Christoph M. Hoffmann

Professor of Computer Science
Director, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
CoDirector, Product Lifecycle Management CoE


Contact

cmh@cs.purdue.edu
Phone: +1 765-494-6185, Fax: +1 765-494-0739
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Editorial Duties

  Computer Aided Design     CAD Fact Sheet
  Computer-Aided Geometric Design     CAGD Fact Sheet
  ACM Transactions on Graphics

Research Interests

Computer-Aided Design, Design System Architectures
Geometric and Solid Modeling, Geometric Constraint Solving
Robust Geometric Computations, Symbolic Computation
Grid computing, Simulation


Sponsored Research 

National Science Foundation
ITR Model Reduction for Dynamical Systems
CPATH-CB: Computing Education in Science Context
AFOSR
High-Altitude Aerial Vehicle
DOE
Northwest Indiana Computational Grid Consortium

Publications and Reports


Books

Group Theoretic Algorithms and Graph Isomorphism
Springer Lect. Notes in CS Nr. 136, 1982, 311 pages.
Geometric and Solid Modeling: An Introduction
Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1989, 340 pages.

Issues in Robotics and Nonlinear Geometry
JAI Press, 1992, 270 pages.

Some PhD Theses of Former Students


Some Links


Teaching

Spring 2008: CS 190C, Introduction to Computational Thinking
Spring 2008:  CS 490G, Game Technology Using XNA