News Archive 2017

The Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" has released an article and a video on the occasion of the 100 anniversary of the discovery of the Radon transform. In the video interview, group leader Otmar Scherzer explains the Radon transform and its relevance, while the article mentions…

The Austrian Academy of Sciences published an online article on the "Radon100 Conference" including an interview with Otmar Scherzer.

Arne Winterhof (co-PI: Oliver Roche-Newton) has been granted the FWF stand-alone project 'Additive Combinatorics over Finite Fields and Applications'.

Alexander Bors has been granted the FWF Schrödinger grant Affine Mappings on Finite Groups. He will spend the first two years at the University of Western Australia. The return phase of one year will be spent at RICAM (Applied Discrete Mathematics).

Sergei Pereverzyev was chosen by the Inverse Problems journal editorial teams as an Outstanding Reviewer 2016.

Bert Jüttler received the John A. Gregory Memorial Award for fundamental contributions to Geometric Modelling (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Peter Gangl will receive his doctorate sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae, which is the highest possible honor for studies in Austria.

Created: June 29, 2017 Christoph Koutschan was awarded the venia docendi for Mathematics by JKU rector Lukas, see here.

Peter Gangl received the ÖMG Studienpreis for the best PhD thesis.

Peter Kritzer joined the editorial board of Journal of Complexity.

Helene Ranetbauer will be awarded her doctorate sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae by the Federal President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen. The ceremony will take place on November 30, 2017.

The smartphone application "DIA-SafeLife" (video) developed at RICAM within EU Horizon 2020 project AMMODIT has been awarded by the Foundation "Ukraine" at the Kiev's international startups contest Sikorsky Challenge.

The JESH-project "Fine tuning in Regularization of Inverse Problems of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy" by Mark Žic hosted at RICAM (host: Prof. Dr. Sergei Pereverzyev) has been awarded for funding by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.