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| Name |
Wolfgang Bangerth |
| Address |
email: bangerth@math.tamu.edu |
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homepage: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~bangerth |
| Born |
May 14th, 1973, Ostfildern, Germany |
| Parents |
Friedrich Karl Bangerth, Professor at
the University of |
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Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany; |
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Ulrike Bangerth, Computer Programmer |
| Married to |
Jill Louise Zarestky, June 11th, 2005 |
| Nationality |
German, United States permanent resident
("greencard") |
| 1979-1983 |
Primary School Wolfschlugen |
| 1983-1992 |
Gymnasium Nürtingen; Abitur with grades "very good" |
| 1992-1993 |
Military Service in a telecommunications unit |
| 1993-1995 |
Study of Physics at the University of Stuttgart; |
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Vordiplom (Bachelor) with grades "very good - good" |
| 1995-1999 |
Study of Physics at the University of Heidelberg;
Diploma thesis on adaptive finite element methods
for the wave equation;
Grades: "very good, with distinction" |
| 1999-2002 |
Work on a Ph.D. thesis on "Adaptive Finite Element Methods for
the Identification of Distributed Parameters in
Partial Differential Equations" under the supervision of Prof. R. Rannacher
(Heidelberg). Member of the Graduiertenkolleg "Modellierung und
Wissenschaftliches Rechnen in Mathematik und
Naturwissenschaften"; |
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Grades: "summa cum laude" ("with distinction"). |
| 1994-1995 |
Work with Prof. W. Wendland and Prof. A. Saendig (Stuttgart),
doing calculations with
Mathematica and typesetting. |
| 1996 |
Work with Prof. H.-C. Pauli (Heidelberg), writing a lecture
script on "Quantum field theory". |
| 1997 |
Work with the Robert Bosch AG, doing simulations
on fluid flow in the automobile motor industry using the
FIRE CFD code. |
| 1997-2002 |
Work with Prof. R. Rannacher (Heidelberg), on
flow simulations, implementation of
the finite element library deal.II, computations on
adaptive methods, organization of the Enumath 97
conference. |
| 1998- |
Principal author and maintainer of the deal.II finite element
library (see http://www.dealii.org). |
| 2001 |
Exterior Research Fellow with Industrial Research Ltd.,
Wellington, New Zealand. |
| 2002 |
Assistant at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in the group of
Professor C. Schwab. |
| 2002-2003 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Computational Engineering
and Sciences (ICES), University of Texas at Austin. |
| 2003-2005 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with joint position at the Institute for Computational Engineering
and Sciences (ICES) and the Institute for Geophysics, University
of Texas at Austin. |
| 2005 |
Consultant (Research Scientist) for the Department of Chemistry,
Texas A&M University. |
| 2006-2007 |
External Research Fellow, Institute for Geophysics, University of
Texas at Austin. |
| 2005- |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University. |
| 2005- |
Member of the Science Steering Committee,
Center for Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (CIG). |
| 1999-2001 |
Ph.D. fellowship from Graduiertenkolleg "Modellierung und
Wissenschaftliches Rechnen in Mathematik und
Naturwissenschaften" (Modeling and scientific computing in
mathematics and natural sciences), University of Heidelberg,
Germany |
| 2002-2003 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Institute for
Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), University of
Texas at Austin. |
| 2003-2005 |
Palisades Geophysical Institute (PGI) Postdoctoral Fellowship
from the Institute for Geophysics, University of
Texas at Austin. |
| 2006 |
My deal.II finite element library
software is accepted into the computing
industry standard SPEC
CPU2006 benchmark; the award is
$5,000. |
| 2007 |
Recipient (with G. Kanschat and R. Hartmann) of
the J. H. Wilkinson
Prize for Numerical Software for the
deal.II software; the award
is $3,000. |
| 2008 |
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; the award consists of
unrestricted research funds to the amount of \$50,000. |
| Computers |
Knowledge of the Unix operating system,
profound knowledge of and experience in object oriented
programming with C++ and
knowledge of Pascal and several other programming
languages. |
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Maintainer of the deal.II finite element library |
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Maintainer of the GNU GCC compiler |
| Languages |
Fluent in English, knowledge of
French and remnants of Japanese. |
| Memberships |
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), |
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American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). |
Inverse problems and medical imaging in the optical frequency range;
Numerical finite element software;
Geophysical modeling, optimization with PDE models of reservoirs, simulation
of tectonic faulting.
