Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2007, Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Thesis: The Transition from Pop III to Pop II Star Formation in the Early Universe [ADS]

Thesis Advisor: Steinn Sigurdsson

2001, B.S., Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Professional

2022 - present, Reader

Institute for Astronomy

University of Edinburgh

2019 - present, Chancellor's Fellow

Institute for Astronomy

University of Edinburgh

2016 - 2019, Assistant Research Scientist

San Diego Supercomputer Center

University of California, San Diego

2013 - 2016, Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute for Astronomy

University of Edinburgh

Supervisor: Sadegh Khochfar

2010 - 2013, Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Michigan State University

Supervisors: Mark Voit, Brian O'Shea

2007 - 2010, Postdoctoral Researcher

Center for Astrophysics & Space Astronomy

Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences

University of Colorado, Boulder

Supervisor: Mike Shull

2001 - 2007, Research/Teaching Assistant

Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Supervisor: Steinn Sigurdsson

1998 - 2001, Laboratory Assistant

Department of Physics

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Supervisor: Dan McCammon

Teaching

University of Edinburgh

• PHYS08026: Computer Simulation, Course Organizer, Lecturer

• PHYS10090: Numerical Recipes, Course Organizer, Lecturer

• PHYS11037: Computational Astrophysics, Guest Lecturer

University of Colorado, Boulder

• Astronomy 6000: Graduate Seminar in Astrophysics - The First Stars

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

• Astronomy 011: Introductory Astronomy Lab, Instructor

• Astronomy 197A: Special Topics in Astronomy: Black Holes, Substitute Lecturer

• Astronomy 452: Techniques in Observation and Data Analysis Lab, Lab Supervisor

• Astronomy 475W: Stars and Galaxies, Substitute Lecturer

Preprints

1. Why does the Milky Way have a metallicity floor?, [ADS], Smith, B.D., O'Shea B.W., Khochfar, S., Turk M.J., Wise J.H., Norman, M.L., 2024, submitted to MNRAS.

2. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE) VIII: Complex and Stochastic Metallicity Gradients at z > 2, [ADS], Acharyya, A., Peeples, M.S., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Lochhaas, C., Wright, A.C., Simons, R.C., Augustin, R., Smith, B.D., Hyeonmin Lee, E., 2024, submitted to ApJ.

3. Simba-EoR: Early galaxy formation in the Simba simulation including a new sub-grid interstellar medium model, [ADS], Jones, E., Smith, B., Davé, R., Narayanan, D., Li, Q., 2024, submitted to MNRAS.

Refereed Publications

1. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE) VII: The (Dis)Assembly of Stellar Halos, [ADS], Wright, A.C., Tumlinson, J., Peeples, M.S. , O'Shea, B.W., Lochhaas, C., Corlies, L., Smith, B.D., Binh, N., Augustin, R., Simons, R.C., 2024, ApJ, in press.

2. Rest-Frame UV Colors for Faint Galaxies at  z∼9−16 with the JWST NGDEEP Survey, [ADS], Morales, A.M., Finkelstein, S.L., Leung, G.C.K., Bagley, M.B., Cleri, N.J., Dave, R., Dickinson, M., Ferguson, H.C., Hathi, N.P. , Jones, E., Koekemoer, A.M., Papovich, C., Perez-Gonzalez, P.G., Pirzkal, N., Smith, B., ; Wilkins, S.M., Yung, L.Y.A., 2024, ApJL, 964, L24.

3. Hungry or Not: How Stellar-Mass Black Holes Grow (or Don't) in Dark Matter Mini-Haloes at High-Resolution, [ADS], Gordon, S., Smith, B.,  Khochfar, S., Regan, J., 2024, MNRAS, 529, 604.

4. The role of radiation and halo mergers in Pop III star formation, [ADS], Correa Magnus, L., Smith, B.D., Khochfar, S., O'Shea, B.W. , Wise, J.H., Norman, M. L., Turk, M.J., 2024, MNRAS, 527, 307.

5. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). VI. The Circumgalactic Medium of L * Galaxies Is Supported in an Emergent, Nonhydrostatic Equilibrium,  [ADS], Lochhaas, C., Tumlinson, J., Peeples, M.S. , O'Shea, B.W., Werk, J.K., Simons, R.C., Juno, J., Kopenhafer, C., Augustin, R., Wright, A. C., Acharyya, A., Smith, B.D., 2023, ApJ, 948, 43.

