Robert L. Ward. Caltech MC (626)

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1 Robert L. Ward Caltech MC (626) Pasadena, CA Education California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Ph.D., Physics (expected 2009) Thesis: Length Sensing and Control for an Advanced Gravitational Wave Detector Advisor: Prof. Alan J. Weinstein King s College London / Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts M.A., Text and Performance Studies, 2002 Thesis: Didascalia and D.H. Lawrence (with distinction) Oxford University M.Sc., Computer Science, 2001 Thesis: Development and Implementation of a Logic Teaching Tool University of New Mexico B.S., Physics, 2000 (summa cum laude) London, England Oxford, England Albuquerque, NM Research Experience Graduate Research Assistant Present Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) 40m Prototype Laboratory Developed and prototyped techniques for sensing and controlling a next generation gravitational wave detector. This required knowledge of optics, mechanics, electronics, low-noise measurement techniques, real-time digital systems, modeling, and simulation. Deployed MATLAB programs on a 300 node computing cluster to search for signals of a stochastic background of gravitational waves in LIGO data. Research Assistant University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM Multiple projects, including developing numerical simulation tools for critical dynamics in microgravity experiments, developing a distributed bio-impedance analyzer for epithelial cancer diagnosis, and researching instructional efficacy of handson physics demonstrations. Researcher Summer 1999 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM Explored feasibility of readout techniques for a solid-state quantum computer. Researcher Summer 1998 Boston University Boston, MA Expanded a neural network simulation to simulate neural responses to optical flows in monkey visual cortex.

2 Teaching Experience Physics Instructor Summers 2006 & 2007 Freshman Summer Institute Caltech Operated by the office of Minority Student Education, FSI is a transition assistance program for incoming Caltech freshmen. I wrote the syllabus, lectures, homework assignments, and exams. Teaching Assistant Fall 2004 & Winter 2005 Physics 76 (Atomic & Laser Physics Laboratory) Caltech Maintained the equipment, assisted the students with their experiments, and graded the students work. Co-Instructor (with Dr. Diane Rawls) Spring 2000 Follow the Leader UNM General Honors Program Splitting all work equally with Dr. Rawls, I designed this seminar discussion course for 15 students as a study on the nature and meaning of leadership. I co-wrote the syllabus, moderated discussions, and assessed the work of the students. Fellowships and Awards James B. Hartle Prize, Amaldi7/GRG18 Conference 2007 British Marshall Scholar 2000 U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow 2000 UNM Award of Excellence 2000 UNM Outstanding Physics Graduate 2000 UNM Outstanding Contemporary Physics Student 1999 White House Presidential Scholar 1995 Eagle Scout Selected Publications R.L. Ward, R. Adhikari, B. Abbott, R. Abbott, D. Barron, R. Bork, T. Fricke, V. Frolov, J. Heefner, A. Ivanov, O. Miyakawa, K. McKenzie, B. Slagmolen, M. Smith, R. Taylor, S. Vass, S. Waldman, A. Weinstein DC Readout Experiment at the Caltech 40m Prototype Interferometer, Class. Quantum Grav. 25 No 11 (7 June 2008) K. Goda, O. Miyakawa, E. E. Mikhailov, S. Saraf, R. Adhikari, K. McKenzie, R. Ward, S. Vass, A. J. Weinstein, & N. Mavalvala A Quantum-Enhanced Prototype Gravitational-Wave Detector, Nature Physics 4, (01 Jun 2008). Shuichi Sato, Keiko Kokeyama, Robert Ward, Seiji Kawamura, Yanbei Chen, Archana Pai, Kentaro Somiya, Demonstration of displacement- and frequency-noise free laser interferometry using bi-directional Mach-Zehnder interferometers, Physical Review Letters (2007).

