Christoph M. Hoffmann

Professor of Computer Sciences (1976)

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1974.

Before joining the Purdue faculty, Professor Hoffmann taught at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has also been visiting professor at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, West Germany (1980), and at Cornell University (1984-1986). His research focuses on geometric and solid modeling, its applications to manufacturing and science, and the simulation of physical systems. The research includes, in particular, research on geometric constraint solving and the semantics of generative, feature-based design. Professor Hoffmann is the author of Group-Theoretic Algorithms and Graph Isomorphism, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 136, Springer-Verlag and of Geometric and Solid Modeling: An Introduction, published by Morgan Kaufmann, Inc.

He is on the editorial boards of

• Journal for Symbolic Computation
• Journal for Applicable Algebra
• International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications
• Computer-Aided Geometric Design
• Computer Aided Design
• ACM Transactions on Graphics
• Computer Graphics, Vision and Image Processing
• SIAM Monographs in Science and Engineering
• Computer Graphics Forum

Projects:

• Geometric and Solid Modeling
• Spatial Constraint Solving
• SoftLab--A Laboratory for Computational Science

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