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Dr. Christopher Anand

Coordinator of Computing and Software Outreach

Associate Professor, Computing and Software
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West, ITB-202
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 CANADA
anandc@mcmaster.ca
office: ITB-213 map, +1-905-525-9140 x 24895

  • Lastest version of pyVenture code and supporting libraries. pyVenture
  • School of Computational Science and Engineering
  • School of Biomedical Engineering
  • Advanced Optimization Lab
  • Software Quality Research Laboratory
  • Algorithms Research Group


  • Preprints/Reports + Theses + Optimization Reports + Patents + CASTV = NaN

    Courses

  • CS 1MA3 Computer Based Problem Solving (fall)
  • CS 4EN3 Software Entrepreneurship - An experimental course for third and fourth year students in CS and SE programs. Last year, we had one project put a game on the App Store by the end of term, and mine the resulting data. I'd be happy to talk about your project ideas for next year so you can get a head start. (fall)
  • CS/SE 4/6 TE3, CES 722/723 Continuous Optimization, Constrained and Unconstrained. Next year, I will focus more on software issues: algorithmic complexity, impact of different implementations on performance (eg via memory locality, use of automatic differentiation) and techniques for verification and validation. (winter)
  • Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law or “Computer Scientists 43 times better than Computer Engineers”.

    Research Interests

  • Provably Correct Very High Performance Parallel Computation
  • Optimization
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Unless I have already talked to you about a research position, I cannot provide financial support to any more students starting before September 2013. If you are interested in graduate study, you need to have your own scholarship and preferably know Haskell. If you are interested in applying your knowledge to high assurance, high performance scientific computing, please email me. Please do not email about a graduate position this year if you do not have a scholarship.

    Links

    Tips for students
    Experimental Algorithm Analysis guides you in doing meaningful (and fair) algorithm comparisons.
    Giving a Talk.
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine has a good page of educational links.

    Learning NMR MRI.

    New Software Economy

    One million and counting: apps are where the action is
    App Market
    IBM looking for smart-planet entrepreneurs.
    Games teach scientific method better than schools.

    Pictures

    Real-time SSFP Teardrop
    heart By optimizing the read-out portion of a SSFP acquisition, we were able to increase the sampling duty-cycle (the percentage of the acquisition devoted to collecting data). This leads to higher frame rates for and enables real-time cardiac imaging with equipment otherwise incapable of it.

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