Arno Kuijlaars receives 1998 Popov prize

[thk (Tom H. Koornwinder)]

The following is based on a message from prof. Jaap Korevaar
<korevaar@wins.uva.nl> and on the URL
http://math.vanderbilt.edu/events/approx.html

		Tom Koornwinder <thk@wins.uva.nl>
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On January 4, 1998 Dr. A.B.J. ("Arno") Kuijlaars has received the
international Popov prize.

The second Vasil A. Popov Prize was awarded at the Ninth Texas
International Conference on Approximation Theoryheld in January 1998
in Nashville, Tennessee.  The prize has been established in memory of
Vasil A. Popov and his contributions to approximation theory and
related areas of mathematics.

The prize is awarded every three years for outstanding research
contributions in fields related to Vasil Popov's work. Albert Cohen
was the first recipient of the Vasil A. Popov Prize awarded in 1995.
Eligibility for this prize is restricted to mathematicians who did not
have their terminal degree on June 1, 1991. The winner of the prize
will be asked to deliver a plenary lecture at the Texas conference.

The Selection Committee for the Vasil A. Popov Prize consists of
Charles Chui, Ronald A. DeVore, Paul Nevai, Alan Pinkus, Pencho
Petrushev, and Edward Saff.

Arno has received the prize for his innovating applications of
potential theory to various problems from approximation theory.
Nowadays this concerns in particular the accurate study of equilibrium
distributions on a conductor in the presence of an exterior field,
cf. [1].

Kuijlaars obtained his PhD in 1991 at the University of Utrecht under
the guidance of prof. E.M.J. Bertin on a topic from abstract potential
theory. He started with his present, more concrete work as a post-doc
at the University of Amsterdam (1992-1995) under the guidance of
prof. J. Korevaar.  He has also worked during a short period with the
well-known approximation theory specialist prof. E. Saff at the
University of South Florida (Tampa), with the numerical analyst
prof. W. Gautschi at Purdue University (Lafayette, Indiana) and with
the approximation theory specialist prof. W. Van Assche in Leuven
(Belgium). At the moment he is working at the City University of
Hong Kong with prof. R. Wong.  Shortly he will start in a more permanent
position at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

e-mail adres Kuijlaars: maarno@math.cityu.edu.hk

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[1] E.B. Saff and V. Totik, Logarithmic potentials with external fields.
Grundlehren der math. Wissenschaften, vol. 316, Springer, Berlin, 1997.