Herbert Edelsbrunner

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Herbert Edelsbrunner (2011)

Herbert Edelsbrunner (* 14. March 1958 in Graz ) is an Austrian computer scientist and mathematician who deals with computer-aided geometry ( Computational Geometry ), and topology is concerned.

biography

Herbert Edelsbrunner received his diploma in 1980 and received his doctorate in 1982 from the TU Graz under Hermann Maurer ( Intersection problems in computational geometry ). He was then briefly assistant in Graz and from 1985 professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (from 1990 with full professorship) and from 1999 at Duke University . Since 2009 he has been a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg near Vienna.

He was visiting professor at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , at the Berlin Mathematical School and at the École normal supérieure and Moore Scholar at Caltech . He has been visiting scholar at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM on several occasions .

In 1996 he and his wife Ping Fu (* 1958), then director of visualization at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications , founded Geomagic (then Raindrop Geomagic), which produces software for three-dimensional geometric modeling . Among other things, he developed the Alpha Shapes software specifically for molecule modeling. Together with Ernst Peter Mücke, he developed an automatic process to make geometric algorithms more robust.

In 2012 he gave a plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians (ECM) in Krakow ( Persistent homology and applications ). In 2008 he became a member of the Leopoldina and in 2005 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 2009 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from Graz University of Technology , and in 1991 he received the Alan T. Waterman Award .

In 2018 he and the ethnomusicologist Ursula Hemetek were awarded the Wittgenstein Prize , each worth 1.4 million euros .

Private

Edelsbrunner comes from Unterpremstätten and actually wanted to become a musician after his childhood dream. It was only after moving from secondary school to the Graz federal high school in Keplerstraße that he recognized his talent for mathematics.

He has been married to Ping Fu since 1991 and has two children with her. The daughter Xixi lives in Los Angeles , the son Daniel lives in Graz and is a musician with his own band.

Fonts

  • Algorithms in combinatorial geometry, Springer Verlag 1987
  • Computational Topology, American Mathematical Society 2009
  • Geometry and Topology for Mesh Generation, Cambridge University Press 2001

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Edelsbrunner, EP Mücke Three-dimensional alpha shapes , ACM Trans. Graphics 13 (1994), 43-72
  4. ^ H. Edelsbrunner, EP Mücke Simulation of simplicity: a technique to cope with degenerate cases in geometric algorithms , ACM Trans. Graphics 9 (1990), 66-104
  5. ↑ Member entry by Herbert Edelsbrunner (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Directory of members: Herbert Edelsbrunner. Academia Europaea, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b Wittgenstein Prizes 2018 to the computer scientist and mathematician Herbert Edelsbrunner and to the ethnomusicologist Ursula Hemetek . OTS notification dated June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018.
  8. ^ Great decorations of the state of Styria and decorations of the state of Styria for science, research and art. In: kommunikation.steiermark.at. July 9, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Edelsbrunner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian computer scientist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz