Assistant Professor Michele Zanolin

Michele Zanolin

Asst. Prof. , Department of Physics, ERAU
Office: AC-1, Rm 213
Phone: 777-6919
email: zanolinm@erau.edu
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News

10/2009 S5 Year 1 LIGO paper on the search of unmodelled bursts accepted in PRD (M.Zanolin and N. Cornish paper editors)

09/2009 NASA funding awarded to Marc Lebourde and Angelo Charbonnier to work with MZ

08/2009 NSF grant awarded to MZ

06/2009 NSF travel funding awarded to MZ to partecipate to MG12 in Paris

01/2009 paper on directional reconstruction of GW bursts accepted in PRD

Research

My research is in experimental general relativity, focusing mostly upon gravitational wave detection with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (A link to a more informative webpage describing the ERAU's contribution to the LSC will be placed here, for now this presentation illustrates some of it). I also have an ongoing interest in underwater acoustics because there is a lot of data analysis in common between the two. You might also be interested in listening to the sounds of some gravitational waves here (credits Scott Hughes at MIT).

Physics Colloquia

I am currently organizing the department colloquia. Recent titles and abstracts are available here

Teaching

FALL09: PS219 (Classical Electromagnetism for physicists) syllabus,
PS250 (Classical Electromagnetism for Engineers) syllabus,
PS104 Thermo and EM for Pilots syllabus

SPING09: PS250 (Classical Electromagnetism) 2 sections, PS150 Mechanics 1 section
FALL08: PS250 (Classical Electromagnetism). PS220 Electromagnetism Laboratory
SPRING08: PS250 (Classical Electromagnetism), PS150 (Newtonian Mechanics).
FALL07: PS250 (classical electromagnetism).

Visitors:

Enrico Armelloni, University of Parma, spring 2008
Salvatore Vitale, University of Paris VI (Jusseau), fall 2009

Undergraduate Supervised Research

students involved:

Jessica Watts (mesurement of Young's modulus in the
coating of LIGO mirrors). This research is done in collaboration
with the group of professor A. Greatarsson
at ERAU and Ira Gwyant and Prof Kabub at Stanford University.

Ian Simpson direction reconstruction of Gravitational
wave transients with time delays
Marc LeBourdais confidence regions direction
reconstruction of GW transients

Angelo Charbonnier evanescent wave array
Walt Williams (beamforming for evanescent wave array)

- Former undergraduate research students:
Josh Smith - now graduate student at the University of Arizona.
Austin Davis - applying for graduate positions & jobs.
Erik Lentz (primary advisor Prof. Q. Bailey) - now graduate student at UW Seattle.

LIGO research supported by grants NSF0855567 and NSF0919034

Marc LeBourdais and Angelo Charbonnier are supported by the NASA-ERAU space grant

Last modified 1 August 2009