6. The fate of baryons in counterfactual universes, [ADS], Kiat Oh, B., Peacock, J.A., Khochfar, S., Smith, B.D., 2022, MNRAS, 517, 59.

7. The Cosmic Mach Number as an environment measure for the underlying dark matter density field,  [ADS], Meriot, R., Khochfar, S., Oñorbe, J., Smith, B, 2022, MNRAS, 512, 27.

8. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE) V: The Virial Temperature Does Not Describe Gas in a Virialized Galaxy Halo, [ADS], Lochhaas, C., Tumlinson, J. O'Shea, B.W., Peeples, M.S., Smith, B.D., Werk, J.K., Augustin, R.,  Simons, R.C., 2021, ApJ, 922, 121.

9. Evolving beyond z=0: insights about the future of stars and the intergalactic medium, [ADS], Oh, B.K., Peacock, J.A., Khochfar, S., Smith, B.D., 2021, MNRAS, 507, 5432.

10. The low-redshift circumgalactic medium in SIMBA, [ADS], Appleby, S., Davé, R., Sorini, D., Storey-Fisher, K., Smith, B., 2021, MNRAS, 507, 2383.

11. The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. III. Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation of a Milky Way-mass Halo, [ADS], Roca-Fàbrega, S., Kim, J., Hausammann, L., Nagamine, K., Lupi, A., Powell, J.W., Shimizu, I., Ceverino, D., Primack, J.R., Quinn, T.R., Revaz, Y., Velàzquez, H., Abel, T., Buehlmann, M., Dekel, A., Dong, B., Hahn, O., Hummels, C., Kim, K., and Smith, B.D., and Strawn, C.,  Teyssier, R., Turk, M.J., The AGORA Collaboration, 2021, ApJ, 917, 64.

12. External Enrichment of Mini Halos by the First Supernovae, [ADS], Hicks, W., Wells, A., Norman, M.L., Wise, J.H., Smith, B.D., O'Shea, B.W., 2021, ApJ, 909 70.

13. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). IV. The Stochasticity of Ram Pressure Stripping in Galactic Halos, [ADS], Simons, R.C., Peeples, M.S., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Smith, B.D., Corlies, L., Lochhaas, C., Zheng, Y., Augustin, R., Prasad, D., Snyder, G.F., Tollerud, E., 2020, ApJ, 905, 167S.

14. Calibration of a star formation and feedback model for cosmological simulations with ENZO, [ADS], Oh, B.K., Smith, B.D., Peacock, J.A., Khochfar, S., 2020, MNRAS, 497, 5203.

15. Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles, [Journal], Vasilevsky, N.A., Hosseini, M., Teplitzky, S., Ilik, V., Mohammadi, E., Schneider, J., Kern. B., Colomb. J., Edmunds, S.C., Gutzman, K., Himmelstein, D.S., White, M., Smith, B., O’Keefe, L., Haendel, M., Holmes, K.L., 2020, Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance.

16. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). III. The Mocky Way: Investigating Biases in Observing the Milky Way's Circumgalactic Medium, [ADS], Zheng, Y., Peeples, M.S., O'Shea, B.W., S, R.C., Lochhaas, C., Corlies, L., Tumlinson, J., Smith, B.D., Augustin, R., 2020, ApJ, 896, 143.

17. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). II. Emission from the z = 3 Circumgalactic Medium, [ADS], Corlies, L., Peeples, M.S., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Lehner, N., Howk, J.C., O'Meara, J.M., Smith, B.D., 2020, ApJ, 896, 125.

18. ytree: A Python package for analyzing merger trees, [ADS] [Journal], Smith, B., Lang, M., 2019, Journal of Open Source Software, 4(44), 1881.

19. The Impact of Enhanced Halo Resolution on the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium, [ADS], Hummels, C.B., Smith, B.D., Hopkins, P.F., O’Shea, B.W., Silvia, D.W., Werk, J.K.., Lehner, N, Wise, J.H., Collins, D.C., Butsky, I.S., 2019, ApJ, 882, 156.

20. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving Simulated Circumgalactic Absorption at 2 ≤ z ≤ 2.5, [ADS], Peeples, M.S., Corlies, L., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Lehner, N., O'Meara, J.M., Howk, J.C., Earl, N., Smith, B.D., Wise, J.H., Hummels, C.B., 2019, ApJ, 873, 129.

