Prof. Dr. Carsten Carstensen
Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Carsten Carstensen

Degrees
02/1993 Habilitation in Mathematics (Dr. rer. nat. habil.)
05/1992 Diploma in Civil Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.)
11/1989 Ph.D. in Mathematics (Dr. rer. nat.)
05/1988 Diploma in Mathematics (Dipl.-Math.)

Education
03/1989-12/1989 Ph.D. Student and Assistant at Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Hanover
10/1983-02/1989 Undergraduate Student in Mathematics and Civil Engineering, University of Hanover
07/1981-06/1983 National Service (Reserveoffizier)
07/1972-05/1981 Secondary School (Gymnasium Winsen (Luhe))

Honors, Awards, Positions
since 08/2006 Editorial Board of Journal of Integral Equations and Applications
since 01/2006 Editorial Board of Journal of Computational Mathematics
02/2004 Correspondent Member of Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
02/2003-03/2003 EPSRC Fellowship for Visiting the Newton Institute (Cambridge, UK)
since 2002 Editorial Board Journal of Numerical Mathematics (formerly East-West Journal of Numerical Mathematics )
since 12/2001 Editorial Board SIAM Journal Numerical Analysis
03/2000-05/2000 Research Professor at MSRI (Berkeley, USA)
since 02/1998 Associate Editor Mathematics of Computation
04/1995 Richard-von-Mises Prize 1995 awarded by GAMM
since 1993 Reviewer Mathematical Reviews
01/1986-02/1989 Scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
06/1986 Award for Outstanding Studies

Positions
since 12/2003 Full Professor (C4) of Numerical Analysis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
06/2001-12/2003 Chair of Numerical Analysis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
03/1996-05/2001 Full Professor (C4) of Applied Mathematics, Chair of Scientific Computing, University of Kiel, Germany
04/1995-03/1996 Associate Professor (C3) of Mathematics, TH-Darmstadt, Germany
10/1993-03/1995 Research Fellow, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
01/1990-09/1993 Scientific Assistant (C1), University of Hanover, Germany

Visiting Positions
02/2003-06/2003 Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge, UK)
10/2000-02/2001 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, FRG)
03/2000-05/2000 MSRI (Berkley, USA)
09/1999 University of New-South Wales, Sydney, Australien
07/1999 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
03/1998-04/1998 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
03/1996-05/1996 FIM at ETH-Zürich

Scientific Societies
GAMM Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik e.V.
SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
AMS American Mathematical Society
DMV Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

Scientific Activities
since 04/1998 GAMM-Fachausschuß Analysis von Mikrostrukturen (Vorsitz)
06/1998 GAMM-Workshop Iterative Prozesse , Universität Kiel
08/1998 Sommerschule Computational Fluid Dynamic auf Föhr
04/1999 Oberwolfachtagung Numerics of Microstructures
08/1999 GAMM-Workshop Computational Plasticity , Universität Kiel
08/1999 Sommerschule Computational Plasticity auf Föhr
01/2000 GAMM Workshop Adaptive Methods - Error Estimators , Kiel
09/2000 Sommerschule Microstructures , Wien
02/2001 Oberwolfachtagung Mixed FEM
06/2001 Oberwolfachtagung Numerics of Microstructures
01/2002 Vienna GAMM Seminar on Microstructures
05/2002 Vienna GAMM Seminar on Multilevel Methods.
10/2002 Vienna GAMM Seminar on Multilevel Methods
11/2002 Workshop on Numerical Methods for Multiscale Problems, MPI Leipzig
01/2003 Vienna Winter School Mathematical Foundations of Computational Sciences 2003
05/2003 First European Finite Element Fair, Cambridge, UK
09/2003 International Summer School Computational Challenges in Partial Differential Equations at Nis
01/2004 International Summer School at Cape Town, South Africa, Computational Mechanics: Modelling, Mathematical Analysis, Algorithms
06/2004 Second European Finite Element Fair, Humboldt University of Berlin
09/2004 Johann-von-Neumann Lectures On Computational Stochastics, Humboldt University of Berlin
10/2004 Oberwolfach Seminar Variational Inequalities - Analysis, Simulation and Application
11/2004 Johann-von-Neumann Lectures On Modern Computational PDEs
01/2005 Lecture Series An Introduction to Adaptive Methods, Special Y ear on Computational Partial Differential Equations (CPDE-05), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
02/2005 Oberwolfach Workshop Gemischte und nicht-standard Finite-Elemente-Methoden mit Anwendungen
04/2005 Workshop Micromagnetics, Humboldt University of Berlin
07/2005 International Workshop On Reliable Methods of Mathematical Modelling, Zurich,6-8 July 2005
07/2005 Johann von Neumann Lectures On Modelling and Simulation of Microstructure Evolution, Humboldt University of Berlin
07/2005 Lecture Series An introduction to adaptive finite element methods and their a-posteriori error control, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
07/2005 Minisymposium A Survey on Error Reduction of Adaptive Finite Element Methods, Co-Organizer, 8th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, 24.-28. July 2005, Austin, USA
08/2005 Mini-Workshop Convergence of Adaptive Algorithms, 14-20 August 2005, Oberwolfach, Germany, [report]
09/2005 Advanced School Mixed Finite Element Technologies, International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, CISM, Udine, Italy
09/2005 1. German-Chinese Workshop On Computational and Applied Mathematics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
02/2006 MATHEON-Workshop on Computational Partial Differential Equations, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
06/2006 Minisymposium Reliability and Convergence of FEM, MAFELAP 2006, Brunel University, UK.
07/2006 Minisymposium Recent advances in adaptive finite element methods, 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, USA.
08/2006 Sommerschule Föhr Simulation und Anwendungen von Mikrostrukturen.

