Wolfgang Bangerth's Homepage

About my work

After having studied in Stuttgart and Heidelberg (Germany), having obtained a Ph.D. in Heidelberg, briefly working at ETH Zürich (Switzerland), and three years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (with joint positions at both the Institute for Computational Sciences and Engineering and at the Institute for Geophysics), I am now a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.

I consider myself a mathematician and computational scientist. My present field of work is the numerical solution of inverse problems for partial differential equations, as well as of various other partial differential equations by adaptive finite element methods. If you are interested in some more details about this, take a look at this page. My work comprises more than only that, but it may give you an impression.

There is also a page with a picture gallery, for those who admire the arts...

The deal.II Library

deal.II is the program library which the finite element programs I write are based on. I am the principal author and maintainer of this publicly available Open Source library written in C++ for the numerical solution of partial differential equations.

Growing over time, we now have roughly 1000 downloads of the library as well as several thousand hits on our webpage each month. deal.II is also part of the computing industry standard SPEC CPU2006 benchmark, and my co-authors and I have received the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for its creation. It is used worldwide, and has been used for numerical results in more than 400 scientific papers.

Some of the features of the library are grid management with hierarchically refined grids and hanging nodes in one, two, and three space dimensions, a unit managing degrees of freedom for arbitrary linear (1D), quadrilateral (2D) or brick (3D) elements, support for multithreaded and parallel distributed cluster computing, and a library of different finite elements. Too many other things are also in there to mention them all here, check it out yourself if you want to know more about it.

I wrote the basic blocks of this library in 1998 for my thesis, but it has been greatly extended since, by me and others in the Heidelberg group, and dozens of other people around the world. Presently, it has about 600,000 lines of code, and extensive documentation (if printed, more than 5,000 pages).

Publications

This link has a list of my publications. You can download most of them as PDF files, and you can also get a BiBTeX entry for each.

Curriculum Vitae

This page has a curriculum vitae of mine in both HTML and (for printing) as PDF.

Contact

If you would like to contact me directly, this is my email address:

Of course, even better would be to come see my directly in room 507D of the Blocker building on campus. If you have questions you can call my cell phone at ++1 512 689 7194.

Finally, in case someone would like to send me something using old-fashioned snail-mail, here is my university address:

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