21. Formation of First Galaxies inside Density Peaks and Voids under the Influence of Dark Matter-Baryon Streaming Velocity, I: Initial Condition and Simulation Scheme, [ADS], Ahn, K., & Smith, B.D., 2018, ApJ, 869, 76.

22. Imprints of the first billion years: Lyman limit systems at z ~ 5, [ADS], Crighton, N.H.M., Prochaska, J.X., Murphy, M.T., O'Meara, J.M., Worseck, G., Smith, B.D., 2018, MNRAS, 482, 1456.

23. Simulating the Cosmic Dawn with Enzo, [ADS] [Journal], Norman, M.L., Smith, B.D., Bordner, J., 2018, Frontiers of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 5, 34.

24. The growth of black holes from Population III remnants in the Renaissance simulations, [ADS], Smith, B.D., Regan, J.A., Downes, T.P., Norman, M.L., O'Shea, B.W., Wise, J.H., 2018, MNRAS, 480, 3762.

25. Validating Semi-Analytic Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation using Radiation Hydrodynamical Simulations, [ADS], Côté, B., Silvia, D., O'Shea, B.W., Smith, B., Wise, J.H., 2018, ApJ, 859, 67.

26. Gas cooling in hydrodynamic simulations with an exact time integration scheme, [ADS], Zhu, Q., Smith, B., Hernquist, L., 2017, MNRAS, 470, 1017.

27. Trident: a universal tool for generating synthetic absorption spectra from astrophysical simulations, [ADS], Hummels, C., Smith, B., Silvia, D.,  2017, ApJ, 847, 59.

28. Probing the Dependence of the Intergalactic Medium on Large-scale Environment Using the Low-redshift Lyα Forest, [ADS], Tonnesen, S., Smith, B.D., Kollmeier, J.A.., Cen, R., 2017, 845, 47.

29. GRACKLE: a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysics, [ADS], Smith, B.D., Bryan, G.L., Glover, S.C.O., Goldbaum, N.J., Turk, M.J., Regan, J., Wise, J.H., Schive, H.-Y., Abel, T., Emerick, A., O'Shea, B.W., Anninos, P., Hummels, C.B., Khochfar, S., 2017, MNRAS, 466, 2217 

30. The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. II. Isolated Disk Test [ADS], Kim, J.h., Agertz, O., Teyssier, R., Butler, M.J., Ceverino, D., Choi, J.H., Feldmann, R., Keller, B.W., Lupi, A., Quinn, T., Revaz, Y., Wallace, S., Gnedin, N.Y., Leitner, S.N., Shen, S., Smith, B.D., Thompson, R., Turk, M.J., Abel, T., Arraki, K.S., Benincasa, S.M., Chakrabarti, S., DeGraf, C., Dekel, A., Goldbaum, N.J., Hopkins, P.F., Hummels, C.B., Klypin, A., Li, H., Madau, P., Mandelker, N., Mayer, L., Nagamine, K., Nickerson, S., O'Shea, B.W., Primack, J.R., Roca-Fabrega, S., Semenov V., Shimizu, I., Simpson, C.M., Todoroki, K., Wadsley, J.W., Wise, J.H., AGORA Collaboration, 2016, ApJ, 833, 202 .

31. New constraints on direct collapse black hole formation in the early Universe [ADS], Agarwal, B., Smith, B., Glover, S., Natarajan, P., Khochfar, S., 2016, MNRAS, 459, 4209.

32. An HST/COS Survey of the Low-Redshift IGM. I. Survey, Methodology, and Overall Results [ADS], Danforth, C. W., Tilton, E. M., Shull, J. M., Keeney, B. A., Stevans, M., Pieri, M. M., Stocke, J. T., Savage, B. D., France, K., Syphers, D., Smith, B. D., Green, J. C., Froning, C., Penton, S. V., and Osterman, S. N., 2016, ApJ, 817, 111.

33. The First Population II Stars Formed in Externally Enriched Mini-halos [ADS], Smith B., Wise J., O'Shea B., Norman M., and Khochfar S., 2015, MNRAS, 452, 2822.

34. Bringing Simulation and Observation Together to Better Understand the Intergalactic Medium [ADS], Egan, H., Smith, B. D., O'Shea, B. W., and Shull, J. M., 2014, ApJ, 791, 64.

35. The Birth of a Galaxy - III. Propelling reionisation with the faintest galaxies [ADS], Wise, J. H., Demchenko, V. G., Halicek, M. T., Norman, M. L., Turk, M. J., Abel, T., and Smith, B. D., 2014, MNRAS, 442, 2560.

