Delay equations, approximation, and application : international symposium at the University of Mannheim, October 8-11, 1984

Approximation Theory and Numerical Methods for Delay Differential Equations.- Numerical Integration of Retarded Differential Equations with Periodic Solutions.- Constrained Mesh Methods for Functional Differential Equations.- Distribution of Zeros of Polynomial Sequences, Especially Best Approximations.- On a Conjecture about the Critical Points of a Polynomial.- Inclusion of Solutions of Certain Types of Linear and Nonlinear Delay-Equations.- Interpolation of Odd Periodic Functions on Uniform Meshes.- Simultaneous Interpolation and Norm-Preservation.- Lebesgue Constants and Best Conditions for the Norm-Convergence of Fourier Series.- Stochastic Properties of Simple Differential - Delay Equations.- Bivariate Natural Spline Smoothing.- Best Approximation by Spline Functions: Theory and Numerical Methods.- Reconstruction and Approximation of Functions from Samples.- Time Delay and Doppler Frequency Shift in Radar/Sonar Detection, with Application to Fourier Optics.- Uniqueness of Best L1-Approximations of Continous Functions.- Comparison Theorems in Spline Approximation.- The Differential Correction Algorithm.- Ein mathematisches Modell fur den Reifungsprozess roter Blutkorperchen bei Neugeborenen.- On the P-Stability of One-Step Collocation for Delay Differential Equations.- Some Open Problems.