Udo von Toussaint
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Optimizing NRA measurements using Bayesian Experimental Design Udo von Toussaint, Thomas Schwarz-Selinger, Silvio Gori.
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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods (2008). (See the MaxEnt-Conference 2008.)
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Chemical Erosion: Article (2008) published in New Journal of Physics (2008)
- See also ...
- Open positions at the Reactive Plasma Processes group
- degree theses: design and characterization of a quartz-microbalance suited for UHV-environments (in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich)
- degree theses: implementation of a real-time feedback control of a RF-low-temperature plasma (also in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich)
- PhD theses: Detection and modeling of the most important chemical interactions in a low-temperature hydrocarbon plasma and comparison with absolutely quantified results from molecular beam mass spectroscopy. Please contact anne.eggeling@ipp.mpg.de or udo.v.toussaint@ipp.mpg.de for further informations.
- Positions
2008-current Head of the Scientist Council of the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics. 2007-current Member of the Special Experts Working Group on Plasma-Wall-Interactions of EFDA (European Fusion Programme) 2006-current Member of the scientific-technical council of the Helmholtz Society 2002-current Senior scientist in the Reactive Plasma Processes Group at the Material Research Division (Prof. Bolt/Dr. Joachim Roth), Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics. 2000-2001 guest scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, at the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS)(Peter Cheeseman) in Mountain View, CA, USA. 1997-2000 PhD student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics, Surface Physics Division (Prof. Volker Dose), Garching. 1991-1996 student at the University of Bayreuth (Prof. Friedrich Küppers), Institute for Experimental Physics III, U Bayreuth. - Current research interests
- Bayesian Inference: Bayesian Experimental Design, Integrated Data Analysis, Probabilistic Prediction, Intelligent instruments
- Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Chemical erosion of amorphous hydrocarbon films (a-CH-films), plasma-wall interaction. See this example: Snapshot of an a-CH-sample under Argon bombardment
- Ion Beam Methods: Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA), RBS, ERDA, PIXE
- High-dimensional integration: Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods (eg thermodynamic integration, slice sampling, nested sampling,...)
- Real-time data analysis (e.g. using Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN))
