A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the 
MIT Kavli Institute Directory
Christopher Wipf
Postdoctoral Associate Postdoctoral ScholarChristopher Wipf joined the MIT Kavli Institute as a postdoc in 2013. He is a native of Omro, Wisconsin. After receiving an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 2002, he was employed in the Biological & Quantum Physics group at Los Alamos. In 2013 he received a Ph.D. in physics from MIT, supervised by Nergis Mavalvala.
His research interests include gravitational wave detection and quantum opto-mechanics. Currently he works on commissioning the Advanced LIGO detectors, which are expected to approach the quantum limits of precision measurement.
"Structural thermal noise in gram-scale mirror oscillators," A. R. Neben et al., New J. Phys. 14, 115008 (2012)
"Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state," B. Abbott et al., New J. Phys. 11, 073032 (2009)
"Route to ponderomotive entanglement of light via optically trapped mirrors," C. Wipf et al., New J. Phys. 10, 095017 (2008)
"Optical Dilution and Feedback Cooling of a Gram-Scale Oscillator to 6.9 mK," T. Corbitt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 160801 (2007)
"An All-Optical Trap for a Gram-Scale Mirror,” T. Corbitt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 150802 (2007)
MIT Graduate Physics Research Symposium Poster Prize, 2006
Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award, LADON Team, 2006
European Union Descartes Prize, Project IST-QuComm, 2004
SQuINT Workshop Poster Prize, 2003
