Duncan Campbell

Research Interests

galaxy formation and evolution, large scale structure, dark matter

Education

• Yale University
  • 2011-present: Doctor of Philosophy Candidate: Astronomy
    advisors: Nikhil Padmanabhan, Frank C. van den Bosch
  • 2011-2014: Master of Philosophy
  • 2011-2014: Master of Science
• University of Michigan
  • 2006-2011: Bachelor of Science, Physics and Astronomy, Highest Honors
    mentor: Marta Volonteri

Publications

• Brightest galaxies as halo centre tracers in SDSS DR7
  Lange, J., van den Bosch, F. C., Hearin, A., Campbell, D.,Zentner, A., Villarreal, A., Mao, Y., 2017

• The Immitigable Nature of Assembly Bias: The Impact of Halo Definition on Assembly Bias
  Villarreal, A., Zentner, A., Mao, Y., Purcell, C., van den Bosch, F. C., Diemer, B., Lange, J., Wang, K., Campbell, D., 2017

• Approximate Bayesian Computation in Large Scale Structure: constraining the galaxy-halo connection
  Hahn, C., Vakili, M., Walsh, K.,Hearin, A., Hogg, D., Campbell, D., 2017, MNRAS

• High-Precision Forward Modeling of Large-Scale Structure: An open-source approach with Halotools
  Hearin, A., Campbell, D., Tollerud, E., and others, 2016 MNRAS

• Introducing Decorated HODs: modeling assembly bias in the galaxy-halo connection
  Hearin, Andrew P., Zentner, A. R., van den Bosch, Frank C., Campbell, D., Tollerud, E., 2016, MNRAS

• On the segregation of dark matter substructure
  van den Bosch, F. C., Jiang, F., Campbell, D., and Behroozi, P., 2016, MNRAS, 455, 158

• Assessing Colour-dependent Occupation Statistics Inferred from Galaxy Group Catalogues
  Campbell, D., van den Bosch, F.C., Hearin, A., Padmanabhan, N., Berlind, A., Mo, H. J., Tinker, J., 2015, MNRAS, 452, 444

• Coming of age in the dark sector: how dark matter haloes grow their gravitational potential wells
  van den Bosch, F. C., Jiang, F., Hearin, A., Campbell, D., Watson, D., Padmanabhan, N., 2014, MNRAS, 445, 1713

• Massive Black Holes in Stellar Systems: "Quiescent" Accretion and Luminosity
  Volonteri, M., Dotti, M., Campbell, D., Mateo, M., 2009, APJ, 730, 145

Scientific Talks

• Abundance Matching in a Universe with Assembly Bias
  SnowPAC: The Galaxy Halo Connection, March 2016

• Studying Galaxy Quenching Models with Group Catalogues
  In the Footsteps of Galaxies, September 2015

• An Empirical Model of Galaxy Quenching
  Steward/NOAO Galaxy Group, May 2015

• Galactic Conformity in Group Catalogues
  OSU Assembly Bias Workshop, November 2014

Professional Development

• SciCoder Workshop, New York 2014

• School on Dark Energy and Galaxy Redshift Surveys, Corfu Greece 2014

• Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers VIII, Penn State 2012

Teaching

• Yale University, Teaching Fellow
  • Astronomy 160: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
  • Astronomy 170: Introduction to Cosmology
  • Astronomy 120: Galaxies and the Universe
  • Astronomy 155: Introduction to Astronomical Observing
• University of Michigan, Teaching Assistant
  • Astronomy 102: Introductory Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

Honors & Awards

• Yale Gruber Science Fellow
• University of Michigan Astronomy Research Award
• University of Michigan Dean's List
• University of Michigan University Honors
• University of Michigan Scholar's Award