FastOpt was founded in February 2000 in Hamburg by Ralf Giering and Thomas Kaminski . Their respective backgrounds are in physics and mathematical physics. They met at the Max-Planck-Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, where they worked on climate research.
Ralf first addressed Automatic Differentiation (AD) in the late eighties. In the early nineties he developed the Adjoint Model Compiler (AMC), a tool for automatic generation of adjoint code, for which he was awarded the Max-Planck-Society's Heinz Billing prize for scientific computing in 1995. In the second half of the nineties Ralf implemented the Tangent linear and Adjoint Model Compiler (TAMC), a successor of AMC.
Ralf and Thomas began an intense collaboration in the mid nineties. Since then they have been working together on both AD itself, as well as many application projects that use AD for optimisation, sensitivity and stability analysis, or inverse modeling. Michael Voßbeck, a mathematical physicist, strengthens the FastOpt team since spring 2002, and Simon Blessing, an atmospheric scientist, joined in autumn 2007.
FastOpt specialises in two lines of business: First, we provide AD tools . Second, we carry out consulting projects for/with our customers.
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