Training courses
Doctoral candidates and early-stage researchers face a wide variety of professions and career paths open to them. Launching a career and attaining long-term success in these professional fields often demands a wide range of competencies. The Graduate Centre offers training programmes that specifically cater to the needs of early career researchers.
Events offered by or via the Graduate Centre
While our information events address cross-disciplinary aspects relevant to early-stage researchers' qualification, our workshops (organized by the Centre for Careers and Competencies) aim at supporting and expanding the skills involved in conducting research.
Workshops
The foundation of any scientific work at the University of Passau is compliance with the recognised principles of science such as being honest, working lege artis as well as documenting and constantly questioning all results. Scientific misconduct harms the person concerned, the university and science in general. In order to increase awareness of the basic rules and to strengthen the researchers' trust in one another, the Graduate Centre offers an e-learning course free of charge entitled "Good academic practice".
Please contact us if you would like to participate in the e-learning course. You will receive log-in data and further information that will allow you to take part in the e-learning course anytime from your computer.
For further information events, workshops and other events offered by the Graduate Centre in German please refer to the German version of this website.
Other events
Events offered by the university's faculties
The faculties pool our researchers' expertise. Although the university does not offer a comprehensive doctoral curriculum, the faculties offer a variety of lectures and seminars that help doctoral researchers deepen their disciplinary knowledge. Each semester, these events are carefully selected to meet doctoral researchers' needs.
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Forster-Heinlein
Curriculum vitae
After her graduation, she joined the graduate program Applied Algorithmic Mathematics at TUM. In 2001 she obtained her Dr. rer. nat. with "summa cum laude". The topic of her dissertation was nonharmonic Fourier series for signal analysis. Both her diploma and her doctoral thesis were awarded by the Hurwitz-Gesellschaft in 1999 and 2001 respectively.
Then Brigitte Forster was postdoctoral researcher at the graduate program and guest researcher at the Institute for Biomathematics and Biometry IBB at the GSF Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg. She there worked on sampling theorems with nodes in the complex plane and complex integral transforms for signal analysis.
In 2002 she received a grant from the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and joined the Biomedical Imaging Group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland. She there worked on the construction of complex wavelets for signal and image analysis. From October 2003 to October 2004 she was Marie-Curie-Fellow in the Research Training Network Harmonic Analysis and Statistics for Signal and Image Processing HASSIP funded by the European Commission. In September 2004 she received the Max Anliker Memorial Poster Award at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering.
In 2006 Brigitte Forster was appointed Juniorprofessor for Mathematical Modelling in Biomedical Engineering at the Technische Universität München.
In addition, from 2005 to 2009, Brigitte Forster was Team Leader of her Marie-Curie-Excellence-Team "MAMEBIA - Mathematical Methods in Biological Image Analysis" at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. The project was funded by the European Commission.
Since April 2012, Brigitte Forster is Professor for Applied Mathematics at the University of Passau.
She is curator of the Passauer Mathematik Museum. From October 2013 to September 2015 she served as vice dean for the department. She is deputy head of the Forwiss Institute and deputy speaker of the Passau Graduate Centre.
In her research, she is concerned with complex analysis and approximation theory as well as their application in image analysis.
In 2021 she received the Ars Legendi-Fakultätenpreis Mathematik of the Stifterverband,. Moreover she was "Mathemacherin der Monate Mai und Juni" of the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung DMV.
She is IEEE Senior Member.
Brigitte Forster is married and has two children.
Publications
Auswahl:
Florian Schwarz, Shabhrish Reddy Uddehal, Alexander Lodermeyer, Eman Mohamadi Bagheri, Brigitte Forster-Heinlein, Stefan Becker: Interaction of flow pattern and heat transfer in oscillating heat pipes for hot spot applications. Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 196, Article 117334, 2021.
Sima Caspari, Brigitte Forster-Heinlein, Jutta M ̈agdefrau, Lena Bachl: Student-generated Questions: Developing Mathematical Competence through Online-Assessment. Interna- tional Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 15 (1), Article 8, 2021.
Florian Heinrich, Brigitte Forster: Lifting of Quaternionic Frames to Higher Dimensions with Partial Ridges. Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, Vol. 31, Article No. 12, 2021.
