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

Stanford University
University of California, Los Angeles
Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

University of California, Los Angeles
Fredrika Bremer

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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.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

Noise-Induced Intermittency in Cellular Pattern-Forming Systems.
Scott Gasner [SG], PB, and Antonio Palacios [AP]. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218127407018749]

Bifurcation Analysis of Bubble Dynamics in Fluidized Beds. PB, AP, Bing Zhu, Stuart Daw, Charles Finney, John Halow, and Sreekanth Pannala. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2712309]

Bifurcation Analysis of Hopping Behavior in Cellular Pattern-Forming Systems Systems. AP, PB, and SG. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218127407017380]

Noise-Induced Intermittent Cellular Patterns on Circular Domains. PB, SG, and AP. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.74.045202]

Stable 2nd-order scheme for integrating the Kuramoto-Sivanshinsky equation in polar coordinates using distributed approximating functionals. PB, SG, and AP. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.72.036701]

Hopping Behavior in the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation. PB, SG, and AP. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1848311]

Modular Solvers for Constrained Image Restoration Problems Using the Discrepancy Principle. PB, and Tony F. Chan. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nla.278]

Super-Resolution in Time-Reversal Acoustics. PB, George Papanicolaou, and Hongkai Zhao. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1421342]

Variational PDE Models and Methods for Image Processing. PB, Tony F. Chan, Pep Mulet, Luminita Vese, and Wing-Lok Wan. [http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=C0201&parent_id=&pc=]

Color TV: Total Variation Methods for Restoration of Vector Valued Images. PB and Tony F. Chan. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/83.661180]

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 (7 years 4 months)

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

Stanford University

Postdoc , Computational Wavepropagation; Time Reversal; Underwater Acoustics , 1998 — 2002
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.
University of California, Los Angeles

Mathematics 1992 — 1993
Fredrika Bremer

1986 — 1989

Additional Information

Peter Blomgren’s Interests:

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