Applications of Tomographic Methods

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from mathematics and physics in fields where tomographic reconstruction methods are applied.

Examples range

  • from analysing astronomical data recorded by huge telescopes, where only very limited angle information is available and refined adaptive optics techniques are used to remove distortions from the atmosphere,
  • over different variants of exploring wave phenomena in biological samples (such as computer tomography, sonography, optical coherence tomography, photoacoustic imaging, elastography, or magnetic resonance imaging to name just a few), where typically a full quantitative reconstruction of the analysed sample would be desirable,
  • down to microscopical scales studied by methods such as stochastic super-resolution microscopy, where localisations of blinking fluorescent molecules below the diffraction limit are realised by giving up on the unique identifiability of the different molecules, or cryogenic electron microscopy, where precise projection images are taken, but without knowing the orientation of the object.

With the interdisciplinary character of this workshop, we not only hope to picture the broad range from theory to experiment and applications, but also hope to see the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches under a wide variety of aspects, which hopefully stimulates ideas on how to transfer and adapt well working methods to other settings.

Organization

The workshop is organized as the final event of the special research programme SFB F68 “Tomography Across the Scales”.

Contact person for the workshop: Peter Elbau, peter.elbau@univie.ac.at.

Registration

In case of interest in participating, please write an email to Peter Elbau, peter.elbau@univie.ac.at, containing name, affiliation and email address.

Acknowledgements

This workshop is hosted and supported by the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, a programme-oriented research institute for mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna.

It is also partially supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF within the special research programme SFB F68 “Tomography Across the Scales”.

June 8, 2026
09:30 — 10:00
Registration and Welcome
11:20 — 11:50
Slides

(joint work with Meira Iske and Ming Jiang)

12:00 — 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 — 14:00
Bernadette Hahn (U Stuttgart)
Motion estimation and compensation in tomography
14:10 — 14:40
14:50 — 15:10
Coffee Break
15:10 — 15:40
15:50 — 16:20
June 9, 2026
09:00 — 09:30
09:40 — 10:10
10:20 — 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 — 11:10
Johann Danzl (ISTA, Klosterneuburg)

Light microscopy technologies to interrogate neural circuits at synaptic resolution

12:00 — 14:10
Lunch Break
14:10 — 14:40
14:50 — 15:10
Coffee Break
15:10 — 15:40
Martin Hanke (U Mainz)
One shot inverse scattering revisited
16:00 — 16:45

This talk will take place in the Schrödinger Lecture Hall!

June 10, 2026
09:40 — 10:10
10:20 — 10:40
Coffee Break
11:20 — 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 — 14:00
14:10 — 14:40
John Schotland (Yale U, New Haven)
Inverse Problems in Quantum Optics: A Fantasy
14:50 — 15:10
Coffee Break
15:10 — 15:40
Todd Quinto (Tufts University)
Microlocal Analysis in Tomography
18:00 — 22:00
Conference Dinner
June 11, 2026
09:00 — 09:30
09:40 — 10:10
10:20 — 10:40
Coffee Break
12:00 — 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 — 14:00
14:50 — 15:10
Coffee Break
June 12, 2026
09:00 — 09:30
10:20 — 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 — 11:10

Organizers

Name Affiliation
Wolfgang Drexler Medical University of Vienna
Peter Elbau University of Vienna
Ronny Ramlau Radon Institute, RICAM
Monika Ritsch-Marte Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
Otmar Scherzer University of Vienna
Gerhard Schütz Vienna University of Technology
Gabriele Steidl Technical University Berlin
Glenn van de Ven University of Vienna

Attendees

Name Affiliation
Iris Breda University of Porto
Manuel Cañizares Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
Johann Danzl Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Yakun Dong University of Vienna
Heinz W. Engl Radon Institute, RICAM
Jesús Falcón Barroso Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Florian Faucher Inria centre at the University of Bordeaux
Pietro Ferraro Istituto di Scienze Applicate e Sistemi Intelligenti "Eduardo Caianiello", CNR
Jürgen Frikel Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
Nicolas Gindrier Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
Andreas Habring Technische Universität Graz
Bernadette Hahn University of Stuttgart
Martin Hanke Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Simon Hubmer Johannes Kepler Universität
Prashin Jethwa University of Vienna
Ming Jiang Peking University
Thomas Juffmann University of Vienna
Sebastian Kamann Liverpool John Moores University
Victoria Laidlaw Johannes Kepler Universität
Peter Maaß University of Bremen
Teresa Matias Correia Centre of Marine Sciences of the Algarve
Oleh Melnyk Technical University Berlin
Noemi Naujoks University of Vienna
Julia Niebsch University of Vienna
Ha Pham Inria centre at the University of Bordeaux
Michael Quellmalz Technical University Berlin
Todd Quinto Tufts University
Stefanie Reiter Universität Wien
Kamran Sadiq Radon Institute, RICAM
Denise Schmutz University of Vienna
John Schotland Yale University
Thomas Schuster University of Saarland
Ekaterina Sherina University of Vienna
Cong Shi University of Vienna
Peter Školník University of Vienna
Christina Strohmenger University of Vienna
Tanja Tarvainen University of Eastern Finland
Thi Lan Nhi Vu University of Vienna
Anne Wald Georg-August-Universität
Huidong Yang University of Vienna
Zheyi Yang University of Vienna
Preview of Anne Wald - Time-dependent inverse problems: ill-posedness and regularization
Anne Wald (Georg-August-U, Göttingen): Time-dependent inverse problems: ill-posedness and regularization
June 8, 2026 14:10 — 14:40
Preview of Thomas Schuster - Spherical means and regularization in distribution spaces
Thomas Schuster (U of Saarland): Spherical means and regularization in distribution spaces
June 8, 2026 15:10 — 15:40
Preview of Jonas Ries - MINFLUX for dynamic structural cell biology
Jonas Ries (U of Vienna): MINFLUX for dynamic structural cell biology
June 9, 2026 09:00 — 09:30
Preview of Andreas Habring - Faster Sampling for Bayesian Inverse Imaging Problems
Andreas Habring (TU Graz): Faster Sampling for Bayesian Inverse Imaging Problems
June 9, 2026 09:40 — 10:10
Preview of Todd Quinto - Microlocal Analysis in Tomography
Todd Quinto (Tufts University): Microlocal Analysis in Tomography
June 10, 2026 15:10 — 15:40
Preview of Sebastian Kamann - PSF reconstruction for the Extremely Large Telescope
Sebastian Kamann (LJMU, Liverpool): PSF reconstruction for the Extremely Large Telescope
June 11, 2026 09:00 — 09:30
Preview of Jesús Falcón Barroso - Using Machine Learning and Cosmological Simulations to Uncover the Merger Histories of Galaxies
Jesús Falcón Barroso (IAC, San Cristóbal de La Laguna): Using Machine Learning and Cosmological Simulations to Uncover the Merger Histories of Galaxies
June 12, 2026 09:00 — 09:30
At a glance
Type:
Workshop
When:
June 8, 2026 — June 12, 2026
Where:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Organizer(s):
Wolfgang Drexler (Med U Vienna)
Peter Elbau (U of Vienna)
Ronny Ramlau (RICAM, Linz)
Monika Ritsch-Marte (Med Uni Innsbruck)
Otmar Scherzer (U of Vienna)
Gerhard Schütz (TU Wien)
Gabriele Steidl (TU Berlin)
Glenn van de Ven (U of Vienna)