Nergis Mavalvala Curriculum Vitae LIGO Laboratory Phone: (617) 253-5657 Department of (617) 253-4824 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fax: (617) 253-7014 NW22-295, 185 Albany Street Email: nergis@.mit.edu 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 . Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA May 1990 B.A. in Physics and , 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 , 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, 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 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 and kilogram- 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,” 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 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. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 95, 062003 (2017). 33. “Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121101 (2017). 34. “Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 95, 082005 (2017). 35. “First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO,” Carl Blair et al. (LSC Instrument Authors), Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151102 (2017). 36. “All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 95, 042003 (2017). 37. “GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103 (2016). 38. “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016). 39. “Astrophysical implications of the binary black hole merger GW150914,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Ap. J. Lett. 818, L22 (2016). 40. “GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131103 (2016). 41. “GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131103 (2016). 42. “Tests of General Relativity with GW150914,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221101 (2016). 43. “Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 93, 112004 (2016). 44. “Audio-band frequency-dependent squeezing for gravitational-wave detectors,” E. Oelker, T. Isogai, J. Miller, M. Tse, L. Barsotti, N. Mavalvala, and M. Evans, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 041102 (2016). 45. “Ultra-low phase noise squeezed vacuum source for gravitational wave detectors,” E. Oelker, G. Mansell, M. Tse, J. Miller, F. Matichard, L. Barsotti, P. Fritschel, D. E. McClelland, M. Evans, and N. Mavalvala, Optica 3, 682 (2016). 46. “All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with LIGO,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 93, 042005 (2016). 47. “A search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a "loosely coherent" algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 93, 042006 (2016). 48. “A continuously tunable modulation scheme for precision control of optical cavities with variable detuning,” W. Yam, E. Davis, S. Ackley, M. Evans, and N. Mavalvala, Opt. Exp. 40, 3675 (2015). 49. “A gravitational wave detector with cosmological reach,” S. E. Dwyer, D. Sigg, S. Ballmer, L. Barsotti, N. Mavalvala, and M. Evans, Phys. Rev. D 91, 082001 (2015). 50. “Selection of important parameters using uncertainty and sensitivity analysis,” B. Shapiro, M. Barton, N. Mavalvala, R. Mittleman, and K. Youcef-Toumi, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 20, (2015). 51. “Limitations of underactuated modal damping for multistage vibration isolation systems,” B. Shapiro, J. Kissel, N. Mavalvala, K. Strain, K. Youcef-Toumi, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 20, (2015). 52. “Advanced LIGO,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Class. Quantum Grav. 32, 074001 (2015). 53. “Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Class. Quantum Grav. 32, (2015). 54. “Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 91, 022004 (2015). 55. “Searches for continuous gravitational waves from nine young supernova remnants,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Ap. J. 813, (2015). 56. “Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO data,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 91, 062008 (2015). 57. “Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two colocated LIGO Hanford detectors,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 91, 022003 (2015). 58. “Squeezed light for advanced gravitational wave detectors and beyond,” E. Oelker, L. Barsotti, S. Dwyer, D. Sigg, and N. Mavalvala, Opt. Exp. 22, 21106 (2014). 59. “Impact of backscattered light in a squeezing-enhanced interferometric gravitational-wave detector,” S. Y. Chua et al., Class. Quantum Grav. 31, 035017 (2014). 60. “Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 131101 (2014). 61. “Gravitational waves from known pulsar: results from the initial detector era,” J. Aasi et al. Ap. J. 785, 119 (2014). 62. “Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009–2010 LIGO and Virgo Data,” J. Aasi et al. (LIGO and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 231101 (2014). 63. “The NINJA-2 Project: detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modeled using numerical binary black hole simulations,” J. Aasi et al., Class. Quantum Grav. 31 115004 (2014). 64. “Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data,” J. Aasi et al., Class. Quantum Grav. 31 165014 (2014). 65. “Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run,” J. Aasi et al., Class. Quantum Grav. 31, 085014 (2014). 66. “First searches for optical counterparts to gravitational-wave candidate events,” J. Aasi et al., Ap. J. S 211 , 7 (2014). 67. “Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run,” J. Aasi et al., Phys. Rev. D 89, 122003 (2014). 68. “First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems,” J. Aasi et al., Phys. Rev. D 90, 062010 (2014). 69. “Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors,” J. Aasi et al., Phys. Rev. D 89, 122004 (2014). 70. “Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO- Virgo data from 2005–2010,” J. Aasi et al., Phys. Rev. D 89, 102006 (2014). 71. “Search for gravitational waves associated with γ-ray bursts detected by the Interplanetary Network,” J. Aasi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011102 (2014). 