2014
Created: December 16, 2014
Ricam has newly restructured its groups to: "Inverse Problems and Mathematical Imaging" (group leader: Otmar Scherzer), "Modelling, Analysis and Numerics of PDEs in Cell Biology" (group leader: Christian Schmeiser) and "Mathematical Methods in Molecular and Systems Biology" (group leader: Philipp Kuegler).
Created: December 16, 2014
Konstantinos Kalimeris was granted the FWF-Project "Berechnung von Wasserwellen mit grosser Amplitude" (Water waves, Penalization Method, Asymptotic Analysis).
Created: December 03, 2014
Su Ming (Nankai University) has been selected for an Ernst Mach Follow Up Grant of the Austrian Academic Exchange Service (OeAD) for a research visit at RICAM (Applied Discrete Mathematics and Cryptography) for July and August 2015.
Created: November 17, 2014
European Commission has granted the project proposal AMMODIT ("Approximation Methods for molecular MOdelling and DIagnosis Tools") prepared by RICAM in cooperation with Universität zu Lübeck and Politecnico di Milano. The project will be performed within the programme Horizon 2020 (MSCA). Project duration is 48 months from August 2015 till July 2019. The contact person from the side of ÖAW is Prof. Dr. Sergei Pereverzyev.
Created: November 14, 2014
Florin Diacu (speaker at workshop 3, Special Semester) will give a public talk on Historical Chronology: Truth or Fable?, 19. Nov, 18:30, HS 3, JKU Linz
Created: October 23, 2014
An article on the Gene Golub SIAM Summer School hosted by RICAM was published in SIAM News (Vol 47 (8), Oct 2014).
Created: October 14, 2014
Former RICAM employee Wilfried Meidl was granted a Lise Meitner-Position by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). He will return to RICAM in the begin of 2015.
Created: October 01, 2014
Ulrich Langer was appointed Managing Scientific Director of RICAM through September 30, 2016, together with Karl Kunisch and Ronny Ramlau as Scientific Directors. Heinz W. Engl remains Founding Director and Scientific Advisor.
Created: September 12, 2014
Mourad Sini accepted a visiting professorship through August 2015 at Kuwait University.
Created: September 08, 2014
Sergei Pereverzyev will participate in the Marie Sklodovska-Curie Innovative Training Network "Integrated Component Cycling in Epithelial Cell Motility".
Created: August 19, 2014
Massimo Fornasier and Sergei Pereverzyev have been granted the Transnational D-A-CH Project I 1669-N26 "Multi-parameter regularization in high-dimensional learning".
Created: August 18, 2014
Ulrich Langer accepted an invitation to join the SAB of the IWR at the University of Heidelberg (Germany).
Created: August 07, 2014
Arne Winterhof accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the Journal of Uniform Distribution Theory.
Created: July 16, 2014
Georg Regensburger was granted the FWF project 'Algebra and algorithms for integro-differential equations'.
Created: July 10, 2014
Arne Winterhof accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Mathematics.
Created: June 16, 2014
The workshop on the Occasion of Harald Niederreiter's 70th Birthday: Applications of Algebra and Number Theory will be held from June 23-27, 2014.
Created: June 06, 2014
Dr. Ankik Kumar Giri is going to join as Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee as of July 1, 2014.
Created: June 04, 2014
Harald Niederreiter has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Created: May 27, 2014
Funding for a "High-Performance Computer in Computational and Applied Mathematics" in the framework of the "New Frontiers Research Infrastructure Programme 2013" was granted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Created: May 19, 2014
Heinz W. Engl has been re-elected as rector of the University of Vienna through September 2019.
Created: April 23, 2014
The papers "On the interplay of basis smoothness and specific range conditions occurring in sparsity regularization" by Stephan W Anzengruber, Bernd Hofmann and Ronny Ramlau (Inverse Problems 29 125002, 2013) and "A double regularization approach for inverse problems with noisy data and inexact operator" by Ismael Rodrigo Bleyer and Ronny Ramlau (Inverse Problems 29 025004, 2013) have been chosen by the Editorial Board of the journal Inverse Problems as Highlight Publications for the year 2013.
