Publications

Links to my publication on INSPIRE, ADS, Research Gate, Google Scholar and arXiv. 

Books  

"Relativity and Cosmology: From Frist Principles to Interpretations", B. Terzić, Academic Press, 2024.

Refereed Publications 
High school student denoted with *; undergraduate students are underlined; graduate students are in italics

1. "Poincaré Invariance, the Unruh Effect, and Black Hole Evaporation", A. Deur, S. Brodsky, C. Roberts and B. Terzić 2024, submitted to Nature [preprint].

2. "Fully Relativistic Derivation of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect",  B. Terzić, G. Krafft, W. Clark, A. Deur, E. Rogers, I. Sakiotis and B. Velasco 2024, submitted to Physical Review Letters [arXiv].

3. "Hubble Tension and Gravitational Self-Interaction", C. Sargent, A. Deur and B. Terzić 2024, Physica Scripta 99, 075043  [arXiv, journal].

4. "Porting Numerical Integration Codes From CUDA to onAPI: A Case Study", K. Arumugam, M. Paterno, D. Ranjan, I. Sakiotis, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2023, ISC High Performance 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13928 [journal].

5. "Scattered Spectra from Inverse Compton Source Operating at High Laser Fields and High Electron Energies", G. Krafft, B. Terzić, E. Johnson and G. Wilson 2023, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 26, 034401 [pdf, journal].

6. "mCubes: An Efficient and Portable Implementation of Multi-Dimensional Integration for GPUs", I. Sakiotis, K. Arumugam, M. Paterno, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2022, ISC High Performance 2022, 192 [journal].

7. "Emittance in Nonlinear Thomson Scattering", E. Johnson, E. Breen, G. Krafft and B. Terzić 2022, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 25, 054401 [pdf, journal].

8. "A Laser Frequency Transverse Modulation Might Compensate for the Spectral Broadening Due to Large Electron Energy Spread in Thomson Sources", V. Petrillo, I. Drebot, C. Maroli, M. Ruijter, M. Rossetti Conti, A. Renato Rossi, G. Krafft and B. Terzić 2022, Photonics 9, 62 [pdf, journal].

9. "Laser Chirping in Inverse Compton Sources at High Electron Energies and High Laser Intensities", B. Terzić, J. McKaig, E. Johnson, T. Dharanikota and G. Krafft 2021, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 24, 094401 [pdf, journal].

10. "PAGANI: A Parallel Adaptive GPU Algorithm for Numerical Integration", I. Sakiotis, K. Arumugam, M. Paterno, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2021, 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) 83, 1 [journal].

11. "Intense Monochromatic Photons Above 100 keV From an Inverse Compton Source", K. Deitrick, C. Franck, G. Hoffstaetter, B. Muratori, P. Williams, G. Krafft, B. Terzić, J. Crone and H. Owen 2021, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 24, 050701 [pdf, journal]. Editor's Suggestion.

12. "Significance of Gravitational Nonlinearities on the Dynamics of Disk Galaxies", A. Deur, C. Sargent and B. Terzić 2020, Astrophysical Journal 896, 94 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

13. "Improving Inverse Compton Sources by Avoiding Nonlinearities", B. Terzić, G. Krafft, V. Petrillo, I. Drebot and M. Ruijter 2020, Europhysics Letters 129, 62001 [pdf, journal].

14. "Sensing and Measuring the Environment Workshop as Exposure to Engineering Technology for High School Students in Summer Residential Camps", V. Jovanović, M. Erten-Unal, G. McLeod and B. Terzić 2020, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings [pdf, journal].

15. "Optimal GPU-Accelerated Beam-Beam Simulations", I. Sakiotis, K. Arumugam, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2019, 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) 123-130 [pdf, journal].

16. "Improving Performance of Inverse Compton Sources Through Laser Chirping", B. Terzić, A. Brown, I. Drebot, T. Hagerman, E. Johnson, G. Krafft, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo and M. Ruijter 2019, Europhysics Letters 126, 12003 [arXiv, pdf, journal].

17. "Improving STEM Recruitment Through a Theme-Based Summer Residential Camp Focused on Sea-Level Rise", V. Jovanović, B. Terzić, M. Erten-Unal, V. Hill, G. McLeod, M. Covi, D. Burdige, J. Alonso, J. Mason, T. Sanford and C. Tomović 2019, Technology Interface International Journal [journal].

18. "Compensation of the Non-Linear Bandwidth Broadening by Laser Chirping in Thomson Sources", C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, I. Drebot, L. Serafini, B. Terzić and G. Krafft 2018, Journal of Applied Physics 124, 063105 [pdf, journal].

