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Contact Information |
Ilya Mandel School of Physics and Astronomy University of Birmingham Edgbaston B15 2TT Birmingham United Kingdom e-mail: ilyamandel AT chgk DOT info | ||||||||||||||||
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Research Interests |
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Astrophysics of Compact-Object Binaries Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis Tests of General Relativity | ||||||||||||||||
| Education |
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA Ph.D. in Physics (defended June 2007, officially conferred June 2008) Dissertation Title: "The Three Ss of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Sources, Signals, Searches" Advisor: Kip S. Thorne M.S. in Physics, 2003 Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA M.S. in Computer Science (Theory specialization), 2001 B.S. in Physics, with Distinction and Departmental Honors, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||
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Academic Experience |
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA
Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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Awards and Service |
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship Dean's Award for Academic Achievement (excellence in research), Stanford University Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society) Member National Merit Scholar National Advanced Placement Scholar Reviewer for the Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review D, Classical and Quantum Gravity, MNRAS NASA and NSF grant reviewer LIGO Scientific Collaboration member LSC internal reviewer Mock LISA Data Challenge Taskforce member | ||||||||||||||||
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Mentoring |
Graduate students: Vivien Raymond (2007 -- present, co-advised with Vicky Kalogera), parameter estimation on spinning binaries Ben Farr (2009 -- present, co-advised with Vicky Kalogera), MCMC techniques in LIGO data analysis Carl Rodriguez (2010 -- present, co-advised with Vicky Kalogera), signatures of deviations from Kerr spacetime Rory Smith (2011 -- present, co-advising with Alberto Vecchio), intermediate-mass-ratio waveforms Will Vousden (2011 -- present), astrophysics from gravitational-wave detections Undergraduate students: Matthew Dodelson (NASA summer student, 2009), testing GR with EMRIs Daniel Douglas (2010), testing GR with EMRIs Frederick Robinson (2009 -- 2010), Fisher matrix analysis Luke Kelley (2010 -- 2011, co-advised with Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz), electromagnetic counterparts to LIGO searches | ||||||||||||||||
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Personal |
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 11, 1979 U.S. Citizen |
| 9/2006 | Talk | LISA Astro-GR@AEI, Golm, Germany | Using EMRIs to probe bumpy black-hole spacetimes [PDF] |
| 1/2007 | Seminar | Leyden, Netherlands | Gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in ground-based detectors |
| 4/2007 | Talk | APS, Jacksonville, FL | Intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals into intermediate-mass black holes |
| 7/2007 | Talk | Amaldi 7, Sydney, Australia | Time-Frequency Analysis of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspiral Signals: Mock LISA Data Challenge, Round 2 [PDF] |
| 10/2007 | Seminar | Astrophysics Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL | Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Gravitational-Wave Observations [PDF] |
| 11/2007 | Talk | 17th Midwest Relativity Meeting, St Louis, MO | Black-Hole Spins Following Minor Mergers [PDF] |
| 12/2007 | Talk | GWDAW-12, Boston, MA | Extracting Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral Parameters via Time-Frequency Methods [PDF] |
| 2/2008 | Seminar | Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Ground-based detection of gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals |
| 3/2008 | Talk | 24th Pacific-Coast Gravity Meeting , Santa Barbara, CA | Extracting Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral Parameters via Time-Frequency Methods |
| 6/2008 | Talk | 7th LISA Symposium, Barcelona, Spain | Can we detect IMRIs? |
| 9/2008 | Short seminar | Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK | Ground-based detection of gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals [PDF] |
| 10/2008 | Talk | 18th Midwest Relativity Meeting, Notre Dame, IN | Can we detect intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals? |
| 12/2008 | Seminar | HEP/Astrophysics Seminar, Purdue, West Lafayette, IN | Prospects in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy [PDF] |
| 1/2009 | Poster | GWDAW-13 San Juan, Puerto Rico | Can we detect intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals? [PDF] |
| 2/2009 | Seminar | Southampton, UK | Compact binaries as sources for ground-based gravitational-wave detectors [PDF] |
| 3/2009 | Seminar | KITP, UC Santa Barbara | Compact Binaries, Intermediate-Mass-Ratio Inspirals, and Other Prospects in Graviational-Wave Astronomy |
| 4/2009 | Talk | IMBH Workshop, UC Irvine | Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems Containing Intermediate-Mass Black Holes [PDF] |
| 6/2009 | Talk | Amaldi-8, Columbia University | Compact binaries as sources for ground-based gravitational-wave detectors [PDF] |
| 7/2009 | Invited Talk | NRDA, AEI, Golm, Germany | Predictions for Detectable Coalescences of Compact Binaries Including Black Holes [PDF] |
