Walter Hoffmann

Address at Mathematics-Institute :   Address at Computer Science-Institute:
Universiteit van Amsterdam           Universiteit van Amsterdam
Korteweg-de Vries instituut          Informatica Instituut
Science Park 904; Room C4.148        Science Park 107; Room F.210
P.O. Box 94248                       1098 XG Amsterdam
1090 GE Amsterdam                   

     Telephone: +31-20-525.8211/5217      +31-20-525.7539/7463

Courses:

• Numerieke Wiskunde 2 (Advanced Numerical Mathematics);
  Year 3, semester 1; 
topics:
• advanced algorithms for solving ODE's and Linear Algebra problems
• aspects of implementation
• consequences of working in finite precision arithmetic
Lit.:L.N.Trefethen, D.Bau III; Numerical Linear Algebra; SIAM 1997
• Methoden en Technieken voor beta-gamma
  Year 1; semester 1.
• Scientific Computing
  Master Grid Computing; semester 2, blok A.

Research projects:

• Current research is related to "the Discontinuous Galerkin Method" for solving certain type Boundary Value problems.
  see for instance
  Two-Level Fourier Analysis of a Multigrid Approach for Discontinuous Galerkin Discretisation; Amsterdam 2002.
• An older project (currently sleeping)
  Numerical Linear Algebra for Vector-and Parallel Systems
• Currently we have no capacity to accommodate short time internships.

Papers / Publications / Presentations:

• see here.

Personal:

• this link.