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General

Name Wolfgang Bangerth
Address email: bangerth@colostate.edu
  homepage: https://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth
Born May 14th, 1973, Ostfildern, Germany
Citizenship Germany, United States

Education

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;
  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";
  Grades: "summa cum laude" ("with distinction").

Appointments

2001 Exterior Research Fellow with Industrial Research Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand.
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.
2005-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University.
2009-2012 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University.
2013-2017 Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University.
2016- Professor, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University.
2019- Professor (by courtesy), Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University.

Professional Experience

1998- Principal author and maintainer of the deal.II finite element library (see http://www.dealii.org).
2005-2015 Elected member of the Science Steering Committee (elected 2005, re-elected 2008) and Executive Committee (elected 2011), Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (an NSF-funded center devoted to the creation of open source software in geophysics).
2009-2011 Member, Executive Committee of the Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University.
2009-2014 Member, editorial board, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC).
2010-2014 Member, Executive Committee of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS), Texas A&M University.
2011- Member, editorial board, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM TOMS).
2013-2015 Member, Executive Committee, Council of Principal Investigators, Texas A&M University.
2016-2019 Member, NSF Advisory Committee on Software Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Computing.
2017-2020 Member, Executive Committee of the Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University.
2018- Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM TOMS).
2020- Member, NSF Advisory Committee on Reproducibility.

Awards

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 A program of mine based on 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.
2014 Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University.
2017 A program of mine based on deal.II finite element library software is accepted into the computing industry standard SPEC CPU2017 benchmark; the award is $5,000.
2019 and 2020 Outstanding Professor in Graduate Instruction, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University.

Teaching and mentoring

Regular classes

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.
MATH 412: Theory of Partial Differential Equations.
MATH 417: Numerical Analysis.
2007 MATH 417: Numerical Analysis.
MATH 151: Engineering calculus I.
MATH 412: Theory of Partial Differential Equations.
Informal weekly class on Numerical Algorithms for Inverse Problems (spring).
Working seminar on Inverse Problems (fall).
2008 MATH 676: Finite element methods in scientific computing.
2009 MATH 651: Optimization I.
2010 MATH 652: Optimization II.
MATH 442: Mathematical modeling.
2011 MATH 676: Finite element methods in scientific computing.
2012 MATH 601: Methods of applied mathematics I.
2013 MATH 676: Finite element methods in scientific computing.
MATH 437: Principles of numerical analysis.
2014 MATH 689: Numerical optimization.
MATH 442: Mathematical modeling.
2015 MATH 676: Finite element methods in scientific computing.
MATH 442: Mathematical modeling.
2016 MATH 442: Mathematical modeling.
2017 MATH 561: Numerical analysis I.
2018 MATH 451: Introduction to numerical analysis II.
MATH 676: Finite element methods in scientific computing.
MATH 545: Partial differential equations I.
MATH 620: Variational methods and optimization.
2019 MATH 651: Numerical analysis II.
MATH 546: Partial differential equations II.
DSCI 320: Optimization methods in data science.
2020 DSCI 320: Optimization methods in data science.
MATH 317: Advanced calculus of one variable.
MATH 652: Advanced numerical methods for PDEs.
MATH 620: Variational methods and optimization.
2021 DSCI 320: Optimization methods in data science.
MATH 545: Partial differential equations I.
MATH 592: First year graduate student seminar.
2022 MATH 332: Partial differential equations.
MATH 417: Advanced calculus I.
MATH 592: First year graduate student seminar.
MATH 651: Numerical analysis II.

Curriculum development

Developed the new course "MATH 676: Finite element methods in scientific computing" (taught as MATH 664 in the spring of 2006).

Summer and short courses

2012 2-week course Finite element methods in scientific computing, Heidelberg, Germany, March 19-30, 2012.
2-week course Practical parameter estimation methods, Heidelberg, Germany, July 9-20, 2012.
2013 2-day course Solving PDEs with finite elements via the deal.II library, EU regional school 2013, Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science, Aachen, Germany, May 8-10, 2013.
3-day course Finite element methods in scientific computing, Center for High Performance Computing, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, August 5-7, 2013.
2014 5-day course Finite element methods in scientific computing, Seoul National University, South Korea, June 16-20, 2014.
2-day course Using and extending the mantle convection code ASPECT, Earth-Life Institute Summer School, Tokyo, Japan, August 1-3, 2014.
2017 5-day course Using and extending the mantle convection code ASPECT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, June 19-26, 2017.
2018 5-day course Finite element methods in scientific computing, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China, May 21-25, 2018
2022 2-day course Using and extending the mantle convection code ASPECT, Seoul National University, South Korea, June 16-17, 2022.

Supervision of students and postdocs

I served as chair or co-chair for the following graduate students:
Chih-Che Chueh Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada; co-chair of Ph.D. committee; graduated in 2010
Now a postdoc at Queen's University, Canada.
Nate Fredette Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University; co-chair of M.Sc. committee; graduated in 2011
Now a designer at DoE's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
Moritz Allmaras Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University; chair of Ph.D. committee; graduated in 2011
Now a researcher at Siemens, Germany
Jennifer Webster Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University; chair of Ph.D. committee; graduated in 2013
Now a researcher at Pacific Northwest National Lab
Kainan Wang Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University; chair of Ph.D. committee; graduated in 2014
Now a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin
Fang Wang Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University; chair of Ph.D. committee; graduated in 2014
Now a software developer at Stata
Hung-Chieh Chu Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University; co-chair of Ph.D. committee; graduated in 2017.
Arezou Ghesmati Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University; chair of Ph.D. committee; graduated in 2017.
Justin O'Connor Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University.
Danny Long Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University.
Tyler Anderson Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University.
I have served more often than is worth counting as a member on M.Sc. and Ph.D. committees of at least half a dozen departments on campus.