Created: March 04, 2014
The article Schnelle Algorithmen für klare Blicke ins All about the ESO project has been published in the newspaper "Der Standard".
Created: February 07, 2014
Stefan Kleiss successfully defended his PhD thesis on February 6, 2014, at Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Created: January 28, 2014
Doz. Johannes Kraus accepted the call for a W3-professorship in "Numerische Mathematik" at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany as of April 2014.
2013
Created: December 12, 2013
Josef Schicho has been granted the FWF project 'Algebraic Methods in Kinematics: Motion Factorisation and Bond Theory'. Otmar Scherzer has been granted the FWF project 'Interdisciplinary Coupled Physics Imaging - Improving Image Resolution by Mathematical Modeling through Computational Algorithms and Advanced Experimental Realization'.
Created: December 11, 2013
Co-applicant Arne Winterhof has been granted the FWF project 'On the hierarchy of measures of pseudorandomness' in the framework of the FWF Special Research Program 'Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods: Theory and Applications'. Co-applicant Johannes Kraus has been granted the FWF project 'Electrostatic computation of FRET rate constants in fluorescence-labeled proteins' in the framework of the FWF Doctoral Program W1250 'Nano-Analytics of Cellular Systems (NanoCell)'.
Created: September 17, 2013
Heinz W. Engl has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.
Created: July 22, 2013
Doz. Johannes Kraus received a call for a W3-professorship in "Numerische Mathematik" at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Created: July 12, 2013
A Special Semester on Applications of Algebra and Number Theory will be held at RICAM from October 14, 2013 through December 13, 2013.
Created: July 01, 2013
Sergio Rodrigues has been granted the FWF project 'Stabilization to trajectories for equations of fluid mechanics'; Jörg Willems has been granted the FWF project 'Robust Preconditioning and Upscaling of Problems with Inseparable Scales'; Dietmar Ölz has been awarded an Erwin-Schrödinger fellowship for his proposal 'Modeling and simulation of non-muscle actomyosin bundles'.
Created: June 28, 2013
Ronny Ramlau has been granted the FFG project 'Frequenzabhängige Unwuchtbestimmung für Windenergieanlagen'.
Created: June 17, 2013
Dr. Oguz Yayla is awarded a grant by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for research of 1 year at RICAM in the project applied discrete mathematics and cryptography led by Arne Winterhof.
Created: May 08, 2013
Marie-Therese Wolfram's proposal "Multiscale modeling and simulation of crowded transport in life and social sciences" in the New Frontiers Groups call will be funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Created: May 08, 2013
An interview with Prof. Engl and Prof. Langer has been published in the ÖAW magazine Thema des Monats as well as the article Zucker-Manager für die Westentasche about the predictive algorithm developed at RICAM within the framework of the large-scale EU-funded project "DIAdvisor: personal glucose predictive advisor".
Created: May 08, 2013
The article "Identification of alterations in the Jacobian of biochemical reaction networks from steady state covariance data at two conditions" by Philipp Kügler and Wei Yang has been accepted by the Journal of Mathematical Biology.
Created: May 07, 2013
RICAM will host the Gene Golub SIAM Summer School 2014 on 'Simulation, Optimization, and Identification in Solid Mechanics', with approximately 40 participants. The summer school was awarded to Prof. Wollner (Hamburg), Prof. Stingl (Erlangen-Nuernberg), Prof. Herzog (Chemnitz and former RICAM member) and Dr. Klann (Linz and former RICAM member).
Created: April 30, 2013
Philipp Kügler successfully defended his habilitation thesis on April 29, 2013 at Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Created: April 11, 2013
Ulrich Langer accepted a MATHEON guest professorship position at the TU Berlin, Germany, for the Summer Semester (Sabbatical)
Created: April 02, 2013
From April through September 2013, Ronny Ramlau will be Acting Director of RICAM. Karl Kunisch remains Deputy Director.
Created: April 02, 2013
Philipp Kügler accepted a call for a W3-professorship in "Mathematik, insbesondere Modellierung komplexer biologischer Systeme" at University Hohenheim, Germany, as of April 2013.
