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
Agresti, Juri
Riccardo DeSalvo, Francesco Fidecaro
Researches on Non-Standard Optics for Advanced Gravitational Waves Interferometers

01/24/2008
Caltech , University of Pisa
Ajith, Parameswaran
Bernard F Schutz
On aspects of gravitational-wave detection: Detector characterisation, data analysis and source modelling for ground-based detectors

12/10/2007
Albert Einstein Institute
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
Chin, David
Keith Riles
Exploratory Studies in a Search for Continuous-Wave Gravitational Radiation in Early LIGO Data

05/01/05
University of Michigan
Delker, Thomas
David Reitze
Demonstration of a Prototype Dual-Recycled Cavity-Enhanced Michelson Interferometer for GW Detection
2/14/2001
University of Florida
Fazi, Diego
Giovanni Venturi, Yanbei Chen, Michele Vallisneri
Development of a Physical-Template Search for Gravitational Waves from Spinning Compact-Object Binaries with LIGO

04/28/2009
University of Bologna / Caltech
Frei, Melissa
Richard Matzner
TBA
 
UT Austin
Goggin, Lisa
Alan Weinstein
A Search For Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Hole Ringdowns in LIGO Data

05/13/08
Caltech
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
Rao, Shanti
Eric Black, Ken Libbrecht
Mirror Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors

05/15/2003
Caltech
Stuver, Amber
Lee Samuel Finn
Burst Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Methods: Design, Development and Comparison

6/30/2006
Penn State University
Summerscales, Tiffany
Lee Samuel Finn
Gravitational wave astronomy with LIGO: from data to science

02/20/2006
Penn State
Tarabrin, Sergey
Sergey P. Vyatchanin
General relativistic analysis of the ultimate sensitivity of possible configurations of laser gravitational-wave antennas (in Russian)
03/19/2009
Moscow State University
Wise, Stacy
David Tanner
Sensitivity Enhancement in Future Interferometric Gravitational Wave
4/26/2006
University of Florida
Wu, Wan
David Tanner/David Reitze
Instrumentation of the Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detector - Triple Pendulum Suspension and Electro-Optical Modulator

09/07/2007
University of Florida