Daniel R. Reynolds

 

 

CONTACT

Southern Methodist University, Mathematics

PO Box 750156

Dallas, TX 75275-0156

Phone: 214.768.4339

Fax: 214.768.2355

 

EDUCATION

Rice University, Houston, TX, 1998 – 2003

Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2003

M.A. in Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2002

 

Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 1994 – 1998

B.A. in Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, 1998

 

WORK and RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor: Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, 2008 – present

Tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Mathematics. 

Continued research in Numerical Analysis and Large-Scale Scientific Computing, with applications in astrophysics, fusion energy and supernova applications.

Teaching duties of two classes per semester.

 

Postdoctoral: Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 2005 – 2008

(advisors:  Dr. Michael J. Holst [Mathematics] and Dr. Michael L. Norman [Astrophysics]).

Joint position between Mathematics and the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. 

Research on scalable methods for radiation transport and multiscale modeling in astrophysics.

Research within multi-disciplinary TOPS collaborations on scalable solvers and constrained evolution algorithms for fusion energy and supernova applications.

 

Teaching Visitor: Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, Fall 2006

Taught course on Numerical Methods for Science and Engineering.
Received excellent evaluations, available at www.cape.ucsd.edu/scripts/detailedStats.asp?SectionId=567798.
Topics included floating point arithmetic, linear and nonlinear equations, interpolation, integration, optimization, least squares and differential equations.

 

Teaching Visitor: Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, Winter 2006

Taught course on Introduction to Differential Equations for class of approximately 120 students.

Received excellent evaluations, available at www.cape.ucsd.edu/scripts/detailedStats.asp?SectionId=554728.
Topics included infinte series and ordinary differential equations, including separable, linear, exact, undetermined coefficients, variations of parameters, series solutions and Laplace transforms.

 

Postdoctoral: Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, 2003 – 2005
(research advisor: Dr. Carol S. Woodward).

Formed crux of multi-disciplinary collaboration coupling high accuracy, fully implicit numerical methods, nonlinear solvers and scalable preconditioning algorithms with resistive magnetohydrodynamics models of fusion energy, and with astrophysical models of core-collapse supernovae, as part of DOE SciDAC program (TOPS).

 

Doctoral Research: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 2000 – 2003
(research advisor:Dr. Petr Kloucek).

Derived first-principles, fully coupled, continuum-thermodynamic model describing the behavior of shape memory alloy (SMA) wires undergoing solid-state phase transformations.

Developed an efficient and robust solution to the resulting system of nonlinear, non-convex PDEs.

Invented damping mechanisms for vibrating systems based on thermal controls of SMA wires.

 

Teaching Assistant: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 2000

(teaching advisor:  Dr. William W. Symes).

Responsible for weekly recitation sessions, solution sheets and grading for course on Differential Equations in Science and Engineering.
Topics included Green's functions, exponential and series solutions, numerical methods for initial and boundary value problems of mathematical physics, dynamics of mass-spring systems and circuits, equilibria of solids, fluids and heat flow.

 

Teaching Assistant: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 1999

(teaching advisors:  Dr. Petr Kloucek and Dr. Matthias Heinkenschloss).

Responsible for weekly recitation sessions, solution sheets, and grading for course on Matrix Analysis.

Topics included equilibria, the solution of linear and linear least squares problems, dynamical systems, the eigenvalue problem with the Jordan form, the Laplace transform via complex integration.

 

Summer Research: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 1999

(research advisors:  Dr. William W. Symes and Dr. Mark S. Gockenbach).

Implemented abstract interface to adjoint state method for solution of inverse wave equations.

Investigated automatic differentiation techniques for sensitivity calculations within adjoint methods.

 

FUNDING AWARDS

NSF AAG Grant 0808184 (co-PI; with M. Norman), 2008-2011; ~$200k per year (total)

DOE SciDAC (co-PI; with D. Keyes et al.), 2006-2011; ~$3.1 million per year (total)

LLNL Subcontract B555750 (co-PI; with M. Holst), 2005; ~$64 thousand for 1 year

 

PATENTS

P. Kloucek and D.R. Reynolds, "Vibration damping and heat transfer using material phase changes," U.S. Patent Number 7,506,735, issued March 24, 2009.