Created: January 14, 2013
Heinz W. Engl and Harald Niederreiter have been appointed Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
2012
Created: December 03, 2012
Sergei Pereverzyev has been granted the FWF project: 'Data-driven and problem-oriented choice of the regularization space' (03.12.2012).
Created: October 22, 2012
The programme of the festivities on the occassions of "10 years RICAM" and "60th birthday of Prof. Heinz W. Engl" from March 27-28, 2013 can be found here.
Created: October 16, 2012
Public hearings for the RICAM directorship taking place on November 2, 2012 at 10:00, 13:00, 15:00, 17:00 in SP2 416. All RICAM collaborators are most welcome.
Created: October 03, 2012
The article "Ultrasensitive in-vitro detection of Adrenocorticotropic hormone levels by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Immunoassay for mathematical modeling of glucocorticoid mediated feedback mechanisms in the HPA axis" by the RICAM group "Mathematical Methods in Molecular and Systems Biology" and the MFPL group "Biomolecular optical spectroscopy" has been accepted for publication in the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.
Created: August 02, 2012
Dr. Philipp Kügler received a call for a W3-professorship in "Mathematik, insbesondere Modellierung komplexer biologischer Systeme" at University Hohenheim, Germany.
Created: July 24, 2012
Massimo Fornasier has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project "High-Dimensional Sparse Optimal Control".
Created: July 06, 2012
Dr. Sivananthan Sampath joined as an assistant professor in IIT Delhi, India.
Created: July 03, 2012
DK lecture on Fundamentals: Tensor spaces and numerical tensor calculus by Prof. Wolfgang Hackbusch (MPI Leipzig) starts on July 6, 2012. More information available here.
Created: June 13, 2012
The article "On the reconstruction of interfaces using complex geometrical optics solutions for the acoustic case" by Mourad Sini and Kazuki Yoshida has been selected as an insight paper by the journal Inverse Problems. It can be read here.
Created: May 10, 2012
The NFN S117 "Geometry + Simulation" started on March 1, 2012.
Created: April 27, 2012
RICAM-Workshop on Finite Fields and Their Applications: Character Sums and Polynomials , September 2 - 7, 2012 in St. Wolfgang (Strobl)
Created: March 12, 2012
The article about RICAM was published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper "Die Presse" on March 11, 2012.
Created: February 10, 2012
Prof. Heinz W. Engl has received an Honorary Doctorate from Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken.
Created: January 03, 2012
Since Jan.1, Prof. Ulrich Langer is acting director of the institute, Prof. Karl Kunisch remains deputy director. The founding director Prof. Heinz W. Engl, who is now rector of the University of Vienna, remains connected to the institute as scientific advisor.
2011
Created: December 28, 2011
Massimo Fornasier has been awarded the Biennial Prize of SIMAI - Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata ed Industriale (Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics).
Created: December 23, 2011
Inverse Problems Group is supporting the initiative "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013" by organizing the conference "New Trends in Regularization theory and methods for Geomathematical problems" at the Centre de Recerca Matematica, Spain, together with Geomathematics Group, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany, Geomathematics Group, University of Siegen, Germany, and Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Created: December 23, 2011
Sergei Pereverzyev was invited to join the editorial board of Diabetes & Metabolism.
Created: December 19, 2011
Erwin Karer has successfully defended his PhD thesis "Subspace Correction Methods for Linear Elasticity" on December 19th, 2011.
Created: December 13, 2011
Jan Vybiral has successfully defended his habilitation thesis "Decomposition methods and their applications in the theory of function spaces" on December 5th, 2011 at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany.
Created: September 16, 2011
Monday, 17. Oct. 2011: Dedication of the new supercomputer MACH, a joint-venture of the Universities of Innsbruck and Linz.
Created: September 09, 2011
RICAM has moved into a new location: Science Park, Building 2, Altenberger Strasse 69, 4040 Linz. Also the group "Mathematical Methods in Molecular and Systems Biology" has moved and is now located at Apostelgasse 23, 1030 Vienna.
Created: September 01, 2011
Arne Winterhof was invited to join the editorial board of Designs, Codes and Cryptography.
