Keith Riles Professor of Physics University of Michigan E-mail: kriles@umich.edu Snail-mail address: Randall Lab  450 Church St.  Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040 Office and phone: 372 West Hall  (734) 764-4652

Research Projects:

• LIGO Project (search for astrophysical gravitational radiation)
• Pulsar Working Group of the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations
• American Linear Collider Physics Group

LIGO: Dick Gustafson
Linear collider: Haijun Yang

• Ph.D. Recipients:
• Yuan Zhou, 1997  (co-adviser with B. Roe)
  Measurement of  the Bd Oscillation Frequency using a Dilepton Sample
• Ron Moore, 1997
  Measurement of the Chirality Parameter in the Charged-Current Coupling of the Tau Lepton
• Charles Leggett, 1998
  Measurement of the Bottom-Quark Partial Decay Width of the Z using Multiple Independent Tags
• Alan Button, 1999
  Measurement of the W Boson Mass and Decay Width
• Ross Berbeco, 2001
  In Search of the Standard Model Higgs Boson
• Jin Yamamoto, 2002
  Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the Leptonic Channels
• David Chin, 2005
  Exploratory Studies in a Search for Continuous-Wave Gravitational Radiation in Early LIGO Data
• Vladimir Dergachev, 2009
  An All-Sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves
• Evan Goetz, 2010
  Gravitational Wave Studies: Detector Calibration and an All-Sky Search for Spinning Neutron Stars in Binary Systems


• Ph.D. Candidates:
• Grant Meadors
  
• Santiago Caride
  
• Jaclyn Sanders
  

• Senior Thesis Projects: (ongoing or completed)
• Jamie Rollins, 1998-1999 (co-adviser with D. Gustafson)
Research at the 40-Meter LIGO Prototype Interferometer
• Joseph Marsano, 2000-2001
Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars
• Michael La Marca, 2002-2003
A Novel Interferometer Servo Control Scheme
• Jacob Slutsky, 2003-2004
Search for Pulsar Gravitational Waves in Binary Systems
• Sven Nyberg, 2005-2006
Frequency-Scanned Interferometry for Tracking Detector Alignment
• Ramon Armen, 2005-2008
Detector Diagnostics for LIGO Gravitational Wave Detection
• Independent Studies Projects:
• Justin Dombrowski, Winter 1999, Winter 2000
Analysis of the 40-Meter LIGO Prototype Interferometer 1994 Data and
Evaluation of  Alternative LIGO Servo Control Scheme
• Joseph Marsano, Winter, Summer, Fall 2000
Analysis of the 40-Meter LIGO Prototype Interferometer 1999 Data
• Michael La Marca, Winter 2001, Fall 2001, Winter 2002
Study of Novel Interferometer Servo Control Schemes
• Timothy Blass, Winter 2003
Frequency Scanned Interferomety for Alignment - Reconstruction Issues and System Design
• Timothy Bodiya, 2003, Winter 2004
Development of Online Spectral Monitoring for the LIGO Control Room
• Jacob Slutsky, 2003
Search for Pulsar Gravitational Waves in Binary Systems
• Sven Nyberg, Summer/Fall 2003, 2004, 2005
Frequency Scanned Interferomety for Alignment - Measurement Issues and Apparatus Development
• Phil Szepietowski, Fall 2003, 2004 winter/summer 2005
Implementation of a Novel Interferometer Servo Control Scheme
• Pete Troyan, Summer/Fall 2005, 2006
Measurements of Double-Cavity Gains with Phase and Amplitude Modulation Control
• Ramon Armen, Fall 2005, 2006
Long-term Tracking of LIGO Band-Limited Calibrated Strain Power
• Courtney Jarman, Winter/Summer/Fall 2006
Studies in Pulsar Detection via Gravitational Waves
• Andy Jung, Summer/Fall 2006, 2007, Winter 2008
Development of Miniaturized Interferometer Optics
• Alex Nitz, Winter/Summer/Fall 2007, Winter 2008
Simulations of a Linear Collider Detector Silicon Tracker
• Ramon Armen, Summer/Fall 2007, Winter 2008
Development of a Phase Camera for Gravitational Wave Interferometry
• Alistair Hayden, Summer/Fall 2007, Winter/Summer/Fall 2008, Winter 2009
Earthquake monitoring at the LIGO Observatories
• Alex Nitz, Summer/Fall 2008, Winter/Summer 2009
Real-time monitoring of band-limited seismic noise at the LIGO Observatories
• Alex Nitz, Summer/Fall 2009
Refined overflying aircraft detection at the LIGO observatories
• Nitesh Alve, Eric Belfer, Jordan Cassidy, Fall 2010/Winter 2011
Seismic noise studies at the LIGO Hanford and Livingston Observatories

Sampling of Presentations:

• Light of the Living Dead: The Remarkable Radiation from Neutron Stars
Saturday Morning Physics Lecture, October 31, 2009
• The Present Gravitational Wave Effort
Presentation at International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics in July 2009
• LIGO and Virgo Continuous Wave Searches
Presentation at Penn State Workshop on Probing Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves in June 2009
• All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Fourth Science Run
Presentation at American Physical Society meeting in April 2007
• Gravitational Waves -- Ripples of Space
Saturday Morning Physics Lecture I, May 7, 2005
• How to Catch a Gravitational Wave
Saturday Morning Physics Lecture II, May 14, 2005
• The LIGO Experiment - Present and Future
Presentation at "April Meeting" of the American Physical Society, May 4, 2004

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