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2023

• Talk by Marcel Ritter on "Gaming with Holocaust and Shoa" at panel discussion on Nov 10th

• Talk by Marcel Ritter on "Machine Learning in Games; Past, Present, and Future" at "Ringvorlesung Game Studies" on Oct 31st

• Invited talk by Prof. Karol Miller (University of Western Australia) on "Computational Science Meets Medicine: Clinical Applications in Neurological and Vascular Diseases" at igs (Jan 19).

2022

• We congratulate our Master student Jan Klimaschewski for achieving his Master's degree with best grades.

• Research visit by Prof. Riaz Uddin (NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan), including talk on "Research Activities on Haptics, Human-Robotics, and Condition Monitoring Lab at NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan", at igs (Nov 3-10).

• We welcome our new colleague Ass. Prof. Pascal Knierim as new Tenure-Track Professor in Human Computer-Interaction at igs.

• igs Retreat 2022 at Obergurgl

• We welcome our new PhD students Adela Moravova, Stefano Fogarollo, Yunus Schmirander and Hassam Malik at igs.

• We congratulate our Master student Julian Müller-Huschke for achieving his Master's degree with best grades.

• We are inviting applications for a Tenure-Track Professor Position in "Computer Science with a focus on Human Computer-Interaction", initially embedded into the IGS group. Submission deadline for applications is December 8th, 2021.  

2021

• We congratulate our PhD student Marcel Ritter for achieving his PhD degree with best grades and welcome him as new Postdoctoral Researcher at igs.

• We congratulate our Master student Stefan Spiß for achieving his Master's degree with best grades and welcome him as new PhD student at igs.

• We welcome our new PhD student Stephanie Autherith at igs.

2020

• InDay Students 2020. We congratulate Anna Brandstätter for winning the Best Bachelor Award for her thesis at igs.

• We welcome our new PhD student Viktor Daropoulos at igs.

• We welcome our new PhD student Çağhan Kirişci at igs.

2019

• igs Retreat 2019 at Obergurgl

• InDay Students 2019. We congratulate Jan Klimaschewski and Nikolaus Rauch for winning the Best Bachelor and Best Master Awards for their theses at igs.

• Invited talk by Dr. Denis Steinemann (VirtaMed) on "Surgery Simulation - From Research to Building Simulators at Scale" at igs (Dec 9).

• We welcome our new PhD student Nikolaus Rauch at igs.

• We congratulate our former PhD student Fernando Zorrilla for winning "The Terry Hewitt Prize for the Best Technical Research Student Paper" at CGVC.

• We congratulate our interns Bela Pfahl and Simon Scheiderbauer for the selection of their IGS internship report as one of the 20 best nationwide. They were honored by the BMVIT minister, including certificate handover in Vienna.

• We congratulate our Master students Jodok Huber and Nikolaus Rauch for achieving their Master's degree with best grades.

• Research visit by BritInn-Fellow Prof. Fernando Bello (Imperial College London), including talk on "Simulation of Physical Examinations - Challenges and Opportunities", at igs (June 3-7).

• We congratulate our PhD student Quang Van HA for receiving the scholarship "Doktoratsstipendium" from the University of Innsbruck.

• Invited talk by Prof. Karol Miller (University of Western Australia) on "Modelling soft tissue deformation: Why in Western Australia we do not like the Finite Element Method and what we do instead" at igs (May 6).

• igs at Innsbrucker City Run 2019.  

2018

• igs Retreat 2018 at Obergurgl

• Invited talk by Prof. Gabor Fichtinger (Queen's University) on "Perk Tutor - An Open-Source Platform for Ultrasound-Guided Intervention Training" at igs (December 3).

• Keynote Lecture at IFI InDay by Prof. Matthias Teschner (Freiburg University) on "How Fluid Simulations Benefit from Computer Science" (November 29).

• Invited talk by Prof. Andreas Schrempf (ReSSL) on "Hybrid Surgical Simulators - It's all about haptics" at igs (November 12).

• Invited talk by Prof. Miguel Otaduy (URJC) on "Computer Animation Fuels New Design Engines" at igs (October 29).

• Invited talk by Dr. Arso Vukicevic (BioIRC) on "Advances in Image-Based Modelling of Coronary Arteries Using X-Ray Angiography Images" at igs (October 5).

• igs says "good bye" to our summer interns. Information about summer internship at Computer Science department.

• Invited talk by Prof. Dong-Soo Kwon (KAIST) on "Flexible Endoscopic Surgery Robots" at igs (August 2).

• Invited talk by Prof. Chris Wojtan (IST Austria) on "Surface-Only Methods for Simulating Flow and Fracture" at igs (July 3).

• Congratulations to Yeongmi Kim for receiving her professorship (FH).

• Invited talk by Dr. Matthias Müller-Fischer (Nvidia) on "Position Based Dynamics: A Fast and Robust Simulation Method for Games and Robot Learning" at igs (May 28).

• igs at Innsbrucker City Run 2018. Congratulations to Fernando for his 1st place.