2008 GWIC Thesis Prize

Winner

Henning Vahlbruch, winner of the 2008 GWIC Thesis Prize

• Henning Vahlbruch, “Squeezed Light for Gravitational Wave Astronomy” (PDF), Albert Einstein Institute and Leibniz University of Hannover

Honorable Mention:

• Thomas Corbitt, “Quantum Noise and Radiation Pressure Effects in High Power Optical Interferometers,” (PDF), MIT
• Lisa Goggin, “A Search for Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Hole Ringdowns in LIGO Data” (PDF), California Institute of Technology
• Chad Hanna, “Searching for Gravitational Waves From Binary Systems in Non-stationary Data” (PDF), Louisiana State University
• Peter Kalmus, “Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters” (PDF), Columbia University
• Ben Lee, “Advanced Test Mass Suspensions and Electrostatic Control for AIGO” (PDF), University of Western Australia
• Kirk McKenzie, “Squeezing in the Audio Gravitational Wave Detection Band” (PDF), Australian National University
• Sean McWilliams, “Applying Numerical Relativity to Gravitational Wave Astronomy” (PDF), University of Maryland
• Jocelyn Read, “Neutron Stars in Compact Binary Systems: From the equation of state to gravitational radiation” (PDF), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Gabriele Vajente, “Analysis of sensitivity and noise sources for the Virgo gravitational wave interferometer” (PDF), University of Pisa
• Nicolas Yunes, “At the Interface: GW as Tools to test Quantum Gravity and probe the astrophysical Universe” (PDF), Pennsylvania State University

2008 Selection Committee

Chair

Guido Mueller

Members


Giancarlo Cella
Patrice Hello
Martin Hewitson
Alberto Lobo
Andrea Lommen
Kimio Tsubono
Peter Veitch

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