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Published on: 4/6/2005
Last Visited: 5/11/2008
Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Janice Deakin announces that David Rappaport has been appointed Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research for a five-year term as of Jan. 1, 2008.
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Dr. Rappaport is a professor in the School of Computing.He has a BSc in mathematics from Concordia and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from McGill.Dr. Rappaport came to Queen's in 1986 as an assistant professor, was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor in 1992, and became a full professor in 2003.From 2003-2007, he served as Chair in Division IV of the School of Graduate Studies and Research.He also served as Chair of the Fellowship Committee of the School of Graduate Studies and Research in the academic year 2006-2007.Dr. Rappaport's research is in the area of Computational Geometry, a branch of computer science concerned with the computational aspects of geometric problems that arise in various fields of science and engineering, including computer-aided design, operations research, and pattern recognition.Recently, he has been studying connections between geometry and music.He is the founding director of the Computational Geometry Laboratory at Queen's, and hosted the Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry in 1997 and 2006.
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Supervisors: David Rappaport / Henk Meijer .