| 7/2009 | Talk | Marcel Grossmann 12, Paris, France | Probing Light Seeds of Massive Black Holes with Gravitational Waves [PDF] |
| 7/2009 | Invited Talk | Marcel Grossmann 12, Paris, France | Unravelling Binary Evolution from Gravitational-Wave Signals and Source Statistics [PDF] |
| 10/2009 | Invited Talk | Monday lunch talks, ITC, CfA, Cambrdige, MA | Gravitational Waves from Binaries [PDF] |
| 1/2010 | Talk | NSF Fellows' Symposium, AAS, Washington, DC | Prospects in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy |
| 1/2010 | Poster | GWDAW, Rome | Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from multiple coalescing binaries [PDF] |
| 2/2010 | Talk | Aspen Winter School on Formation and Evolution of Black Holes, Aspen, CO | Extracting the distribution of black-hole parameters from gravitational-wave observations [PDF] |
| 3/2010 | Seminar | UC Santa Cruz | Prospects in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy |
| 5/2010 | Seminar | Northwestern University | Prospects in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy |
| 5/2010 | Seminar | Rochester Institute of Technology | Prospects in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy [PDF] |
| 6/2010 | Talk | NRDA, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada | Bayesian Inference on Numerical Injections [PDF] |
| 6/2010 | Poster | LISA Symposium, Stanford, CA | Extracting the distribution of black-hole parameters from gravitational-wave observations |
| 7/2010 | Invited talk | GR-19 , Mexico City | The Mock LISA Data Challenges [PDF] |
| 7/2010 | Seminar | University of Birmingham, UK | GWAstrophysics [PDF] |
| 7/2010 | Talk | COSPAR, Bremen | Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals [PDF] |
| 1/2011 | Talk | NSF Fellows Symposium, Seattle | Gravitational waves from compact binaries: Status and prospects |
| 1/2011 | Talk | AAS, Seattle | Searching For Gravitational-wave Signals From Compact Binaries With LIGO And Virgo |
| 1/2011 | Talk | GWPAW, Milwaukee, WI | The Distribution of Coalescing Compact Binaries in the Local Universe: Prospects for Gravitational-Wave Observations [PDF] |
| 2/2011 | Seminar | West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV | Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques for parameter estimation |
| 2/2011 | Seminar | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL | GWastrophysics with compact binaries |
| 3/2011 | Talk | Evolution of Compact Binaries, Valparaiso, Chile | Compact Binary Coalescences: Connections to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy |
| 4/2011 | Talk | MKI Postdoc Symposium, MIT | Gravitational-wave Astrophysics with Compact Binaries |
| 5/2011 | Seminar | Princeton | GWastrophysics |
| 5/2011 | Seminar | University of Maryland, College Park | GW astrophysics with compact binaries |
| 5/2011 | Talk | Aspen Center for Physics | Why compact binaries are not boring |
| 9/2011 | Poster | New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy, Oxford | Electromagnetic transients as triggers in searches for gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals |
| 10/2011 | Invited talk | LOFT Science Meeting, Amsterdam | Gravitational wave observatories and LOFT |
| 11/2011 | Seminar | Warsaw University, Poland | Gravitational-wave Astrophysics of Compact Binaries |
| 12/2011 | Seminar | Cardiff University | GWastrophysics of Compact Binaries |
| 12/2011 | Invited Talk | LOFT and the Variable X-ray Sky, RAS, London | LOFT and the EM counterparts to gravitational wave sources [PDF] |
| 12/2011 | Talk | Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology, Quy Nhon, Vietnam | Astrophysics, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with ground-based gravitational-wave detectors |
| 3/2012 | Invited Talk | April APS Meeting, Atlanta, GA | Intermediate-mass black holes: A theoretical perspective |
| 4/2012 | Talk | April APS Meeting, Atlanta, GA | What Waveforms do Data Analysts Want?, or the dangers of systematic errors in parameter estimation |
| 5/2012 | Invited talk | Sackler conference: testing GR with astrophysical systems, Cambridge, MA | Testing GR with Binary Coalescence Events [PDF] [Video] |
| 6/2012 | Talk | GWPAW, Hannover | What Waveforms do Data Analysts Want?, or the dangers of systematic errors in parameter estimation [PDF] |
| 6/2012 | Invited talk | Exploring New Horizons with Gravitational Waves, Hannover | Astrophysical Sources & Parameter Estimation |
| 7/2012 | Invited lectures | Nijmegen Astroparticle Summer School, Germany | Gravitational Wave Astrophysics |
| 11/2008 | Manned LIGO Scientific Collaboration booth at the Society of Physics Students congress at Fermilab. |
| 12/2008 | Co-presented The Wonders of the Night Sky: The Life and Death of Stars at the Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School's science fair in Park Ridge, Illinois. |
| 4/2009 | Participated in special event at Dearborn Observatory as part of the 100 Years of Astronomy celebration of the International Year of Astronomy. |
| 5/2009 | Participated in the Science Club at Roosevelt elementary school |
| 5/2009 | Judged for the Meaningful Science Consortium Project Showcase for Chicago public high school students |
| 7/2009 | Answered questions and assisted the public at the LIGO traveling exhibit at Adler Planetarium. |
| 12/2009 | Co-presented The Wonders of the Night Sky: The Life and Death of Stars at the Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School's science fair in Park Ridge, Illinois. |
| 3/2010 | Co-organized the presentation of Einstein's Cosmic Messengers, a multimedia concert by Andrea Centazzo and Michele Vallisneri, at Northwestern University. |