Ulrich Böttcher geb. Hartleif

Workgroup Prof. Dr. Benedikt Wirth
Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
University of Münster
Einsteinstrasse 62
D-48149 Münster

Contact

Office room: Orleans-Ring 12, SRZ 330
Phone: +49 251 83-33721
e-mail:

Research Interests:

  • Image Segmentation and image reconsctruvtion using curvature-like regularizers
  • Variational Methods
  • Numerical Modelling and Simulation
  • Object detection in biological microscopy data

Short CV

Jan 2019 Scientific Researcher and PhD student
Workgroup Mathematical Optimization of Prof. Dr. Benedikt Wirth
Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, WWU Münster
Apr 2012 - Nov 2014 Master of Science in Mathematics at WWU Münster
Master Thesis: An Ambrosio-Tortorelli Functional for Segmentation of 3D Images with Poisson Noise
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Burger
Apr 2009 - Mar 2012 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Bachelor Thesis: Konvergenbeschleunigung von Vektorfolgen mittels Minimalolynon-Extrapolation
Supervisor: Prf. Dr. Thorsten Raasch

Teaching

Winter 2014/15 Tutorials: Optimization I
Summer 2015 Tutorials: Optimization II
Winter 2015/16 Practical course: Introduction into programming with MATLAB
Summer 2016 Practical course: Introduction into programming with MATLAB
Winter 2016/17 Practical course: Introduction into programming with MATLAB
Summer 2017 Tutorials: Optimization I
Summer 2018 Tutorials: Optimization I

Conferences

Jun 2018 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Bologna, Italy
Jan 2018 MIA Mathematics and Images Analysis, Berlin, Germany
Feb-Mar 2017 3rd Applied Mathematics Symposium Münster: Shape, Images and Optimization, Münster, Germany
Mar 2016 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Sep 2015 1st Applied Mathematics Symposium Münster: Variational Methods for Dynamic Inverse Problems and Imaging, Münster, Germany

Publications

  • U. Böttcher, B. Wirth. Convex lifting-type methods for curvature regularization. Accepted at Variational methods for nonlinear geometric data and applications, editors: P. Grohs, M. Holler, A. Weinmann, Springer, 2020 (to be published).

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