Rick Beatson

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8020, NEW ZEALAND
Approximation Theory and Harmonic Analysis
Webpage for a conference which was held in Auckland, New Zealand,
February 8-11, 2005.   
Co-organisers: Shayne Waldron (Auckland), Qui Bui (Canterbury) and myself.

Courses   MATH 105 Mathematics 1B

                   MATH 410 EMTH605 Approximation Theory 1

                  Beginning Matlab booklet

 Research 
 My recent research has focused on the Approximation Theory and Numerical Analysis
 of fast computation and smoothing with radial basis functions. This work is motivated by      
 applications to geophysics, image processing, computer graphics and custom
 manufacture. 

  Publications and downloads

  Email : R.Beatson@math.canterbury.ac.nz
  Web  :  http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~mathrkb

 
Above and to right.

Examples of fitting radial basis function implicit surfaces to point clouds.