David Hoffman
David Hoffman
Associate Director of U.C. Berkeley MSRIDavid Hoffman
David Hoffman is Associate Director at Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. He currently heads the Institute's Scientific Graphics Project, an effort co-sponsored by Berkeley Labs to model geometric and physical forms and surfaces with the aid of computers. In 1986, Hoffman co-founded the Center for Geometry Analysis Numerics and Graphics and won the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize in 1990. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the Universities of Warwick and Durham in England, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was a professor of Mathematics. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973.