Past Ph.D.

Past Ph.D. Students List


Student Advisor Thesis Title /URL Date Approved LSC Institution
Adhikari, Rana
Rai Weiss
Sensitivity and noise analysis of 4 km laser interferometric gravitational wave antennae

6/1/2004
MIT
Ballmer, Stefan
Erik Katsavounidis
LIGO interferometer operating at design sensitivity with application to gravitational radiometry

06/01/2006
MIT
Chen, Yanbei
Kip S. Thorne
Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals

5/8/2003
CaRT, Caltech
Delker, Thomas
David Reitze
Demonstration of a Prototype Dual-Recycled Cavity-Enhanced Michelson Interferometer for GW Detection
2/14/2001
University of Florida
Lawrence, Ryan
Rai Weiss
Active Wavefront Correction in Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors

02/01/2003
MIT
O'Shaughnessy, Richard
Kip S. Thorne
Topics in GW Astronomy

7/29/2003
CaRT, Caltech
Pan, Yi
Kip S. Thorne
Topics of LIGO Physics: Template Banks for the Inspiral of Precessing, Compact Binaries, and Design of the Signal Recycling Cavity for Advanced LIGO

5/19/2006
CaRT, Caltech
Rakhmanov, Malik
B.C. Barish
Dynamics of Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors

05/24/2000
Caltech
Stuver, Amber
Lee Samuel Finn
Burst Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Methods: Design, Development and Comparison

6/30/2006
Penn State University
Wise, Stacy
David Tanner
Sensitivity Enhancement in Future Interferometric Gravitational Wave
4/26/2006
University of Florida