Kevin A. Wortman

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
California State University, Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd.
Fullerton, CA 92831

Email: kwortman@fullerton.edu
Office: CS-538
Phone: 657-278-2968

Curriculum Vitae

My C.V. is available as a PDF file.

Teaching

For Spring 2011 I am teaching:

CPSC 120-03, Introduction to Programming
CPSC 254-01, Unix & Open Source Systems
CPSC 335-01, 335-02, Problem Solving Strategies

Please consult those courses' Blackboard pages for more information.

In the past, I have taught:

CPSC 120, Introduction to Programming
CPSC 254, Unix & Open Source Systems
CPSC 335, Problem Solving Strategies

Research Interests

I am interested in the following research areas:

algorithm design & analysis
computational geometry
graph drawing
applied parallel algorithms in the MapReduce or GPU models
cache-oblivious algorithms

Recent Publications

See my C.V. for a complete list.

J. Augustine, D. Eppstein and K. A. Wortman, Approximate Weighted Farthest Neighbors and Minimum Dilation Stars, 16th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2010), Nha Trang, Vietnam. (arXiv)
M. Dickerson, D. Eppstein and K. A. Wortman, Dilation, smoothed distance, and minimization diagrams of convex functions, 7th Int. Symp. Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering (ISVD 2010), Quebec City, Canada. (arXiv)
D. Eppstein and K.A. Wortman, Optimal embedding into star metrics, Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS), Banff, Canada. Lecture Notes in Comp. Sci. 5664, 2009, pp. 290-301. (arXiv)
D. Eppstein and K. A. Wortman, Minimum Dilation Stars, Computational Geometry: Theory and Ap-
plications, v. 37, i. 1, pp. 27-37, 2007. Also appeared at ACM Symposium on Computational Geom-
etry (SoCG), Pisa, Italy pp. 321-326, 2005. (arXiv)

Advising

I am open to advising masters theses that are related to my research interests. I have compiled a list of over fifty thesis topic ideas.

I am also open to advising undergraduate independent studies in any of these topics.

Kevin A. Wortman

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

Research Interests

Recent Publications

Advising

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