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Important Research in 2002 Nergis Mavalvala Curriculum Vitae LIGO Laboratory Phone: (617) 253-5657 Department of Physics (617) 253-4824 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fax: (617) 253-7014 NW22-295, 185 Albany Street Email: [email protected] Cambridge, MA 02139 RESEARCH Over thirty years experience with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), with particular expertise in design, integration and commissioning of optical sensing and control systems. Member of the team that made first detections of gravitational waves from merging neutron stars and black holes. Also lead broad experimental research programs in quantum optics, quantum optomechanics, quantum measurement science, and sub-quantum interferometry. EDUCATION Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA January 1997 Ph.D. in Physics Thesis: “Alignment issues in laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors” under Professor Rainer Weiss. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA May 1990 B.A. in Physics and Astronomy, Magna cum Laude Thesis: “Study of defects in Alx Ga1-xAs using resonant Raman scattering” under Professor Robbie Berg PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Dean, School of Science 2020 – present Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Associate Head, Department of Physics 2015 – 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Professor, Department of Physics 2009 – present Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Associate Professor, Department of Physics 2007 – 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Assistant Professor, Department of Physics 2002 – 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Staff Scientist, LIGO Laboratory 2000 – 2002 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics 1997 – 2000 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA HONORS AND AWARDS • Honorary Doctorate, Amherst College 2019 • Alumnae Achievement Award, Wellesley College 2018 • Women of Discovery Air & Space Award 2018 • Quantum Control, Measurement and Computing Award 2018 • Elected to National Academy of Sciences 2017 • Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2017 • Honorary Doctorate, Dalhousie University 2017 • Sitara-e-Imtiaz Medal, highest civilian honor, Pakistan 2017 • Carnegie Great Immigrant 2017 • Princess of Asturias Award, co-recipient with LIGO discovery team 2017 • Lahore Technology Award 2017 • Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, co-recipient 2016 with LIGO discovery team • Gruber Prize in Cosmology, co-recipient with LIGO discovery team 2016 • Fellow, International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation 2016 • Fellow, Optical Society of America 2013 • Joseph Keithley Prize of the American Physical Society 2013 • Kathleen and Curtis Marble Chair, MIT 2012 – present • MIT School of Science Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching 2012 • MacArthur Fellow 2010 • Fellow, American Physical Society 2010 • Edgerton award for faculty achievement, MIT 2007 • John de Laeter medal, Australian Institute of Physics 2006 • Sloan Fellow 2005 • Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, MIT 2004 – 2007 • Magna cum Laude 1990 • Phyllis Fleming Award for Excellence in Physics, Wellesley College 1990 • Phi Beta Kappa 1989 • Ford Foundation Undergraduate Initiative Fellowship 1989 – 1990 • Dana Foundation Summer Research Fellowship 1987 and 1988 LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE (SELECTED) • Co-Chair, AMO 2020 Decadal Study, National Academy of Sciences 2018 – 2019 • Board of Physics and Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences 2018 – 2021 • Board of the Dodd-Wall Centre, New Zealand 2018 – 2022 • Associate Head, MIT Department of Physics 2015 – present • Undergraduate Coordinator, MIT Department of Physics 2013 – present • Executive Committee, American Physical Society 2009 – 2012 • Committee on AMO Science, National Academy of Sciences 2010 – 2013 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1. “Quantum correlations between the light and kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO,” H. Yu, L. McCuller, M. Tse, L. Barsotti, N. Mavalvala, et al., Nature 583, 43 (2020). 2. “Room temperature optomechanical squeezing,” N. Aggarwal, T. Cullen, J. Cripe, G. D. Cole, R. Lanza, A. Libson, D. Follman, P. Heu, T. Corbitt, and N. Mavalvala, Nature Physics 16, 784 (2020). 