Scientific Committee: Wolfgang Dahmen Stephen McCormick (USA) (Germany), Craig C. Douglas (USA), M. Z. Nashed (USA) Mariano Gasca (Spain), T. N. T. Goodman Allan Pinkus (Israel) (UK), Hongci Huang (Hong Kong), Seng Siegfried Proessdorf (Germany) Luan Lee (Singapore), Alain LeMehaute D. X. Qi (China) (France), Ronghua Li (China), Qun Lin Vladimir Rokhlin (USA) (China), Sebastiano Seatzu (Italy), Thomas Sauer (Germany) Zhongci Shi (China) Ian H. Sloan Robert Schaback (Germany) (Australia). Sebastiano Seatzu (Italy) Zuowei Shen (Singapore) Information: All correspondence should Avram Sidi (Israel) be sent to: Ian H. Sloan (Australia) Gil Strang (USA) Yuesheng Xu Li-Yeng Sung (USA), Department of Mathematics Richard Varga (USA) North Dakota State University G. A. Watson (UK) Fargo, ND 58105 USA Yuan Xu (USA) Long-An Ylng (China) e-mail: xu@plains.nodak.edu Yiaxiang Yuan (China) Ding Xuan Zhou (Hong Kong)