 

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2000 – present

Member, SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing, 2007 – present

Member, SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science & Engineering, 2006 – present

Member, American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2000 – present

Member, Mathematical Association of America (MAA), 2003 – present

Referee, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2004 – present

Referee, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2004 – present

Referee, SIAM Review, 2005 – present

Organizer, invited mini-symposium on "Applications of Nonlinear Solvers," SIAM Annual Meeting, 2005

Invited panelist on "Landing a Job After Graduate School," SIAM Annual Meeting, 2005

Organizer, plenary panel discussion on "Research Directions and Enabling Technologies for the Future of CS&E", SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2007

 

AWARDS

Finalist, Ralph Budd Award for best Ph.D. Thesis in Engineering, 2003

Finalist, John Von Neumann Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sandia National Lab, 2003

Member of Rice's winning team, SIAM 100-Digit Challenge, 2002

Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1998

Alpha Chi National Honor Society, 1998

Atkins Memorial Award in Mathematics, 1997

Southwestern University Dean's List, 1995 – 1998

 

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

D.R. Reynolds, J.C. Hayes, P. Paschos and M.L. Norman, "Self-Consistent Solution of Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics and Chemical Ionization," Journal of Computational Physics, 228:6833-6854.

 

D.R. Reynolds, R. Samtaney and C.S. Woodward, "Operator-Based Preconditoning of Stiff Hyperbolic Systems," SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, in press.

 

D.R. Reynolds, F.D. Swesty and C.S. Woodward, "A Newton-Krylov solver for implicit solution of hydrodynamics in core collapse supernovae," Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 125, 2008.

 

M.L. Norman, G.L. Bryan, R. Harkness, J. Bordner, D. Reynolds, B. O'Shea and R. Wagner, "Simulating Cosmological Evolution with Enzo," in Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, D. Bader (editor), CRC Press, 2007.

 

D.R. Reynolds, R. Samtaney and C.S. Woodward, "A Fully Implicit Numerical Method for Single-Fluid Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics," Journal of Computational Physics, 219:144-162, 2006.

 

D.E. Keyes, D.R. Reynolds and C.S. Woodward, "Implicit Solvers for Large-Scale Nonlinear Problems," Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 46:433-442, 2006.

 

P. Kloucek and D.R. Reynolds, "On the Modeling of Nonlinear Thermodynamics in SMA Wires," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 196:180-191, 2006.

 

P. Kloucek, D.R. Reynolds and T.I. Seidman, "Computational Modeling of Vibration Damping in SMA Wires," Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics , 16: 495-514, 2004.

 

D. Cox, P. Kloucek and D.R. Reynolds, "On the Asymptotically Stochastic Computational Modeling of Microstructures," Future Generation Computer Systems , 20: 409-424, 2004.

 

P. Kloucek, D.R. Reynolds and T.I. Seidman, "On Thermodynamic Active Control of Shape Memory Alloy Wires," Systems & Control Letters, 48: 211-219, 2003.

 

M.S. Gockenbach, D.R. Reynolds, P. Shen and W.W. Symes, "Efficient and Automatic Implementation of the Adjoint State Method," ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software , 28: 22-44, 2002.

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

D.R. Reynolds, P. Paschos and M.L. Norman, "Cosmological Radiation-Hydrodynamics-Ionization Simulations in Enzo," (in preparation).

 

D.R. Reynolds, C.S. Woodward and F.D. Swesty, "Efficient Algorithms for Implicit Hydrodynamic Simulation Using Newton-Krylov Methods," (in preparation).

 

D.R. Reynolds, R. Samtaney and C.S. Woodward, "Physics-Based Preconditioning of Resistive MHD Systems," (in preparation).

 

I.T. Iliev, D. Whalen, K. Ahn, S. Baek, N.Y. Gnedin, A.V. Kravtsov, G. Mellema, M. Norman, M. Raicevic, D.R. Reynolds, D. Sato, P.R. Shapiro, B. Semelin, J. Smidt, H. Susa, T. Theuns and M. Umemura, "Cosmological Radiative Transfer Codes Comparison Project II: The Radiation-Hydrodynamic Tests," Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., in press.

