David Eoin Reynolds

Department of Physics

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone: (805) 893-2115

e-mail:  dereynol@physics.ucsb.edu

URL:  http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~complex/members/members.htm

 

Education

 

1998–present     University of California, Santa Barbara

n     PhD in Physics

n     Advisor:  Professor Jean Carlson

1994–1998        University of Iowa

n     B.S., Physics with honors.

n     B.S., Mathematics with honors.

n     Graduated with high distinction.

 

Research areas

 

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium phase transitions, collective and cooperative behaviors of complex systems, robust control theory, nonlinear model reduction, and granular materials and foams.

 

research Experience

 

Research Assistant  (2000-present)

n     Work under the direction of Prof. Jean Carlson.

n     Project:  Constitutive plasticity, a stability perspective.

n     Project:  Exotic universality and the generalized Wilsonian RG.

n     Project:  Model reduction inspired renormalization group.

n     Project:  Coarse graining and model reduction. 

n     Project:  Statistical physics by control theory.

In collaboration with the control theory group at Caltech.

n     Project:  Highly optimized tolerance and designed degrees of freedom.

 

 

Research Assistant  (summer 1999)

n     Work under the direction of Prof. Harry Nelson.

n     Work on the data acquisition system for CDMS project.

 

 

Research Assistant  (1997-1998)

n     Work under the direction of Prof. Michael Flatté.

n     Investigated the local electronic structure about impurities

in superconductors.

 

Teaching Experience

 

Teaching Assistant  (1998-2000)

n     Introductory Physics for biologists: 

    Directed lab and discussion sections and graded exams.

n     Physics for engineers and physicists: 

    Directed discussion sections and graded exams.

n     Methods of Theoretical Physics:

Directed discussion sections and graded assignments and exams.

n     For teaching recommendations please contact:

Prof. D. Cannell and Prof. F. Roig

 

Publications

 

n     D.E. Reynolds, The renormalization group and proper coarse graining,

         ( in preparation).

n     D.E. Reynolds, Singular perturbations, the CGO renormalization group, and

         balancing transformations, (in preparation).

n     D.E. Reynolds, Coarse graining and control theory model reduction

         (submitted to J. Stat. Phys.)

n     D. Reynolds, J.M. Carlson, and J. Doyle, Phys. Rev. E 66, 016108 (2002).

n     M.E. Flatté and D.E. Reynolds, Phys. Rev. B 61, 14810 (2000).

 

Conference presentations

invited

Model reduction, coarse graining, and the renormalization group,

2003 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems

Snowbird, UT (May 2003).

 

Submitted

Coarse graining, model reduction, and the renormalization group,

APS March Meeting, Austin,TX (March 2003).

 

 

Design and Highly Optimized Tolerance: An Introduction,

APS March Meeting, Seattle, WA (March 2001).

 

Awards

 

n     UCSB Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship (2003)

n     James A. Van Allen Award (1998)

n     University of Iowa Mathematics Department Undergraduate

     Research Assistantship (1997-1998)

n     William R. Savage Award (1997)

n     University of Iowa Presidential Scholarship (1994-1998)

 

Professional affiliations

 

SIAM, AMS, APS

 

other affiliations

 

Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa