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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 an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University since August 2005.

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 wave equations by adaptive finite elements. 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 200 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 130 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 more than a dozen other people in various places. Presently, it has about 370,000 lines of code, and extensive documentation (if printed, more than 4,500 pages), and is available for free under an Open Source license.

Publications

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

Curriculum Vitae

Here I have put up a curriculum vitae of mine. It is available as both HTML and (for printing) as PDF.

Personal Notes

Life is not work alone. There are more things to do, and some of the things I then do are described here. Also, if you want to see some photos of the various trips to the region around my present home, watch this page.

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 feel free to call me at ++1 979 845 6393. I often work from home on Fridays; if it is urgent, 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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