72. “Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube,” J. Aasi et al., Phys. Rev. D 90, 102002 (2014). 73. “Selection of important parameters using uncertainty and sensitivity analysis,” B. Shapiro, M. Barton, N. Mavalvala, R. Mittleman, and K. Youcef-Toumi, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2014). 74. “Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Nature Photonics 7, 613 (2013). 75. “Squeezed quadrature fluctuations in a gravitational wave detector using squeezed light,” S. Dwyer et al., Optics Express 21, 19047 (2013). 76. “Viewpoint: Vibrating membrane puts a squeeze on light,” N. Mavalvala and T. Corbitt, Physics 6, 95 (2013). 77. “Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO- Virgo data from 2009–2010.” LIGO and Virgo Scientific Collaborations, Phys. Rev. D 87, 022002 (2013). 78. “A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007,” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 008 (2013). 79. “Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 87, 042001 (2013). 80. “Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 88, 102002 (2013). 81. “Structural thermal noise in gram-scale mirror oscillators,” A. Neben, T. Bodiya, C. Wipf, E. Oelker, T. Corbitt and N. Mavalvala, New J. Phys. 14 115008 (2012). 82. “Limitations of underactuated modal damping for multistage vibration isolation systems,” B. Shapiro, K. Strain, N. Mavalvala, and K. Youcef-Toumi, Mechtronics 2012. 83. “Modal damping of a quadruple for advanced gravitational wave detectors,” B. Shapiro, N. Mavalvala, and K. Youcef-Toumi, American Controls Conference 1017 (2012). 84. “SWIFT follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events, P. A. Evans et al., Ap. J. S 203, 28 (2012). 85. “Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Phys. Rev. D 85, 082002 (2012). 86. “Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Phys. Rev. D 85, 102004 (2012). 87. “Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Phys. Rev. D 85, 122001 (2012). 88. “All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run,” LIGO and Virgo Collaborations, Phys. Rev. D 85, 122007 (2012), 89. “All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data,” Phys. Rev D 85 (2012) 022001. 90. “Advanced interferometry, quantum optics and optomechanics in gravitational wave detectors,” D. E. McClelland, N. Mavalvala, Y. Chen, and R. Schnabel, Lasers and Photonics Review 5: 677 (2011). 91. “Optimal alignment sensing of a readout mode cleaner cavity,” N. Smith-Lefebvre, S. Ballmer, M. Evans, S. Waldman, K. Kawabe, V. Frolov, and N. Mavalvala, Opt. Lett. 36, 4365-4367 (2011). 92. “A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Nature Physics 7, 962 (2011). 93. “A search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar,” Phys. Rev. D 83, 042001 (2011). 94. “Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars,” Astrophys. J. 734 (2011) L35. 95. “Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown,” Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 122005. 96. “Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Vela pulsar,” Astrophys. J. 737 (2011) 93. 97. “Directional limits on gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (2011) 271102. 98. “Quantum metrology for gravitational wave astronomy,” R. Schnabel, N. Mavalvala, D. E. McClelland, and P. K. Lam, Nature Communications 1, 121 (2010). 99. “Search for gravitational wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO Science Run 5 and Virgo Science Run 1,” B. P. Abbott et a.l (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Astrophys. J. 715, 1438 (2010). 100. “Search for gravitational wave inspiral signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts during LIGO’s fifth and Virgo’s first science run,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Astrophys. J. 715, 1453 (2010). 101. “Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Science Run 5 LIGO data,” B. P. Abbott et al (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Astrophys. J. 713, 671 (2010). 102. “Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), New J. Phys. 11, 073032 (2009). 103. “An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Nature 460, 990 (2009). 104. “Stacked Search for Gravitational Waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 Storm,” Astrophys. J. 701, L68-L74 (2009). 105. “Search for gravitational-wave burst in the first year of the fifth LIGP science run,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 80, 102001 (2009). 106. “Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO’s fifth science run,”B. P. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 80, 102002 (2009). 107. “First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings,” B. P. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 80, 062002 (2009). 108. “Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data,” B. P. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientic Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 80, 062001 (2009). 109. “Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO’s fifth science run,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 80, 047101 (2009). 110. “Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 80, 042003 (2009). 111. “Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO’s S5 data,” B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 79, 122001 (2009). 112. “All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data, “B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111102 (2009). 113. “Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 79, 022001 (2009). 114. “LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Rep. Prog. Phys. 72, 076901 (2009). 115. “A route to ponderomotive entanglement of light with optically trapped mirrors,” C. Wipf, T. Corbitt, Y. Chen, and N. Mavalvala, New J. Phys. 10, 095017 (2008). 116. “A quantum-enhanced prototype gravitational-wave detector,” K. Goda, O. Miyakawa, E. E. Mikhailov, S. Saraf, R. Adhikari, K. McKenzie, R. Ward, S. Vass, A. J. Weinstein and N. Mavalvala, Nature Physics 4, 472 (2008). 117. “Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Ap. J. 681, 1419 (2008).