19. "High-Brilliance, High-Flux Compact Inverse Compton Light Source", K. Deitrick, G. Krafft, B. Terzić and J. Delayen 2018, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 21, 080703 [pdf, journal].

20. "Probing the Wave Nature of Light-Matter Interaction", D. E. Boone, C. H. Jackson, A. T. Swecker, J. S. Hergenrather, K. S. Wenger, O. Kokhan, B. Terzić, I. Melnikov, I. N. Ivanov, E. C. Stevens and G. Scarel 2018, World Journal of Condensed Matter Physics [pdf, journal].

21. "Simulation of Inverse Compton Scattering and Its Implications on the Scattered Linewidth", N. Ranjan*, B. Terzić, G. A. Krafft, V. Petrillo, I. Drebot and L. Serafini 2018, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 21, 030701 [pdf, journal].

22. "GPU-Accelerated High-Fidelity Simulation of Beam-Beam Effects in Particle Colliders", K. Arumugam, R. Majeti, D. Ranjan, M. Zubair, A. Godunov and B. Terzić 2017, Summer Computer Simulation Conference, article 5 [pdf, journal].

23. "A Machine Learning Approach for Efficient Parallel Simulation of Beam Dynamics on GPUs", K. Arumugam, A. Godunov, T. Islam, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2017, 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 462-471 [pdf, journal].

24. "Decoupling Linear and Nonlinear Regimes: An Evaluation of Efficiency of Nonlinear Multidimensional Optimization", C. Cotnoir and B. Terzić 2017, Journal of Global Optimization 68, 663 [pdf, journal].

25. "Laser Pulsing in Linear Compton Scattering", G. Krafft, E. Johnson, K. Deitrick, B. Terzić, R. Kelmar, T. Hodges, W. Melnitchouk and J. Delayen 2016, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 19, 121302 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

26. "A Memory-Efficient Parallel Simulation of Electron Beam Dynamics Using GPUs", K. Arumugam, A. Godunov, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2016, 23rd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), 212-221 [pdf, journal].

27. "Comment on 'Controlling the Spectral Shape of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering With Proper Laser Chirping'", B. Terzić and G. Krafft 2016, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 19, 098001 [pdf, journal].

28. "Combining Harmonic Generation and Laser Chirping to Achieve High Spectral Density in Compton Sources", B. Terzić, C. Reeves and G. Krafft 2016, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 19, 044403 [pdf, journal]. 

29. "High-Fidelity Simulation of Collective Effects in Electron Beams Using an Innovative Parallel Method", K. Arumugam, A. Godunov, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2015, Summer Computer Simulation Conference 31, 1 [pdf]. Won the best paper award.

30. "Simultaneous Optimization of the Cavity Heat Load and Trip Rates in Linacs Using a Genetic Algorithm", B. Terzić, A. Hofler, C. Reeves, S. Khan, G. Krafft, J. Benesch, A. Freyberger and D. Ranjan 2014, Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams 17, 101003 [pdf, journal]. 

31. "Narrow-Band Emission in Thomson Sources Operating in the High-Field Regime", B. Terzić, K. Deitrick, A. Hofler and G. Krafft 2014, Physical Review Letters 112, 074801 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

32. "A Memory-Efficient Algorithm for Adaptive Multidimensional Integration with Multiple GPUs", K. Arumugam, A. Godunov, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2013, 20th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), 169-175 [pdf, journal].

33. "An Efficient Deterministic Algorithm for Adaptive Multidimensional Integration on GPUs", K. Arumugam, A. Godunov, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić and M. Zubair 2013, 42nd International Conference on Parallel Processing, 486-491 [pdf, journal].

34. "Innovative Applications of Genetic Algorithms to Problems in Accelerator Physics", A. Hofler, B. Terzić, M. Kramer, A. Zvezdin, V. Morozov, Y. Roblin, F. Lin and C. Jarvis 2013, Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams 16, 010101 [pdf, journal]. 

35. "New Density-Estimation Methods for Charged Particle Beams with Applications to Microbunching Instability",  B. Terzić and G. Bassi 2011, Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams 14, 070701 [pdf, journal]. 

36. "Realistic Triaxial Density-Potential-Force Profiles for Stellar Systems and Dark Matter Halos", B. Terzić and B. Sprague 2007, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 377, 855 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

37. "Particle-in-Cell Beam Dynamics Simulations with a Wavelet-Based Poisson Solver", B. Terzić, I. Pogorelov and C. Bohn 2007, Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams 10, 034201 [pdf, journal]. 

38. "Improved Simulations of Photoinjectors for High-Average-Current Free-Electron Lasers", C. Bohn, D. Mihalcea, I. Pogorelov, I. Sideris and B. Terzić 2006, Journal of Directed Energy 2, 163 [pdf].

