Student

Project title and wiki-link

Paper

Talk

[wiki:DarcyBarron Darcy Barron]

[http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/mLIGO/TCS/CO2_Stabilization Enhanced LIGO TCS Intensity Stabilization]

[wiki:SoniaBuckley Sonia Buckley]

Servo optimization with Matlab

[wiki:PhilipGraf Philip Graf]

[wiki:KeenanPepper Keenan Pepper]

Gravity Gradients

[wiki:AliceWang Alice Wang]

New RF photodiodes

[wiki:JoshWeiner Josh Weiner]

AP Mode Scanning

Edward

FTIR and Mass Spec

Student (school)

year

Project

Paper

Talk

Jenne Driggers (U Washington)

2006

Optomechanical Alignment Instability in LIGO Mode Cleaners

T060240

talk

David Malling (Syracuse U)

2006

Development of a Noise Budget for the 40m

T060241

talk

Darcy Barron (U Illinois)

2006

DC Readout at the LIGO 40-meter Interferometer

T060XXX

talk.

Royal Reinecke (Caltech)

2006

Angular Noise in a Suspended Interferometer with DC Readout

T060244

talk.

Riccardo Ciolfi (U Rome)

2006

Development of Photodetectors for the Squeezing Experiment

T060246

talk

Marcus Ng

2005

Design of an Output Mode Cleaner to Enable DC Readout

paper

talk

Ryan Kinney

2005

Noise Budget Development

paper

talk

Matt Eichenfield

2003

Wavefront Sensing Auto-Alignment System of a Triangular Mode Cleaner Cavity

T030234

talk

Naman Batt

2003

Optical Lever System

T030231

talk

Alexei Ourjoumtsev

2003

The Beam tool, MC WFS commissioning, electro-optic shutters, beamline installation

T030198

Aya Sekido

2002

Measurement of the laser beam profile at the 40m

T020143

Marcus Benna

2002

Wavefront Sensing in Dual-Recycled Interferometers

T020144

Ilya Berdnikov

2002

Characterization and commissioning of digital suspensions for the 40m Mode Cleaner

T020145

Surjeet Rejendran

2002

Data Analysis, including a Cross Correlation Statistic to Identify Coincident Bursts

T020146

David Bonfield

2002

Length sensing and control system of the mode cleaner in the LIGO 40m lab

T020147

Richard George (Cambridge)

2001

AdvLIGO simulations with Twiddle and E2E

T010160

Victor Tsai (Caltech)

2001

Physics Environmental Monitoring (PEM) at 40m

T010161

Tim Piatenko (Cornell)

2001

Optical Properties of the Pre-Stabilized Laser

T010162

Andrea DeMichele (Pisa)

2001

Pre-Stabilized Laser Stability Controls and Characterization

T010159

Mihail Amarie (Caltech)

2001

Simulation of Response to Gravitational Waves and Noise

T010158

Irena Zivkovic (Serbia)

2001

Optimizing burst search algorithms in the time-frequency domain

T010157

Brian Kappus (Harvey Mudd)

2000

Wavefront Sensing for the 40m

T000123

Lisa Goggin (Cork, Ireland)

2000

Study of the Optical Parameters of the 40m

T000122

Ivica Stevanovic (Belgrade)

2000

Understanding the LIGO Optics Suspension Controller Electronics Design

T000097

Jitesh Chauhan (Leicester)

2000

Global Diagnostic System at the 40m

Ted Jou (Caltech)

2000

Determining Lengths and Optical Parameters for Dual Recycling at the 40m

T000121