118. “Generation of a stable low-frequency squeezed vacuum field with periodically-poled KTiOPO4 at 1064 nm,” K. Goda, E. E. Mikhailov, O. Miyakawa, S. Saraf, S. Vass, and N. Mavalvala, Opt. Lett. 33, 92 (2008). “Search for gravitational waves associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts using data from the second, third, and fourth LIGO runs,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 77, 062004 (2008). 119. “Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 77, 062002 (2008). 120. “All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 77, 022001 (2008). 121. “Optical dilution and feedback cooling of a gram-scale oscillator to 6.9 mK,” T. Corbitt, C. Wipf, T. Bodiya, D. Ottaway, D. Sigg, N. Smith, S. Whitcomb, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 160801 (2007). 122. “An all-optical trap for a gram-scale mirror,” T. Corbitt, Y. Chen, E. Innerhofer, H. Müller-Ebhardt, D. Ottaway, H. Rehbein, D. Sigg, S. Whitcomb, C. Wipf, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 150802 (2007). 123. “Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 76, 082003 (2007). 124. “Searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: Results from the second LIGO science run,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 76, 082001 (2007). 125. “Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR 1806-20 hyperflare of 27 December 2004 using LIGO,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 76, 062003 (2007). 126. “Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 76, 042001 (2007). 127. “First cross-correlation analysis of interferometric and resonant-bar gravitational-wave data for stochastic backgrounds,” LIGO Scientific Collaboration and ALLEGRO Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 76, 022001 (2007). 128. “Measurement of radiation-pressure-induced optomechanical dynamics in a suspended Fabry-Perot cavity,” T. Corbitt, D. Ottaway, E. Innerhofer, J. Pelc, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. A 74, 021802 (2006). 129. “Non-invasive measurements of cavity parameters by use of squeezed vacuum,” E. Mikhailov, K. Goda, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. A 74, 033817 (2006). 130. “Frequency-dependent squeeze amplitude attenuation and squeeze angle rotation by electromagnetically induced transparency for gravitational wave interferometers,” E. Mikhailov, K. Goda, T. Corbitt, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. A 73, 053810 (2006). 131. “A squeezed state source using radiation pressure induced rigidity,” T. Corbitt, Y. Chen, F. Khalili, D. Ottaway, S. Vyatchanin, S. Whitcomb, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. A 73, 023801 (2006). 132. “Instrinsic mechanical loss of laser-welded fused silica fibers,” G. Harry, T. Corbitt, M. Freytsis, D. Ottaway, and N. Mavalvala, Rev. Sci. Instr. 77, 023906 (2006). 133. “Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO and TAMA Scientific Collaborations), Phys. Rev. D 73, 102002 (2006). 134. “Search for gravitational wave bursts in LIGO’s third science run,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Class. Quant. Grav. 23, S29 (2006). 135. “Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 73, 062001 (2006). 136. “Mathematical framework for simulation of quantum fields in complex interferometers using the two-photon formalism,” T. Corbitt, Y. Chen, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. A 72, 013818 (2005). 137. “Photothermal fluctuations as a fundamental limit to low-frequency squeezing in a degenerate optical parametric oscillator,” K. Goda, K. McKenzie, E. E. Mikhailov, P. K. Lam, D. E. McClelland, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. A 72, 043819 (2005). 138. “Quantum noise locking technique for detection of squeezed quadrature fields with no coherent amplitude,’ K. McKenzie, K. Goda, E. Mikhailov, P. K. Lam, D. McClelland, and N. Mavalvala, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 7 S421-S428 (2005). 139. “Upper limits on a stochastic background of gravitational waves,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221101 (2005). 140. “First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 72, 102004 (2005). 141. “Search for gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescences in the galactic halo,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 72, 082002 (2005). 142. “Search for gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary neutron stars,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 72, 082001 (2005). 143. “Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run,” B. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 72, 062001 (2005). 144. “Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational wave bursts,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO and TAMA Scientific Collaborations), Phys. Rev. D 72, 122004 (2005). 145. “A search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 72, 042002 (2005). 146. “Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 181103 (2005). 147. “Quantum noise in gravitational-wave interferometers,” T. Corbitt and N. Mavalvala, J. Mod. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6, S675 (2004). 148. “Frequency resolving spatiotemporal wavefront sensor,” K. Goda, D. Ottaway, B. Connelly, R. Adhikari, and N. Mavalvala, Opt. Lett. 29, 1452 (2004). 149. “Optical cavities as amplitude filters for squeezed fields,” T. Corbitt, N. Mavalvala, and S. Whitcomb, Phys. Rev. D 70, 022002 (2004). 150. “Analysis of first LIGO data for stochastic gravitational-waves,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 69, 122004 (2004). 