Peter Reynolds (physicist)

Peter James Reynolds is a theoretical physicist serving as a senior research scientist (ST) at the Army Research Office (ARO). He was formerly the ARO Physics Division chief and a program manager for atomic and molecular physics. Prior to joining ARO in 2003 he was at the Office of Naval Research, serving as a program officer, starting in 1988.

Peter James Reynolds
Born	(1949-11-19) November 19, 1949 New York, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	MIT UC, Berkeley
Known for	Monte Carlo Renormalization Group, Quantum Monte Carlo, AMO physics and Quantum Information Science Program Management
Awards	Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Senior Professional (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics, statistical physics, atomic and molecular physics, theoretical chemistry
Institutions	Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Boston University
Doctoral advisor	H.E. Stanley

He was awarded the status of Fellow[1] in the American Physical Society,[2] after he was nominated by the Division of Computational Physics in 1995[3] for his pioneering work on combining the renormalization group method with Monte Carlo simulations in the study of statistical problems, for his contributions to quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, and for his service to the physics community through his activities as a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research.

His QMC work was done while at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) from 1980 to 1988, initially working there as part of the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC). His renormalization group work focused on geometric phase transitions such as percolation and their connection to disordered lattice spin models. That work was done as part of his PhD work at MIT and as an assistant research professor at Boston University (BU).