3. "Optimal detuning for quantum filter cavities," C. Whittle, K. Komori, D. Ganapathy, L. McCuller, L. Barsotti, N. Mavalvala, and M. Evans, Phys. Rev. D 102, 102002 (2020). 4. "Optimal detuning for quantum filter cavities," C. Whittle, K. Komori, D. Ganapathy, L. McCuller, L. Barsotti, N. Mavalvala, and M. Evans, Phys. Rev. D 102, 102002 (2020). 5. “Sensitivity and performance of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the third observing run,” A. Buikema et al, Phys. Rev. D 102, 062003 (2020). 6. “Reducing scattered light in LIGO's third observing run,” S. Soni et al., Class. Quantum Grav. 38 025016 (2020). 7. “Frequency-Dependent Squeezing for Advanced LIGO,” L. McCuller, C. Whittle, D. Ganapathy, K. Komori, M. Tse, A. Fernandez-Galiana, L. Barsotti, P. Fritschel, M. MacInnis, F. Matichard, K. Mason, N. Mavalvala, R. Mittleman, Haocun Yu, M. E. Zucker, and M. Evans, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171102 (2020). 8. “GW190425: Observation of a compact binary coalescence with total mass 3.4 Msun,” Astrophysics Journal Letters 892, L3 (2020). 9. “Advanced LIGO squeezer platform for backscattered light and optical loss reduction,” Á. Fernández-Galiana et al, Class. Quantum Grav. 37, 215015 (2020). 10. “Quantum-enhanced Advanced LIGO detectors in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy,” M. Tse, H. Yu, N. Kijbunchoo, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 231107 (2019). 11. “Measurement of quantum back action in the audio band at room temperature,” J. Cripe, N. Aggarwal, R. Lanza, A. Libson, R. Singh, P. Heu, D. Follman, G. D. Cole, N. Mavalvala, and T. Corbitt, Nature 568, 354 (2019). 12. “Narrow linewidth fiber amplifier for gravitational-wave detectors,” A. Buikema, F. Jose, S. J. Augst, P. Fritschel and N. Mavalvala, Opt. Lett. 44, 3833 (2019). 13. “Sub-hertz optomechanically induced transparency with a kilogram-scale mechanical oscillator,” T. Bodiya, V. Sudhir, C. Wipf, N. Smith, A. Buikema, A. Kontos, H. Yu, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. A 100, 013853 (2019). 14. “Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs,” Astrophysics Journal 883, 149 (2019). 15. “Relativistic coupling of phase and amplitude noise in optical interferometry,” V. Sudhir, P. Fritschel, and N. Mavalvala, Opt. Lett. 43, 3398 (2018). 16. “Radiation-pressure-mediated control of an optomechanical cavity,” J. Cripe, N. Aggarwal, R. Singh, R. Lanza, A. Libson, M. J. Yap, G. D. Cole, D. E. McClelland, N. Mavalvala, and T. Corbitt, Phys. Rev. A 97, 013827 (2018). 17. “GW170817: Measurement of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161101 (2018). 18. “GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 091101 (2018). 19. “All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Classical and Quant. Grav. 35 (2018). 20. “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161101 (2017). 21. “GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221101 (2017). 22. “Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB70817A,” B. P. Abbott et al., Astrophysics Journal 848: L13 (2017). 23. “Quantum correlation measurements in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors,” D. V. Martynov et al. (LSC Instrument Authors), Phys. Rev. A 95, 043831 (2017). 24. “GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 141101 (2017). 25. “First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Phys. Rev. D 96, 122006 (2017). 26. “First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO,” C. Blair et al. (LSC Instrument Authors), Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151102 (2017). 27. “Gravitationally induced phase shift on a single photon,” C. Hilweg, F. Massa, D. Martynov, N. Mavalvala, P. T. Chruściel, and P. Walther, New Journal of Physics 19, 033028 (2017). 28. “Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves,” M. Walker et al. (LSC Instrument Authors), Rev. Sci. Instrum. 88, 124501 (2017) 29. “First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Astroph. J. 839, 1 (2017). 30. “Quantum correlation measurements in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors,” D. V. Martynov et al. (LSC Instrument Authors), Phys. Rev. A 95, 043831 (2017). 31. “Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121102 (2017). 32. “Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914,” B.
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