November 18, 2025
Richardson Lab's research featured in Engineeringness
Inside the Adaptive Optics Breakthrough Aiming to Boost LIGO’s Sensitivity and Power the Next Generation of Gravitational-Wave Observatories | An Interview with Prof. Jonathan Richardson
October 27, 2025
Richardson Lab's research featured in IOP's Physics World
New adaptive optics technology boosts the power of gravitational wave detectors
September 26, 2025
FROSTI instrumentation paper published in Optica
Demonstration of a next-generation wavefront actuator for gravitational-wave detection
June 13, 2025
Congratulations to our graduate and undergraduate award recipients!
Tyler Rosauer — Albert Staats Award for Exceptional Skills in Designing and Building Physics Apparatus
Shane Levin — CNAS Academic Excellence Award and R. Stephen White Award for Outstanding Senior Undergraduate
Luis Martin Gutierrez — R. Stephen White Award for Outstanding Senior Undergraduate
Cynthia Liang — R. Stephen White Award for Outstanding Third-Year Undergraduate
Michael Padilla — Brown Williams Award for Outstanding Second-Year Undergraduate
June 4, 2025
March 18, 2025
Richardson delivers invited talk at 2025 APS Global Physics Summit
Extending the Gravitational-Wave Frontier
February 14, 2025
FROSTI astrophysical impacts paper published in Physical Review Letters
Expanding the Quantum-Limited Gravitational-Wave Detection Horizon
December 15, 2024
Multivariate Time Series Clustering for Environmental State Characterization of Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors
December 11, 2024
Congratulations to PhD student Tyler Rosauer on receiving a 2025 UCR GAANN Fellowship!
August 30, 2024
Richardson receives NSF grant to develop advanced laser wavefront actuator for LIGO A#
June 25, 2024
Congratulations to our undergraduate award recipients!
Peter Carney — CNAS Outstanding Achievement Award and Rosemary S. J. Schraer Award
Aiden Wilkin and Peter Carney — R. Stephen White Award for Outstanding Senior Undergraduate
Shane Levin — R. Stephen White Award for Outstanding Third-Year Undergraduate
Cynthia Liang — Brown Williams Award for Outstanding Second-Year Undergraduate
Michael Padilla — Robert L. Wild Family Award for Outstanding First-Year Undergraduate
June 12, 2024
Richardson delivers invited talk at Dawn VII
Mode Sensing and Control Challenges and Opportunities in A#
February 27, 2024
September 1, 2023
Richardson receives NSF grant to help design next-generation gravitational wave observatory
June 16, 2023
Congratulations to our undergraduate award recipients!
Peter Carney — CNAS Academic Excellence Award
Aiden Wilkin and Peter Carney — R. Stephen White Award for Outstanding Third-Year Undergraduate
Shane Levin — Brown Williams Award for Outstanding Second-Year Undergraduate
April 30, 2023
Book chapter published in Artificial Intelligence for Science: A Deep Learning Revolution
Chapter 7: Machine Learning for Complex Instrument Design and Optimization
April 5, 2023
Congratulations to third-year Peter Carney on receiving a 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholarship!
December 2, 2022
Identifying Witnesses to Noise Transients in Ground-based Gravitational-wave Observations using Auxiliary Channels with Matrix and Tensor Factorization Techniques
June 11, 2022
Congratulations to our undergraduate award recipients!
Tyler Rosauer — CNAS Rosemary S.J. Schraer Award and R. Stephen White Award for Outstanding Senior Undergraduate
Peter Carney and Aiden Wilkin — Brown Williams Award for Outstanding Second-Year Undergraduate
September 1, 2021
Richardson & Papalexakis receive NSF AI grant for LIGO detector noise studies
August 17, 2021
Richardson receives NSF grant to develop advanced laser wavefront controls for LIGO