39. "Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. I. Nonparametric Construction of Density Profiles and Comparison with Parametric Models", D. Merritt, A. Graham, B. Moore, J. Diemand and B. Terzić 2006, Astronomical Journal 132, 2685 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

40. "Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. II. Inner Profile Slopes, Dynamical Profiles and rho/sigma^3", A. Graham, D. Merritt, B. Moore, J. Diemand and B. Terzić 2006, Astronomical Journal 132, 2701 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

41. "Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. III. The Kormendy Relation and the log rho_e - log R_e Relation", A. Graham, D. Merritt, B. Moore, J. Diemand and B. Terzić 2006, Astronomical Journal 132, 2711 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

42. "Density-Potential Pairs for Spherical Stellar Systems with Sersic Light-Profiles and (Optional) Power-Law Cores", B. Terzić and A. Graham 2005, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 362, 197 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

43. "Orbital Structure in Oscillating Galactic Potentials", B. Terzić and H. Kandrup 2004, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 347, 957 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

44. "Supermassive Black Hole Binaries As Galactic Blenders", H. Kandrup, I. Sideris, B. Terzić and C. Bohn 2003, Astrophysical Journal 597, 111 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

45. "Semi-Analytic Estimates of Lyapunov Exponents in Lower-Dimensional Systems", B. Terzić and H. Kandrup 2003, Physics Letters A 311/2-3, 165 [pdf, journal, arXiv].

Conference Proceedings

1. "High-Fidelity Simulations of Long-Term Beam-Beam Dynamics on GPUs", B. Terzić, A. Godunov, K. Arumugam, D. Ranjan, M. Zubair, International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference 2015, Shanghai, China [paper, talk]

2. "High-Performance Simulations of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation on Multicore GPU and CPU Platforms", B. Terzić, A. Godunov, K. Arumugam, D. Ranjan, M. Zubair, International Particle Accelerator Conference 2015, Richmond [paper, talk]

3. "GPU-Accelerated Long-Term Simulations of Beam-Beam Effects in Colliders", B. Terzić, V. Morozov, Y. Roblin, F. Lin, H. Zhang, M. Aturban, D. Ranjan and M. Zubair 2014, 5th International Particle Accelerator Conference 2014, Dresden [paper, poster]

4. "GPU-optimized Code for Long-term Simulations of Beam-beam Effects in Colliders", Y. Roblin, V. Morozov, B. Terzić, M. Aturban, D. Ranjan and M. Zubair 2013, 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference 2013, Shanghai [paper]

5. "An Efficient Deterministic Parallel Algorithm for Adaptive Multidimensional Numerical Integration on GPUs", K. Arumugam, A. Godunov, D. Ranjan, B. Terzić, M. Zubair 2013, Poster presented at the GPU Conference 2013, held in San Jose, March 18-21, 2013 [poster]

6. "Two-Dimensional Effects on the Behavior of the CSR Force in a Bunch Compressor Chicane" R. Li, R. Legg, B. Terzić, J. Bisognano and R. Bosch 2011, 33rd International Free Electron Laser Conference 2011, Shanghai [paper]

7. "Searching for the Optimal Working Point of the MEIC at JLab Using an Evolutionary Algorithm", B. Terzić, M. Kramer and C. Jarvis 2011, Particle Accelerator Conference 2011, New York [paper, poster]

8. "New Particle-In-Cell Code for Numerical Simulation of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation", B. Terzić and R. Li 2010, International Particle Accelerator Conference 2010, Kyoto [paper, poster]

9. "Numerical Simulation of Beam-Beam Effects in the Proposed Electron-Ion Collider at Jefferson Lab", B. Terzić and Y. Zhang 2010, International Particle Accelerator Conference 2010, Kyoto [paper, poster]

10. "Density Estimation Techniques for Charged Particle Beams With Applications to Microbunching Instability", G. Bassi and B. Terzić 2009, Particle Accelerator Conference 2009, Vancouver [paper, poster]

11. "Orthogonal Basis Function Approximations of Particle Distributions in Numerical Simulations of Beams", B. Terzić 2008, LINAC08 Conference, Victoria, British Columbia

12. "Multiresolution Simulations of Photoinjectors", D. Mihalcea, C. Bohn and B. Terzić, 2006, 12th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop 2006 [paper]

13. "Wavelet-based Poisson Solver for Use in Particle-in-Cell Simulations", B. Terzić, I. Pogorelov, D. Mihalcea and C. Bohn 2005, Particle Accelerator Conference 2005, Knoxville [paper, poster]

