A conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 17-18, 2008, at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, on the occasion of Richard Varga's 80th birthday. There will be personal reminiscences as well as technical talks in the many areas of mathematics, where Richard Varga has made profound contributions, including

    R-ATIONAL APPROXIMATION
    I-NCOMPLETE POLYNOMIALS
    C-YCLIC MATRICES
    H-MATRICES
    A-LTERNATING DIRECTION ITERATION
    R-IEMANN HYPOTHESIS
    D-IFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

    S-PLINES

    V-ERTICES OF GRAPHS 
    A-NALYTIC FUNCTIONS
    R-ATE OF CONVERGENCE
    G-ERSHGORIN DISKS
    A-SYMPTOTICS FOR ZEROS OF PARTIAL SUMS
   
    F-ACTORIZATION OF MATRICES
    E-NTIRE FUNCTIONS
    S-EMI-ITERATIVE METHODS
    T-CHEBYSHEFF APPROXIMATION

If you are interested in participating, please send e-mail to Lothar Reichel reichel@math.kent.edu.

Organizing committee:
  Laura Dykes ldykes@kent.edu.
  Paul Farrell farrell@cs.kent.edu,
  Jing Li li@math.kent.edu,
  Lothar Reichel reichel@math.kent.edu,
  Arden Ruttan ruttan@cs.kent.edu.
  Laura Smithies smithies@math.kent.edu,