Dr. Carsten Franke's curriculum vitae / résumé
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name Dr. Carsten Franke
current address Wolfmahdenstraße 67
70563 Stuttgart
Germany
phone ++49/711/7 357 242
email Yfranke@math.uni-goettingenX.de (Please remove X and Y!)
date and place of birth 26 March 1969 in Eschwege, Hessen, Germany
marital status single

Education
1975-1979 primary / elementary school.
1979-1988 grammar / high school in Eschwege.
14 June 1988 Abitur "sehr gut".

Military Service
October 1988 - September 1989 military service as radio operator

Higher Education at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.
September 1988 mathematical propaedeuticum.
October 1989 - May 1998 study of mathematics.
2 November 1995 Diplom (corresponds to Master of Science) "sehr gut".
7 May 1998 PhD "magna cum laude".

Professional Jobs
October 1993 - March 1995 Teaching assistant at the Institute of Mathematics, giving teaching examples classes in calculus including the marking of undergraduate work.
February 1996 - May 1998 Scientific employee at the Institute of Numerical and Applied Mathematics, researching the numerical treatment of partial differential equations.
October 1998 - today Mathematician at T-Sytems International GmbH (former debis Systemhaus Industry GmbH), Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. Main topics:
  • Development of mathematical algorithms at the intersection of CAGD and FEM (graphical FEM pre- and postprocessing system MEDINA)
  • Imbedding of the numerical simulation process into entire product development (PDM connection of MEDINA).

Special Acquaintances
main subject of Diplom and PhD Numerical mathematics. Multidimensional interpolation with "radial basis functions", approximation of the solution of partial differential equations and integral equations via collocation. Basic knowledge of Mathematica.
subsidiary subject of Diplom Experimental physics. Knowledge of mechanics, electro dynamics, quantum mechanics. Practical training in experimental physics.
subsidiary subject of PhD Computer science. Knowledge of object oriented technology (Eiffel, Java, C++).
Additional programming languages: (Borland-) Pascal, REXX, Fortran, LaTeX and HTML. Operating systems: Digital UNIX V4.0B, OS/2 Warp and DOS.
Private computer experience since 1986. Basic knowledge of TCP/IP, euro-ISDN and PC-hardware.
Software development Design and implementation of mathematical algorithms in C, C++ and FORTRAN on HP/UX, IBM/AIX, PC/Linux, Silicon Graphics/Irix, Sun/Solaris.
Management of small and medium projects.
foreign languages English, fluently
driving licence for cars

Publications
  • Interpolation mit symmetrischen Basisfunktionen unter Berücksichtigung inhomogener Stützstellenverteilungen. Diploma thesis, September 1995.
• Solving Partial Differential Equations by Collocation using Radial Basis Functions in Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 93, Issue 1, June 1998, pp. 73-82, (with Prof. Schaback). ps file (ca. 411 KB).
• Convergence Order Estimates of Meshless Collocation Methods using Radial Basis Functions in Advances in Computational Mathematics, Volume 8, Issue 4, June 1998, pp. 381-399, (with Prof. Schaback). dvi file (ca. 88 KB), ps file (ca. 268 KB).
• Hermite-Birkhoff-Interpolation mit radialen Basisfunktionen in gewichteten Sobolew-Räumen mit Anwendung auf partielle Differentialgleichungen. PhD thesis, May 1998. dvi.Z file (ca. 247 KB).

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