Created: July 21, 2011
The article "Three-dimensional acoustic scattering by complex obstacles: the accuracy issue" by M F Ben Hassen, O Ivanyshyn and M Sini, that appeared in Inverse Problems has been selected as one of the journal's "Highlights 2010"; it can be read freely until the end of 2011 via the link: Highlights 2010
Created: July 08, 2011
The article "Morozov's discrepancy principle for Tikhonov-type functionals with nonlinear operators" by Stephan Anzengruber and Ronny Ramlau, that appeared in Inverse Problems has been selected as one of the journal's "Highlights 2010"; it can be read freely until the end of 2011 via the link: Highlights 2010
Created: April 01, 2011
Massimo Fornasier has accepted a call to a full professorship at TU Munich (from April 1, 2011). He will remain associated with RICAM to complete his START-project.
Created: March 21, 2011
Daniel Wachsmuth has been granted the FWF project: "FWF P23484 hp-FEM für Optimalsteuerungsprobleme" (09.03.2011).
Created: March 07, 2011
Institute Director Heinz W. Engl has been elected Rector of the University of Vienna for the period Oct. 1, 2011 through Sept. 30, 2015.
Created: January 20, 2011
Special Semester on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy and the Environment 2011
2010
Created: December 06, 2010
David Sevilla has been granted the FWF project: "FWF P22766-N18 Radical parametrizations of algebraic curves."
Created: November 10, 2010
Dr. Shuai Lu, formerly at RICAM, now at Fudan University (Shanghai), has been awarded a Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.
Created: October 11, 2010
Johannes Kraus has been granted the FWF project: "P-22989 - Subspace correction methods for nearly singular and indefinite problems with highly oscillatory coefficients."
Created: October 01, 2010
On October 14, Univ.-Doz. Dr. Massimo Fornasier will give a talk at the next meeting of the Office of the Section Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Created: September 08, 2010
On Sept. 8, Prof. Heinz W. Engl has been awarded an Honorary Professorship at Fudan University (Shanghai) for his achievements in industrial mathematics and the mathematics of inverse problems. Photo from the award ceremony, Photo from the inaugural lecture.
Created: August 12, 2010
The article "Inverse Problems in Systems Biology" by Heinz W Engl, Christoph Flamm, Philipp Kuegler, James Lu, Stefan Mueller and Peter Schuster, that appeared in Inverse Problems has been selected as one of the journal's "Highlights 2009"; it can be read freely until the end of 2010 via the link: Highlights 2009
Created: August 12, 2010
The article "Convergence rates for Tikhonov regularisation of non-linear ill-posed problems" by Heinz W Engl, Karl Kunisch and Andreas Neubauer, that appeared in Inverse Problems, Volume 5, Number 4, 523-540, August 1989 has been selected as one of the journal's "25th Anniversary Highlights"; it can be read freely until the end of 2010 via the link: 25th Anniversary Highlights
Created: July 16, 2010
Mini Special Semester on Inverse Problems, 2010
Created: July 05, 2010
Arne Winterhof will be awarded a prize (Foerderungspreis) by the Austrian Mathematical Society (OEMG) 2010.
Created: June 16, 2010
Robert Scott Anderssen, a frequent visitor to RICAM, has been awarded with the "Medal of the Order of Australia" on June 14, 2010. See details: It's an Honour
Created: May 20, 2010
Dr.Marie-Therese Wolfram, formerly at RICAM, now at DAMTP in Cambridge in Peter Markowich' group, has obtained a Hertha Firnberg scholarship by the Austrian Science Foundation.
Created: May 17, 2010
Mourad Sini has been granted the FWF project: Electromagnetic Scattering by Complex Interfaces.
Created: May 15, 2010
Arne Winterhof will be one of four invited speakers at the sixth conference on Sequences and their applications (SETA 2010), to be held at Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, from September 12 to 17, 2010.
Created: April 27, 2010
Massimo Fornasier has been awarded the "Best Paper Award" for his publication "Iteratively reweighted least squares minimization for sparse recovery"
Created: March 14, 2010
Robert S. Anderssen (Canberra), a frequent visitor to RICAM, has been awarded the ANZIAM medal.
