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.
• Co-director of the NSF-IGERT program Montana Ecology of Infectious Disease (MEID) Fall 2008-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 471, Numerical Analysis;
Math 495, Statistical, Dynamical, and Computational Modeling.

Students

Marylesa Wilde is a PhD student working on an interdisciplinary project in remote sensing. She is being supported by an NSF-EPSCoR PhD fellowship during the 2008-10 academic years and is being co-advised by myself and Dr. Mark Lorang of the Flathead Lake Biological Station.

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

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 Problems". 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 areas of inverse problems and imaging processing. More specifically, I am (or have been) interested in the theoretical, computational, and statistical aspects of inverse problems arising in medical and astronomical imaging and (more recently) in remote sensing. I have also done some work in adaptive optics and parameter estimation, and I have a keen interest (though no results at this point) in sampling methods applied to both imaging and parameter estimation problems. 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