Preface; Submitted talks; 1. M. J. D. Powell's contributions to numerical
mathematics M. D. Buhmann and R. Fletcher; 2. MJDP-BCS industrial liaison:
applications to defence science I. Barrodale and C. Zala; 3. On the
Meir/Sharma/Hall/Meyer analysis of the spline interpolation error C. de
Boor; 4. Asymptotically optimal approximation and numerical solutions of
differential equations M. D. Buhmann, C. A. Micchelli and A. Ron; 5. On the
convergence of derivative-free methods for unconstrained optimization A. R.
Conn, K. Scheinberg and Ph. L. Toint; 6. Least squares fitting to
univariate data subject to restrictions on the signs of the second
differences I. C. Demetriou and M. J. D. Powell; 7. A framework for
interpolation and approximation on Riemannian manifolds N. Dyn, F. J.
Narcowich and J. D. Ward; 8. Dense factors of sparse matrices R. Fletcher;
9. Optimization environments and the NEOS Server W. Gropp and J. J. Moré;
10. New versions of qd for products of bidiagonals B. N. Parlett; 11. On
adjusting parameters in homotopy methods for linear programming M. J. Todd.
