Rima Alaifari: inaugural lecture
On 25 September, Professor Rima Alaifari gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Stable extraction of information from unstable systems". She has been assistant professor at the Department since October 2016.
Laudatio by Mete Soner, Head of Department:
Dear Rector, dear Rima, dear colleagues and dear guests,
I welcome you all to the inaugural lecture of Professor Rima Alaifari.
Professor Rima Alaifari was raised and educated in Linz Austria receiving her undergraduate degree in 2010. She then continued her doctoral studies at the Free University of Brussels under the supervision of Professor Michel Defrise of the Free University and Professor Ingrid Daubechies of Princeton and Duke Universities. In 2014, Rima Alaifari came to ETH Zurich for her postdoctoral studies at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics. Two years later, she was elected as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Professor Alaifari’s research interests lie in the fields of applied harmonic analysis and inverse problems – a research area which is well aligned with the exciting current developments in data science.
In particular, her research is concerned with the mathematical foundations of signal and image processing as well as the mathematical analysis of the solvability of ill-posed inverse problems. Indeed, in signal and image processing mathematical descriptions of data compression and also the efficient reconstruction of tomographic data are central problems. Also ill-posed inverse problems occur in many situations and efficient computational solutions have practical consequences.
Rima’s dedication to her research and her students is a great enrichment to our Department and we are very excited to work with Rima in the coming years.
I am excited to hear her lecture on "Stable extraction of information from unstable systems".