This page lists the summer students research projects facilitated by the IndIGO consortium over the past years.

2015

Arjun Iyer, IIT Madras

Host: California Institute of Technology
Mentor: Eric Gustafson
Project: Investigation of excess noise in high-current photodetection

Sai Kanth Dacha, IIT Madras

Host: California Institute of Technology
Mentor: Gabriele Vajente
Project: Crackling noise in mechanical systems

Ayush Pandey, IIT Kharagpur

Host: California Institute of Technology
Mentor: Chris Wipf
Project: Quantization noise reduction in the LIGO digital control systems

2013

Aditya Kela, CMI, Siruseri

Host: Chennai Mathematical Instt, Siruseri (undergrad thesis)
Mentor: K G Arun
Project: Ready to use gravitational waveforms from spinning compact binaries
Presently selected as a graduate student at CMI.

Deep Chatterjee, IISER Kolkata

Host: California Institute of Technology
Mentors: Matthew Abernathy, Koji Arai
Project: Design of a coating-less reference cavity with total internal reflection

Gautam Venugopalan, IIT Madras

Host: California Institute of Technology
Mentors: Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, Jenne Driggers, Rana Adhikari
Project: Implementing an Alignment Sensing and Control System for the 40m Prototype Interferometer

Ankit Singh, BITS Pilani

Host: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore
Mentors: P. Ajith
Project: Visualization of the dynamics and gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries

2012

Chinmay Kalaghatgi, CMI, Siruseri

Host: Chennai Mathematical Instt, Siruseri (undergraduate thesis)
Mentor: K G Arun
Project: Intrinsic curvature of post-Newtonian signal manifold
Presently a graduate student at CMI.

Adwait Dongare, IIT Bombay

Host: Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany
Mentors: Jonathan Leong, Jacob Slutsky, Hartmut Grote
Project: Commissioning of GEO600 detector

Gautam Venugopalan, IIT Madras

Host: Albert Einstein Institute,, Hannover, Germany
Mentors: Jonathan Leong, Jacob Slutsky, Hartmut Grote
Project: Commissioning of GEO600 detector

Swetha Bhagwat, IISER Pune

Host: Albert Einstein Institute,, Hannover, Germany
Mentors: Andrew Lundgren, Sanjeev Dhurandhar
Project: Data characterization

Uma Garg, Delhi University

Host: Delhi University, New Delhi, India
Mentor: Patrick Dasgupta
Project: Gravitational wave signals from spinning white dwarfs and white dwarfs in binary

Priyanka Singh, Delhi University

Host: Delhi University, New Delhi, India
Mentor: Patrick Dasgupta
Project: Gravitational wave signals from spinning white dwarfs and white dwarfs in binary

Saikat Chatterjee, Presidency College, Kolkata

Host: IUCAA, Pune, India
Mentor: Tarun Souradeep
Project: Tendex & Vortex field lines of gravity

Anirban Ain, IUCAA

Host: IUCAA, Pune, India
Mentor: Sanjit Mitra, Tarun Souradeep
Project: GW background from cosmic mergers events (IUCAA grad school project)

Nikhil Mukund Menon, NIT, Calicut

Host: IUCAA, Pune, India
Mentor: Sanjit Mitra
Project: Adaptive Noise Cancellation in GW Interferometers

Tanmayee Gupte, Fergusson College, Pune

Host: IUCAA, Pune, India
Mentor: Sanjit Mitra
Topic: GW sources (reading project)

Zainab Hakim, Fergusson College, Pune

Host: IUCAA, Pune, India
Mentor: Sanjit Mitra
Topic: GW detectors (reading project)

Masroor C P, Calicut Universoty

Host: IUCAA, Pune, India
Mentor: Sanjit Mitra
Topic: GW data analysis (reading project)

Jethin P. J, IIT-Chennai

Host: IISER-TVM, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Mentor: Archana Pai
Project: Study of detector networks and figure of merits

Gaurav Dhariwal, IISER-TVM

Host: IISER-TVM, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Mentor: Archana Pai
Project: Gravitational Wave Detector Networks and Compact Coalescing Binaries

Madhusudan Raman, St. Josephs College, Bangalore

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Mentor: Bala Iyer
Project: General Relativity and its Applications

Ashok Choudhary, IISER, Pune

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Mentor: Bala Iyer and Ryuichi Fujita
Project: A study of Gravitational radiation from inspiralling binary sources and data analysis

Vijay Varma, BITS, Pilani

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Mentor: Bala Iyer and Ryuichi Fujita
Project: A study of Gravitational radiation from inspiralling binary sources and data analysis

2011

Ishwita Saikia, Delhi University

Host: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Mentors: Rana Adhikari and Jenne Driggers
Project: Prototyping Adaptive Feed-Forward Seismic Noise Cancellation at the 40m Interferometer

Sonali Mohapatra

Host: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Mentors: Rana Adhikari and Suresh Doravari
Project: Diagnosis of the 40m Prototype Interferometer With Auxiliary Laser-Beam Injection

Sourav Kumar Sahoo, IISER-Kolkata

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Testing violin string mode of a ribbon suspension

Gagan Preet Singh, IISER-Mohali

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Siesmoeter data logging

Santosh Sundaresan

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Mentor: Soumya Mohanty
Project: GW Network Analysis

Swetha Bhagwat

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Mentor: Soumya Mohanty
Project: GW Null Streams and glitches.

