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.
“I recently joined the applied mathematics group of Gabriele Steidl at TU Berlin. Currently, I’m working on modelling the movement of single molecules in an environment of molecule clusters. My work also covers the estimation of model parameters from simulated, as well as measured data. While we start with classical Gaussian mixture models, we will investigate machine learning techniques for analysing the movement data. I’m very happy to collaborate with the group of Gerhard Schütz, who have a lot of experience with the corresponding microscopy methods”.
Christian did his PhD in Mathematics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on the topic of p-adic quantum groups. Thereafter, he joined the radiology group of Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, where conducted research on deep learning for cardiac CT and image reconstruction with unrolled neural networks for multi-coil radial MRI.
We feel privileged to welcome Christian into our SFB family and foresee great things ahead.
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
Professor Monika Ritsch-Marte is currently an invited guest fellow at the University of California Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) from 12 September 2022 to 16 December 2022 for its Autumn 2022 programme on Computational Microscopy.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/long-programs/computational-microscopy/
The Twelfth Internal SFB Member Meeting took place between 4-7 December 2022 in the Obergurgl Universitätszentrum in Tyrol, Austria. Participants, both internal and external, were treated to a wealth of talks, both concerning progress within the various Tomography Across the Scales subprojects, and also from our external guests, who presented their related research.
Beyond the presentations and collaborative discussions, many members also took the opportunity to ski and hike, for which there were plentiful opportunities in the nearby vicinity.
