Farhad Jafari Professor  Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming P.O. Box 3036, 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071-3036  (307) 766-2383   (307) 766-6838 (fax)  E-mail: fjafari@uwyo.edu UWYO Article Education Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison M.S., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison B.S., Physics and Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison Certification DABR, Diagnostic Radiological Physics, American Board of Radiology Positions New Directions Professor, IMA, University of Minnesota, 2006-2007 Professor, University of Wyoming, 1999-present Associate Professor (1994-1999), Assistant Professor (1991-1994), University of Wyoming Consultant (1991-2002), Western Radiological Physics, Inc., Laramie, WY Assistant Professor (1989-1991), Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Postdoctoral Research Associate (1983-1984), University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Scientist (1979), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Selected Awards PI: "Decomposition of images by smoothness" (with Susan Frost, Math Dept), NASA Wyoming Space Grant, 6/03-5/04 CoPI: “High Precision, High Frequency, Fault Tolerant Manipulation of Multiple Payloads Aboard a Moving Bus” (with John McInroy, ECE Dept), DEPSCoR Grant, 6/02-6/05 CoPI: “Automatic fringe detection in interferometric images” (with Jonathan Naughton, ME Dept), NASA-Ames, 6/00-6/02 Co-PI: “Forming New Linkages Between UW, JPL and MSFC Hexapod Vibration Isolation Programs” (with John McInroy and John Pierre, ECE Dept), NASA EPSCoR Grant, 9/00-8/01 2002 and 1997, "Top 10 Faculty", Nominated by the graduating class, University of Wyoming 2001 and 1993, Extraordinary Merit in Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wyoming 1996, Ellbogen Teaching Award for Meritorious Classroom Teaching, University of Wyoming 1996, "Wyoming Professor of the Year", Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Science and Education (CASE) 1996 and 1997, Excellence in Advising, University of Wyoming 1994, 1996, 1997, "Top Prof", Mortar Board 1993, Extraordinary Merit for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wyoming Research Interests General: Functional Analysis and Operator theory, Harmonic Analysis Specific: Control theory and Optimal Control, Inverse problems in Robotics, Semigroups and Nonlinear PDE, Fractional derivative methods in image analysis Theses and Supervision Dissertation: Composition Operators in Polydiscs (under Professor Walter Rudin) Dissertation: Characterization of Ultrasonic Scattering from lung surfaces (under Profs. J. Zagzebski and E. Madsen) Doctoral Students: Damian Betebenner (on the invariant subspace problem), Richard Raposa (on cyclicity), Bryan Bornholdt (on isometries), Sumeet Aphale (on optimal fault tolerant geometries, with J. McInroy), Zhijing Guo (on designing Gough-Stewart platforms with specified dynamics, with J. McInroy) Masters Students: Paul Johnson (on Dirichlet spaces), Gregg Waterman (on the Daniell Integral), Henning Blohm (on random vector fields), Heather Neu (on wavelets, with Lynne Ipina), Lina Avramidou (on norms of composition operators on Hardy spaces), Douglas Blackburn (on optimal portfolios), Susan Frost (on decomposition of images by smoothness), Anna Parmely (on the generators of unitary groups), Andrew Westmeyer (on nonlinear semigroups), Debra Swedberg (on zeros of polynomials) Publications Publications Teaching (Spring 2005) Schedule and Office Hours Courses Other Interests Running Skiing Calender of Events Faculty List Faculty Research Home Page (UW Math Department)