Avani Gowardhan

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Mentor: Soma Mukherjee.
Project: Blind Source Separation and GW burst analysis

Challenger Mishra

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Mentor: Soumya Mohanty
Project: article Swarm Optimization and LISA data analysis

Sagnik De, CMI Chennai

Host: CMI, Chennai, India
Mentor: K. G. Arun
Topic: Gravitational waves (reading course)
Presently a Graduate student at University of Mississippi, USA.

Souvik Sarkar, CMI Chennai

Host: CMI, Chennai, India
Mentor: K. G. Arun
Topic: Gravitational waves (reading course)
Presently a graduate student at University of Cinncinnati (High energy Physics Expt)

Harish Lingam, IISER-TVM

Host: IISER-Tvm, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Mentor: Archana Pai
Project: Gravitational Wave Burst Detection in Noisy Data

Soma Naren Chowdhury, IISER-TVM

Host: IISER-Tvm, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Mentor: Archana Pai
Project: Periodic Gravitational Waves in Noisy Data

K. Rakshatha

Host: IISER-Tvm, Thiruvananthapuram, India (Summar fellow under Indian Academy of Sciences)
Mentor: Archana Pai
Project: Supernovae in Binary Systems

Madhusudan Raman, St. Josephs College, Bangalore

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Mentor: Bala Iyer
Project: Special Relativity and Applications to ED

Sumanth Reddy, St. Josephs College, Bangalore

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Mentor: Bala Iyer
Project: Special Relativity and Applications to ED

Madhusudan Raman, St. Josephs College, Bangalore

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Mentor: Bala Iyer
Project: General Relativity and its Applications

2010

Nancy Aggarwal, IIT Bombay

Host: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Mentors: Rana Adhikari and Koji Arai
Project: Wavefront Sensing and Control

Gopal Nataraj

Host: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Mentors: Rana Adhikari and Koji Arai
Project: Finite Element Analysis of Seismic Isolation Stacks at the 40-Meter Interferometer

Sharmila Dhevi Gunasekaran Gnanam

Host: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Mentors: Rana Adhikari and Koji Arai
Project: Building a Magnetic Suspension System at the Caltech 40m Interferometer

Abhishek Sharan, IIT Delhi

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Vibration isolation characterisation-LaCoste springs, Prototype Euler-LaCost stage and vaccum control

Parampreet Singh Walia, IIT Delhi

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Inviomental data monitoring

Pushkar Kopparla, IIT Delhi

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Remote control of CO2 laser shutter, Testing LaCost spring, GPIB data acquisition

Jaspreet Sandhu, IIT Delhi

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Laser intensity stabilisation

Siddartha S Verma, Cochin University of Science & Technology

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Modelling of superspring pre-isolator system

Dibya Chakraborty

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Mentor: Malik Rakhmanov

Amit Nag

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Mentor: Malik Rakhmanov

Avneet Antal

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA

Sibasis Banerjee

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Mentor: Soumya Mohanty
Project: Particle Swarm Optimization and LISA data analysis

Aseem Rastogi, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Mentor : Bala Iyer and C.S. Unnikrishnan
Project: Time domain and frequency domain simulation of the TIFR-IndIGO 3-m
interferometer and prototype gravitational wave detector.

Anton Joe, IIT, Kharagpur, India

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Mentor : Bala Iyer
Project: Introduction to gravitational radiation and GW from binaries in elliptical orbits.

2009

Jwalit Patel, IIT Delhi

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Vacuum system control software
Publication: Vaccum 85 2010

Subham Kumar, IIT Delhi

Host: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Project: Vibration isolation characterisation-LaCoste springs

Challenger Mishra

Host: University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Project: Particle Swarm Optimization and LISA data analysis
Mentor: Soumya Mohanty

Anton Joe, IIT-Kharagpur

Host: IISER-Tvm, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Mentor: Archana Pai
Project: Detecting GWaves from Binary Systems

Aseem Rastogi, BITS, Goa

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Mentor : Bala Iyer
Project: Gravitational waves from eccentric binaries

Raghuvir Kasturi, Hobart and Willam Smith Colleges, USA

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Mentor: Bala Iyer
Project: Basics of General Relativity and introduction to Gravitational Radiation

Aseem Rastogi, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India

Host: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Mentor : Bala Iyer and C.S. Unnikrishnan
Project: Time domain and frequency domain simulation of the TIFR-IndIGO 3-m
interferometer and prototype gravitational wave detector.