Professor Carsten Maple
Head of Department and Professor of Applicable Computing
Professor Carsten Maple joined the department in March 1998 as a Lecturer, he then made Senior Lecturer in September the same year and was promoted to Principal Lecturer in January 2001.
Carsten became head of The Centre for Research in Distributed Technologies in June 2003 where his responsibilities include University Research Committee membership, research management and co-ordination, including research student supervision, co-ordination of the University Research Poster Event, Institute for Research in Applicable Computing board member, and head of CREDIT.
He became Acting Head of the Department in September 2004 and was made a Professor of Applicable Computing in 2004.
Dr Maple obtained his PhD at the University of Leicester where his thesis was "A Special Method for Solving Hamilton Eigen problems Arising from Ordinary Differential Equations".
His research Interests include Distributed Systems: processing, information management and authentication, graph theory and optimisation techniques.
Publications:
International Refereed Publications: Over 25
Edited Books:
Co-editor of Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information Visualization, IV 2004, 14-16 July 2004, London, UK IEEE Computer Society 2004
Co-editor Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, IV 2003, 16-18 July 2003, London, UK IEEE Computer Society 2003
Book Chapters:
C. Maple, "Rotating Squares to Boundary Cubes: Boundary Representation and Classification Techniques for Two- and Three-dimensional Objects", in Geometric Modeling: Techniques, Applications, Systems and Tools, ed. M. Sarfraz, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ISBN 1-4020-1817-7.
Professional Activity
Reviewer for various International Journals and Conference Proceedings.
Chair, International Symposium on Applications of Graph Theory 2003, part of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation.
Member of International Programme Committee IEEE International Conference on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, Parelec2004.
Chair, International Symposium on Applications of Graph Theory 2004, part of the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation.
Referee for Canadian NSERC Research Grant Applications.
Co-coordinator (with Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge) of the Ubiquitous Systems and Theory Challenge Wiki. This is part of the UK Grand Challenges in Computing series. The series is sponsored by the UK Computing Research Committee, with support from EPSRC and NeSC, and this particular challenge is being coordinated by Professor Crowcroft. The Wiki is hosted on a dedicated University of Bedfordshire server.
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