Graduate & Undergraduate Student Seminar (GAUSS)

Speaker: 
Kathryn McCormick
Topic: 
"Polynomial approximation"

Abstract:  
In many applications we would like to approximate a complicated process using less complicated objects. Continuous functions are very useful but can be fairly complicated; polynomials are well-understood and have a lot of structure. Therefore, we might want to try estimating a ‘random’ continuous function using a polynomial, and measure how close this approximation gets. In this talk, I will present and compare two proofs of the fact that you can uniformly approximate any continuous function on an interval $[a,b]$ by polynomials.

Event Date: 
March 23, 2018 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
TBA
Calendar Category: 
Seminar