Ms Sophie Hollitt

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• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2013 - 2015	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Master of Philosophy
  —	University of Adelaide	Australia	B. Sc (Honours)
  —	University of Adelaide	Australia	B. Sc (Optics and Photonics)

• Research Interests

  Nuclear & Particles Physics Optical Physics Particle Physics

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• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2018	KAGRA Collaboration., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., . . . Zweizig, J. (2018). Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 21(1), 3-1-3-57. DOI Scopus111 WoS122
  2018	Hollitt, S., Horsley, R., Jackson, P., Nakamura, Y., Perlt, H., Rakow, P., . . . Zanotti, J. (2018). Control of SU(3) symmetry breaking effects in calculations of B meson decay constant. Proceedings of Science, 334.
  2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Ackley, K., Adams, C., . . . Zweizig, J. (2017). Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914. Physical Review D, 95(6), 062003-1-062003-16. DOI Scopus35 WoS29
  2016	Aasi, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., . . . Bork, R. (2016). Search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a loosely coherent algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(4), 042006-1-042006-14. DOI Scopus9 WoS10
  2016	Aasi, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., . . . Bonnand, R. (2016). First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(4), 042007-1-042007-25. DOI Scopus20 WoS24
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Boer, M. (2016). All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 93(4), 042005-1-042005-19. DOI Scopus19 WoS20
  2016	LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M., Adhikari, R., . . . Eichholz, J. (2016). Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Living Reviews in Relativity, 19(1), 1-39. DOI Scopus316 WoS295 Europe PMC17
  2016	Adrián-Martínez, S., ANTARES Collaboration., IceCube Collaboration., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Albert, A., . . . Michael, T. (2016). High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(12), 122010-1-122010-15. DOI Scopus68 WoS65
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zweizig, J. (2016). The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914. The Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), 1-8. DOI Scopus126 WoS56
  2016	Abbott, B., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., . . . Blackburn, J. (2016). Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. Physical Review Letters, 116(6), 061102-1-061102-16. DOI Scopus3734 WoS3208 Europe PMC136
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Blair, R. (2016). Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 826(1), L13-1-L13-8. DOI Scopus155 WoS134
  2016	Abbott, B., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., . . . Bloemen, S. (2016). GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(12), 122003-1-122003-21. DOI Scopus159 WoS144
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Blair, R. (2016). Astrophysical implications of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 818(2), L22-1-L22-15. DOI Scopus316 WoS319
  2016	Abbott, B., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., . . . Bloemen, S. (2016). GW150914: The advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries. Physical Review Letters, 116(13), 131103-1-131103-12. DOI Scopus214 WoS193 Europe PMC11
  2016	Abbott, B., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., . . . Bloemen, S. (2016). GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes. Physical Review Letters, 116(13), 131102-1-131102-12. DOI Scopus140 WoS135 Europe PMC10
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Blair, R. (2016). Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13). Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 225(1), 8-1-8-15. DOI Scopus36 WoS31
  2016	Abbott, B., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., . . . Bloemen, S. (2016). Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short-duration radio transients during 2007-2013. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(12), 122008-1-122008-14. DOI Scopus6 WoS7
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Blair, R. (2016). First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 94(10), 102001-1-102001-25. DOI Scopus15 WoS15
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Blair, R. (2016). Tests of General Relativity with GW150914. Physical Review Letters, 116(22), 221101-1-221101-19. DOI Scopus462 WoS430 Europe PMC17
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Zuraw, S. (2016). Supplement: "The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 833, L1). Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 227(2), 1-11. DOI Scopus30 WoS25
  2016	Abbott, B., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., . . . Blair, R. (2016). Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Physical Review Letters, 116(24), 241102-1-241102-19. DOI Scopus314 WoS574 Europe PMC16
  2016	Abbott, B., LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Virgo Collaboration., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., . . . Blair, R. (2016). Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(12), 122004-1-122004-20. DOI Scopus62 WoS59
  2016	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Blair, C. (2016). Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(13), 134001-1-134001-34. DOI Scopus95 WoS77
  2015	Aasi, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., . . . Bogaert, G. (2015). Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 91(2), 022004-1-022004-15. DOI Scopus24 WoS25
  2015	Aasi, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., . . . Zweizig, J. (2015). Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO data. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 91(6), 062008-1-062008-20. DOI Scopus29 WoS29
  2015	Aasi, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., . . . Bojtos, P. (2015). Searches for continuous gravitational waves from nine young supernova remnants. The Astrophysical Journal, 813(1), 39-1-39-16. DOI Scopus37 WoS39
  2015	LIGO Scientific Collaboration., Aasi, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., . . . Zweizig, J. (2015). Advanced LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32(7), 074001-1-074001-41. DOI Scopus599 WoS664
  2012	Hollitt, S., Simakov, N., Hemming, A., Haub, J., & Carter, A. (2012). A linearly polarised, pulsed Ho-doped fiber laser. Optics Express, 20(15), 16285-16290. DOI Scopus28 WoS24
  —	Keck, T., Abudinen, F., Bernlochner, F. U., Cheaib, R., Cunliffe, S., Feindt, M., . . . Zupanc, A. (n.d.). The Full Event Interpretation -- An exclusive tagging algorithm for the Belle II experiment. DOI
  —	Kou, E., Urquijo, P., Altmannshofer, W., Beaujean, F., Bell, G., Beneke, M., . . . Zupanc, A. (n.d.). The Belle II Physics Book.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2017	Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., . . . Blackburn, J. (2017). Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. In C. Vasconcellos (Ed.), Centennial of General Relativity: A Celebration (pp. 291-311). DOI

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2016	Hollitt, S., Jackson, P., Young, R., & Zanotti, J. (2016). The role of SU(3)-flavour symmetry breaking in B-meson decay constants from Lattice QCD. In Proceedings of Science Vol. 2016-September (pp. 1-7). Online: PoS.

• Theses

  Year	Citation
  2015	Hollitt, S. E. (2015). Investigation of cryogenic Er:YAG lasers for Gravitational Wave Interferometry. (Master's Thesis, The University of Adelaide).
  2012	Hollitt, S. E. (2012). Construction and Characterisation of Erbium-Ytterbium Co-Doped Fibre Amplifiers. (Undergraduate Dissertation).

Sophie is actively involved with teaching computer programming to students, demonstrating in workshops for Computational Physics III and The MATLAB component in BSc Advanced.

You might also recognise Sophie as a former tutor of Physics 1A/1B, Electromagnetism II, or Optics III.

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• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2015 - ongoing	Member	AIP Women in Physics Committee	—	Australia
  2015 - ongoing	Member	AIP Constitution Committee	Australian Institute of Physics	Australia
  2014 - 2015	Treasurer	UofA OSA/SPIE Student Chapter Organising Committee	Optical Society of America	Australia
  2013 - 2014	Member	IONS-KOALA 2014 Organising Committee	—	Australia

• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2014 - ongoing	Member	Australian Institute of Physics	Australia
  2014 - 2016	Member	SPIE	Australia
  2013 - 2016	Member	Optical Society of America	Australia

• Position: Postgraduate Student
• Phone: 83134380
• Email: sophie.hollitt@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 8313 4380
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Physics, floor 1
• Room: 1 23a
• Org Unit: Physics