Positions
Associate Professor of Physics (2006-present),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Physics (2001-2006),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Scientist (1996-2000),
Lauritsen Laboratory of High Energy Physics,
California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow (1995-1996),
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso,
Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics
Education
Ph.D. in Physics, 1996 (conferred; completed in 1995), California Institute of Technology
Thesis: Search for GUT Magnetic Monopoles with the MACRO Detector, adviser: Prof. Barry Barish
M.S. in Physics, 1990, California Institute of Technology
B.S. in Physics, 1988, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Research Interests
Gravitational-wave data analysis, gravitational-wave astronomy,
particle astrophysics, cosmic ray physics, grid computation
Research Projects
Publications
in pdf format
Graduate students
Shourov Chatterji, Ph.D. thesis on
"The search for gravitational-wave transients in data from the
second LIGO science run" , defended May 2005,
now postdoctoral fellow at INFN-Pisa, Italy
Stefan Ballmer, Ph.D. thesis on
"LIGO interferometer operating near design
sensitivity with application to stochastic background estimation and
gravitational radiometry" (and Peter Fritschel was the co-supervisor),
defended April 2006,
now Millikan fellow at Caltech
Nickolas Fotopoulos, Master's thesis on
"Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using co-located
interferometric detectors" , submitted August 2006,
now PhD student at University of Wisconcin-Milwaukee
Lindy Blackburn, Gautier Brunet, Jared Markowitz and Leo Stein
graduate work in progress
Teaching
Will be instructing
recitation sections for
8.022: Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism)
in the Fall 2007.
Prof. Joshua Winn will be the lecturer and
Prof. Nergis Mavalvala
will be the other recitation instructor.
In the last six years have lectured and instructed recitation
sections for 8.022, 8.02 and the new 8.02Teal.
Sample of recent presentations
- University of Rome, Tor Vergata, colloquium, May 31, 2007
- Conference on the 20th anniversary of SN1987A, Waikoloa, Hawai,
February 23-25, 2007, invited talk
- 11th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW), Albert Einstein
Institute, Potsdam, Germany, December 14-17, 2006, contributed talk
and poster
- GEO Collaboration Meeting, Hannover, Germany, March 27-29, 2006
- 10th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW), University
of Texas at Brownsville, December 14-17, 2005, contributed poster with
Jared Markowitz (presenting) and Michele Zanolin
- 2005 Supercomputing Conference (SC05), Seattle, WA, November 12-18, 2005,
contributed poster with Junwei Cao (presenting) and John Zweizig
- 6th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, June 20-24, 2005,
Okinawa, Japan, contributed talk
- Gravitational Wave Advanced Detection Workshop, Aspen, CO, USA, January 16-22, 2005, Joint Studies by Virgo and LIGO for Burst Sources
- 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Dublin, Ireland, July 18-23, 2004, LIGO S2 Burst Analysis First-Look (with Sam Finn)
- MIT Applied Mathematics department colloquium, April 26, 2004
- 8th GWDAW, Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, December 17-20, 2003, Observing the bursting universe with LIGO
- 8th GWDAW, Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, December 17-20, 2003, Multi-resolution time-frequency searches for gravitational wave bursts (S Chatterji presenting)
- International Cosmic Ray Physics Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, July 31- August 7, 2003, LIGO Detectors and Data Analyses: Current Status and Future Prospects
- American Physical Society April 2003 meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, April 5-8, 2003, Analysis of the First LIGO Data
- 7th GWDAW, Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, December 17-19, 2002, LIGO Burst Search Analysis (with Laura Cadonati)
- 6th GWDAW, Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Trento, Italy, December 13-15, 2001, Plans for the First Science Data Runs with LIGO
