Michael Förster

Research

I am mainly interested in Algorithmic Differentiation and its relation to compiler construction and parallel programming. My current work is to find possibilities for generating efficient adjoint code that can be executed in parallel. I am working on the following projects:

• dcc - Derivative Code Compiler
• ACSAMMM - Joint venture with the AVT institute

Teaching

I am assisting the following lectures and labs.

• Lecture: C++ lecture for CES students (1st semester)
• Lecture: Preparation lecture for the SSE lab for CES students (3rd semester)
• Lab: Applied Compiler Construction for computer science students (bachelor)

Publications

• R. Hannemann, Jana Tillack, M. Schmitz, Michael Förster, J. Wyes, Katharina Nöh, Eric von Lieres, Uwe Naumann, Wolfgang Wiechert, and W. Marquardt. First- and Second-Order Parameter Sensitivities of a Metabolically and Isotopically Non-Stationary Biochemical Network Model. In Proceedings of the 9th International Modelica Conference, Martin Otter and Dirk Zimmer editors, pages 641–648. Modelica Association, 2012.
• Schanen Michel, Förster Michael, Lotz Johannes, Leppkes Klaus, Naumann Uwe Adjoining Hybrid Parallel Code In Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Civil-Comp Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-905088-55-3.
• Michael Förster, Uwe Naumann. Toward Adjoint OpenMP. Department Of Computer Science Technical Reports. Abstract Bibtex Paper
• Michel Schanen, Michael Förster, Boris Gendler, and Uwe Naumann. Compiler-based Differentiation of Numerical Simulation Codes. In ICCGI 2011, The Sixth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology , pages 105–110. IARIA, 2011.
• M. Schanen, U. Naumann, and M. Förster. Second-order adjoint algorithmic differentiation by source transformation of MPI code. In Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 257–264. Springer, 2010.

Poster

• Ralf Hannemann, Boris Gendler, Jutta Wyes, Michael Förster, Moritz Schmitz, Wolfgang Marquardt, and Uwe Naumann. AC-SAMMM: The Aachen Platform for Structured Automatic Manipulation of Mathematical Models. Poster, 2010. Presented at: ASIM Workshop 2010, Trends in Computational Science and Engineering: Foundations of Modeling and Simulation; March 2010, Jülich.
• Uwe Naumann, Wolfgang Marquardt, Ralf Hannemann, Boris Gendler, Jutta Wyes, Michael Förster, and Moritz Schmitz. AC-SAMMM: Structured automatic manipulation of mathematical models. Poster, 2011. Presented at: ASIM Workshop 2011, Trends in Computational Science and Engineering: Foundations of Modeling and Simulation; March 2011, Munich.
• Ebadollah Varnik, Jörn Ungermann, Johannes Lotz, Michael Förster, Michel Schanen, Uwe Naumann, Martin Kaufmann, and Lars Hoffmann. AD enabled Jurassic: Jülich Rapid Spectral Simulation Code. Poster, 2010. Presented at: ASIM Workshop 2010, Trends in Computational Science and Engineering: Foundations of Modeling and Simulation; March 2010, Jülich.

Talks

• Förster Michael First- and Second-Order Parameter Sensitivities of a Metabolically and Isotopically Non-Stationary Biochemical Network Model at the 9th International Modelica Conference, September 2012, Munich, Germany

Diploma thesis

• Michael Förster, Verification of Data Dependences in Derivative Codes, RWTH Aachen, 2009. This file is signed by GNU GPG. To verify the file and to get the actual PDF file, you need this public key.

Contact

• Phone: 0241/80 20 129
• Email: foerster at stce dot rwth-aachen dot de