 

M.L. Norman, D.R. Reynolds and G.C. So, "Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics with Enzo," in Proceedings, Recent Directions in Astrophysical Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation Hydrodynamics, American Institute of Physics, 2009.

 

D.R. Reynolds and R. Szypowski, "Panel Discusses Research Directions and Enabling Technologies for the Future of CS&E," SIAM News, May 2007.

 

D.D. Cox, P. Kloucek, D.R. Reynolds and P. Solin, "Stochastic Relaxation of Variational Integrals with Non-attainable Infima," in Proceedings: ENUMATH 2003 European Conference on Numerical Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004.

 

D.R. Reynolds, "A Nonlinear Thermodynamic Model for Phase Transitions in Shape Memory Alloy Wires," Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, April 2003.

 

P. Kloucek, D.R. Reynolds and T.I. Seidman, "Thermal Stabilization of Shape Memory Alloy Wires," in Smart Structures and Materials 2003: Modeling, Signal Processing, and Control, R.C. Smith editor, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 5049, 2003.

 

D. Cox, P. Kloucek and D.R. Reynolds, "The Computational Modeling of Crystalline Materials Using a Stochastic Variational Principle," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2330: 461-469, 2002.

 

D. Cox, P. Kloucek and D.R. Reynolds, "A Subgrid Projection Method for Relaxation of Non-Attainable Differential Inclusions," in Proceedings:  ENUMATH 2001 European Conference on Numerical Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002.

 

J. Hu, C. Ingrassia, S. Lowizsch, J. Park, A. Pineda, D. Reynolds, N. Valdivia (S.K. Patch, mentor), "Second Order Solution of Fritz John's Ultrahyperbolic PDE for Volumetric Computed Tomography," IMA preprint 1752-4, 2001.

 

M.S. Gockenbach, D.R. Reynolds and W.W. Symes, "Automatic Differentiation and the Adjoint State Method," in Proceedings: Automatic Differentiation 2000: From Simulation to Optimization, Springer-Verlag, 2001.

 

PRESENTATIONS and WORKSHOPS

Invited lecture: SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, Miami, FL, 2009

Invited lecture: Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Solid Earth Geosciences, Santa Fe, NM, 2008

Invited lecture: SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Atlanta, GA, 2008

Invited participant: Young Scientists US/France bilateral workshop on Modeling and High Performance Computing, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2007

Invited lecture: Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, 2007

Lecture: Future Directions for M3D Workshop, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, 2007

Invited plenary panel discussion (chair): SIAM Conference on CS&E, Costa Mesa, CA, 2007

Invited lecture: SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2006

Invited lecture: SciDAC Conference, Denver, CO, 2006

Invited lecture: Numerical Analysis Seminar, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, 2006

Invited lecture: SIAM Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2005

Lecture: SIAM Conference on CS&E, Orlando, FL, 2005

Lecture: Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, 2004

Invited lecture: SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, 2004

Lecture: Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, CO, 2004

Invited lecture: Rice University, Dept. of Computational & Applied Mathematics, Houston, TX, 2004

Invited lecture: Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, 2004

Poster: SAMSI Workshop on Multiscale Model Development and Control Design, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2004

Invited lecture: Theoretical Division, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, 2003

Invited lecture: Workshop on Solution Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Problems, Livermore, CA, 2003

Lecture: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Conference on Modeling, Signal Processing and Control, San Diego, CA, 2003

Workshop: Short Course: ƒcoles CEA-EDF-INRIA – Numerical Methods for Atomistic Simulation, from the Microscale to the Mesoscale, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, 2001

Lecture: South East Conference on Applied Mathematics, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, Raleigh, NC, 2001

Lecture: European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Ischia Porto, Italy, 2001

Invited lecture: ƒcole Polytechnique FŽdŽrale de Lausanne - Dept of Mathematics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001

Lecture: Texas PDE Conference, Houston, TX, 2001

Workshop: IMA Summer Workshop for Graduate Students -- Mathematical Modeling in Industry, Minneapolis, MN, 2000