Johnathan M. Bardsley Associate Professor Address: Department of Mathematical Sciences The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-0864 USA
Phone:	(406)243-5328
Fax:	(406) 243-2674
E-mail:	bardsleyj at mso dot umt dot edu

My Vitae: PDF

Biography & Education

• Born in Missoula, Montana U.S.A. 1973.
• BS Mathematics, 1996, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana Tech, Butte, MT.
• MS Mathematics, 1998, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
• MS Mathematics, 1999, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
• PhD Mathematics, May 2002, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. Thesis title: "Constrained Optimization Techniques for Image Reconstruction". PDF adviser: Dr. Curtis R. Vogel.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, August 2002 - July 2003, at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and at the Center for Research in Scientific Computation (CRSC) at North Carolina State University. Worked with Dr. H. T. Banks on problems in computational electromagnetics.
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Montana, Fall 2003 - Fall 2007.
• Visiting Researcher in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki, August 2006 - August 2007.
• Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Montana, Fall 2007 - present.

Personal Interests

When I'm not studying, talking, or teaching mathematics, I enjoy outdoor sports (mountain biking, hiking and backpacking, trail running, and x-country and telemark skiing), reading, writing, travel, and spending time with my family. I am also a connoisseur of coffee, beer, and country/rock/folk/pop music. For more on my non-mathematical interests click here.

Teaching

Math 158, Applied Differential Equation;
Math 514, Computational and Statistical Inverse Problems;

Students

John Goldes just got his MS in May 2007. He worked on a computational project in chemical microscopy. His final paper was titled "Parameter Estimation for Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay". He is currently working toward his PhD with me here at UM. His research will focus in the area of Inverse Problems.

N'djekornom Dara LAOBEUL, or Dara as he is known to me, finished his PhD in May 2008. His thesis is titled, "Regularization Methods for Ill-Posed Poisson Imaging Problem". He will be working as an instructor at UM during the 2008-09 academic year.

Aaron Luttman finished his PhD degree in May 2006. His thesis was titled, "A Three-Dimensional Variational Approach to Video Segmentation". He is currently a faculty member in the Math and CS Department at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. For more on his work, see his web page.

Kira Heater finished her MS degree in May 2005 and is now an instructor at Laramie County Community College. She did a final project with me titled "The FDTD Method: Computation and Analysis".

Research Interests

My research work is focused in the mathematical areas of Inverse Problems and Imaging Processing; more specifically, I am interested in the theoretical, computational, and statistical aspects of inverse problems arising in image processing and analysis. I am also interested in adaptive optics. But I can be convinced to wander. For a listing of my publications, check out my publications web page.

MATLAB code

For a selection of MATLAB codes related to my research, click here.

MATH EXAMPLES webpage (under construction)

For a collection of unique examples and ideas for presenting materials, check out the MATH EXAMPLES webpage.

Writing a UM Faculty Exchange Proposal: PDF