Finite element theory, adaptivity, and a posteriori error estimation;
Classes tought:
| 2002 |
One semester practical course in Advanced Finite Element
Software, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 2005 |
MATH 609: Numerical Methods for Engineers. |
| 2006 |
MATH 664: Computational Software for
Large-Scale PDE Solvers. |
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MATH 412: Theory of Partial Differential
Equations. |
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MATH 417: Numerical Analysis. |
| 2007 |
MATH 417: Numerical Analysis. |
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MATH 151: Engineering calculus I. |
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MATH 412: Theory of Partial Differential
Equations. |
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Informal weekly class on Numerical
Algorithms for Inverse Problems (spring). |
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Working seminar on
Inverse Problems (fall). |
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Students in my directed studies class
(MATH685): 4 (spring), 1 (summer), 1 (fall). |
| 2008 |
No classes in the spring (bought out of classes). |
Supervision of students:
| 2006 |
Taejong Kim (Mathematics; member of
committee, graduation 2006) |
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Amit Sahu (Division of Molecular Imaging,
Department of Radiology,
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; member of committee,
graduation 2006) |
| 2007 |
Ahmed Al-Huthali (Petroleum
Engineering; member of committee) |
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Moritz Allmaras (Mathematics; co-chair of
committee) |
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Yulia Georgieva-Hristova
(Mathematics; co-chair of committee) |
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Delin Wang
(Aerospace Engineering; member of committee) |
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Xing Jin
(Biomedical Engineering; member of committee) |
| 2008 |
Ahmed Al-Huthali (Petroleum
Engineering; member of committee) |
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Moritz Allmaras (Mathematics; co-chair of
committee) |
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Yulia Georgieva-Hristova
(Mathematics; co-chair of committee) |
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Delin Wang
(Aerospace Engineering; member of committee) |
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Xing Jin
(Biomedical Engineering; member of committee) |
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Adrienne LaFleur (Nuclear
Engineering; member of committee) |
Mentoring of students:
| 2006 |
Gregory Thoreson (Nuclear
Engineering, Undergraduate Summer Research
Grant in Engineering) |
Curriculum development:
Developed the new course "MATH 676: Finite
element methods in scientific computing" (taught as MATH 664 in the spring
of 2006, to be taught again in the fall of 2008).
Member of the organizing team for the ENUMATH'97 conference,
Heidelberg, Germany, 1997
Co-organizer of a mini-symposium on adaptive methods at the GAMM Jahrestagung
(GAMM Annual Conference), Zurich, Switzerland, 2001
Member of the Center for Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (CIG),
located at Caltech, 2004.
Member of the program committee of a workshop on "Parallel/High-Performance
Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC 05)" at the "European Conference
on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2005)", Glasgow, UK, 2005.
Member of the program committee of a workshop on "Parallel/High-Performance
Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC 06)" at the "European Conference
on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2006)", Tours, France, 2006.
Elected member of the Texas A&M University Faculty Senate, 2006-
Member of the nominating committee for candidates to the Science Steering
Committee and Executive Committee of the Center for Computational
Infrastructure in Geodynamics, 2006.
Organizer of a "Workshop on Computational Science Issues in Geodynamics
Applications", Austin, TX, October 16-17, 2006.
Co-author of the report "The Path to Peta-scale Computing in Geodynamics.
A report by the Science Steering Committee,
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG)" to the National Science
Foundation, November 2006.
Organizer of a minisymposium "High-level software for the numerical
solution of partial differential equations" at ICIAM 2007,
Zurich, Switzerland, July 16-20, 2007.
Organizer and main speaker (19 hours) of a "Workshop on Adaptive Mesh
Refinement Techniques in Geodynamics Applications", Boulder, CO, October
24-27, 2007.
Member of the program committee of a workshop on "Parallel/High-Performance
Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC 08)" at the "European Conference
on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008)", Paphos, Cyprus, 2008.
Organizer of "GeoMath: A workshop on mathematical issues in the
geosciences", Santa Fe, NM, September 2008.
Reviewer for Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
(CMAME), Journal of Computational Physics (JCP), SIAM Journal on Numerical
Mathematics (SINUM), SIAM Journal on Scientific Computating (SISC),
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), Numerische Mathematik,
Mathematics of Computation, Journal of
Numerical Mathematics, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids
(IJNMF), International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering
(IJNME), Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
(CNME), Inverse Problems, Applied Numerical Mathematics (ANM), Numerical
Methods in Partial Differential Equations (NMPDE), Journal of the
Acoustical
Society of America (JASA), Medical Physics, ACM Transactions on Mathematical
Software (ACM TOMS), Engineering with Computers, Journal of Petroleum Science
and Engineering, Advances in Engineering Software, Journal of Mathematical
Analysis and Applications (JMAA).
