Interactive gravitational wave demonstration for spin and eccentricity
Drag mass ratio, spin, precession, and eccentricity and watch the waveform change.
LIGO SURF Final Report
I spent the 2017 summer working with Marie Kasprazack, Arnaud Pele, and Adam Mullavey at LIGO Livingston through the Caltech SURF Program. I examined nonlinear angular noise coupling into differential arm length of the LIGO Livingston detector. This could be summarized in the following way: I modeled the change in optical path length in the interferometer cavity arms due to misalignment of the cavity mirrors. I did this through an geometric analysis of the change in path length of a Fabry-Perot cavity (such as LIGO uses).
You can view the final report here directly.
Alternatively, the full directory containing my work that summer can be found here.
2026
Strong group talk about inspiral tests of general relativity with GW
Review some methods on detecting and measuring deviations from GR with GW. Connected this to my research on geometric features in the signal space of the noi...
2025
Thesis Defense Slides
I defended my thesis on May 5th, 2025 and discussed testing nonviolent nonlocality, geometric description of parameterized GR tests, and high frequency GW de...
2024
Visualizing Spin-Weighted Spherical Harmonics
A quick visual tour of spin-weighted spherical and spheroidal harmonics in GR, using the BHPT toolkit.
LIGO SURF talk about tests of general relativity with LIGO
Introductory talk to undergraduates in the LIGO SURF program about how GW can test GR.
2019
Automated Natural Unit Conversions in Mathematica
A simple Mathematica extension to automate conversions between SI and natural units like geometric, natural, and Planck systems.
2018
Sigma Pi Sigma Presentation
I gave a presentation to a conference organized at Sigma Pi Sigma at University of Virginia.
Gravity Group Presentation
I gave an hour long presentation to the gravity research group at University of Virginia. It specializes on content from my upcoming paper.
Society of Physics Students Research Introduction
I gave a five minute presentation to Society of Physics Students about my research. This was to encourage first year students to get involved in research.
College Science Scholar Presentation
I had the pleasure of presenting my research to a group of first year students who are interested in scientific research. I gave an introduction to my resear...
Testing General Relativity with Black Hole-Pulsar Binaries
Here is my upcoming paper describing tests of general relativity using black hole-pulsar binaries if one is found with next generation telescopes.
2017
LIGO SURF Final Report
I spent the 2017 summer working with Marie Kasprazack, Arnaud Pele, and Adam Mullavey at LIGO Livingston through the Caltech SURF Program. I examined nonline...
LIGO SURF Final Presentation
I presented the results of my research at LIGO from the summer of 2017 at Caltech for the SURF final presentation.
2000
Hello!
I made this website on 10/21/2018 (though I have retroactively added some materials). I look forward to adding to it in the future!