Christoph M. Hoffmann

Professor of Computer Science

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

Award

Pierre Bézier Award 2011

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 

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.
	Peter Hertling, Christoph M. Hoffmann, Wolfram Luther, Nathalie Revol (Eds.) Reliable Implementation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice Springer Lect. Notes in CS Nr. 5045, 2008, 237 pages.

Some PhD Theses of Former Students

Some Links

	About Cancer
	Simulation of the 9/11 attacks (Pentagon, WTC-1)
	Coming soon: Binary tree in nature.

Teaching

Fall 2013:

CS 177, Computing with multi-media objects