Invited presentations are marked with an asterisk *. Co-organization of the
respective event/mini-symposium is marked by a plus +.
| 1999 |
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International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics,
Trieste, Italy |
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European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Applications, Jyvaeskylae,
Finland |
| 2000 |
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GAMM Workshop on Numerical Mathematics, Kiel, Germany |
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Waves 2000, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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Numerical Modelling in Continuum Mechanics, Prague, Czech Republic |
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16th IMACS World Congress, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2001 |
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GAMM Jahrestagung (GAMM Annual Conference),
Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2002 |
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International Conference on Multifield Problems, Stuttgart, Germany |
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World Congress on Computational Mathematics, Vienna, Austria |
| 2003 |
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Finite Element Rodeo, Houston, TX, USA |
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SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering,
San Diego, CA, USA |
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SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the
Geosciences, Austin, TX, USA |
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USNCCM, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
| 2004 |
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Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (www.geodynamics.org),
planning workshop, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Finite Element Rodeo, Austin, TX, USA |
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Supercomputing 2004, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| 2005 |
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Photonics West/Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue VII,
San Jose, CA, USA |
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SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering,
Orlando, FL, USA |
| 2006 |
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deal.II User Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany |
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IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
(ISBI), Arlington, VA, USA, 2006 |
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SIAM Conference on Imaging, Minneapolis, MN,
USA, 2006 |
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European Conference on Object Oriented Programming
(ECOOP), Nantes, France, 2006 |
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Workshop on Computational Science Issues in Geodynamics
Applications, Austin, TX, 2006 |
| 2007 |
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SIAM Conference on Computational
Science and Engineering, Costa Mesa, CA, 2007 |
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IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical
Imaging (ISBI), Arlington, VA, USA, 2007 |
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Oberwolfach seminar on adaptivity and error
estimation Oberwolfach, Germany, 2007 |
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Applied Inverse Problems conference,
Vancouver, Canada, 2007 |
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ICCOPT-MOPTA 2007 conference, Hamilton,
Canada, 2007 |
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MAMOS workshop, Austin, TX, October, 2007 |
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Main speaker (19 hours) of a "Workshop on
Adaptive Mesh Refinement Techniques in Geodynamics Applications", Boulder,
CO, October 24-27, 2007 |
| 2008 |
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CT 2008 -- Tomography Confluence, An International Conference on the
Applications of Computerized Tomography; Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India, February 15--17, 2008 |
Other presentations:
Colloquium, Institute for Geophysics, Technical University of Munich (1999)
Colloquium, Institute for Geophysics, Technical University of Munich (2001)
Presentation, Industrial Research Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand (2001)
Colloquium, Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Zürich (2002)
Colloquium, Photon Migration Laboratories, Texas A&M University (2003)
Colloquium, Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg (2003)
Colloquium, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University (2004)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh (2004)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh (2005)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Denver (2005)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University (2005)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University (2005)
Colloquium, Division of Mathematics, Sandia National Laboratories (2005)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University (2005)
Colloquium, Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg (2006)
Colloquium, Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (ICES),
University of Texas at Austin (2007)
Colloquium, Electrical Engineering Department, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium (2007)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston (2007)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (2008)
Colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada (2008)
Funded support:
- NSF award 0549487: "IGERT: New materials and mathematical modeling"
(7/1/06-6/30/09):
Research advisor; PI: Joe Ross, Texas A&M; $461,887 for FY 06/07.
- NSF award 0604778: "Mathematical Methods for Novel Modalities of Medical Imaging"
(9/1/2006-8/31/2009),
co-PI; PI: Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M; $330,276 + a supplement of
\$55,905.
- DoE: "3-D deep penetration neutron imaging of thick absorbing and
diffusive objects using transport theory" (5/1/2007-4/30/2010):
co-PI; PI: Jean Ragusa, Texas A&M; $283,093.
- NSF award 0736202: "A framework for developing novel detection systems focused on
interdicting shielded HEU" (9/1/2007-8/31/2012):
co-PI; PI: Warren Miller, Texas A&M; $7,496,076.
- Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (an NSF-funded research
center): "A suite of simple geodynamics applications using
adaptive finite element methods" (4/1/2008-10/31/2009): PI;
$100,458.
- Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship: "Inverse Problems and
Computational Science" (9/1/2008-8/31/2010): PI; $50,000.
Past support:
- German Science Foundation postdoctoral stipend for research at the
University of Texas at Austin (9/2002-8/2003); declined in favor of a
stipend from the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The
University of Texas at Austin.
- NIH: "Diagnostic cancer imaging with NIR fluorescence"
(7/1/2005-6/30/2008):
PI; subaward over $173,124 to a grant of $3M.
To avoid duplication, I keep only one copy of the list of articles written about
my work and of my own publications
online. Please find it here. It also contains
links to the postscript and pdf files of each paper, as well as bibtex and
abstract information.
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