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.
• Hometown, Butte, Montana. Butte High School graduate 1992.
• 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 Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, August 2006 - August 2007.
• Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Montana, Augsut 2007 - present.
• Co-director of the NSF-IGERT program Montana Ecology of Infectious Disease (MEID) August 2008-August 2010.
• Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, August 2010 - June 2011.

Personal Interests

When I'm not studying, talking, or teaching mathematics, I enjoy riding and racing my mountain bike, hiking and backpacking, surfing, and nordic and alpine 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 and have a look at my blog Adventures of a Math Geek.

Teaching

Math 221, Intro to Linear Algebra
Math 414, Deterministic Models

Students

Marylesa Howard (PhD, 2013; MS, 2009). Marylesa works at the interface of computational mathematics, statistics, and image processing. She was supported by a Montana NSF-EPSCoR PhD fellowship during the 2008-10 academic years.

John Goldes finished (PhD, 2010; MS, 2007). John's thesis is titled, "Regularization parameter selection methods for Ill-Posed Poisson Imaging Problems". John now practices accounting and works as a statistical consultant in Missoula.

N'djekornom Dara Laobeul (PhD, 2008). Dara's thesis is titled, "Regularization Methods for Ill-Posed Poisson Imaging Problems". Dara is an adjunct instructor here at the UM Math Department.

Aaron Luttman (PhD, 2006). Aaron's thesis is titled, "A Three-Dimensional Variational Approach to Video Segmentation". He was a faculty member in the Math and CS Department at Clarkson University from 2008-2011. He now works at National Security Technologies, LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Kira Heater (MS, 2005). Kira 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 is currently focused on applications of statistics and computational mathematics to inverse problems, with applications mainly in imaging and data assimilation. I've also done some work in theoretical inverse problems, adaptive optics, computational electromagnetics, and remote sensing. 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.