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Edward Barry Saff<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Distinguished Professor of Mathematics<\/strong>
\n Director, Center for Constructive Approximation<\/strong>
\n1326 Stevenson Center
\nVanderbilt University
\nNashville, TN 37240
\nEmail: edward.b.saff@vanderbilt.edu,\u00a0 Office phone: +1\u00a0 615 322 2014<\/p>\n

Upcoming Conferences\/Programs<\/h2>\n

“Constructive Functions 2025”,\u00a0 Shanks Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee,\u00a0 to be held May 19 –22, 2025, see website: https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/constructivefunctions2025\/<\/p>\n

Recent Book<\/h2>\n

“Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets” (jointly authored with S. Borodachov and D. Hardin), Springer Monographs in Mathematics, 2019. ISBN 978-0-387-84807-5 (666 pages) https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9780387848075
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Recent Articles<\/h2>\n

“Riesz Energy with a Radial External Field: When is the Equilibrium Support a Sphere?” (with Djalil Chafa\u00ef<\/a>, Ryan W. Matzke<\/a>, Minh Quan H. Vu<\/a>, Robert S. Womersley<\/a>), https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2405.00120<\/p>\n

On a problem of E. Meckes for the unitary eigenvalue process on an arc, (with Liudmyla Kryvonos<\/a>), accepted by Analysis and Math Physics journal, https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2402.11096<\/p>\n

Energy bounds for weighted spherical codes and designs via linear programming, (with Sergiy Borodachov<\/a>, Peter Boyvalenkov<\/a>, Peter Dragnev<\/a>, Douglas Hardin<\/a>, Maya Stoyanova<\/a>) arXiv:2403.07457<\/a><\/p>\n

Universal minima of discrete potentials for sharp spherical codes, (with P. Boyvalenkov, P. Dragnev, D.P. Hardin and M. Stoyanova), accepted for publication in <\/span>Revista Matem\u00e1tica Iberoamericana.\u00a0 https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2211.00092.pdf<\/p>\n

On Polarization of Spherical Codes and Designs (with P. Boyvalenkov, P. Dragnev, D.P. Hardin and M. Stoyanova), JMAA (J. Math Analysis and Appl.) , Vol. 524, #1, August 2023, 127065. arXiv:2207.08807<\/a><\/p>\n

Archetype tasks link intratumoral heterogeneity to plasticity and 2cancer hallmarks in small cell lung cancer (with Sarah M. Groves et al), Cell Systems, 2022 Sep 21;13(9):690-710.e17. <\/span>doi: 10.1016\/j.cels.2022.07.006. <\/span> Epub 2022 Aug 17. <\/span><\/p>\n

Point source equilibrium problems with connections to weighted quadrature domains,(with P. Dragnev and A. Legg), Indag. Math. (N.S.)<\/a> 34 <\/a><\/span>(2023<\/a>)<\/span>, no. 2<\/a><\/span>, 200\u2013218. arXiv:2203.09421<\/a>
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Threshold Condensation to Singular Support for a Riesz Equilibrium Problem (with Djalil Chafa\u00ef and Robert S. Womersley), Analysis and Math Phys, Vol. 13, article 19, Jan. 30, 2023.\u00a0 https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2206.04956<\/p>\n

On the solution of a Riesz equilibrium problem and integral
\nidentities for special functions (with Djalil Chafa\u00ef and Robert S. Womersley),
\nJ. Math. Anal. and App., Volume 515, Issue 1, 1 November 2022, 126367<\/p>\n

Asymptotics of k-nearest neighbor Riesz energies (with D.P. Hardin and O.Vlasiuk) Constructive Approximation journal, DOI:https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00365-023-09641-5, April, 2023.\u00a0 https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2201.00474<\/p>\n

Riesz Energy Problems with External Fields and Related Theory (with P. Dragnev, R. Orive and F. Wielonsky) , Constr. Approx.<\/a> 57 <\/a><\/span>(2023<\/a>)<\/span>, no. 1<\/a><\/span>, 1\u201343. arXiv:2104.03733<\/a>
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Dynamics of particles on a curve with pairwise hyper-singular repulsion (with D. Hardin, R. Shu, E. Tadmor), Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst.<\/a> 41 <\/a><\/span>(2021<\/a>)<\/span>, no. 12<\/a><\/span>, 5509\u20135536.\u00a0 arXiv:2010.05431<\/a>
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