This page has a reduced version of my CV.
You can find a full version of my cv here, and a list of
my publications and talks here.
Education
2005, Ph.D., Physics
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis advisor: Michael L. Norman (UC San Diego)
Thesis title: The Formation of Population III Stars and Their Effect on
Cosmological Structure in the Early Universe (thesis webpage)
2002, M.S., Physics
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2000, B.S., Engineering Physics (cum laude)
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professional
2008 - present, Assistant Professor
Lyman Briggs College and
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
2005 - 2008, Director's Postdoctoral Fellow
Theoretical Astrophysics Group and
Applied Physics Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2005, Graduate Research Assistant
Theoretical Astrophysics Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2002 - 2005, Graduate Research Assistant
Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
University of California at San Diego
2000-2002, Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Astronomy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2000-2002, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Awards and Honors
- Lilly Teaching Fellowship, 2010-2011 (poster)
- National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008
- Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, 2005-2008
- University of Illinois Graduate Fellowship, 2000
Select Refereed Publications
-
Signatures of minor mergers in Milky Way like disc kinematics:
ringing revisited
F. Gomez, I. Minchev, A. Villalobos, B.W. O'Shea & M. Williams
2012, MNRAS, 419, 2163 (ADS entry)
- Galaxy Cluster Radio Relics in Adaptive Mesh
Refinement Cosmological
Simulations: Relic Properties and Scaling Relationships
S. Skillman, E.J. Hallman, B.W. O'Shea, J.O. Burns,
B.D. Smith & M.J. Turk
2011, ApJ, 735, 96 (ADS entry)
- he Nature of the Warm/Hot Intergalactic Medium. I. Numerical
Methods, Convergence, and O VI Absorption
B.D. Smith, E.J. Hallman, J.M. Shull &
B.W. O'Shea
2011, ApJ, 731, 6 (ADS
entry)
- Galaxy Clusters at the Edge: Temperature, Entropy, and Gas Dynamics Near the Virial Radius
J.O. Burns, S.S. Skillman, B.W.O'Shea
2010, ApJ, 721, 1105 (ADS entry)
- The Formation of Population III Binaries from Cosmological Initial Conditions
M.J. Turk, T. Abel & B.W. O'Shea
2009, Science, 325, 601 (ADS entry)
-
Three Modes of Metal-Enriched Star Formation in the Early Universe
B.D. Smith, M.J. Turk, S. Sigurdsson, B.W. O'Shea
& M.L. Norman
(ADS entry)
- The Biermann Battery in Cosmological MHD Simulations of Population III Star Formation
H. Xu, B.W. O'Shea, D.C. Collins, M.L. Norman, H. Li, S. Li.
2008, ApJ, 688, L57
(ADS entry)
- Cosmological Shocks in Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations and the Acceleration of Cosmic Rays
S. Skillman, B.W. O'Shea, E.J. Hallman, J.O. Burns, M.L. Norman
2008, ApJ, 689, 1063
(ADS entry)
- Population III Star Formation in a Lambda CDM Universe. II. Effects of a Photodissociating Background
B.W. O'Shea and M.L. Norman
2008, ApJ, 673, 14
(ADS entry)
- The Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation Project. I. Confusion and the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium in Upcoming Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Surveys
E.J. Hallman, B.W. O'Shea, J.O. Burns, M.L. Norman, R. Harkness, R. Wagner
2007, ApJ, 671, 27
(ADS entry)
- Population III Star Formation in a Lambda CDM Universe. I. The Effect of Formation Redshift and Environment on Protostellar Accretion Rate
B.W. O'Shea and M.L. Norman
2007, ApJ, 654, 660
(ADS entry)
- Population III Star Formation in a Lambda WDM Universe
B.W. O'Shea and M.L. Norman
2006 ApJ, 648, 31
(ADS entry)
- Comparing AMR and SPH Cosmological Simulations. I. Dark Matter and Adiabatic Simulations
B.W. O'Shea, K. Nagamine, V. Springel, L. Hernquist, M.L. Norman
2005, ApJS, 160, 1
(ADS entry)
- Forming a Primordial Star in a Relic H II Region
B.W. O'Shea, T. Abel, D. Whalen, M.L. Norman
2005, ApJ, 628, L50
(ADS entry)