Created: January 29, 2010
Workshop "Discontinuous Galerkin Methods - Solvers and Applications", Mai 31st and June 1st, 2010 at RICAM. Organizer: Prof. U. Langer and Dr. S. Tomar
Created: January 27, 2010
FWF Start Project - Sparse Approximation on Optimization in High Dimensions Website is NOW ONLINE: hdsparse.ricam.oeaw.ac.at
Created: January 12, 2010
Arne Winterhof is one of the organizers of Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Uniform Distribution, held at the TU Graz, Department of Mathematics, January 28-29, 2010
2009
Created: August 15, 2009
Kepler Prize awarded to Institute Director Heinz W. Engl
Created: August 15, 2009
Ricam Summer School on "Theoretical Foundations and Numerical Methods for Sparse Recovery", August 31st - September 4th, 2009
Created: July 10, 2009
Karl Kunisch and Peter Markowich have been invited to deliver talks at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), August 19-27, 2010, Hyderabad, India
Created: July 03, 2009
Johannes Kraus has successfully defended his habilitation thesis (Venia Docendi) on July 3rd, 2009 at J. Kepler University: "Algebraic multilevel methods for elliptic finite element equations"
Created: June 15, 2009
Mourad Sini has successfully defended his habilitation thesis (Venia Docendi) on June 15th, 2009 at J. Kepler University
Created: June 01, 2009
Chemnitz-RICAM-Symposium on Inverse Problems, July 14-15, 2009
Created: May 01, 2009
Mini Special Semester on Inverse Problems, 2009
Created: May 01, 2009
Daniel Wachsmuth has been granted the FWF project: "Verfication of optimality for optimal control problems".
Created: May 01, 2009
Satyendra Tomar has been granted the FWF project: "Isogeometric method for Partial Differential Equations".
Created: April 15, 2009
RICAM director Heinz W. Engl and Scientific Advisory Board members Peter Deuflhard and Stanley Osher have been named SIAM Fellows for key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science, May 1, 2009.
Created: April 01, 2009
Massimo Fornasier has been awarded the "Prix de Boelpaepe" de la Academie des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (the Royal Belgium Academy of Science). Click for the original description of the prize (in French, page 13).
Created: February 20, 2009
Sven Beuchler has successfully completed his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) "High Order FEM-Fast Solvers for Tensor Product Elements"
Created: January 02, 2009
Peter Markowich has been invited to present a 45 minute lecture at the ICM 2010, in the section NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING.
Created: January 02, 2009
Prof. Engl has been appointed as member of the international advisory board of the newly-founded Institute for Computational Mathematics at Hong Kong Baptist University (Picture)
2008
Created: October 21, 2008
Successful PhD Defense - Marie-Therese Wolfram, Sept. 23: "Forward and Inverse Solvers for Electro-Diffusion Systems".
Created: October 21, 2008
Successful PhD Defense - Nataliya Metla, Sept. 17: "The SQP method for elliptic optimal control problems with mixed control-state constraints".
Created: October 21, 2008
Successful PhD Defense - Dominik Kortschak, Sept. 15: "Asymptotic properties of compound distribution tails and dependence".
Created: October 21, 2008
Successful PhD Defense - Svetlana Cherednichenko, Sept. 9: "Regularization and Discretization of Optimal Control Problems with Pointwise State Constraints".
Created: October 01, 2008
The Doctoral Program "Computational Mathematics" (DK, short for the German 'Doktoratskolleg') is a special effort of Geo (Institute of Applied Geometry), Numa (Institute of Computational Mathematics), IndMath (Industrial Mathematics Institute), RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation) and RICAM (Johann Radon Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences). The general goal is combined PhD education in numerical analysis and symbolic computation. Currently the DK is granted by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF) for a duration of three years, with a prospect of prolongation for another nine years. It officially starts on October 1, 2008. The director is Prof. Dr. Peter Paule (RISC).
Created: September 20, 2008
Arjan Kuijper has accepted an offer as Research Coach at the Fraunhofer IGD together with a teaching position at the TU Darmstadt. Nov. 1, 2008.
Created: September 01, 2008
Special Semester on Stochastics with Emphasis on Finance, September 2008-December 2008.
Created: January 02, 2008
Prof. Kunisch has been awarded the Alwin Walther Medaille