Peter Blomgren

Current

Associate Professor at San Diego State University

Past

Research Associate, Department of Mathematics at Stanford University
Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics at UCLA
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics at UCLA

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles
Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
Fredrika Bremer

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Connections

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Industry

Higher Education

Websites

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Peter Blomgren’s Summary

Mission: "To in every interaction add value and increase entropy."

Motto: "There is no box."

Peter's broad research areas include image reconstruction, processing, segmentation and analysis; particularly with applications to biomedical imaging. Other areas of active research include computational wave propagation and pattern formation in computational combustion.

Peter Blomgren’s Specialties:

Areas of expertise:
Numerical Linear Algebra, Numerical Optimization, Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis.

Programming languages and tools:
C, C++, MPI, Matlab, RCS, RPM, awk, sed, procmail, LaTeX

Web development:
HTML, CSS, PHP

Operating systems:
Linux -- Fedora ("the Ultimate Service Pack")

Peter Blomgren’s Experience

Associate Professor

San Diego State University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2002 — Present (6 years)

Research:
Image processing, primarily with applications to biomedical imaging;
Pattern formation, and bifurcations in combustion;
Computational wave propagation.

Supervision and advising of M.S. students in Applied Mathematics, and Computational Sciences; and Ph.D. students in Computational Sciences.

Teaching:
Discrete Mathematics (Math 245),
Introduction to Numerical Analysis and Computation (Math 541),
Numerical Solutions to Ordinary Differential Equations (Math 542),
Numerical Matrix Analysis (Math 543),
Advanced Numerical Analysis: Unconstrained Numerical Optimization (Math 693A),
Advanced Numerical Analysis: Numerical Solutions to Partial Differential Equations (Math 693B).
Research Associate, Department of Mathematics

Stanford University

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

August 1998 — August 2002 (4 years 1 month)

Research on computational wave propagation, in particular "Super-Resolution in Time-Reversal Acoustics."
Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics

UCLA

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

January 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 6 months)

Research on image processing using partial differential equations, in particular total-variation based approaches for vector valued images.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics

UCLA

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

August 1994 — December 1996 (2 years 5 months)

Sections for: "Introduction to Fortran 77" (PIC 3), "Introduction to Programming in C++" (PIC 10A), "Intermediate Programming in C++" (PIC 10B), "Advanced Programming in C++" (PIC 10C), "Data Structures and Algorithms" (PIC 60), and "Calculus for Life Science Students" (Math 3A and 3B).

Peter Blomgren’s Education

University of California, Los Angeles

PhD, Applied and Computational Mathematics, 1994 — 1998

Thesis: "Total Variation Methods for Restoration of Vector Valued Images."

Activities and Societies:

UCLA Cycling Club/Team, International Students Association, International Speakers Series, International Adviser.
Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

M.S., Engineering Physics, 1989 — 1994

Thesis: "A Renormalization Technique for Families with Flat Maxima."

Activities and Societies:

Exchange student @ UCLA Department of Mathematics, 1992-1993.
Fredrika Bremer

Natural Sciences 1986 — 1989

Placed 6th in the "Programming Olympics 1989" [http://www.csc.kth.se/contest/ioi/resultat.php]...

Additional Information

Peter Blomgren’s Websites:

My Website

Peter Blomgren’s Interests:

Image Processing with Biomedical applications, Computational Wavepropagation with applications to Underwater Acoustics and Wireless Communications, Computational Combustion