Ronald Ortner
Ronald Ortner

picture by Martin Antenreiter



Department für Mathematik und Informationstechnologie
Lehrstuhl für Informationstechnologie
Montanuniversität Leoben
Franz-Josef-Straße 18
A-8700 Leoben

Tel.   +43-3842-402-1503
Fax   +43-3842-402-1502
E-mail   ronald.ortner@unileoben.ac.at

Sprechstunde: Di 14:30 - 15:30



 

Life
1991 - 2002 studies of mathematics, philosophy and computer science (among others) at the University of Salzburg
Dec 1997 graduated with distinction in mathematics
Diplomarbeit (Master thesis equivalent): "On Minimal Squared Rectangles"
Dec 1998 graduated with distinction in philosophy
Diplomarbeit (Master thesis equivalent): "On Solovay's Theorems of Arithmetical Completeness of the Modal Logic Systems GL and GLS"
Jan 2002 received the doctorate in mathematics with distinction
Doctoral Dissertation: "Arrangements of Pseudocircles" (awarded the "Hans Stegbuchner-Preis" of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Salzburg)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Johann Linhart, Prof. Dr. Peter Gerl.
Nov 1996 - May 1999 research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of Science of the International Research Center Salzburg
Jun 1999 - May 2000 alternative service at the Red Cross
Jun 2000 - Sep 2002 employed at Infineon Technologies in Villach (area of responsibility: production logistics, line simulation)
Oct 2002 - Jul 2003 assistant at the Department of Mathematics C of the TU Graz, research position in FWF-project P15577 "Asymptotic Properties of Random Walks on Graphs".
Aug 2003 - Jun 2010 assistant professor at the Department Mathematik und Informationstechnologie of the Montanuniversität Leoben
since July 2010 associate professor at the Department Mathematik und Informationstechnologie of the Montanuniversität Leoben
Jan 2012 - Oct 2012 Erwin Schrödinger scholarship (FWF J3259-N13) at INRIA Lille-Nord Europe (SequeL group)



My Mathematical Genealogy
My Erdös number
is 3 thanks to Wolfgang Woess (-> Carsten Thomassen -> Paul Erdös)
and Peter Auer (-> Pal Revesz -> Paul Erdös).



Research Interests (in reversed order of appearance)
  • Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning
  • Computational Learning Theory
  • Random Walks
  • Combinatorial Geometry (esp. Arrangements)
  • Proof Theory (esp. Provability Logic)
  • Graph Theory


Papers
Combinatorial Geometry:


Random Walks:


Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning:


None of the above:



Teaching/Lehre



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Last modified on April 11, 2013