36. ENZO: An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics [ADS], Bryan, G. L., Norman, M. L., O'Shea, B. W., Abel, T., Wise, J. H., Turk, M. J., Reynolds, D. R., Collins, D. C., Wang, P., Skillman, S. W., Smith, B., Harkness, R. P., Bordner, J., Kim, J.-h., Kuhlen, M., Xu, H., Goldbaum, N., Hummels, C., Kritsuk, A. G., Tasker, E., Skory, S., Simpson, C. M., Hahn, O., Oishi, J. S., So, G. C., Zhao, F., Cen, R., Li, Y., and The Enzo Collaboration, 2014, ApJS, 211, 19.

37. Fragmentation in Dusty Low-metallicity Star-forming Halos [ADS], Meece, G. R., Smith, B. D., and O'Shea, B. W., 2014, ApJ, 783, 75.

38. The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project [ADS], Kim, J.-h., Abel, T., Agertz, O., Bryan, G. L., Ceverino, D., Christensen, C., Conroy, C., Dekel, A., Gnedin, N. Y., Goldbaum, N. J., Guedes, J., Hahn, O., Hobbs, A., Hopkins, P. F., Hummels, C. B., Iannuzzi, F., Keres, D., Klypin, A., Kravtsov, A. V., Krumholz, M. R., Kuhlen, M., Leitner, S. N., Madau, P., Mayer, L., Moody, C. E., Nagamine, K., Norman, M. L., Onorbe, J., O'Shea, B. W., Pillepich, A., Primack, J. R., Quinn, T., Read, J. I., Robertson, B. E., Rocha, M., Rudd, D. H., Shen, S., Smith, B. D., Szalay, A. S., Teyssier, R., Thompson, R., Todoroki, K., Turk, M. J., Wadsley, J. W., Wise, J. H., Zolotov, A., for the AGORA Collaboration, 2014, ApJS, 210, 14.

39. Cosmological Simulations of Isotropic Conduction in Galaxy Clusters [ADS], Smith, B., O'Shea, B. W., Voit, G. M., Ventimiglia, D., and Skillman, S. W., 2013, ApJ, 778, 152.

40. Population III Star Formation in Large Cosmological Volumes. I. Halo Temporal and Physical Environment [ADS], Crosby, B. D., O'Shea, B. W., Smith, B. D., Turk, M. J., and Hahn, O., 2013, ApJ, 773, 108.

41. The effect of feedback and reionization on star formation in low-mass dwarf galaxy haloes [ADS], Simpson, C. M., Bryan, G. L., Johnston, K. V., Smith, B. D., Mac Low, M.-M., Sharma, S., and Tumlinson, J., 2013, MNRAS, 432, 1989.

42. Constraints on hydrodynamical subgrid models from quasar absorption line studies of the simulated circumgalactic medium [ADS], Hummels, C. B., Bryan, G. L., Smith, B. D., and Turk, M. J., 2013, MNRAS, 430, 1548.

43. On the Road to More Realistic Galaxy Cluster Simulations: The Effects of Radiative Cooling and Thermal Feedback Prescriptions on the Observational Properties of Simulated Galaxy Clusters [ADS], Skory, S., Hallman, E., Burns, J. O., Skillman, S. W., O'Shea, B. W., and Smith, B. D., 2013, ApJ, 763, 38.

44. The birth of a galaxy - II. The role of radiation pressure [ADS], Wise, J. H., Abel, T., Turk, M. J., Norman, M. L., and Smith, B. D., 2012, MNRAS, 427, 311.

45. The Baryon Census in a Multiphase Intergalactic Medium: 30% of the Baryons May Still be Missing [ADS], Shull, J. M., Smith, B. D., and Danforth, C. W., 2012, ApJ, 759, 23.

46. Dwarf Galaxy Formation with H2-regulated Star Formation [ADS], Kuhlen, M., Krumholz, M. R., Madau, P., Smith, B. D., and Wise, J., 2012, ApJ, 749, 36.

47. Critical Star Formation Rates for Reionization: Full Reionization Occurs at Redshift z ~ 7 [ADS], Shull, J. M., Harness, A., Trenti, M., and Smith, B. D., 2012, ApJ, 747, 100.

