MCWILLIAMS GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE ASTRONOMY GROUP

CURRENT MEMBERS (WITH PROJECT DESCRIPTION):

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

1. -Paul Baker (LIGO data analysis of eccentric binaries, NANOGrav global pipeline development)
   

2. -Michal Pirog (relativistic hydrodynamics, self-gravitating black-hole accretion disks)
   

GRADUATE STUDENTS

1. -Ashok Choudhary (nonlinear memory, GRMHD/GRFFE simulations and visualizations)
   

2. -Andrew Kaiser (GW data analysis, NANOGrav pipeline development)
   

3. -Tyler Knowles (co-advised with Zach Etienne, optimization of LIGO waveform models)
   

4. -Siddharth Mahesh (top secret next-generation waveform development, circumbinary disk dynamics)
   

5. -Patrick Nelson (co-advised with Zach Etienne, GRMHD/GRFFE simulations and open source code development, highly eccentric numerical simulations/waveform modeling)
   

UNDERGRADUATES

1. -Kenneth Sible (numerical relativity)
   

FORMER MEMBERS (WITH CURRENT POSITION):

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

1. -Eliu Huerta (now a staff scientist at NCSA/UIUC)
   

2. -Fan Zhang (now a professor at Beijing Normal University)
   

UNDERGRADUATES

1. -Trey McNeely (now a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University)
   

2. -Kai Sheng Tai (co-supervised with Frans Pretorius at Princeton, now a graduate student at Stanford University)