James Gurian

Postdoctoral Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Perimeter Institute. I am primarily interested in the formation of the first stars in the universe and in understanding the particle nature of dark matter. Most generally, I work to understand cooling and gravitational collapse using transparent, semi-analytic methods. I have authored some papers and published some poems. You can send me an email at jgurian@perimeterinstitute.ca.

Refereed Journals

[7] James Gurian, Donghui Jeong, and Boyuan Liu
Zero Metallicity with Zero CPU Hours: Masses of the First Stars on the Laptop
Submitted to ApJ [arXiv:2309.05758]

[6] James Gurian, Michael Ryan, Sarah Schon, Donghui Jeong, and Sarah Shandera
A Lower Bound on the Mass of Compact Objects from Dissipative Dark Matter
2022, ApJL, 939, L12 [arXiv:2110.11971]

[5] Michael Ryan, Sarah Shandera, James Gurian, and Donghui Jeong
Dark Molecular Chemistry III: DarkKROME
2022, ApJ, 934, 122 [arXiv:2110.11971]

[4] James Gurian,Donghui Jeong, Michael Ryan, and Sarah Shandera
Dark Molecular Chemistry II: Recombination, Molecule Formation, and Halo Mass Function in Atomic Dark Matter
2022, ApJ, 934, 121 [arXiv:2110.11964]

[3] Michael Ryan, James Gurian, Sarah Shandera, and Donghui Jeong
Molecular Chemistry for Dark Matter
2022, ApJ, 934, 120 [arXiv:2106.13245]

[2] James Gurian, Donghui Jeong, Jai-chan Hwang, and Hyerim Noh
Gauge-Invariant Tensor Perturbations Induced from Baryon-CDM Relative Velocity and the B-mode Polarization of the CMB
2021, PRD, 104, 083534 [arXiv:2104.03330]

[1] Craig Copi, James Gurian, Glenn Starkman, Arthur Kosowsky, and Hezi Zhang
Exploring suppressed long-distance correlations as the cause of suppressed large-angle correlations
2018, MNRAS, 490, 5174–5181 [arXiv:1812.03946]

Poetry

"Historiography"; Alpinist (Issue 73, Spring 2021)

"Potential Theory"; ISLE (September 2020)

"Hierarchy Problem"; The Climbing Zine (Issue 14, December 2018)