48. Numerical Simulations of Supernova Dust Destruction. II. Metal-enriched Ejecta Knots [ADS], Silvia, D. W., Smith, B. D., and Shull, J. M., 2012, ApJ, 748, 12.

49. He II Ly-beta Gunn-Peterson Absorption: New HST Observations and Theoretical Expectations [ADS], Syphers, D., Anderson, S. F., Zheng, W., Smith, B., Pieri, M., Kriss, G. A., Meiksin, A., Schneider, D. P., Shull, J. M., and York, D. G., 2011, ApJ, 742, 99.

50. Galaxy Cluster Radio Relics in Adaptive Mesh Refinement Cosmological Simulations: Relic Properties and Scaling Relationships [ADS], Skillman, S. W., Hallman, E. J., O'Shea, B. W., Burns, J. O., Smith, B. D., and Turk, M. J., 2011, ApJ, 735, 96.

51. The Nature of the Warm/Hot Intergalactic Medium. I. Numerical Methods, Convergence, and O VI Absorption [ADS], Smith, B. D., Hallman, E. J., Shull, J. M., and O'Shea, B. W., 2011, ApJ, 731, 6.

52. yt: A Multi-code Analysis Toolkit for Astrophysical Simulation Data [ADS], Turk, M. J., Smith, B. D., Oishi, J. S., Skory, S., Skillman, S. W., Abel, T., and Norman, M. L., 2011, ApJS, 192, 9.

53. The Properties of X-ray Cold Fronts in a Statistical Sample of Simulated Galaxy Clusters [ADS], Hallman, E. J., Skillman, S. W., Jeltema, T. E., Smith, B. D., O'Shea, B. W., Burns, J. O., and Norman, M. L., 2010, ApJ, 725, 1053.

54. HST/COS Observations of the Quasar HE 2347-4342: Probing the Epoch of He II Patchy Reionization at Redshifts z = 2.4-2.9 [ADS], Shull, J. M., France, K., Danforth, C. W., Smith, B., and Tumlinson, J., 2010, ApJ, 722, 1312.

55. Numerical Simulations of Supernova Dust Destruction. I. Cloud-crushing and Post-processed Grain Sputtering [ADS], Silvia, D. W., Smith, B. D., and Shull, J. M., 2010, ApJ, 715, 1575.

56. How Well do Cosmological Simulations Reproduce Individual Halo Properties? [ADS], Trenti, M., Smith, B. D., Hallman, E. J., Skillman, S. W., and Shull, J. M., 2010, ApJ, 711, 1198.

57. The Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation Project. II. The Prospects for Direct Detection of the Whim with SZE Surveys [ADS], Hallman, E. J., O'Shea, B. W., Smith, B. D., Burns, J. O., and Norman, M. L., 2009, ApJ, 698, 1795.

58. The effect of photoionization on the cooling rates of enriched, astrophysical plasmas [ADS], Wiersma, R. P. C., Schaye, J., and Smith, B. D., 2009, MNRAS, 393, 99.

59. Three Modes of Metal-Enriched Star Formation in the Early Universe [ADS], Smith, B. D., Turk, M. J., Sigurdsson, S., O'Shea, B. W., and Norman, M. L., 2009, ApJ, 691, 441.

60. Metal cooling in simulations of cosmic structure formation [ADS], Smith, B., Sigurdsson, S., and Abel, T., 2008, MNRAS, 385, 1443.

61. Modeling of Emission Signatures of Massive Black Hole Binaries. I. Methods [ADS], Bogdanovic, T., Smith, B. D., Sigurdsson, S., and Eracleous, M., 2008, ApJS, 174, 455.

62. The Transition from the First Stars to the Second Stars in the Early Universe [ADS], Smith, B. D., and Sigurdsson, S., 2007, ApJL, 661, 5.

63. 1/f Noise and Hot Electron Effects in Variable Range Hopping Conduction [ADS], McCammon, D., Galeazzi, M., Liu, D., Sanders, W. T., Smith, B., Tan, P., Boyce, K. R., Brekosky, R., Gygax, J. D., Kelley, R., Mott, D. B., Porter, F. S., Stahle, C. K., Stahle, C. M., and Szymkowiak, A. E., 2002, Physica Status Solidi B Basic Research, 230, 197.

Research Notes

1. Analyzing Star Formation Feedback Mechanisms in Cosmological Simulations [ADS], Fush, S.T., O'Shea, B.W., Silvia, D.W., Smith, B.D., Wise, J.H., 2022, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 6, 38.