Logarithmic Potentials with External Fields

​Edward B. Saff received his B.S. in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, where he was a student of the renowned analyst Joseph L. Walsh. Saff's research areas include approximation theory, numerical analysis, and potential theory. He has published more than 290 mathematical research articles, co-authored 9 books, and co-edited 11 volumes. Recognitions of his research include his election as a SIAM Fellow (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) in 2023, as a Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2013, as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978. Saff is co-Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of the research journal Constructive Approximation and serves on the editorial boards of Computational Methods and Function Theory and the Journal of Approximation Theory. He has mentored 18 Ph.D.'s as well as 13 post-docs. Saff is currently Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University.

Vilmos Totik was educated in Hungary and was a professor of mathematics at the University of Szeged and the University of South Florida until his retirement. His main research interest is classical mathematical analysis, approximation theory, orthogonal polynomials and potential theory. He has published (partially with co-authors) 5 monographs, one problem book in set theory and about 220 research papers in various disciplines.

愛德華·B·薩夫（Edward B. Saff）於喬治亞理工學院獲得數學學士學位，並在馬里蘭大學獲得博士學位，期間他是著名分析家約瑟夫·L·沃爾什（Joseph L. Walsh）的學生。薩夫的研究領域包括逼近理論、數值分析和勢理論。他已發表超過290篇數學研究文章，合著9本書籍，並共同編輯11卷。對於他的研究，薩夫於2023年當選為工業與應用數學學會（SIAM）會士，2013年當選為保加利亞科學院外籍成員，2013年當選為美國數學學會會士，以及1978年獲得古根海姆獎學金。薩夫目前是《建設性逼近》（Constructive Approximation）研究期刊的共同主編和管理編輯，並擔任《計算方法與函數理論》（Computational Methods and Function Theory）及《逼近理論期刊》（Journal of Approximation Theory）的編輯委員會成員。他指導過18位博士生及13位博士後研究員。薩夫目前是范德堡大學的數學特聘教授。

維爾莫斯·托提克（Vilmos Totik）在匈牙利接受教育，並曾擔任塞格德大學和南佛羅里達大學的數學教授，直到退休。他的主要研究興趣是古典數學分析、逼近理論、正交多項式和勢理論。他已發表（部分與合著者共同）5本專著、一部集合論問題書以及約220篇各學科的研究論文。