3 Yanbei Chen, Archana Pai, Kentaro Somiya, Seiji Kawamura, Shuichi Sato, Keiko Kokeyama, Robert Ward, Interferometers for Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection, Physical Review Letters (2006). Osamu Miyakawa, Robert Ward, Rana Adhikari, Matthew Evans, Benjamin Abbott, Rolf Bork, Daniel Busby, Jay Heefner, Alexander Ivanov, Michael Smith, Robert Taylor, Stephen Vass, Alan Weinstein, Monica Varvella, Seiji Kawamura, Fumiko Kawazoe, Shihori Sakata, Conor Mow-Lowry, Measurement of Optical Response of a Detuned Resonant Sideband Extraction Interferometer, Physical Review D (2006). Bryan Barr, Seiji Kawamura, Osamu Miyakawa, K.A. Strain, Steve Vass, Robert Ward, Alan Weinstein, Control Sideband Generation for Dual-Recycled Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors, Class. Quant. Grav (2006). Osamu Miyakawa, Seiji Kawamura, Benjamin Abbott, Rolf Bork, Peter Fritschel, Lisa Goggin, Jay Heefner, Alexander Ivanov, Fumiko Kawazoe, Conor Mow-Lowry, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Shihori Sakata, Michael Smith, Kenneth Strain, Robert Taylor, Dennis Ugolini, Stephen Vass, Robert Ward, Alan Weinstein, Sensing and Control of the Advanced LIGO Optical Configuration, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5500 pp (2004). Beardsley, S.A., Ward, R. L., Vaina, L.M. A neural network model of spiral-planar motion tuning in MSTd, Vision Res (2003). Selected Presentations Advanced LIGO and the Second Generation of Gravitational Wave Detection, 213th American Astronomical Society Meeting, January 2009, Long Beach, CA. On behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Thinking Beyond Advanced LIGO: prototyping the next generation of gravitational wave antennae, LIGO Seminar, Caltech, February 2008, Pasadena, CA. DC Readout Experiment at the Caltech 40m Laboratory, Amaldi 7 Meeting on Gravitational Waves, July 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Won James B. Hartle Prize for best student talk in session. A Radiometer for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves, Amaldi 7 Meeting on Gravitational Waves, July 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia. On behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. The Caltech 40m Prototype Detuned RSE Interferometer, Physics Seminar, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Februrary 2006, Mitaka, Japan. Invited. Optical Springs at the Caltech 40m Laboratory, Quantum Non-Demolition Workshop, December 2005, Hanover, Germany. The Optickle Optical Modeling Tool, Quantum Non-Demolition Workshop, December 2005, Hanover, Germany. The Undergraduate Research Experience, opening ceremony, Program for Research for Undergraduates (PROFOUND), University of New Mexico, March 2005, Albuquerque, NM. Invited.

4 LIGO Scientific Collaboration Publications B. Abbott, et al., Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO s third science run Class. Quant. Grav. 23 (2006) S29-S39 (gr-qc/ ) B. Abbott, et al., A Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts with AURIGA and LIGO Submitted to CQG (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Upper limits on a stochastic background of gravitational waves Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) (astro-ph/ ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR hyperflare of December 27, 2004 using LIGO Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) (astro-ph/ ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run Class. Quantum Grav. 24 (2007) (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with 39 Gamma-Ray Bursts Using data from the Second, Third, and Fourth LIGO Runs Submitted to PRD (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data Submitted to PRD (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Upper Limits on Gravitational Wave Emission from 78 Radio Pulsars Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) (gr-qc/ ) B. Abbott, et al., All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data To appear in PRD (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Searching for Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with LIGO ApJ 659 (2007) 918 (astro-ph/ ) B. Abbott, et al., Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) (astro-ph/ ) B. Abbott, et al., First Cross-Correlation Analysis of Interferometric and Resonant-Bar Gravitational-Wave Data for Stochastic Backgrounds Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) (grqc/ ) B. Abbott, et al., Implications for the Origin of GRB from LIGO Observations Astrophys. J. 681 (2008) 1419 (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar ApJ Lett 683 (2008) 45 (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5 Data Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009) (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Rep. Prog. Phys. 72 (2009) (arxiv: )

5 B. Abbott, et al., All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5 Data Phys. Rev. Lett.102 (2009) (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGO s S5 Data Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings to appear in Phys Rev D (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for High Frequency Gravitational Wave Bursts in the First Calendar Year of LIGO s Fifth Science Run submitted for publication (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Stacked Search for Gravitational Waves from the 2006 SGR Storm Astrophys. J. 701 (2009) L68-L74 (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run submitted for publication (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in 186 Days of LIGO s fifth Science Run Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) (arxiv: ) B. Abbott, et al., Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state New J. Phys. 11 (2009) B. Abbott, et al., An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin Nature 460 (2009) 990

6 Society Memberships American Astronomical Society Optical Society of America General Relativity and Gravitation Society Sierra Club American Physical Society Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Pi Sigma (founded UNM chapter) Service and Activities Committee, Caltech Social Activism Speaker Series 2009 Water Advisory Group, Pasadena Water & Power 2009 Activist, Amnesty International Volunteer, Caltech Classroom Connection community outreach program Ex. Committee, Caltech-JPL Gravitational Wave Research Association Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity Faculty Student Committee, UNM Student Publications Board Justice, Associated Students of UNM Student Court Selection Committee, UNM Regent s Scholarship Volunteer, UNM AGORA Crisis Center Director, NM Odysseus Program (transition workshop for 9th graders) 1996 Languages: English, French (intermediate) Interests: Gardening, gourmet cooking, community theatre (acting & directing), hiking, athletics