News Archive 2018

The former RICAM PhD student Helene Laimer was awarded her doctoral degree in a "Promotio Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis", under the auspices of the Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. More information here.

Former RICAM employee Matteo Gallet has been granted the FWF Schrödinger project "Algebraic geometry for parallel and serial manipulators" with a return phase of one year at RICAM.

Georg Grasegger has been granted the FWF stand-alone project "Realizations of Rigid Graphs".

Laszlo Merai has been granted the FWF stand-alone project "Pseudorandomness and Cryptography: Number Theoretic Methods".

Wilfried Meidl won the best paper award of WAIFI 2018 for his paper with Thor Martinsen, Alexander Pott and Pantelimon Stanica entitled "On symmetry and differential properties of generalized Boolean functions".

Günter Auzinger, member of the Austrian Adaptive Optics (AAO) team at JKU Linz and RICAM, has won the Final European Science Slam in Toulouse last Saturday (July 7).

Peter Gangl received the Richard C. DiPrima Prize of SIAM for his PhD thesis at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting 2018 in Portland, USA. Read an interview with him here

Peter Gangl received the Anile prize of the ECMI for his PhD thesis at the ECMI meeting 2018 in Budapest, Hungaria. More information here.

The former RICAM PostDoc Peter Gangl will be awarded the Richard C. DiPrima Prize at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, in July. Congratulations!

The paper "Convergence analysis of a two-point gradient method for nonlinear ill-posed problems" by Simon Hubmer and Ronny Ramlau was named as one of the Highlights of 2017 in the Journal "Inverse Problems".

JKU and RICAM announce a vacant professorship in "Mathematical Methods in Medicine and Life Sciences". More information can be found here.

The project proposal by Stefan Takacs entitled 'Fast Solvers For Isogeometric Analysis' is funded by FWF.

The project proposal of Wilfried Meidl entitled 'Bent Functions and Generalizations and APN Functions' is funded by FWF.

The Paper "The full Keller-Segel model is well-posed on nonsmooth domains" by Dirk Horstmann (University of Cologne), Hannes Meinlschmidt (Johann Radon Institute Linz) and Joachim Rehberg (WIAS) has been published in Nonlinearity.

The project proposal by Kamran Sadiq entitled 'Weighted X-ray transform and applications' is funded by FWF.

Former RICAM employee László Mérai will be awarded the venia docendi from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest.

The project proposal by Mourad Sini entitled 'Mathematical Analysis of Imaging Modalities using Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents' is funded by the FWF. It will start on September 1st, 2018.