Constraint-based methods for phasing in crystallography [Elektronische Ressource] / Corinna Melanie Heldt

Constraint-based methods for phasing incrystallographyCorinna Melanie HeldtDissertationzur Erlangung des GradesDoktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.)des Fachbereichs Mathematik und Informatikder Freien Universit¨at BerlinFreie Universit¨at Berlin2010Gutachter:Prof. Dr. Alexander Bockmayr (Freie Universit¨at Berlin)Prof. Dr. Alexandre Urzhumtsev (Universit´e de Strasbourg undUniversit´e Henri Poincar´e, Nancy)Tag der Disputation: 14. Dezember 2010iiAcknowledgmentsIt is a pleasure to thank those who made this thesis possible and I express myregardsandgratitudetothem supportingmeinany respect duringitscompletion.My deepest gratitude is to my advisor, Prof. Dr. Alexander Bockmayr for hisencouragement, supervision, expert advice and guidance from the preliminary tothe concluding level of this dissertation.I would like to thank my co-advisor, Prof. Dr. Alexandre Urzhumtsev, for hissupport already in the early beginning of my thesis-writing, for helpful commentsand providing me with useful software.I am indebted to the former and current members of the Mathematics in Life Sci-ences Group, especially Dr. Heike Siebert, Dr. Gunnar Klau and Katja Geiger,for providing a stimulating and pleasant working environment, fruitful discussionsand support in many different ways.Thisthesishasbenefited fromthecommentsandcriticisms ofthosewhohavereadvarious drafts of various parts of it, including Heike, Klaus and Daniel.