1952: Born in Vienna, Austria
1958-1970: Primary and secondary school in Vienna, Austria
1970-1971: Military service
1971-1976: Studies of mathematics at TU Wien
1976: Diploma degree in mathematics TU Wien
1977-1996: Junior Scientist at HEPHY
1979-1980: Scientific Associate at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland
1979-1984: Working at CERN
1988: Dr. techn. in mathematics at TU Wien
since 1991: Married to Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
1994: Birth of twins named Stephan and Matthias
1996: Birth of son Felix
1996: Habilitation (venia docendi) for Statistical Data Analysis at TU Wien
since 1996: Senioe Scientist at HEPHY
since 2006: Group leader, Algorithms and Software Development
2001-2004: Austrian Science Fund Project P15177, "Development of Vertex FInding and Vertex Fitting Algorithms for CMS"
2012-2106: Austrian Science Fund Project P24182-N16, "Reconstruction of Low-Energy Particles in the Belle II Tracker"
PhD students
Erica Brondolin, Track reconstruction in the upgraded CMS tracker
Jakob Lettenbichler, Track finding in the vertex detector of Belle II
Master students
Thomas Madlener, Machine-learning assisted track finding in the silicon vertex detector of the Belle II experiment
Nikolaus Frohner, Track finding with vector hits
TU Wien
107.A24, 142.340: Statistische Methoden der Datenanalyse (lecture)
107A25, 142.351: Statistische Methoden der Datenanalyse (exercises)
142.090: Statistik (lecture)
A general framework for data reconciliation --- Part I: linear constraints
Rudolf Frühwirth, Oliver Cencic, Computers & Chemical Engineering 75 (2015) 196-208Track and vertex reconstruction: From classical to adaptive methods
Rudolf Frühwirth, Are Strandlie, Reviews of Modern Physics 82 (2010) 1419-1458Rudolf Frühwirth, D.R. Mani, S. Pyne, BMC Bioinformatics 12:358 (2011)Wolfgang Waltenberger, Rudolf Frühwirth, Austrian Journal of Statistics 37 Nr. 3-4 (2008) 301-317Estimation of the material budget from tracker data to improve the quality of the track fit
Rudolf Frühwirth, Moritz Nadler, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 648 (2011) 246-253Improved auxiliary mixture sampling for hierarchical models of non-Gaussian data
Rudolf Frühwirth, Statistics and Computing 19 (2008) 479-492Vertex 2015, Santa Fe, USA
Recent developments in tracking and vertexing methods (Eingeladener Konferenzvortrag), 04-06-15, PDFConnecting the Dots 2015, LBNL Berkeley, USA
Constrained fits with non-normal distributions (Eingeladener Konferenzvortrag), 10-02-15