Carl de Boor's students

• Steven A. Pruess, Estimating the eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems by approximating the differential equation, Purdue University, 1970
• David S. Dodson (ddodson@kijabe.net), Optimal order approximation by polynomial spline functions, Purdue University, 1972
• Rong-qing Jia, Spline interpolation and some related topics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983
• Daniel Tien-you Lee (danlee@thu.edu.tw), Some problems in cardinal spline interpolation and approximation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984 Tel : 886-4-23590121 ext 3660
• Thomas A. Grandine (thomas.a.grandine@boeing.com), Computing with multivariate simplex splines, University of Wisconsin, 1985.
• Jörg Peters, Fitting smooth parametric surfaces to 3D data, University of Wisconsin, 1990.
• Thomas James Kunkle (kunklet@cofc.edu), A multivariate interpolant with $n$th derivatives not much larger than necessary, University of Wisconsin, 1991.
• Kang Zhao (kangzhao@yahoo.com), Approximation from principal shift-invariant spaces, University of Wisconsin, 1993.
• Shayne Waldron, $L_2$-error bounds for multivariate polynomial interpolation schemes , University of Wisconsin, 1995.
• Scott Kersey, A minimizing spline curve under near-interpolatory constraints, University of Wisconsin, 1998.

  Here is a souvenir of a very nice occasion in may97.

  Here is a souvenir of another very nice occasion, in Singapore in early dec17 (twenty years later) may97.