Weinstein, Alan Jay

Advisor — 21 thesises

• Goggin, Lisa Maria — A Search for Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Hole Ringdowns in LIGO Data (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lipeles, Elliot — A Study of the Fully Differential Inclusive Semileptonic B Meson Decay Rate (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cahillane, Craig Russell — Controlling and Calibrating Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gossan, Sarah Elizabeth — Core-Collapse Supernova Physics in the Multi-Messenger Era (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Isi Bañales, Maximiliano — Fundamental Physics in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: The Direct Measurement of Gravitational-Wave Polarizations and Other Topics (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lo, Ka Lok (Rico) — Gravitational Wave Exotica - Advancing the Search for Signatures of Exotic Compact Objects and Gravitational Lensing from Data-Analysis and Theoretical Perspectives (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mathur, Sudhi — Gravitational Wave Polarizations: A Test of General Relativity Using Binary Black Hole Mergers (2020, Senior thesis (Major))
• Ward, Robert Lawrence — Length Sensing and Control of a Prototype Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Werner Man-Li — Observation of B → K⁰ₛ π⁺ π⁻ and B → K*(892)⁺⁻π⁻⁺ and Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in B → K*(892)⁺⁻π⁻⁺ (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Golomb, Jacob Matthew — Probing Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Nuclear Physics with Gravitational Waves from Black Holes and Neutron Stars (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Ka Yue Alvin — Probing the Higher Redshift Universe by Studying Strong Lensing of Gravitational Waves and Enhancing Search Sensitivity of the GstLAL Search Pipeline (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Udall, Rhiannon Pollard — Robust Gravitational Wave Analysis at the Catalog Scale (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Patel, Pinkesh Kiritbhai — Search for Gravitational Waves from a Nearby Neutron Star Using Barycentric Resampling (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xiao, Liting — Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences and Stochastic Backgrounds in the LIGO–Virgo Detector Network (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sachdev, Surabhi — Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO Data (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Callister, Thomas Alfred, III — Searching for the Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background and Prompt Radio Emission from Compact Binaries (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keppel, Drew Garvin — Signatures and Dynamics of Compact Binary Coalescences and a Search in LIGO’s S5 Data (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Privitera, Stephen M. — The Importance of Spin for Observing Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binaries with LIGO and Virgo (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Singer, Leo Pound — The Needle in the 100 deg² Haystack: The Hunt for Binary Neutron Star Mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hodge, Kari Alison — The Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Black Hole Binary Systems in Data from the LIGO and Virgo Detectors. Or: A Dark Walk through a Random Forest (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Payne, Ethan W. — Understanding Gravitational Waves and Their Sources: Robust Inference, Tests of Gravity, and Future Prospects (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))