Jan Reininghaus
PhD Candidate
Phone:+49 30 84185-171
Fax:++49 30 84185-107
Room: 4001
Education
- July 2007 Diplom (like Master) in Mathematics at Humboldt University, Berlin
- Aug. 2005 Vordiplom (like Bachelor) in Computer Science at Humboldt University, Berlin
- Nov. 2003 Vordiplom (like Bachelor) in Mathematics at Humboldt University, Berlin
- Aug. 2000 - Aug. 2001 GRSP scholarship at Piedmont College, USA
- July 2000 Abitur (general qualification for university entrance) at AFG, Halver, Germany
- July 1997 - July 1998 RYE scholarship at Trinity Lutheran College, Australia
Professional Experience
- Since July 2007 junior researcher at Zuse Institute, Berlin
- Aug. 2005 - June 2007 student assistant at Humboldt University, Berlin
- July 2004 - July 2005 student assistant at Zuse Institute, Berlin
- January 2001 - July 2001 student assistant at Piedmont College, USA
Research Interests
- Discrete Morse Theory
- Hodge Theory
- Finite Element Exterior Calculus
- Development of OpenFFW, an open source Finite Element Framework
Publications
- Memory Efficient Computation of Persistent Homology for 3D Image Data using Discrete Morse Theory
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D. Günther, J. Reininghaus, H. Wagner, I. Hotz, Proc. Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, 24. (SIBGRAPI), to appear - Efficient Computation of Combinatorial Feature Flow Fields
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J. Reininghaus, J. Kasten, T. Weinkauf, I. Hotz, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization, to appear - A Scale Space Based Persistence Measure for Critical Points in 2D Scalar Fields
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J. Reininghaus, N. Kotava, D. Günther, J. Kasten, H. Hagen, I. Hotz, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization 2011), to appear - Two-dimensional Time-dependent Vortex Regions based on the Acceleration Magnitude
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J. Kasten, J. Reininghaus, I. Hotz, H.-C. Hege, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization 2011), to appear - Computational Discrete Morse Theory for Divergence-Free 2D Vector Fields
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J. Reininghaus, I. Hotz, Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization II, Springer, to appear - Efficient Computation of a Hierarchy of Discrete 3D Gradient Vector Fields
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D. Günther, J. Reininghaus, S. Prohaska, T. Weinkauf, H.-C. Hege, Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization II, Springer, to appear - SHREC 2011: robust feature detection and description benchmark
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E. Boyer, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, B. Bustos, T. Darom, R. Horaud, I. Hotz, Y. Keller, J. Keustermans, A. Kovnatsky, R. Litman, J. Reininghaus, I. Sipiran, D. Smeets, P. Suetens, D. Vandermeulen, A. Zaharescu, V. Zobel, Proc. Eurographics 2011 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'11), pages 71-78. Eurographics Association, 2011 - Generalized Heat Kernel Signatures
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V. Zobel, J. Reininghaus, I.Hotz, Journal of WSCG, International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Vol. 19 (3), pp. 93-100, 2011 - TADD: A Computational Framework for Data Analysis Using Discrete Morse Theory
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J. Reininghaus, D. Günther, I. Hotz, S. Prohaska, H.-C. Hege, Mathematical Software - ICMS 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2010, 198-208 - Fast Combinatorial Vector Field Topology
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J. Reininghaus, C. Loewen, I. Hotz, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization, 2011, 17, 1433-1443 - Combinatorial 2D Vector Field Topology Extraction and Simplification
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J. Reininghaus, I. Hotz. Best Paper at TopoInVis 2009, Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization. Theory, Algorithms, and Applications., Mathematics and Visualization, al., V. Pascucci et (Ed.), pp. 115 - 126, Springer, Berlin, 2011 - The Arnold-Winther Mixed FEM in Linear Elasticity Part I: Implementation and Numerical Verification
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C. Carstensen, D. Günther, J. Reininghaus, J. Thiele. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 2008, 197, 3014-3023
Invited Talks
- 07/2011 - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- 05/2011 - Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Edelsbrunner Group - Algorithms, Geometry, and Topology
- 02/2011 - University of Kaiserslautern, International Research Training Group, Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets, Applications in Geospatial Planning, Modeling, and Engineering
- 01/2011 - University of Leipzig, Department of Computer Science, Graphics, Image Processing, and Visualization
- 11/2010 - New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Master Thesis
- Adaptivity for a nonconforming Finite-Element-Method for Maxwell’s equations.
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Humboldt University, Berlin, 2007. Referees: Prof. Susanne C. Brenner and Prof. Carsten Carstensen.
Supervised Master Theses
- Spectral Analysis of the Hodge Laplacian on Discrete Manifolds.
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V. Zobel, Technical University, Berlin, 2010. Referees: Prof. Dr. John M. Sullivan and Dr. Ingrid Hotz. - Parallele Berechnung Kombinatorischer Vektorfelder mit CUDA.
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C. Löwen, Fachhochschule Südwestfalen, Iserlohn, 2009. Referees: Prof. Dr. Fritz Mehner and Dr. Ingrid Hotz.
Teaching Assistant
- SS 2011, Lecture, Introduction to scientific visualization, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2010/2011, Undergraduate seminar, Computational geometry, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2010/2011, Graduate seminar,Visualization topics, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2009/2010, Undergraduate seminar, Introduction to data visualization, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2009/2010, Graduate seminar,Visualization topics, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2008/2009, Undergraduate seminar, Introduction to real-time volume graphics, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2008/2009, Graduate seminar,Visualization topics, Freie Universität Berlin
- SS 2008, Lecture, Topological methods in visualization, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2007/2008, Undergraduate seminar, Inroduction to computer graphics, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2007/2008, Graduate seminar,Visualization topics, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2006/2007, Tutorial, Indo-German Workshop on Automatic Differentiation, Optimal Control and Adaptivity, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- WS 2005/2006, Lecture, Numerical methods for partial differential equations, Humboldt University Berlin

