Professor of Computer Science
Director of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Codirector, PLM Center of Excellence
Joined department in 1976
Education:
PhD, University of Wisconsin (1974)
Before joining the Purdue faculty, Professor Hoffmann taught at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
He has also been a 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. Professor
Hoffmann has received national media attention for his work simulating the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World
Trade Center.
Selected Publications
C. Hoffmann, "Summary of Basic 2D Constraint Solving", Intl. J. Prod. Lifecycle Mgmt 1:2,
2006, 143-149.
C. Hoffmann and N. Stewart, "Accuracy and Semantics in Shape-Interrogation Applications",
Graphical Models 67:5, 2005, 373-389.
C. Hoffmann, A. Sameh and A. Grama, "High-Fidelity Simulation of Large Scale Structures", Proc.
Comp. Sci - ICCS 2005, Springer LNCS 3515, 2005, 664-671.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Karthik Ramani, Sunil K. Prabhakar, and Christoph M. Hoffmann, Exploratory Research in Database
Systems Support for Product Lifecycle Management, Eli Lilly and Company, 12/1/2006-12/31/2008.
Susanne E. Hambrusch, Mark P Haugan, Christoph M. Hoffmann, Tony Hosking, and Sabre Kais, CPATH
CB: Computing Education in Science Context, National Science Foundation, 7/1/2007-6/30/2009.
Christoph M. Hoffmann, Northwest Indiana Computational Grid: A joint project at the University of
Notre Dame, Purdue University-West Lafayette and Purdue University-Calumet, Department of
Energy, 7/1/2006-6/30/2009.
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