Peter Lott

I am a fourth-year graduate student in the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at Georgia Tech, under Prof. Laura Cadonati. Originally from Huntsville, AL, I earned my Bachelor of Science from Howard University, minoring in Mathematics. Through Prof. Cadonati’s group, I am a member of the LIGO Collaboration, a ground-based observatory for gravitational waves. My main area of focus is gravitational wave emission from hyperbolic encounters between binary black holes. I also contributed to tests of General Relativity using model-independent techniques, the results of which I will be presenting at AAS.