8/05/2025
WHO: Prof. Yoel Shkolnisky, Tel-Aviv University
WHEN: Thursday, May 8th 2025 at 12:00
WHERE: BUILDING 503 (Computer Science) AUDITORIUM
Title: Electron microscopy -- Introduction for Mathematicians and Computer Scientists
Abstract:
Cryo-electron microscopy is a method for recovering the three-dimensional structure of molecules, which is revolutionizing our biological understanding. I will give an introduction to the method, present its current key mathematical challenges, and give some examples to the mathematical ideas underlying its data processing algorithms.
Bio:
Professor Yoel Shkolnisky is a faculty member in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Tel Aviv University, where he holds the Eric and Sheila Samson Chair in Optimization. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and was a Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University.
His research field includes computational harmonic analysis and its applications to imaging science, particularly cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he was awarded the ERC consolidator grant in 2016. He was awarded the Alon Fellowship in 2009, the Krill Prize of the Wolf Foundation in 2012, held the Sackler Chair for Young Faculty, and was awarded the Abarbanel prize in applied mathematics in 2022.