151. “First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational-wave bursts,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 69, 102001 (2004). 152. “Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 69, 082004 (2004). 153. “Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational-waves from binary neutron stars,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 69, 122001 (2004). 154. “Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134,” B. Allen et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Class. Quant. Grav. 21, S671 (2004). 155. “Detector description and performance for the first coincidence observations between LIGO and GEO,” B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Nucl. Instr. Meth. 517, 154 (2004). 156. “Quantum noise in a signal-recycled laser interferometer gravitational wave detector using a heterodyne readout scheme,” A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, and N. Mavalvala, Phys. Rev. D 67, 122005 (2003). 157. “Lock acquisition of a gravitational wave interferometer,” M. Evans, N. Mavalvala, P. Fritschel, R. Bork, B. Bhawal, R. Gustafson, W. Kells, M. Landry, D. Sigg, R. Weiss, S. Whitcomb, and H. Yamamoto, Opt. Lett. 27, 598 (2002). 158. “Readout and control of a power-recycled gravitational-wave antenna,” P. Fritschel, R. Bork, G. González, N. Mavalvala, D. Ouimette, H. Rong, D. Sigg, and M. Zucker, Appl. Opt. 40, 4988 (2001). 159. “Determination and optimization of mode matching into optical cavities using heterodyne detection,” G. Mueller, Q. Shu, R. Adhikari, D. Tanner, D. Reitze, D. Sigg, N. Mavalvala and J. Camp, Opt. Lett. 25, 266 (2000). 160. “High gain power-recycling of a Fabry-Perot Michelson interferometer for a gravitational wave antenna,” S. Sato, M. Ohashi, M-K. Fujimoto, K. Waseda, S. Miyoki, N. Mavalvala, and H. Yamamoto, Appl. Opt. 39, 4616 (2000). 161. “Principles of calculating the dynamical response of misaligned complex resonant optical interferometers,” D. Sigg and N. Mavalvala, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17, 1642 (2000). 162. “Signal extraction in a power-recycled Michelson interferometer with Fabry-Perot arm cavities using a multiple carrier frontal modulation scheme,” D. Sigg, N. Mavalvala and D. Shoemaker, Appl. Opt. 37, 5687 (1998). 163. “Alignment of an interferometric gravitational-wave detector,” P. Fritschel, N. Mavalvala, D. Shoemaker, D. Sigg, M. Zucker and G. González, Appl. Opt. 37, 6734 (1998). 164. “Experimental test of an alignment sensing scheme for a gravitational-wave interferometer,” N. Mavalvala, D. Sigg and D. Shoemaker, Appl. Opt. 37, 7906 (1998). 165. “Principles of calculating alignment signals in complex resonant optical interferometers,” Y. Hefetz, N. Mavalvala and D. Sigg, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 1597 (1997). 166. “Raman study of defects in a GaAs buffer layer grown by low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy,” R. S. Berg, N. Mavalvala, T. Steinberg and F. W. Smith, J. Elec. Mat. 19, 1323 (1990). 167. “Anisotropic introduction of intrinsic point defects in GaAs monitored by Raman scattering,” R. S. Berg, N. Mavalvala, H. Warriner and B. Zhang, Phys. Rev. B 39, 6201 (1989). SELECTED INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS 1. McPherson colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. October 2020. 2. Plenary talk, FiOLS, Optical Society of America. September 2020. 3. Invited talk, DAMOP, American Physical Society. June 2020. 4. Chilloquium, Harvard University. July 2020. 5. Invited talk, Aspen Winter Conference on Quantum Information, Aspen, Co. February 2020. 6. Invited talk, Roy Glauber Memorial, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. January 2020. 7. Keynote address, S4P, MIT, Cambridge, MA. January 2020. 8. Princeton Gravity Initiative inauguration, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. November 2019. 9. Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, TX. October 2019. 10. Distinguished lecture, CUBit, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. September 2019. 11. TUBITAK Summer School, Gebze, Turkey. July 2019. 12. Hudspeth lectureship, University of Texas, Austin, TX. April 2019. 13. Plenary talk, QIMV, Rome, Italy. April 2019. 14. Keynote address, Conference on Undergraduate Women in Physics, Amherst, MA. January 2019. 15. Invited talk, Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, UT. January 2019. 16. Gilleo lectureship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. December 2018. 17. Misel lectureship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. October 2018. 18. Keynote lecture, Dodd-Walls Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand. June 2018. 19. Miller Institute lecture, University of California, Berkeley, CA. June 2018. 20. Leigh Page lectureship, Yale University, New Haven, CT. April 2018. 21. Colloquium, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. April 2018. 22. Colloquium, Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. April 2018. 23. Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. March 2018. 24. Invited talk, Gordon Research Conference on Optomechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime, Ventura, CA. February 2018. 25. Invited talk, Deciphering the Violent Universe, Cancun, Mexico. December 2017. 26. Inauguration keynote address, American University, Washington, DC. October 2017. 27. Invited talk, GRAPPA@5 workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands. October 2017. 