14. "Wavelet-based Poisson Solver for Use in Particle-in-Cell Simulations", B. Terzić and I. Pogorelov 2004, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1045, 55, Conference Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Astrophysics: In Memory of Henry Kandrup held in Gainesville, Florida, November 4-6, 2004 [paper]

15. "Triaxial Galaxy Models With Separable Potentials", B. Terzić, C. Hunter and T. de Zeeuw 2000, Published in Stellar Dynamics: From Classic to Modern, editors L. P. Osipkov and I. I. Nikiforov. Conference Stellar Dynamics: From Classic to Modern St. Petersburg, Russia [paper]

16. "Period Tripling Bifurcations in Axisymmetric Scalefree Potentials", C. Hunter, B. Terzić, D. Porchia, A. Burns and C. Zink 1998, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 867, 61 [paper]

17. "Irregular Period Tripling Bifurcations in Axisymmetric Potentials", B. Terzić 1998, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 867, 85 [paper]

Talks

• 1. Inverse Compton Sources of X-Ray Radiation, Colloquium presented at University of North Texas (November 7, 2023)

  2. Computation of Radiation Spectra in Inverse Compton Sources, Seminar presented at Technical University of Munich, Germany (June 9, 2022)

  3. Computation of Radiation Spectra in Compton Sources, Seminar presented at INFN Frascati, Italy (September 18, 2017)

  4. Secret Life of Electrons, Science Pub talk given at St. George's Brewery in Hampton, Virginia (October 19, 2016)

  5. Einstein, Relativity and the Cosmic Tango, public lecture given at the 2016 Physics Open House (March 19, 2016) and at the Science Cafe at Slover Library in Norfolk (June 23, 2016)

  6. High-Fidelity Simulations of Long-Term Beam-Beam Dynamics on GPUs, Contributed talk presented on October 13, 2015 at the International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference in Shanghai, China 

  7. High-Performance Simulations of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation on Multicore GPU and CPU Platforms, Contributed talk presented on May 4, 2015 at the 2015 International Particle Accelerator Conference in Richmond

  8. High-Performance CSR simulations on GPUs, Invited talk presented on October 6, 2014 at 6th Microbunching Workshop in Trieste, Italy

  9. Simultaneously Optimizing Heat Load and Trip Rates in the CEBAF Linacs, Talk presented on November 19, 2013 at BTeam Meeting, Jefferson Lab

  10. Applications of Modern Computational Tools in Accelerator Physics, Seminar presented on September 12, 2013 at Jefferson Lab

  11. Narrowband Emission in Compton/Thomson Sources Operating at High Field Strength, Talk presented on March 20, 2013 at CASA Meeting, Jefferson Lab

  12. New Multiscale Code For Simulations of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation, Colloquium presented on September 13, 2011 at the Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

  13. Musings of a Meandering Mathematician, Seminar presented on November 17, 2019 at the Department of Mathematics, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia

  14. Beam-Beam Simulations at MEIC, Talk presented on July 29, 2010 at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

  15. ELIC Accelerator Design, Talk presented on September 13, 2010 at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle

  16. New Particle-In-Cell Code for Numerical Simulation of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation, Talk presented on May 26, 2010 at CASA Meeting, Jefferson Lab

  17. Simulations of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation and Wavelet Methodology, Seminar presented on June 4, 2009 at Jefferson Lab, Newport News

  18. Density Estimation Techniques For Charge Particle Beams, Seminar presented on February 26, 2009 at the Cockcroft Institute, UK

  19. Orthogonal Basis Function Approximation of Particle Distributions In Numerical Simulations of Beams, Seminar presented on April 3, 2008 at Jefferson Lab, Newport News

  20. Particle-in-Cell Beam Dyamics Simulations With a Wavelet-based Poisson Solver, Seminar presented on November 2, 2006 at the University of New Mexico, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

  21. Application of Wavelets to N-body Particle-In-Cell Simulations, Colloquium presented on April 7, 2006 at the Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics

  22. Wavelet-based Poisson Solver for Use in Particle-in-Cell Simulations, Seminar presented on April 4, 2005 at the Virginia Tech, Department of Mathematics

  23. Wavelet-based Poisson Solver for Use in Particle-in-Cell Simulations, Talk presented on November 6, 2004 at the Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Physics - A Workshop presented by the Department of Astronomy and the Department of Physics at the University of Florida, dedicated to the memory of Professor Henry E. Kandrup

  24. Supermassive Black Hole Binaries As Galactic Blenders, Colloquium presented on January 30, 2004 at the Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics and in February, 2004 at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Astrophysics

Doctoral Dissertation

Self-Consistent Models of Triaxial Elliptical Galaxies With Central Cusps

Ph.D., Mathematics, Florida State University, 2002