Subjects and Courses Taught
10/1990-02/1991 Funktionalanalytische Grundlagen der Numerischen Mechanik (Universität Hannover)
04/1992-07/1992 Ausgewählte Kapitel in partiellen Differentialgleichungen (Universität Hannover)
04/1993-07/1993 Numerische Lineare Algebra (Universität Hannover)
01/1994-04/1994 Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
03/1994-03/1994 Schnelle Löser (Sommerschule Universität Weimar)
01/1995-04/1995 Numerical Treatment of Partial Differential Equations (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
04/1995-07/1995 Einführung in die numerische Behandlung partieller Differentialgleichungen (TH-Darmstadt)
10/1995-02/1996 Finite Elemente Methoden (TH-Darmstadt)
10/1996-02/1997 Einführung in das Wissenschaftliche Rechnen I (Universität Kiel)
04/1997-07/1997 Einführung in das Wissenschaftliche Rechnen II (Universität Kiel)
04/1997-07/1997 Variationsrechnung und partielle Differentialgleichungen (Universität Kiel)
10/1997-02/1998 Einführung in die Mathematische Modellierung und das Wissenschaftliche Rechnen I (Universität Kiel)
04/1998-07/1998 Einführung in die Mathematische Modellierung und das Wissenschaftliche Rechnen II (Universität Kiel)
04/1998-07/1998 Angewandte Funktionalanalysis (Universität Kiel)
08/1998-08/1998 Computational Fluid Dynamics (Sommerschule Universität Kiel)
10/1998-02/1999 Geomathematics and Computational Methods (Universität Kiel)
08/1999-08/1999 Computational Plasticity (Sommerschule Universität Kiel)
10/1999-02/2000 Differentialgleichungen (Universität Kiel)
10/1999-02/2000 Applied Mathematics (Universität Kiel)
04/2000-07/2000 Praktische Analysis (Universität Kiel)
07/2000-07/2000 EPSRC Summer School in Numerical Analysis (University of Durham)
09/2000 Summer School Microstructures (Vienna University of Technology)
04/2001-06/2001 Adaptive Finite Element Methods (University of Kiel)
10/2001-02/2002 Adaptive Finite Element Methods (Vienna University of Technology)
03/2002-06/2002 Numerical Analysis II (Vienna University of Technology)
09/2002 Lecturer CISM Computational Micromechanics of Material Science (Udine, Italy)
10/2002-02/2003 Numerical Analysis I (Vienna University of Technology)
10/2002-02/2003 Adaptive Finite Element Methods (Vienna University of Technology)
04/2004-07/2004 Introducing Chapters of the Numerics of Partial Differential Equations and Variational Inequalities (Humboldt University of Berlin)
10/2004-02/2005 Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations I (Humboldt University of Berlin)
04/2005-07/2005 Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations II (Humboldt University of Berlin)
10/2005-02/2006 Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations I (Humboldt University of Berlin)
10/2005-02/2006 Differential-Equations: Introduction to the Discretization- and Solver-Methods for parabolic Differential-Equations (jointly with J. Geiser), (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
04/2006-07/2006 Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations II (jointly with S. Bartels and J. Geiser), (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
04/2006-07/2006 Numerical Mathematics I, (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Current Fields of Scientific Projects
Computational Mechanics Shell and plate simulations
Microstructures Macroscopic simulations and Young measure computations
Electromagnetics Micromagnetics and Maxwell equations
Variational Inequaltities Elastoplasticity and contact simulations
Adaptive Algorithms A posteriori error control and effective mesh design in finite and/or boundary element schemes
Nonlinear PDEs Polyconvex materials and wave equations