28. Distinguished lecture, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, NY. October 2017. 29. Colloquium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. September 2017. 30. Invited talk, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey. June 2017. 31. Keynote talk, CLEO-Europe, Munich, Germany. June 2017. 32. Invited talk, Heraeus Workshop, Bad Honnef, Germany. June 2017. 33. Plenary talk, CLEO, San Jose, CA. May 2017. 34. Colloquium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. May 2017. 35. Colloquium, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. April 2017. 36. Keynote talk, Nanomechanical Sensors Conference, Kona, HI. April 2017. 37. Colloquium, Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA. March 2017. 38. Plenary talk, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT. March 2017. 39. Invited talk, Wilton Park/Improbable, Warner Bros., Burbank, CA. February 2017. 40. Keynote talk, Conference on Undergraduate Women in Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. January 2017. 41. Invited talk, Albright Institute, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. January 2017. 42. Invited talk, Jefferson Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. October 2016. 43. Invited talk, Gruber Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT. October 2016. 44. Colloquium, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL. August 2016. 45. Invited talk, Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine, Mt. Snow, VT. July 2016. 46. Invited talk, Gordon Research Conference on Gravity in Teaching, Newport, RI. June 2016. 47. Invited talk, Kavli Assembly, New York, NY. June 2016. 48. Plenary talk, ICFS, New Orleans, LA. May 2016. 49. Center for Ultracold Atoms colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. April 2016. 50. Invited talk at ICGC, India. December 2015. 51. Whiting lecture at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. December 2015. 52. Physics colloquium at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. November 2015. 53. Invited lecture at GR@100, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. November 2015. 54. Lecture series at Les Houches Summer School, France. July 2015. 55. Research lecture at Convergence, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, ON. June 2015. 56. Physics colloquium at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. April 2015. 57. Colloquium at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD. October 2014. 58. Tutorial talk at CLEO, San Jose, CA. June 2014. 59. Invited talk at APS DAMOP, Madison, WI. June 2014. 60. Lecture on research frontiers at APS DAMOP student symposium, Madison, WI. June 2014. 61. Physics colloquium at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. May 2014. 62. Physics colloquium at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. April 2014. 63. Physics colloquium at , New York, NY. April 2014. 64. Invited talk at FiOLS conference of the Optical Society of America, Orlando, FL. October 2013. 65. Knight Fellows Program, MIT. October 2013. 66. Physics seminar at American University, Washington, DC. July 2013. 67. Physics colloquium at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Baltimore, MD. June 2013. 68. Keithley prize speaker at March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD. March 2013. 69. Physics seminar at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. March 2013. 70. Invited talk at Gravitational-wave Astronomy workshop at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. January 2013. 71. Physics colloquium at McGill University, Montreal, QC. November 2012. 72. Keynote speaker at Out to Innovate Conference, Columbus, OH. October 2012. 73. Invited talk at Astronomical Event, MIT, Cambridge, MA. October 2012. 74. Plenary talk at Optical Society of America incubator meeting on Quantum Optomechanics, Washington, DC. October 2012. 75. Invited talk at Pressure of Light symposium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. October 2012. 76. Physics colloquium at College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. April 2012. 77. Colloquium at Fermilab, Batavia, IL. March 2012. 78. Colloquium at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. March 2012. 79. Invited talk at Physics of Quantum Electronics conference, Snowbird, UT. January 2012. 80. Invited talk at Quantum Optomechanics workshop, Monte Verita, Switzerland. July 2011. 81. Seminar at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. May 2011. 82. Invited talk at GWADW, Elba, Italy. May 2011. 83. Plenary talk at April meeting of the American Physical Society, Irvine, CA. May 2011. 84. Seminar at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. April 2011. 85. Lecture at Whitin Observatory rededication, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. April 2011. 86. Colloquium at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. April 2011. 87. Lecture at MIT150: Women in Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA. March 2011. 88. Colloquium at Caltech, Pasadena, CA. Feb. 2011. 89. Lecture at the Conference on Undergraduate Women in Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Jan. 2011. 90. Practical Quantum Systems (PracQSys) 2010 meeting, Sandbjerg, Denmark. June 2010. 91. AAPT special lecture to high school teachers, commemorating Year of the Laser, DAMOP Annual Meeting. Houston, TX. May 2010. 92. Invited talk, Gordon Research Conference on Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime. Galveston, TX. March 2010. 93. Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA. March 2010. 