Geodynamics

Wolfgang Bangerth

Wolfgang Bangerth is a professor of mathematics and (by courtesy) geosciences at Colorado State University. In 1997, he founded and is now one of the Principal Developers of the deal.II project that provides finite element functionality from laptops to supercomputers. In 2011, he also co-founded and has since been a Principal Developer of ASPECT, the Advanced Simulator for Problems in Earth's ConvecTion, a software package for the simulation of convection in the Earth mantle and the dynamics of the Earth's crust. Before joining Colorado State University, he was on the faculty of Texas A&M University and a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2002. He now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and plans on hiking one of the 54 peaks above 14,000 ft (4,200 meter) in Colorado during the off-day in the middle of the upcoming hackathon, to free the mind for the second half.

Locking people up to program — or: “What is a hackathon?”

Wolfgang Bangerth September 12, 2020

This week the seventh yearly hackathon of the geodynamics code ASPECT is taking place. But what actually is a hackathon, why is it useful and how did it get started in the first place? This week, Wolfgang Bangerth, one of the founders of ASPECT, explores all these questions for us. Due to the intensity of a hackathon, he wrote this article before the start of the hackathon. It’s really not p ...[Read More]