VOLUME 14 2001

ADVANCES in COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS

Editor-in-Chief: Charles A. Micchelli The State University of New York at Albany Department of Mathematics and Statistics Albany, NY 12222 U.S.A.

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EDITORIAL BOARD
D.N. Arnold Department of Mathematics Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 U.S.A. dna@math.psu.edu K. Atkinson Department of Mathematics University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 U.S.A. C.T.H. Baker Department of Mathematics University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL U.K. cthbaker@manchester.ac.uk J.J. Benedetto Department of Mathematics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4015 U.S.A. J.H. Bramble Department of Mathematics Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 U.S.A. C. Brezinski UFR IEEA-M3, USTL F-59655 Villeneuve dAscq Cedex France claude.brezinski@univ-lille1.fr K. Burrage Centre for Indust. & Appl. Maths University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland 4072 Australia kb@maths.uq.oz.au C.K. Chui Department of Mathematics University of Missouri at St. Louis St. Louis, MO 63121 U.S.A. M.G. Cox DITC, National Physical Laboratory Teddington Middlesex TW11 0LW U.K. mgc@psg.npl.co.uk W. Dahmen Department of Mathematics RWTH Aachen D-52056 Aachen Germany dahmen@igpm.rwth-aachen.de R.A. DeVore Department of Mathematics University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 U.S.A. devore@maths.scarolina.edu A. Edelman Department of Mathematics 2-380 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. W.H. Enright Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 Canada enright@cs.toronto.edu M. Gasca Departamento de Matemtica Aplicada Universidad de Zaragoza E-50009 Zaragoza Spain gasca@cc.unizar.es T.N.T. Goodman Department of Mathematics University of Dundee Dundee DD1 4HN U.K. tgoodman@mcs.dund.ac.uk Guo Ben-Yu Department of Mathematics Shanghai University Jiading Campus Jiading, Shanghai 201800 Peoples Republic of China T. Hou California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125 U.S.A. A. Iserles DAMTP Cambridge University Silver Street Cambridge CB3 9EW U.K. ai@amtp.cam.ac.uk R.-Q. Jia Department of Mathematics University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G1 Canada jia@xihu.math.ualberta.ca S.L. Lee Department of Mathematics National University of Singapore Singapore 0511 matless1@nusvm.bitnet T. Lyche Institute for Informatik University of Oslo Blindern N-0316 Oslo Norway tom@i.uio.no J.C. Mason School of Computing & Mathematics University of Hudderseld Queensgate Hudderseld HD1 3DH U.K. j.c.mason@hud.ac.uk L. Reichel Institute for Computational Mathematics Kent State University Kent, OH 44242 U.S.A. reichel@mcs.kent.edu J.M. Sanz-Serna Departamento de Matemtica Aplicada y Comp. Universidad de Valladolid Valladolid Spain sanzserna@cpd.uva.es R. Schaback Institut fr Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik Universitt Gttingen D-37083 Gttingen Germany schaback@namu01.gwdg.de L.L. Schumaker Department of Mathematics Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37240 U.S.A. s@mars.cas.vanderbilt.edu S. Seatzu Dipartimento di Matematica Universit di Cagliari I-09123 Cagliari Italy seatzu@vaxcal.infn.it I.H. Sloan School of Mathematics Univesity of New South Wales Kensington, NSW 2033 Australia sloan@hydra.maths.unsw.edu.au E. Tadmor Department of Mathematics UCLA 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 U.S.A. tadmor@math.ucla.edu L.N. Trefethen Oxford Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD U.K. J. Ward Department of Mathematics Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3368 U.S.A. Jinchao Xu Department of Mathematics Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 U.S.A.

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Publishers announcement M.P. CALVO, A. ISERLES and A. ZANNA / Semi-explicit methods for isospectral ows F. KUIJT and R. VAN DAMME / A linear approach to shape preserving spline approximation A. MEISTER and C. VMEL / Efcient preconditioning of linear systems arising from the discretization of hyperbolic conservation laws V. DOMNGUEZ and F.-J. SAYAS / Full asymptotics of spline PetrovGalerkin methods for some periodic pseudodifferential equations

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