Thinh Nguyen

I am currently studying the effect of the hydrogen self-shielding model on galaxy formation during the re-ionization epoch. Due to its expensive computational requirement, modeling self-shielding is often skipped in cosmological simulations. Thus, I am investigating whether this is a good trade-off by comparing galaxies between self-shielding and non-self-shielding models. 

I am also involved in the AGORA Project (Assembling Galaxies Of Resolved Anatomy), an international collaboration to study the disparities across many cosmological simulation codes. The AGORA data are well-calibrated and share similar initial conditions between codes. The collaboration is divided into various groups working on different sub-projects. My advisor Kirk Barrow and I are leading the Merger Project, where we compare the effect of mergers on the star formation activity of the Milky Way-sized galaxy across 8 simulation codes.