Zmeň na slovenčinu

Basic Information

• Name:

  RNDr. Pavol Novotný

• Date of Birth:

  September 6, 1979

• Place of Birth:

  Žilina, Slovakia

Current Position

• PhD Study:

  from 2003
  • Department of Computer Graphics and Vision
    Institute of Applied informatics
    Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
    Comenius University in Bratislava
    Slovakia

  • Branch:

    Volume graphics

  • Supervisor:

    Doc. Dr.-techn. Ing. Miloš Šrámek

Education

• Master Study:

  1998-2003
  • Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
    Comenius University in Bratislava
    Slovakia

  • Branch of Study:

    Mathematics

  • Specializations:

    • Major:

      Computer graphics and geometry

    • Minor:

      Computer science for mathematicians

• Secondary School:

  1994-1998
  • "Gymnázium Veľká okružná", Žilina, Slovakia
  • Mathematical class

Abilities and Skills

• Computer Languages:

  • routine use:

    C++, HTML, LaTeX

  • basics:

    Pascal, asembler, PHP, tcsh scripts

• Computer Applications:

  text editors, spreadsheets, both raster and vector graphics, animations creating, presentations preparing, internet applications

• Languages:

  • Slovak - native
  • English - active (both written and spoken)
  • German - basics
  • Czech - active (both written and spoken)

• Others:

  driving licence (class B), 5th kyu in karate

Study and Research Abroad Stays

• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Scientific Visualization, Vienna
  • one month in winter 2003 and one month in summer 2005

Competitions, Publications and International Talks

• 2005

  • Volume Graphics 2005

    - Stony Brook, New York, USA
    Representation of objects with sharp details in truncated distance fields
  • Co-author of the book for the occasion of the 25th jubilee of our faculty
    "25 rokov Fakulty matematiky, fyziky a informatiky Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave"
    (25 years of Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava)

• 2004

  • Colloquium on Computer Graphics (Konversatorium)

    - Vienna, Austria
    Problems of sharp object details in distance field representation (talk)

  • Qualification work for the academic degree RNDr.

    - Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
    Volume representation by gradient and distance fields

  • Computer Graphics International Conference 2004

    - Heraklion, Crete, Greece
    CSG operations with voxelized solids

• 2003

  • Master thesis

    - Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
    "Reprezentácia geometrických objektov pomocou poľa hustoty a gradientu"
    (Representation of geometric objects by gradient and distance fields)

  • Student Scientific Conference

    - Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
    "CSG operácie s voxelizovanými modelmi"
    (CSG operations with voxelized solids)
    • university competition: 1st place, Price of the Literary Fund
    • Czech-Slovak competition: participation

  • Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics

    - Budmerice, Slovakia
    CSG operations with voxelized solids (poster)

• 2002

  • faculty competition for the best web page of a computer graphics student (3rd prize for the web page, 1st prize for the graphic object "Heart in a Cube")

• Secondary and Elementary School Competitions

  • Mathematical Olympiad, Physics Olympiad, Young Physicists' Tournament, mathematical corresponding seminars (SKMS, BKMS, SEZAM)

Organization of Conferences, Seminars and Competitions

• SCCG, CESCG

  (from 2004)

• Volume Graphics Group Seminar

  (from 2004)

• SEZAM, KMS (SKMS)

  (1998-2004) - mathematical corresponding seminars for students of elementary and secondary schools

Hobbies

• Apollo:

  mixed choir (from 2000)
  http://www.apollo.input.sk

• Karolina SDC:

  Square Dance Club (from 2003)
  http://www.karolina.sk

• Others:

  programming, guitar, nature, sports, books - in more detail in my old private web page:
  http://lapo.host.sk/ja/hoby.htm (just in Slovak)

In Bratislava, March 1, 2006.