People
Sometime people ask if the best part about science is the excitement about the unknown or if its the lasting bonds made between those united in a common cause.
Experimental Gravitational Physics
Research
We conduct research related to gravitational wave astronomy (LIGO), tests of fundamental physics on the tabletop (IQIM), and studies of space missions for gravitational wave detection.
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Intelligent Controls
Using machine learning techniques to cancel noise and apply feedback to the laser interferometers for gravitational wave detection.
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Mechanical Domain Fluctuations
The limits to precision mechanical measurements due to nonlinear mechanical upconversion / downconversion.
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Adaptive Optics
Thermally actuated adaptive optics for interferometers.
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Cryogenic Silicon Interferometers
Cold, crystalline optics to enable gravitational-wave detectors to reach out to cosmological distances.
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Thermodynamic Limits to Optical Metrology
Direct measurement of the thermal noise in mirror coatings.
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Quantum Information Limits of a Classical Sensor
What are the limits of classical sensors when using a quantum field?
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Laser Gyroscope for Rotation Sensing
Meter scale, optical ring resonators and tilt-free ground sensors.
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High Q Silicon Opto-Mechanics
Pushing the mechanical Q of silicon cantilevers for mirror suspensions in LIGO as well for making tests of quantum mechanics at the macro scale.
Teaching
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. --Dr. Seuss
Publications
Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. --Vannevar Bush (1945)
