Profile of Markus Beckers

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: 028 (ground floor)
• Phone: ++49 - (0)241-80-29224
• Email: beckers@stce.rwth-aachen.de

Short CV

• born in Aachen, Germany, November 5th, 1981
• education
  • 03/08 Diplom (equiv. M.Sc. in Mathematics), RWTH Aachen
    • Title of thesis: "Parameter Estimation in the Context of Sequential Orderstatistics"
  • 04/01 Abitur (equiv. A-level), St. Ursula Gymnasium, Geilenkirchen, Germany
• employment
  • since 08/09: funded by the German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS) , Juelich, Germany
  • since 11/08: scientific assistant at STCE
  • several terms as student assistant with teaching functions

Work at STCE

• Propagation of Uncertainties (using Automatic Differentiation)
• Subgradient Propagation of McCormick Relaxations
• Automatic classification of Wafer Defects

Publications

• M. Beckers and U. Naumann : Uncertainty Quantification for First-Order Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms. CFD & Optimization, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference, ISBN 978-605-61427-4-1, 2011.
• M. Beckers and U. Naumann : Propagation of Uncertainties using the Method of Moments. Proceedings of The Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Civil-Comp Press, ISBN 978-1-905088-38-6, 2010.
• C. Corbett, M. Maier, M. Beckers, U. Naumann, A. Ghobeity and M. Mitsos: Compiler-Generated Subgradient Code for McCormick Relaxations. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 2011, submitted.

Presentations

• Uncertainty Quantification For First-Order Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms.ECCOMAS Thematic Conference: CFD & Optimization, May, 2011, Antalya, Turkey.[pdf]
• Adjoint Subgradient Propagationby Algorithmic Differentiation. SIAM Conference on Optimization, May, 2011, Darmstadt, Germany.[pdf]
• Subgradient propagation of McCormick Relaxations in Reverse Mode. Tenth Euro AD Workshop , June, 2010, Paderborn, Germany.[pdf]
• Propagation of Uncertainties using the Method of Moments. Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology , Sep., 2010, Valencia, Spain.[pdf]

Posters

• M. Beckers and U. Naumann: Uncertainty Quantification Using Moments Method, Aachen Conference on Computational Engineering Science, 2011, Aachen, Germany.[pdf]
• M. Beckers and V. Mosenskis and U. Naumann: Adjoint Subgradients for McCormick Relaxations, Aachen Conference on Computational Engineering Science, 2011, Aachen, Germany.[pdf]
• M. Beckers and Uwe Naumann: Higher Derivatives and the Method of Moments, ASIM-Workshop, March, 2010, Jülich, Germany.[pdf]