Peter Massopust, Brigitte Forster and Ole Christensen: Fractional and Complex Pseudo- Splines and the Construction of Parseval Frames. Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 314, 2017, pp. 12–24
Andreas Schindele, Peter Massopust, and Brigitte Forster: Multigrid Convergence for the MDCA-Curvature Estimator. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Vol. 57, 2017, pp. 423–438
Johannes Nagler, Paula Cerejeiras, and Brigitte Forster: A lower bound for the Schoenberg operator. Journal of Complexity, Vol. 32 (1), February 2016, pp. 81–91
Ole Christensen, Brigitte Forster and Peter Massopust: Directional time-frequency analysis via continuous frames. Bull. Aust. Math. Soc., Vol. 92, 2015, pp. 268–281.
Alea Strobel, Brigitte Forster and Virginie Uhlmann: A comparison of curvature estimation methods for bioimaging. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging ISBI 2021
Robert Aufschläger and Brigitte Forster: Curvature – A Comparison of the MDCA and the λ-MDCA estimator. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging ISBI, Venice, Italy, April 2019.
Brigitte Forster: Five good reasons for complex-valued transforms in image processing. (Invited contribution.) In: G. Schmeißer and A. Zayed (Eds.): New Perspectives on Approximation and Sampling Theory – Festschrift in honor of Paul Butzer’s 85th birthday. Birkh ̈auser. 2014.
Brigitte Forster: Splines and Multiresolution Analysis. (Invited contribution.) In: Otmar Scherzer (Ed.): Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging. Springer, First Edition 2010, pp. 1231–1270. Second edition 2015, pp. 1675–1716.
Bücher:
Brigitte Forster and Peter Massopust (Eds.): Four Short Courses in Harmonic Analy- sis. Wavelets, Frames, Time Frequency Methods, and Applications to Signal and Image Analysis. With contributions by Ole Christensen, Brigitte Forster, Karlheinz Gr ̈ochenig, Demetrio Labate, Peter Massopust, Pierre Vandergheynst, Guido Weiss, Yves Wiaux. Series Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Birkh ̈auser, 2009.
Wolfgang zu Castell, Frank Filbir and Brigitte Forster (Eds.): Inzell Lectures on Orthog- onal Polynomials. Advances in the Theory of Special Functions and Orthogonal Polyno- mials, Volume 2. Nova Science Publishers, 2004.
Focus areas
- Applied harmonic analysis, especially wavelet analysis, complex wavelets, phase information
- Approximation theory, sampling and interpolation
- Mathematical methods in signal and image analysis, especially integral transforms
- Function theory: Nonharmonic Fourier series and Dirichlet series on convex polygons, growth estimates for entire functions of special type
- Biomedical imaging
Universitäre Selbstverwaltung
- Stellvertretende Leitung FORWISS
- Stellvertrende Sprecherin des Graduiertenzentrums
- Ombudsperson im Graduiertenzentrum
- Stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Ethik-Kommisson
- Gewähltes Mitglied des Fakultätsrats der FIM
- Gründung, Aufbau und Leitung des Passauer Mathematik-Museums
- Verantwortliche für die Brückenkurse
- Mitglied der Fulbright-Kommission der Universität Passau
- Mitglied Expertenkreis Digitale Bildung und Hochschulbildung Digital
- Repräsentant der GAMM und der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung DMV an der Universität Passau
- Mitglied im AcademiaNet, nominiert vom HelmholtzZentrum München
- Mitglied des Editorial Board der Zeitschrift Mathematische Semesterberichte
Favoriten
Modulpläne, Regelungen, Formulare
Courses
Summer semester 2023
- 6199OS Algorithmen in der Approximationstheorie
- 5757V Fourier- and Laplace Transforms (SoSe23) (In English upon request)
- 5759S Seminar "The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class" (Presentations in German or English)
Winter semester 2022/23
- 6199OS Algorithmen in der Approximationstheorie
- 5834V Differentialgeometrie (WS 22/23)
- 5873V Operatortheorie (WS 2022/23) (in English upon request)
Summer semester 2022
For further lectures and seminars offered by the faculties in German please refer to the German version of this website.
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