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.

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2018 5
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2019

Automated Natural Unit Conversions in Mathematica

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Introduction and Review

2018

Sigma Pi Sigma Presentation

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I gave a presentation to a conference organized at Sigma Pi Sigma at University of Virginia.

Gravity Group Presentation

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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

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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

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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

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Here is my upcoming paper describing tests of general relativity using black hole-pulsar binaries if one is found with next generation telescopes.

2017