Frank Natterer

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Frank Natterer (2001)

Frank Natterer (born July 20, 1941 in Wangen im Allgäu ) is a German mathematician . He co-founded and shaped the field of mathematical methods in imaging processes (e.g. computed tomography (CT) , magnetic resonance tomography (MRI) , ultrasound tomography) .

Career

After studying at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg , Frank Natterer received his doctorate as a student of Lothar Collatz in 1968 with the thesis "Inclusions for the large eigenvalues ​​of ordinary differential equations of the second and fourth order". In 1971 he completed his habilitation with the thesis "Generalized splines and singular boundary eigenvalue problems of ordinary differential equations"; In 1973, after a year as Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, he took over a professorship at Saarland University . In 1981 he was appointed director of the Institute for Numerical and Instrumental Mathematics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (Münster) and has been working there ever since. In 2006 he retired from active teaching.

In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Saarland in recognition of his work and his leading role in the field of mathematical methods in tomography .

Frank Natterer has published around 100 scientific publications and 2 books and is in possession of several patents. He has 19 doctoral students, some of whom are professors in Germany or the USA.

Frank Natterer is a member of the German Marcel Proust Society and has published an article on Proust and mathematics.

He has been married since 1967 and has two grown sons.

He is the father-in-law of the Chinese singer and actress Karen Mok who has been married to his son Johannes since 2011.

He is also the uncle of the CDU politician Christian Natterer in Baden-Württemberg.

Scientific work

In 1975 Frank Natterer proved the point-by-point convergence of the finite element method . From 1977 he made a name for himself with work on the mathematical theory of computed tomography . He worked here on both the development of algorithms and the tomography itself. He has written two books on this subject, which have since been regarded as fundamental works (“The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography” (1986, translated into Russian in 1990, re-published in 2001 in the series “Classics in Applied Mathematics”), and “Mathematical Methods in Image Reconstruction” , (2001)). His main contributions in the field of computed tomography are:

The work of Frank Natterer is relevant for the realization of modern imaging methods in MRT technology , CT technology , ultrasound tomography and emission tomography .

Other activities in science

Frank Natterer was Honorary Editor of the journal “Inverse Problems” from 1995 to 1999 and has been a member of the “International Advisory Panel of Inverse Problems” since 2000. Since 1997 he has been a member of the editorial group of “The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications”. Other connections with scientific journals exist and have been with "IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging", "Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems", "International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology" and the "SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics".

He was a member of the Committee on the Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Dynamic Biomedical Imaging of the US National Research Council.

Frank Natterer has initiated and organized several conferences on the subject of inverse problems and mathematical methods of computed tomography . In 1980 he founded a series of conferences on the subject of "Mathematical Methods in Tomography", which was continued many times over, at the Mathematical Research Institute in Oberwolfach . He was a member of various academic training programs and summer schools.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Honorary doctorate for Prof. Dr. Frank Natterer . Archived from the original on February 12, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 4, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-muenster.de
  2. ↑ P. Deuflhard, O. Dössel, AK Louis, S. Zachow: More Mathematics into Medicine! Zuse Institute Berlin , March 5, 2009, p. 2 ( zib.de [PDF; accessed on July 12, 2012]).
  3. ^ Lothar Collatz . In: The Mathematics Genealogy Project . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  4. ↑ Farewell lecture by Prof. Dr. Frank Natterer . Archived from the original on February 12, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 30, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-muenster.de
  5. ↑ Awarding of an honorary doctorate to Prof. Frank Natterer . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  6. ^ Homepage of Prof. Natterer . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  7. ↑ Frank Natterer . In: The Mathematics Genealogy Project . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  8. ^ German Proust Society . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  9. ^ Proust and mathematics (PDF; 128 kB) In: PROUSTIANA XXVI, Mitteilungen der Marcel Proust Gesellschaft, edited by Reiner Speck, Rainer Moritz and Michael Magner, Insel Verlag . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  10. ↑ Celebrity weddings: Karen Mok and Johannes . Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  11. ↑ Bundestag: the chances for Christian Natterer from Wangen are increasing . Retrieved December 23, 2018.
  12. ↑ Frank Natterer: About the pointwise convergence of finite elements., Numer. Math. 25, 67-77 (1975) .
  13. ↑ a b Imaging with the wave equation (PDF; 1.9 MB) In: Newsletter of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 1/2011 . Retrieved on June 30, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / gamm-ev.de  
  14. ^ Yair Censor: Review on "The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography" . ( Online [accessed July 12, 2012]).
  15. ^ Frank Natterer: The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography (Classics in Applied Mathematics) . Society for Industrial Mathematics, 2001, ISBN 0-89871-493-1 , p. 184 (accessed June 30, 2012). ; first hardback edition 1986
  16. ↑ Frank Natterer, Frank Wübbeling: Mathematical Methods in Image Reconstruction (Monographs on Mathematical Modeling and Computation) . 2001, ISBN 0-89871-472-9 ( siam.org [accessed July 12, 2012]).
  17. ↑ Roentgen, Radon and no end (PDF; 42 kB) In: Johann Radon Lecture 2007/2008 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Retrieved on June 30, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oeaw.ac.at  
  18. ^ Inverse Problems, Editorial Board . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  19. ^ Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  20. ^ Committee on the Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Dynamic Biomedical Imaging . Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  21. ^ F. Natterer, GT Hermann: Mathematical Aspects of Computerized Tomography. Proceedings, Oberwolfach 1980. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics 8 . Springer-Verlag, 1981, ISBN 3-540-10277-9 , p. 309 (accessed on July 5, 2012).
  22. ^ Mathematical Methods in Tomography. Proceedings Conference, Oberwolfach, 1990 by Alfred K. Louis, Frank Natterer, Gabor T. Herman . Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  23. ^ Mathematical Methods in Tomography, Organized by Alfred K. Louis (Saarbrücken), Frank Natterer (Münster), Eric Todd Quinto (Medford), July 30th - August 5th, 2006 . Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  24. ^ Mathematics and Algorithms in Tomography, Organized by Martin Burger (Münster), Alfred Louis (Saarbrücken), Todd Quinto (Medford), April 11th - April 17th, 2010 . Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  25. ^ Numerical Analysis of Inverse Problems for Image Reconstruction in Tomography . In: 8th IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, Berder, France, June 20-28, 2008 . Archived from the original on February 13, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 30, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ieeess.enst-bretagne.fr
  26. ^ Inverse Problems and Imaging: Lectures given at the CIME Summer School held in Martina Franca, Italy, September 15-21, 2002 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics / CIME Foundation Subseries) . Retrieved June 30, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Natterer, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wangen im Allgäu , Germany