EDUCATION
Ph.D. Physics, UCLA, 1995
    Dissertation: Fluctuations and Relaxation of Nonequilibrium Narrow Layers
        (Burton Fried and George Morales)
B.A. Physics, UC Santa Cruz, 1987; honors, FBK
    Senior Thesis: WIMPs, Polytropes, and the Schonberg-Chandrasekhar Limit
        (John Faulkner)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2006-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2001-2006
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, 1998-2001
Research Associate, National Research Council-Naval Research Laboratory, 1995-1998
Adjunct Professor, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), 1996-1999
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, 1995

Research Assistant, Department of Physics and School of Engineering, UCLA, 1988-1994
Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, UCLA, 1988-1995
Research Fellow, Institute for Nonlinear Studies, UC Santa Cruz, 1987
Research Assistant, Maria Mitchell Observatory, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1985

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Physical Society
American Geophysical Union
American Association of Physics Teachers

TEACHING
Embry-Riddle University (see here for an up to date list)
EP 509: Space Physics
EP 501: Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers
EP 495C: Plasma Physics and Engineering
EP 455: Quantum Physics
EP 410: Space Physics
PS 320: Classical Mechanics
PS 250: Physics III for Engineers
PS 226: Physics I
PS 219: Physics III
PS 215: Physics I
PS 160: Physics II for Engineers
PS 150: Physics I for Engineers
PS 103: Technical Physics I
Howard University
PHYS 246: Plasma Physics; Fall 2000
PHYS 190: Quantum Physics I; Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000
PHYS 191: Quantum Physics II; Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001
PHYS 024: General Physics II Laboratory; Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000
Northern Virginia Community College
NAS 130: Elements of Astronomy, Fall 1996, Fall 1997, Fall 1999
UCLA
Physics 8C: Electricity and Magnetism, Summer 1995

PUBLICATIONS  recent list on arXiv
    Reynolds, M. A., “Three weird facts about quantum mechanics: What Bohr, Schrödinger, and Einstein actually said,” arxiv:1809.10725 (2018).
    Reynolds, M. A., “The Duhem-Quine thesis and the dark matter problem,” arxiv:1507:06282 (2015).
    Wheeler, H. R., M. A. Reynolds, and R. L. Hamilton, “Interpreting Ulysses data using inverse scattering theory: Oblique Alfvén waves,” J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JA020770 (2015). pdf
    Reynolds, M. A. and M. T Shouppe, “Closed, spirograph-like orbits in power law central potentials,” arxiv:1008:0559 (2010).
    Reynolds, M. A., G. Ganguli, Y.-J. Su, and M. F. Thomsen, "The local-time variation of the quiet plasmasphere: Geosynchronous observations and kinetic theory," Ann. Geophys., 21, 2147-2154 (2003).  pdf (263 kb)
    Wanliss J. A., and M. A. Reynolds, "Measurement of the stochasticity of low-latitude geomagnetic temporal variations," Ann. Geophys., 21, 2025-2030 (2003).  pdf (496 kb)
    Reynolds, M. A., D. J. Melendez-Alvira, and G. Ganguli, “Equatorial coupling between the plasmasphere and the topside ionosphere,” J. Atm. Solar-Terr. Phys. 63, 1267-1273 (2001).
    G. Ganguli, Reynolds, M. A., and M. W. Liemohn, “The plasmasphere and advances in plasmaspheric research,” J. Atm. Solar-Terr. Phys. 62, 1647-1657 (2000). pdf
    Reynolds, M. A., Ganguli, J. A. Fedder, J. Lemaire, R. R. Meier, and D. J. Melendez-Alvira, “Thermal plasmaspheric morphology: Effect of geomagnetic and solar activity,” J. Geophys. Res. 104, 10285-10294 (1999).
    Ganguli, G., M. A. Reynolds, J. A. Fedder, D. J. Melendez-Alvira, and R. R. Meier, “Kinetic Modeling of the inner magnetosphere: Application to remote sensing,” Phys. Space Plasmas 15, 97-101 (1998).
    Meier, R. R., A. C. Nicholas, J. M. Picone, D. J. Melendez-Alvira, G. Ganguli, M. A. Reynolds, and E. C. Roelof, “Inversion of plasmaspheric EUV remote sensing data from the STP 72-1 satellite,” J. Geophys. Res. 103, 17505-17518 (1998).
    Reynolds, M. A., and G. Ganguli, “Ion Bernstein waves driven by two transverse flow layers,” Phys. Plasmas 5, 2504-2512 (1998).  pdf (228K)
    Reynolds, M. A., G. Ganguli, J. A. Fedder, and D. J. Melendez-Alvira, “Effect of diurnal convection on trapped thermal plasma in the outer plasmasphere,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 24, 2255-2258 (1997). pdf (13.2M)
    Reynolds, M. A., B. D. Fried and G. J. Morales, “Velocity-space drag and diffusion in a model, two-dimensional plasma,” Phys. Plasmas 4, 1286-1296 (1997).  pdf (271K)
    Reynolds, M. A., and G. J. Morales, “High-frequency fluctuations of a modulated, helical electron beam,” Phys. Plasmas 3, 4717-4724 (1996). pdf (186K)
    Reynolds, M. A., “Periods of EO and FV Comae Berenices and the Functional Forms of Their O-C Diagrams,” J. Am. Assoc. Var. Star Obs. 15, 40-46 (1986). pdf (129K)

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