94. Colloquium, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Stony Brook, NY. February 2010. 95. Invited talk, Workshop on Future Horizons of Fundamental Physics, Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Jan. 2010. 96. Plenary talk, the Danish Physical Society annual meeting, Nyborg Strand, Denmark. June 2010. 97. Invited talk, Women in Physics meeting of the Danish Physical Society, Nyborg Strand, Denmark. June 2010. 98. Invited talk, PracQsys 2010, Sonderborg, Denmark. June 2010. 99. Invited talk, AAPT teachers workshop, APS DAMOP annual meeting, Houston, TX. May 2010. 100. Invited talk, Gordon Research Conference titled Mechanical Oscillators at the Quantum Limit, Galveston, TX. March 2010. 101. Physics colloquium at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. March 2010. 102. Physics colloquium at State University of New York, Stony Brook. January 2010. 103. Physics colloquium, Wellesley College. November 2009. 104. Invited talk, FiO/LS annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, San Jose. October 2009. 105. Invited talk, Hereaus Workshop on Mechanical Oscillators in the Quantum Regime, Bad Honnef, Germany. July 2009. 106. Invited talk, April Meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver. May 2009. 107. Physics colloquium at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain. April 2009. 108. Invited talk, American Physical Society, March Meeting, Pittsburg. March 2009. 109. Physics colloquium at Princeton University February 2009. 110. Physics seminar at Princeton University. February 2009. 111. Invited talk, Hot Topics session at the annual meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society. May 2008. 112. Physics colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 2008. 113. Research seminar, Quantum Optics and Electronics seminar series, MIT. April 2008. 114. Astrophysics colloquium, New York University, New York, NY. February 2008. 115. Physics colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. October 2007. 116. Physics and Astronomy colloquium, University of Toronto, Canada. October 2007. 117. Invited talk, Annual Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science meeting of the Optical Society of America. September 2007. 118. Invited talk, International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, Telluride, CO. June 2007. 119. Invited talk, Quantum to Cosmos 2 Workshop, Bremen, Germany. June 2007. 120. Invited talk, ITAMP workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Scalable Quantum Information Systems, Harvard University. May 2007. 121. Physics colloquium, Washington State University, WA. April 2007 122. Colloquium, Institute for Advanced Study. October 2006. 123. Invited talk, TeV high-energy astroparticle workshop, University of Wisconsin Madison. August 2006. 124. Astronomy colloquium, Caltech. April 2006. 125. Invited talk, Caltech-JPL. April 2006. 126. Physics colloquium, Yale University. February 2006. 127. Colloquium, Los Alamos National Laboratory. January 2006. 128. Plenary talk, American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. January 2006. 129. Colloquium, Institute, University of Hannover, Germany. December 2005. 130. Physics colloquium, University of New Hampshire. November 2005. 131. Physics colloquium, McGill University. September 2005. 132. Physics colloquium, Brandeis University. September 2005. 133. Physics colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. March 2005. 134. Physics colloquium, University of Texas, Austin. January 2005. 135. Research seminar, University of Texas, Austin. January 2005. 136. Invited talk, 22nd Texas Symposium for Relativistic Astrophysics, Stanford University. December 2004. 137. Physics and astronomy colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. December 2004. 138. Keynote address, Inauguration of the Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Louisiana State University. November 2004. 139. Invited talk, Imagining the Future: Gravitational-wave Astronomy workshop, Pennsylvania State University. October 2004. 140. Physics colloquium, Northwestern University. October 2004. 141. Invited talk, Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems workshop, Caltech. August 2004. 142. Plenary talk, GR17 conference, Dublin, Ireland. July 2004. 143. Research seminar, EECS/RLE Seminar Series on Optics and Quantum Electronics, MIT. March 2004. 144. “Detecting gravitational-waves with Interferometers,” Physics colloquium, Université de Montreal. January 2004. 145. Physics colloquium, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute. October 2003. 146. Invited talk, Symposium on the Future of Gravitational-wave Detection, Max Planck Institute, Potsdam, Germany. September 2003. 147. Invited talk, SPIE symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, Santa Fe, NM. June 2003. 148. Special Physics Seminar, Caltech. May 2003. 149. Physics colloquium, Wellesley College. April 2003. 150. Invited talk, Astrophysics of Gravitational-wave Sources, University of Maryland. April 2003. 151. Invited talk, Royal Astronomical Society meeting on Gravitational-wave Astronomy, London, UK. February 2003. 152. Plenary talk, 214th meeting of the International Astronomical Union, Shanghai, China. September 2002. 153. Physics colloquium, University of Chicago. October 2001 154. Physics colloquium. University of Maryland. September 2001 155. Invited talk, April meeting of the American Physical Society. April 2001. 156. Physics colloquium, Pennsylvania State University. September 2000 157. HEP seminar, Cornell University. October 1999.

INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES AND APPEARANCES 1. McPherson Lecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. October 2020. 2. Iconic Voices, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. July 2019. 3. STARMUS, Zurich Switzerland. June 2019. 4. Amherst College commencement lectures, Amherst, MA. May 2019. 5. TEDxMIT, Cambridge, MA. May 2019. 6. Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand. January 2019 7. Evnin public lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. October 2018. 8. Misel public lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. October 2018. 9. Herzberg lecture, Canadian Association of Physics, Halifax, NS, Canada. June 2018. 10. Rail public lecture, North Central College, Chicago, IL. May 2018. 11. Commencement address, Harvey Mudd College, May 2018. 12. Keynote presentation, Optical Society of America, Washington, DC. April 2018. 13. Leigh Page lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT. April 2018. 14. Kohn public lecture, Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. April 2018. 15. Tomkins public lecture, University of California, San Francisco, CA. February 2018. 16. Lahore Technology Award public lecture, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan. December 2017. 17. Keynote talk, GWISE at Boston University, Boston, MA. November 2017. 18. Hoxton public lecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. October 2017. 19. Planetary Radio show with Mat Kaplan, Carbondale, IL. August 2017. 20. Eclipse Expo, Carbondale, IL. August 2017. 21. Commencement address, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. June 2017. 22. Welsh public lecture, University of Toronto. May 2017. 23. Brinson public lecture, University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago. April 2017. 24. Kaczmarczik public lecture, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. March 2017. 25. “Cosmic speed and the time of science,” Chicago Humanities Festival. October 2016. 26. “The warped Universe: the 100 year quest to detect gravitational waves,” Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL. October 2016. 27. “Spacetime ripples and Einstein’s legacy,” Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO. June 2016. 28. “The discovery of gravitational waves,” BetaZone at World Economic Forum, Tianjin, China. June 2016. 29. “Exploring the warped Universe: a 100 year quest to detect gravitational waves,” public lecture at World Science Festival, New York, NY. June 2016. 30. “Gravitational waves: A new era of astronomy begins,” with , World Science Festival, New York, NY. June 2016. 31. “Gravitational wave detection using precision interferometry,” public lecture at APS DAMOP annual meeting, Providence, RI. May 2016. 32. “Gravitational waves,” StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Red Bank, NJ. April 2016. 33. “Exploring the warped Universe: a 100 year quest to detect gravitational waves,” public lecture at Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, NY. April 2016. 34. “Exploring the warped side of the Universe,” TEDxCLE talk, Cleveland, OH. November 2015. 35. “Exploring the warped side of the Universe,” Frontiers of Science lecture, Penn State University, College Station, PA. February 2015. 36. “Exploring the warped side of the Universe,” MIT Alumni Association lecture series, Cambridge, MA. March 2012. 37. “Exploring the warped side of the Universe,” Princeton Science on Saturday series, Princeton, NJ. January 2012. 38. “Exploring the warped side of the Universe,” Malmstrom lecture, Hamline University, Minneapolis, MN. May 2011. 39. “Exploring the warped and violent Universe,” Sackler lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. April 2011. 40. “Exploring the warped and violent Universe,” Presidential lecture, Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis, MA. April 2011. 41. “The search for those elusive gravitational waves,” American Museum of Natural History, New York. February 2008. 42. “The bizarre quantum nature of light,” John de Laeter Youth Lecture, Australian Institute of Physics, Perth. May 2006. 43. “The search for those elusive gravitational waves,” Dean’s Public Lecture, University of Western Australia, Perth. May 2006. 44. “The search for those elusive gravitational waves,” Questacon Museum of Science, Canberra. May 2006. 45. “The bizarre quantum world of light: non-classical states of light and precision measurement,” LIGO Laboratory annual public lecture at Hanford, WA. August 2005. 46. “Detecting gravitational waves with interferometers,” Physics alumni breakfast series, MIT. April 2005. 47. “Detecting gravitational-waves with interferometers,” Plenary talk at the American Association of Physics Teachers meeting of the American Physical Society, MIT. April 2005.

