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Profile of Klaus Leppkes

Contact Details

  • Mail
    LuFG Informatik 12: Software and Tools for Computational Engineering
    RWTH Aachen University
    D-52056 Aachen, Germany
  • Office: Süsterfeldstraße 65, 52072 Aachen
  • Room: 026 (ground floor)
  • Phone: ++49 - (0)241-80-29226
  • Email: leppkes@stce.rwth-aachen.de

Work at STCE

  • development of dco/c++
  • efficient adjoints of special cases like linear solvers, fixpoint iterations

Publications

  • J. Lotz, K. Leppkes, J. Ungermann, and U. Naumann. Efficient discrete adjoint computation in a spectral simulation code. Technical Report AIB 2011-05, RWTH Aachen, 2011. To appear.
  • Ungermann, J., Blank, J., Lotz, J., Leppkes, K., Guggenmoser, T., Kaufmann, M., Preusse, P., Naumann, U., and Riese, M.: A 3-D tomographic trajectory retrieval for the air-borne limb-imager GLORIA, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions 4(3), 3805–3859, 2011
  • Leppkes, K. and Naumann, U.: DCO/C – Efficient Derivative Code by Overloading in C++, 10 Tech. Rep. AIB-2011-06, RWTH Aachen, 2011
  • Leppkes, Klaus: Effiziente Berechnung von Adjungierten bei Fixpunktiterationen, GI-Edition - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), volume S-10, Bonner Köllen Verlag, 23–26, Eds: Gesellschaft für Informatik , 2011
  • Rauser, Florian, Riehme, Jan, Leppkes, Klaus, Korn, Peter, and Naumann, Uwe: On the use of discrete adjoints in goal error estimation for shallow water equations, Procedia Computer Science 1(1), volume 1, 107–115, 2010, ICCS 2010
  • Leppkes, K., and Naumann, U.: On the use of direct vs. iterative sparse linear solvers in adjoint computations, RWTH Aachen University No. AIB-2009-22, September 2009

short CV

  • born December 1982 in Kleve
  • Education
    • 1993-1999 Johanna Sebus Gymnasium: Fachoberschulreife (equi. Specialized High School Maturity)
    • 1999-2002 GEOSOFT Vermessungssysteme GmbH: Ausbildung Fachinformatiker (equi. job training IT specialist)
    • 2004-2006 Abendgymnasium Kempen: Abitur (equi.A-Level)
    • 2006-today Rhein Rhein-Westfälische Technische Hochschule: studying Computational Engineering Science
  • Employment
    • 2002-2006 GEOSOFT Vermessungssysteme GmbH: software developer for geodetic calculation programs
    • 2007-2009 Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT: student researcher
    • 2009-today LuFG Informatik 12: Software and Tools for Computational Engineering: student researcher