On the 16th of July 2019 SFB coordinator Otmar Scherzer explained in the widely read newspaper “Kronenzeitung” within the weekly column “Krone der Wissensschaft” the general principles of tomography and in of particular photoacoustic tomography. The article is available in print only, but can be acquired here.
SFB goes to Banff, Canada
Otmar Scherzer was a member of the organizing committee of the “Reconstruction Methods for Inverse Problems” workshop in Banff, Canada, June 23-28, 2019. This workshop brought together researchers working on inverse problems coming from medical imaging, non destructive testing, computer vision and geophysics. The PI of sub-project “Quantitative Coupled Physics Imaging”, Peter Elbau and the post-doctoral researcher of the sub-project “Tomography with Uncertainties”, Ekaterina Sherina presented their recent work related to our SFB project.
“Saving human lives with mathematics”
Otmar Scherzer gave an interview for the newspaper “die Presse” describing the scopes of the sub-project Quantitative Imaging. You can read it here (in german). An article (in english) describing the mathematics involved in emerging imaging techniques appeared in Innovation Origins.
Adaptive optics in ophthalmic imaging
Günter Auzinger (JKU, Linz), associate member at Tomography in Astronomy group, writes on ECMI Blog:
ECMI A problem at the low end of the scale
Fabian Hinterer, soon employed as PhD student at Tomography in Astronomy group, writes on ECMI Blog:
Günter Auzinger has a golden brain
Above and beyond: SFB Member Workshop.
The first SFB Member Workshop took place in Altenmarkt im Pongau, September 12-14. Members and external associated researchers had the opportunity to talk about first findings, current problems and their ideas for future investigations. Beyond that the time was used for interesting discussions and the team building was elevated above the ground in a high rope course. As a guest Günter Auzinger, the European Science Slam winner 2018, performed his entertaining and informative act.
Reconstruction Methods for Inverse Problems (19w5092)
at Banff, Alberta from Sunday, June 23 to Friday June 28, 2019
Organizers
- Elena Beretta (NYU Abu Dhabi & Politecnico di Milano)
- Uri Ascher (University of British Columbia)
- Otmar Scherzer (University of Vienna)
- Luminita Vese (University of California, Los Angeles)
Description
Inverse problems require to determine the cause from a set of indirect observations. Such problems appear in medical imaging, non destructive testing of materials, computerized tomography, source reconstructions in acoustics, computer vision and geophysics, to mention but a few. The 21st century is the golden age of computer imaging: Measurement devices have become enormously powerful and huge amounts of data are recorded at every eye glimpse. Moreover, computer technology has developed to such a high degree of efficiency that the evaluation of such an enormous amount of data has become possible *if* adequate mathematical and computational tools are used.Recently, the community has been exposed to fundamentally new mathematical models (such as learning), which stimulated exciting theoretical developments and new computational algorithms for solving complicated large scale inverse problems. This workshop will survey modern and identify new mathematical and computational developments for tackling such problems.
more detailsOtmar Scherzer receives the 2018 EAIP award
The Eurasian Association on Inverse Problems (EAIP) is a non-governmental organization working to ensure a coordination between inverse problems research groups and scientific schools in Eurasian countries, by providing international conferences, meetings and summer schools on inverse problems, both in theory and applications.
The association has established an “EAIP Award” to recognize outstanding scientific contributions to the field of inverse problems and continuous efforts to foster cooperation between researchers of Eurasian countries.
The SFB team is growing!
The SFB “Tomography across the scales” continues to grow. We are pleased to announce that
- Lisa Krainz joined our team as a PhD student in the Subproject: Multi-Modal Imaging of W. Drexler. She will be working at the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.
- Leopold Veselka is the PhD student at the Computational Science Center under the supervision of P. Elbau, working in the Subproject: Quantitative Coupled Physics Imaging.
- Simon Hubmer is the postdoctoral researcher in the Subproject: Tomography in Astronomy of R. Ramlau
- Mia Kvåle Løvmo joins the team of M. Ritsch-Marte, as a PhD student, working in Subproject: Imaging of Trapped Particles at the Division for Biomedical Physics.
- Denise Schmutz started her PhD studies at the Computational Science Center, working in O. Scherzer’s Subproject: Tomography with Uncertainties.
- Montse López (PostDoc) and Magdalena Schneider (PhD student) joined G. Schütz’s group, participating in Subproject: Ultra-high Resolution Microscopy, located at the Institute of Applied Physics – Biophysics.
There are still open positions! You can apply here.