THESES SUPERVISED 1. Dr. Aaron Buikema, Ph.D thesis titled “High power operation of gravitational wave detectors” (2019). 2. Dr. Nancy Aggarwal, Ph.D. thesis titled “Room-temperature optomechanical squeezing” (2019). 3. Dr. Eric Oelker, Ph.D. thesis titled “Squeezed states for advanced gravitational wave detectors” (2016). 4. Dr. Tomoki Isogai, Ph.D. thesis titled “Applications of long storage time optical cavities” (2016) 5. Timothy Bodiya, M. Sc. Thesis titled “Extreme optomechanically induced transparency” (2015). 6. Dr. Shannon Sankar, Ph.D. thesis titled “Approaching broadband quantum-limited displacement noise in a deformable optical cavity” (2013). 7. Dr. Sheila Dwyer, Ph.D. thesis titled “Quantum noise reduction using squeezed states in LIGO” (2013) 8. Dr. Christopher Wipf, Ph.D. thesis titled “Toward quantum optomechanics in a gram-scale suspended mirror interferometer,” (2013). 9. Dr. Nicolas Smith-Lefebvre, Ph.D. thesis titled “Techniques for improving the readout sensitivity of gravitational wave antennae” (2012). 10. Dr. Brett Shapiro, Ph.D. thesis titled “Adaptive modal damping for Advanced LIGO suspensions” (2012). 11. Dr. Thomas Corbitt, Ph.D. thesis titled “Quantum noise and radiation pressure effects in high power interferometers” (2008). 12. Dr. Keisuke Goda, Ph.D. thesis titled “Development of techniques for quantum enhanced laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors” (2007). 13. Dr. Joseph Betzweiser, Ph.D. thesis titled “Analysis of spatial mode sensitivity of a gravitational wave interferometer and a targeted search for gravitational radiation from the Crab pulsar” (2007). 14. Brett Shapiro, M.Sc. thesis in Mech. Eng. titled “Modal control with state estimation for Advanced LIGO quadruple suspensions” (2007). 15. Five doctoral theses in progress, and over a dozen undergraduate senior theses supervised. RESEARCH MEDIA COVERAGE On February 11, 2016, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announced the first detection of gravitational waves, published in the paper titled “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger,” to enormous media attention and acclaim. I have represented the LIGO collaboration in a number of major media interviews, including • National Public Radio’s On Point (http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/15/gravitational-waves-einstein- black-holes) • Al-jazeera’s The Stream (http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201602171658-0025156) • WBUR’s Radio Boston (http://radioboston.wbur.org/2016/02/11/gravitational-waves-discovery) • Press conference at MIT (http://webcast.amps.ms.mit.edu/spr2016/LIGO/1607/4/)

Our 2019 paper titled “Quantum-enhanced Advanced LIGO detectors in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy,” was highlighted in several scientific media outlets at https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/139 , https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-squeezing-boosts-performance-of-ligo-and-virgo-gravitational-wave- detectors/, and http://news.mit.edu/2019/ligo-reach-quantum-noise-wave-1205.

Our research was featured in an episode of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, that aired in October 2014.

Our 2013 paper titled “A quantum-enhanced prototype gravitational-wave detector” was highlighted by the Institute of Physics’ journal Physics World at http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/33755.

Our 2009 paper titled “Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state” was highlighted in scientific media outlets at https://phys.org/news/2009-07-quantum-massive.html, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716093526.htm,

Our 2007 paper titled “An all-optical trap for a gram scale mirror,” received significant scientific media attention in 2007. It was selected as Editor’s Choice for the April 2007 Physical Review Letters in which it appeared. It was also featured in • Science Magazine (Science Now) at http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/409/1 • Physics News Update (American Institute of Physics) at http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/split/818-1.html • MIT Spotlight and Tech Talk at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/super-cool.html and several other scientific media outlets worldwide. This work was also selected for the American Institute of Physics’ Top Ten Physics Stories for 2007 (http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/850.html).

PERSONAL MEDIA COVERAGE My life as a scientist and advocate have been covered in a number of news stories, including • Science Magazine at https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2012/06/gravitational-wave-researcher- succeeds-being-herself • Massive Science at https://massivesci.com/articles/nergis-mavalvala-physics-gravity-queer/ • Dawn newspaper at https://www.dawn.com/news/1239270 and https://www.dawn.com/news/1239667 • The Tribune at https://tribune.com.pk/story/1047678/karachi-bike-repairman-inspired-mavalvala/ • Wellesley Magazine at https://magazine.wellesley.edu/summer-2018/cosmic-breakthrough