GWIC - The Gravitational Wave International Committee

2006* GWIC Thesis Prize

Winner

Yoichi Aso Receiving the GWIC Thesis Prize at Amaldi7 Yoichi Aso Receiving the 2006 GWIC Thesis Prize at Amaldi7

Yoichi Aso, “Active Vibration Isolation for a Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector using a Suspension Point Interferometer” (PDF), University of Tokyo

Honorable Mention:

Stefan Ballmer, “LIGO interferometer operating at design sensitivity with application to gravitational radiometry” (PDF), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lisa Barsotti, “The control of the Virgo interferometer for gravitational wave detection,” (PDF), University of Pisa
Shourov Chatterji, “The search for gravitational wave bursts in data from the second LIGO science run” (PDF), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sanjit Mitra, “Efficient analysis algorithms for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology” (PDF), University of Pune
Yi Pan, “Topics of LIGO physics: Template banks for the inspiral of precessing, compact binaries, and design of the signal-recycling cavity for Advanced LIGO” (PDF), California Institute of Technology
Kohei Takeno, “Development of a 100-W Nd:YAG laser using the injection locking technique for gravitational wave detectors” (PDF), University of Tokyo
Ira Thorpe, “Laboratory Studies Of Arm-locking Using The Laser Interferometry Space Antenna Simulator At The University Of Florida” (PDF), University of Florida

*Note, the gravitational wave thesis prize was started initially by LIGO as a biannual prize, limited to students of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. In 2006, the thesis prize was adopted by GWIC, renamed, converted to an annual prize, and opened to the broader community. In this transition year, theses completed between 1 July 2005 and 31 December 2006 were eligible for the 2006 Prize.

2006 Selection Committee

Chair

Stanley Whitcomb

Members

Massimo Bassan
Alain Brillet
Curt Cutler
Gabriela Gonzalez
Gerhard Heinzel
Nobuyuki Kanda
Alberto Vecchio