LIGO

44 thesises

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2026

• Miller, Simona Jane — Robustly Measuring the Spins of Binary Black Holes with Gravitational Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Payne, Ethan W. — Understanding Gravitational Waves and Their Sources: Robust Inference, Tests of Gravity, and Future Prospects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2025

• Golomb, Jacob Matthew — Probing Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Nuclear Physics with Gravitational Waves from Black Holes and Neutron Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hourihane, Sophie Rose — A Glitch and the Matrix: Advances in Gravitational-Wave Glitch Mitigation and Acceleration of Pulsar Timing Analyses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Legred, Isaac Norman — Neutron Stars: Robust Constraints on Dense Matter from Astrophysics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Seymour, Brian Christopher — Future Prospects in Gravitational Waves: From Testing Fundamental Physics to Instruments beyond LIGO (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Udall, Rhiannon Pollard — Robust Gravitational Wave Analysis at the Catalog Scale (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2024

• Anand, Shreya — Cosmic Gold Mining: Hunting for the Astrophysical Sites of r-Process Nucleosynthesis (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 (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Markowitz, Aaron Gregory — Interferometric Precision Measurement with Macroscopic Silicon Optomechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2023

• Gupta, Anchal — Next-Generation Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Xiang — Topics in Gravitational Wave Physics: Quantum Theory for Detector Improvement and High-Precision Modeling of Binary Black Hole Ringdown Waveform (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xiao, Liting — Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences and Stochastic Backgrounds in the LIGO–Virgo Detector Network (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2022

• Venugopalan, Gautam — Prototype Interferometry in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2021

• Cahillane, Craig Russell — Controlling and Calibrating Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2020

• Callister, Thomas Alfred, III — Searching for the Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background and Prompt Radio Emission from Compact Binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suter, Bethany Anne — Using Graviton EFT and Massive Gravity to Compute Gravitational Potentials for Black Hole Inspirals (Senior thesis (Major))

2019

• Gossan, Sarah Elizabeth — Core-Collapse Supernova Physics in the Multi-Messenger Era (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Korth, William Zachary — Mitigating Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2018

• Quintero, Eric Antonio — Improving the Performance and Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2017

• Hall, Evan Drew — Long-Baseline Laser Interferometry for the Detection of Binary Black-Hole Mergers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2015

• Driggers, Jennifer Clair — Noise Cancellation for Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Handmer, Casey John — Gauge Invariant Spectral Cauchy Characteristic Extraction of Gravitational Waves in Computational General Relativity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Martynov, Denis V. — Lock Acquisition and Sensitivity Analysis of Advanced LIGO Interferometers (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2014

• 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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Privitera, Stephen M. — The Importance of Spin for Observing Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binaries with LIGO and Virgo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2011

• Patel, Pinkesh Kiritbhai — Search for Gravitational Waves from a Nearby Neutron Star Using Barycentric Resampling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2010

• Ward, Robert Lawrence — Length Sensing and Control of a Prototype Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2009

• Keppel, Drew Garvin — Signatures and Dynamics of Compact Binary Coalescences and a Search in LIGO’s S5 Data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2008

• Goggin, Lisa Maria — A Search for Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Hole Ringdowns in LIGO Data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Savov, Pavlin — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2007

• Lovelace, Geoffrey Mark — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2006

• Pan, Yi — Topics of LIGO Physics: Template Banks for the Inspiral of Precessing, Compact Binaries, and Design of the Signal-Recycling Cavity for Advanced LIGO (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2004

• O'Shaughnessy, Richard William — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2003

• Chen, Yanbei — Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Purdue, Patricia Marie — Topics in LIGO-Related Physics: Interferometric Speed Meters and Tidal Work (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rao, Shanti Raja — Mirror Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2002

• Evans, Matthew John — Lock Acquisition in Resonant Optical Interferometers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vallisneri, Michele — Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2001

• Mason, James Edward — Signal Extraction and Optical Design for an Advanced Gravitational Wave Interferometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1989

• Zucker, Michael Edward — Experiments with a Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antenna (Dissertation (Ph.D.))