Mentoring of students

2006 Gregory Thoreson (Nuclear Engineering, Undergraduate Summer Research Grant in Engineering)
2014-2016 Lei Qiao (Aerospace Department, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China; Lei was a long-term visitor in my group for 18 months)
2015-2016 Juliane Dannberg (Geosciences Research Center - GFZ - Potsdam, Germany; Juliane was a long-term visitor in my group for the last year of her PhD time)
2018 Marc Fehling (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; Marc was a long-term visitor in my group for 7 months)

Mentoring of postdocs

2008-2011 Jean Marie Linhart
Now on the faculty of Central Washington University
2011-2013 Timo Heister
Now on the faculty of Clemson University
2011, 2013 Jörg Frohne (as long-term visitor for several months)
Now a postdoctoral researcher, Dortmund University and Siegen University, Germany
2012-2014 Markus Bürg
Now at a private company in The Netherlands
2013-2015 Bruno Turcksin
Now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2015-2018 Rene Gassmöller
Now on the faculty of the University of Florida
2016-2018 Juliane Dannberg
Now on the faculty of the University of Florida
2020- Marc Fehling

Involvement in the scientific community

Editorial boards

Member, editorial board, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), 2009-2014.

Member, editorial board, SIMAI Springer Series (a book series on computational science and applied mathematics; editor-in-chief: Luca Formaggia), 2012-2014.

Member, editorial board, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM TOMS), since 2011.

Editor in Chief, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM TOMS), since 2018.

Member, editorial board, Archive of Numerical Software (ANS), since 2011.

Advisory councils, evaluation panels, reviewing

Member, NSF Advisory Committee on Software Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Computing, 2016-.

Elected member of the Science Steeing Committee and later the Executive Committee, Center for Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (CIG), located first at Caltech and later at the University of California, Davis, 2005-2015; re-elected 2008, 2011.

Member, Executive Committee of the Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 2009-2011.

Member, Executive Committee of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS), Texas A&M University, 2010-2015.

Member, High Performance Computing Committee, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Texas A&M University, 2008-2015.

Member, Intellectual Property Constituent Committee, Texas A&M University; 2012-2015.

NSF Panelist for Cyberenabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Type II proposals, 2008.

NSF Panelist for Inverse Problems proposals, 2009.

Member, evaluation committee for Department of Energy SciDAC Applied Math Mid-Term Reviews, 2009.

Reviewer, Department of Energy, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2010, 2012.

NSF Panelist for Sustained Innovation through Software Infrastructure (SI2) proposals, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015.

Reviewer for Advances in Engineering Software, Applied Numerical Mathematics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME), Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Engineering with Computers, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering (IJNME), Inverse Problems, Journal of Computational Physics (JCP), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Journal of Numerical Analysis, Journal of Petroleum Sciences and Engineering, Mathematics of Computation, Medical Physics, Numerical Methods in Partial Differential Equations (NMPDE), Numerische Mathematik, Optics Express, SIAM Journal on Optimization (SICON), SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (SINUM), SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), ACM Transactions on Mathematics Software (ACM TOMS)

Reviewer, complete draft of a book in scientific computing, 2010

Organization of workshops, minisymposia and conferences

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 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, 2006-2009

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 the workshop "Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Solid Earth Geosciences", Santa Fe, NM, September 15-17, 2008.

Organizer of the "CBMS Conference on Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations", College Station, TX, May 18-22, 2009.

Member of the program committee of a workshop on "Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing" at "Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH), 2010", Reno/Tahoe, NV, 2010.

Co-organizer of the "IAMCS Workshop in Large-Scale Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification", College Station, TX, 2011.

Co-organizer of session "Software in CS&E" and "Information Theory - Inversion Problems, Applications and Algorithms", SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference, Boston, February 2013.

Co-organizer of the session "Advances in Computational Methods in Solid Earth Geophysics", American Geophysical Union Fall Conference, San Francisco, December 2013.

Organizer, "Fourth deal.II users and developers workshop", College Station, TX, August 2013.

Organizer, "First ASPECT Users and Developers Hackathon", College Station, TX, May, 2014.

Organizer, "Fifth deal.II users and developers workshop", College Station, TX, August 2015.

Organizer, "Second ASPECT Users and Developers Hackathon", Bodega Bay, CA, May 2015.

Member of the program committee of the annual "Supercomputing" conference, 2013, 2015, 2016.

Member of the program committee of the "IEEE Cluster" conference, 2013, 2015, 2016.

Member of the organizing committee of the "SIAM CSE 23" conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023.

Other service activities

Elected member of the Texas A&M University Faculty Senate, 2006-2009.

Member of the nominating committee for candidates to the Science Steering Committee and Executive Committee of the Center for Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics, 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.

Elected member of the Texas A&M University Council of Principal Investigators, 2009-2015.

Chair of the nominating committee for candidates to the Science Steering Committee and Executive Committee of the Center for Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics, 2009.

Member, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences (IAMCS), Institute for Scientific Computation (ISC), Center for Large Scale Scientific Computing (CLASS), all at Texas A&M University.

Funded support

Currently funded support: Past support:

Publications

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.