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Doctoral Dissertation

Self-Consistent Models of Triaxial Elliptical Galaxies With Central Cusps
    Balsa Terzic
    Doctoral prospectus, September 1999.

Self-Consistent Models of Triaxial Elliptical Galaxies With Central Cusps (entire volume)
        Abstract
        Table of Content
        Chapter 1: Introduction: The Self-Consistent Problem
        Chapter 2: Gravitational Scattering by a Massive Galactic Center
        Chapter 3: Building Self-Consistent Triaxial Galaxy Models Using Schwarzschild's Method
        Chapter 4: Geometric Desctiption of Chaos in Hamiltonian Systems With Three Degrees of Freedom
        Chapter 5: Self-Consistent Triaxial Galaxy Models With Separable Potentials
        Chapter 6: Conclusions
        Bibliography
    Balsa Terzic
    Doctoral dissertation, defended April 1, 2002.

Refereed Publications

Realistic Triaxial Density--Potential--Force Profiles for Stellar Systems and Dark Matter Halos
   Balsa Terzic and Benjamin Sprague
   Submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, January 2007.

Particle-in-Cell Beam Dynamics Simulations with a Wavelet-Based Poisson Solver
   Balsa Terzic, Ilya V. Pogorelov and Courtlandt Bohn
   Submitted to the Physics Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams, September 2006.

Improved Simulations of Photoinjectors For High-Average-Current Free-Electron Lasers
   Courtlandt Bohn, Daniel Mihalcea, Ilya V. Pogorelov, Ioannis Sideris and Balsa Terzic 2006
   Journal of Directed Energy, 2, 163.

Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. I. Nonparametric Construction of Density Profiles and Comparison with Parametric Models (astro-ph)
   David Merritt, Alister Graham, Ben Moore, Jurgen Diemand and Balsa Terzic 2006
   Astronomical Journal, 132, 2685.

Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. II. Inner Profile Slopes, Dynamical Profiles, and rho/sigma^3 (astro-ph)
   Alister Graham, David Merritt, Ben Moore, Jurgen Diemand and Balsa Terzic 2006
   Astronomical Journal, 132, 2701.

Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. III. The Kormendy Relation and the log rho_e - log R_e Relation (astro-ph)
   Alister Graham, David Merritt, Ben Moore, Jurgen Diemand and Balsa Terzic 2006
   Astronomical Journal, 132, 2711.

Density-Potential Pairs for Spherical Stellar Systems with Sersic Light-Profiles and (Optional) Power-Law Cores (astro-ph)
   Balsa Terzic and Alister Graham 2005
   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 362, 197.

Orbital Structure in Oscillating Galactic Potentials (astro-ph)
   Balsa Terzic and Henry Kandrup 2004
   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 347, 957.

Supermassive Black Hole Binaries As Galactic Blenders (astro-ph)
   Henry Kandrup, Ioannis Sideris, Balsa Terzic and Courtlandt Bohn 2003
   Astrophysical Journal, 597, 111.

Semi-Analytic Estimates of Lyapunov Exponents in Lower-Dimensional Systems (astro-ph)
   Balsa Terzic and Henry Kandrup 2003
   Physics Letters A, 311/2-3, 165.

Conference Proceedings

Wavelet-based Poisson Solver for Use in Particle-in-Cell Simulations
    Balsa Terzic, Ilya V. Pogorelov, Daniel Mihalcea and Courtlandt Bohn 2005
    Published in the proceedings of the Particle Accelerator Conference 2005, held in Knoxville, Tennessee, May 16-20, 2005.

Wavelet-based Poisson Solver for Use in Particle-in-Cell Simulations
    Balsa Terzic and Ilya V. Pogorelov 2004
    Published in the Annals of New York Academy of Science, vol. 1045, p. 55.
    Conference "Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Astrophysics: In Memory of Henry Kandrup" held in Gainesville, Florida, November 4-6, 2004.

Triaxial Galaxy Models With Separable Potentials
    Balsa Terzic, Christopher Hunter and Tim 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" held in St. Petersburg, Russia August 22-26, 2000.
    Talks given at Leiden Observatory on June 8, 2000, the conference above and at Belgrade Observatory, September 13, 2000

Period Tripling Bifurcations in Axisymmetric Scalefree Potentials   
    Christopher Hunter, Balsa Terzic, Don Porchia, Amy Burns and Chris Zink 1998
    Published in the Annals of New York vol. 867, p. 61.

Irregular Period Tripling Bifurcations in Axisymmetric Potentials
    Balsa Terzic 1998
    Published in the Annals of New York Academy of Science, vol. 867, p. 85.
    Talks given at the Division of Dynamical Astronomy meeting at University of Virginia on April 1, 1998 and at the Florida State University Department of Mathematics, April 6, 1998.

Unpublished Projects

A Precision Tool for Dissecting Orbital Dynamics in Time-dependent Potentials
    Courtlandt Bohn and Balsa Terzic 2005

Noise-Induced Phase Space Transport in Time-Periodic Hamiltonian Systems
    Balsa Terzic and Henry Kandrup 2003

Building Self-Consistent Triaxial Galaxy Models Using Schwarzschild's Method
    Balsa Terzic 2003

Talks

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.

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

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

Wavelet-based Poisson Solver for Use in Particle-in-Cell Simulations
   Talk given 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.

Supermassive Black Hole Binaries As Galactic Blenders
   Colloquium given 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.

Posters

Wavelet-based Poisson Solver for Use in Particle-in-Cell Simulations
   Poster presented on May 17, 2005 at the Particle Accelerator Conference 2005, in Knoxville, Tennessee.



Balsa Terzic /  bterzic@nicadd.niu.edu