Massimo Fornasier

Position	Research Scientists in Applied and Computational Mathematics
e-mail	massimo.fornasier@oeaw.ac.at
Telephone	+43 (0)732 2468 5251
Fax	+43 (0)732 2468 5212
Address	Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM)
	Altenbergerstrasse 69
	A-4040, Linz
	Austria

Curriculum vitae, January 2010 [ .pdf ]

News:

March 1, 2010: visiting Professorship at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna (March-June 2010) [ link ]
January 25, 2010: the web-site of the START project "Sparse Approximation and Optimization in High Dimensions" is now online [ link ]
December 22, 2009 - January 8, 2010: vacation
December 19, 2009: award of the Prix de Boelpaepe at the Academie Royal des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique [ foto1 ] [ foto2 ] [ foto3 ] [ foto4 ]
December 15, 2009: the mathematics of swarming [ .pdf ]
December 4, 2009: returned to RICAM, Austria
September 18, 2009: From October 4, 2009 until November 30, 2009 I will be visiting the Department of Mathematics Texas A&M University -- Blocker Building, room 608K, College Station, Texas 77840 U.S.A. Please, address me there!
September 9, 2009: plenary lecture "Compressive Algorithms Adaptive Solutions of PDEs and Variational Problems" at the IMA conference THE MATHEMATICS OF SURFACES XIII , University of York, UK, September 7-9 2009
September 2, 2009: plenary lecture "Numerical Harmonic Analysis and Real-Life Applications" in the workshop HARMONIC ANALYSIS: from Foundation to the Real World at the newly established Insitute of Science and Technology - Austria (ISTA) [ link ]
August 1, 2009: Workshop Sparsity and Computation , Hausdorff Center for Mathematics Bonn, June 7-11, 2010. Organizers: Ron DeVore, Massimo Fornasier, Holger Rauhut.
June 23, 2009: Oberseminar NUMERIK / WISSENSCHAFTLICHES RECHNEN "Sparse Approximation and Optimization in High Dimensions", Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany [ link ]
June 18, 2009: plenary lecture "Compressive algorithms. Multilevel preconditioning and convergence rates", International Conference Time-Frequency Analysis, Strobl, Austria [ link ]
May 13, 2009: Colloquium talk "Sparse Approximation and Optimization in High Dimensions", Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria [ link ]
April 30, 2009: overview paper on "Compressive Algorithms. Adaptive Solutions of PDE's and Variational Problems", Proceedings of the IMA Mathematics of Surfaces XIII conference, 2009 [ .pdf ]
April 15, 2009: Announcement of the Summer School on "Theoretical Foundations and Numerical Methods for Sparse Recovery" which will be held at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz - Austria, on August 31 - September 4, 2009 [ link ] and poster [ .jpg ]
April 4, 2009: award of the Prix de Boelpaepe de la Academie Royal des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique for "original contributions to photography and other forms of imaginary sciences (acquisition, processing, storage, and transmission of information via optical means)" [ .pdf ]
February 18, 2009: The paper "Restoration of color images by vector valued BV functions and variational calculus" (with R. March), SIAM J. Appl. Math., Vol. 68 No. 2, 2007, pp. 437-460 [ .pdf ] has been used for public awareness by SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) [ link ], see directly [ .pdf ]
January 29, 2009: a short paper on Domain decomposition methods for compressed sensing for the Int. Conf. SampTA09
January 7, 2009: an "Italian touch" on mathematical image processing [ .pdf ]
January 1, 2009: opening of 2 Postdoc and 2 Doctoral positions at RICAM on the basis of the START project "Sparse Approximation and Optimization in High Dimensions". For info and applications, refer to the instructions [ .pdf ]
December 18, 2008: signature of the contract with FWF for the START project "Sparse Approximation and Optimization in High Dimensions" with starting date April 1, 2009
November 26, 2008: co-leadership (with Peter A. Markowich) of the Group of Analysis of PDEs is approved, starting from January 2009
November 10 2008: award of the START Prize 2008 - 1,2 millions of euros for six years - for the development of the project "Sparse Approximation and Optimization in High Dimensions"; the official announcement [ link ][ FWF web-site ] [ foto ] [ group foto from the cerimony ]
November 7 2008: hearing for the START Prize 2008 in front of the international Jury [ link ]
October 25 2008: declining the offer for a Junior Professorship (W1-Professur) in Numerical Fourier Analysis at the University of Rostock (Germany)
October 21 2008: nomination as a finalist for the scientific prize FWF-START 2008 [link ]
October 15 2008: visiting the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM) at Princeton University
September 15-19 2008: co-organizing (with F. Pitolli) the Minisymposium "Compressive Algorithms for Applied Inverse Problems with Sparse Solutions" at the IX SIMAI conference in Rome [ link ]
June 30 2008: plenary lecture "Variational Principles and Compressive Algorithms" at the Seventh International Conference on MATHEMATICAL METHODS for CURVES and SURFACES [ link ]
June 4 2008: the Habilitation (venia docendi) is approved: announcement of the [ talk ] at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna
January 7 2008: submitted Habilitationsschrift Compressive Algorithms. Adaptive Solutions of PDE's and Variational Problems [ .pdf ] at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna
October 1 2007: return to RICAM after the stay at Princeton University
March 16 2007: nomination as a finalist for the scientific prize "Young researchers in Mathematics competition", University of Padua [ link ] and [ .pdf ]
January 1 2007: the project Sparse Approximation for Blind Source Separation, Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship (contract MOIF-CT-2006-039438, 18 months), is approved
November 10 2006: the project Mathematical Methods for Image Analysis and Processing in Visual Arts, WWTF "Five Senses - Call 2006" (4 years), is approved, [ link ]
October 1 2006: starting the visiting position as a Research Associate within the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM) at Princeton University