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== Summer 2024 ==
|| ''Student'' || ''Year'' || ''Project title and wiki-link'' ||''Paper'' ||''Talk '' || ''Picture'' ||
|| Student 1 || 2024|| *** || || || ||
|| Student 2 || 2024|| *** || || || ||
|| Student 3 || 2024|| *** || || || ||

== Summer 2017 ==

Naomi Wharton
Jigyasa Nigam
Kaustubh Singhi

== Summer 2016 ==

Aakash Patil
Varun Kelkar

== Summer 2015 ==
|| ''Student'' || ''Year'' || ''Project title and wiki-link'' ||''Paper'' ||''Talk '' || ''Picture'' ||
|| Ignacio Magana || 2015|| Feedforward noise cancellation at the 40m prototype interferometer || || || ||
|| Jessica Pena || 2015|| Feedforward Noise Cancellation at the 40m Prototype Interferometer || || || ||
|| Evelyn Chase || 2015|| Summary Pages and PSD's|| || || ||

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== Summer 2014 ==
|| ''Student'' || ''Year'' || ''Project title and wiki-link'' ||''Paper'' ||''Talk '' ||
|| Nichin Sreekantaswamy || 2014 || [[https://wiki.ligo.caltech.edu/ajw?NichinSreekantaswamy | AutomatedPhotodetectorFrequencyResponse]] || || ||
|| Akhil Reddy || 2014 || [[https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-T1400634 | Frequency Offset Locking]] || [[https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-T1400424 | Reports 1 & 2]] || [[https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G1400836 | Final presentation slides]] ||

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== Summer 2013 ==
|| ''Student'' || ''Year'' || ''Project title and wiki-link'' ||''Paper'' ||''Talk '' ||
|| Alex Cole || 2013 || [[https://wiki.ligo.caltech.edu/ajw?AlexanderCole | PhotodetectorFrequencyResponse]] || || ||

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== Summer 2012 ==
|| ''Student'' || ''Year'' || ''Project title and wiki-link'' ||''Paper'' ||''Talk '' ||
|| Elizabeth Davison || 2012|| Det Char || || ||
|| Yaakov Fein || 2012|| Platform active isolation ||[[attachment:Seismic_Sensing_and_Actuation.pdf]] || ||
|| Maria (Masha) Okounkova || 2012|| Machine Learning ||[[attachment:MachineLearning.pdf]] (Uploaded 28 Sept 2012) || ||
|| Eric Hendries || 2012|| Calibration ||  || ||
|| Alexandra (Sasha) Zhdanova || 2012|| Simplant || [[attachment:zhdanova_2012.pdf]] || ||

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== Past summer student projects ==
||''Student (school)'' ||''year'' ||''Project'' ||''Paper'' ||''Talk'' ||
|| Ishwita Saikia || 2011||[[Adaptive_Feed_Forward_Filtering]] || || ||
|| Nicole Ing || 2011 ||[[Characterization of the TT suspension]] || || ||
|| Nancy Aggarwal || 2010||[[Mode_Cleaner_Work:_Simulation_and_Improved_Wave_Front_Sensors]] || || ||
|| Gopal Nataraj ||2010|| [[Mode_Cleaner_Work:_Simulation_and_Improved_Wave_Front_Sensors]] || || ||
|| Sharmila Dhevi || 2010||[[Magnetic Suspensions]] || || ||
|| Katherine Larson ||2010|| [[Magnetic Suspensions]] || || ||
|| Megan Daily ||2010|| [[Freq Stabilization]] || || ||
|| Razib Obaid ||2010|| [[Phase_Camera]] || || ||
|| Jenna Walrath ||2010|| [[Gyro]] || || ||
|| Zach Cummings ||2009|| [[GigE_Phase_Cameras]] || || ||
|| Michelle Stephens ||2009|| [[Optical_Ring_Gyroscope]] || || ||
|| Stephanie Erickson || 2009||[[Multiply_Resonant_EOM]] || [[attachment:Multiply_Resonant_EOM/FinalPaper_090924.pdf|XXX]] || [[attachment:Multiply_Resonant_EOM/FinalTalk_090818.pdf|XXX]] ||
|| Clara Bennett (MIT) ||2009|| [[Active_Noise_Cancellation]] || || ||
|| Connor Mooney ||2009|| [[Fiber_Noise_Cancellation]] || || ||
|| Chris Zimmerman ||2009|| [[Long_Range_Michelson_Readout]] || || ||
||Eric (Caltech) ||2008 ||[[Image_Processing_with_GigE_Cameras]] || || ||
||Max (Caltech) ||2008 ||[[Automated_Noise_Characterization]] || || ||
||Sharon (MIT) ||2008 ||[[Adaptive_Noise_Cancellation_with_Neural_Networks]] || || ||
||Masha (Harvard) ||2008 ||[[Exotic_Lock_Acquisition]] || || ||
||[[SoniaBuckley|Sonia Buckley]] ||2007 ||[[Servo_optimization_with_Matlab]] || || ||
||[[ElenaGasparri|Elena Gasparri]] ||2007 ||[[Adaptive_Filter|Adaptive Filtering]] || || ||
||[[JoshuaWeiner|Josh Weiner]] ||2007 ||[[AP_Mode_Scanning]] ||[[http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~cit40m/Docs/T070266_JoshWeiner.pdf|T070266]] || ||
||[[EdwardMacAulay|Edward MacAulay]] ||2007 ||FTIR and Mass Spec || || ||
||[[DarcyBarron|Darcy Barron]] ||2007 ||[[http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/mLIGO/TCS/CO2_Stabilization|Enhanced LIGO TCS Intensity Stabilization]] ||T070244-00-R ||G070643-00-R ||
||[[AliceWang|Alice Wang]] ||2007 ||[[New RF photodiodes]] || || ||
||[[KeenanPepper|Keenan Pepper]] ||2007 ||[[Gravity_Gradients]] || || ||
||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 || ||


== Ideas for future projects ==
[[Summer_Projects/FutureProjects]]

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= Suggested Reading List =
 * [[http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3041|S5 Interferometer Paper]]
 * [[http://www.hpmemory.org/an/pdf/an_243.pdf|HP Signal Analysis note]]
 * [[http://ol.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=68542|LIGO Lock Acquisition Paper]]
 * [[http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/P/P020003-00.pdf|Matt's Manifesto on Lock Acquisition]]
 * [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005RvMP...77..783B|Feedback for Physicists]]
 * Optics Tutorial