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faculty
Sarah Caudill, PhD
Assistant Professor
Physics
Contact
508-910-6605
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Science & Engineering 204A
Education
| 2012 | Louisiana State University | PhD |
| 2006 | Stetson University | BSc |
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
A team-based learning experience that gives students the opportunity to synthesize prerequisite course material and to conduct real-world analytics projects using large data sets of diverse types and sources. Students work in independent teams to design, implement, and evaluate an appropriate data integration, analysis, and display system. Oral and written reports and ethical aspects are highlighted.
This course treats topics in classical physics from the areas of waves, optics, and thermodynamics. Two oral presentations with technical write-ups are required.
This course treats topics in classical physics from the areas of waves, optics, and thermodynamics. Two oral presentations with technical write-ups are required.
Research
Research awards
- $ 60,000 awarded by National Science Foundation for A New Spin: The Next Generation of Gravitational-Wave Searches for Merging Black Holes
Research
Research interests
- Gravitational waves
- Black holes
- Neutron stars
- Machine learning
- Computing
Dr. Caudill is an expert in gravitational-wave searches for compact binary coalescence of neutron stars and black holes. She is a member of the LIGO and Einstein Telescope collaborations and has served as co-chair of the LIGO-Virgo R&D group for All-sky Searches and as Virgo Computing and Data Processing Coordinator. She was awarded 2019 NWO-Vidi and NWO-WISE grants and was a recipient of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with the LIGO-Virgo collaboration.