From 27th to 30th of November the annual SFB Internal Meeting in Obergurgl in Tyrol, Austria, took place. SFB members and invited international participants were giving an insight into their latest research and used the chance to exchange ideas on further research.
Fortunately the weather conditions gave the participants the chance to explore the beautiful area surrounding the University Center in Obergurgl.
We would like to draw your attention to an opening for a PhD position at the Industrial Mathematics Institute of the Johannes Kepler University Linz within the SFB “Tomography Across the Scales” starting from 1 October 2023 (at the earliest).
The 14th Internal SFB Meeting took place, for the first time, at Hotel Bergkristall in Wildalpen between 3-5 July, featuring talks, discussions and even an excursion.
The excursion took the Hopfgartenrunde and had a strong turnout amongst participants. The tour also featured a brief refreshment stop, where participants could enjoy a beverage under the gaze of the surrounding mountains.
Participants were feasted to 16 talks in total, from both SFB members and invited non-members, on various topics from our various sub-projects.
Overall, the meeting was a great success. The SFB members will return once more for the 6th Member Meeting in September. The next Internal SFB Meeting, however, will feature a return to Obergurgl.
Four SFB members, Otmar Scherzer, Ronny Ramlau, Ekaterina Sherina and Denise Schmutz (pictured) attended the Oberwolfach workshop on ‘Tomographic Inverse Problems: Mathematical Challenges and Novel Applications’ between 30 April and 5 May, 2023. Denise Schmutz also received the Oberwolfach Leibniz Graduate Student Grant.
SFB Speaker Otmar Scherzer will be a speaker too at the CIMPA Research Summer School on “Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation in Medicine”, which will be held at the Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, on 4-7 June 2023. There, he will give lectures virtually on topics in inverse problems: an introductory lecture on tomography and a more advanced lecture on numerical inversion. Further details may be found via the link.
SFB member Ekaterina Sherina was invited to give a talk at the International Zoom Inverse Problems seminar at the University of California, Irvine, where she gave an overview of quantitative optical coherence elastograpy and presented recent project results. The talk can be found via the link: https://sites.uci.edu/inverse/ekaterina-sherina-university-of-vienna/
SFB Speaker Otmar Scherzer gave a talk on Newton methods for solving linear inverse problems with neural network coders at a colloquium in Linz which celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Johann Radon Instute (RICAM) and the 70th birthday of its founder, Prof. Heinz W. Engl.
Prof. Heinz W. Engl also gave an interview in which he was asked about how research has developed since his inception of the institute and what his own personal research highlights are, the transcript for which may be found here.
The Austrian Association of Women in Mathematics put the spotlight on Victoria Hutterer for her interview on “kids and career”. For the transcript of her interview, please click the link.
The 13th Internal SFB Meeting took place between 12-15 February in Villa Sonnwend, Roßleiten, Austria. It was an action-packed event featuring notable talks from members, as well as memorable debuts from external and international participants from realms as far flung as Finland.
In addition to the talks, there was a free afternoon on Tuesday 14 February which coincided with Valentine’s Day.
The SFB team welcomes its newest member Stefanie Reiter to its ranks. Stefanie had previously completed her bachelor’s and master’s studies at the University of Vienna’s Department of Astrophysics where she had worked on studying dust dynamics in planetary systems.
“I am currently working as a PhD student at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna on the research project “Interdisciplinary Advances in Extragalactic Archaeology”, which works towards the aim of identifying specific events in the formation histories of nearby galaxies, using orbit-based dynamical modelling in combination with stellar population labels, as certain quantities are approximately conserved during a galaxy’s evolution. For this project, I am working on applying new uncertainty quantification methods for the models and including additional stellar population labels”.
Stefanie Reiter
