Kellie O'Neal-Ault

Title
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Email
Department
Mechanical Engineering Department
College
College of Engineering

Office Hours

MWF 12:00-14:00, Thur 10:00-13:00

Areas of Expertise

General Relativity, gravitational waves, spacetime symmetries
I have interests in tests of General Relativity (GR), probing its founding spacetime symmetries and exposing deviations that may provide clues toward unifying the fundamental physics of the Standard Model (SM) and GR. This entails the development of theoretical frameworks that investigate physics beyond GR and the SM, and applying them to different areas of physics, e.g., gravitational waves, cosmology and quantum gravity, as well as a merge between theory, data analysis and experiments.
  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Physics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

PS 253 - Physics Lab for Engineers

PS 117L - Introductory Physics II Lab

PS 113L - Intro Physics I Laboratory

PS 114L - Introductory Physics Lab

L. Haegel, K. O’Neal-Ault, Q. G. Bailey, J.Tasson, M. Bloom, L. Shao, Search for anisotropic,
birefringent spacetime-symmetry breaking in gravitational wave propagation from GWTC-3,
Phys. Rev. D 107, 064031 (2023)

Q. G. Bailey, J. L. James, J. R. Slone, K. O’Neal-Ault, Short-range forces due to Lorentz-symmetry
violation , Classical and Quantum Gravity (2023)


K. O’Neal-Ault, Q. G. Bailey, T. Dumerchat, L. Haegel, J. Tasson, Analysis of birefringence and
dispersion effects from spacetime-symmetry breaking in gravitational waves, Universe (2021)


K. O’Neal-Ault, Q. G. Bailey, Nils A. Nilsson, A 3+1 Formulation of the Standard-Model Extension
Gravity Sector, Phys. Rev. D 103, 044010 (2021)


G. Varieschi, K. Ault Wormhole geometries in fourth-order conformal Weyl gravity. , Int. J.
Mod. Phys. D25, no.06, 1650064 (2016)


• Co-author of 87 LVK Scientific publications.Strong Implication in : LVK,Tests of GR with Bayesian
Inference of GW data. Member and reviewer of the analysis team for testing GR group (Section IV,
arxiv:2112.06861

Proceedings:

Recent Progress in Gravity Tests of Spacetime Symmetries, Proceedings of
the 57th Recontres de Moriond, Gravitation (2023)


 Lorentz and CPT symmetry breaking via dispersion and birefringence effects of
gravitational waves (with Le ̈ıla Haegel, Quentin G.Bailey, Jay Tasson, Malachy
Bloom, and Lijing Shao), Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz
Symmetry (2022)


Testing for Lorentz invariance violations through birefringence effects on
gravitational waves (with Quentin G.Bailey and Michele Zanolin), Proceedings of
the 54th Recontres de Moriond, Gravitation (2019)


 3+1 Decomposition of the Gravitational Sector of the Minimal Standard-Model
Extension (with Quentin G.Bailey and Nils A. Nilsson), Proceedings of the Eighth
Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry (2019)


Testing for Lorentz-Invariance Violations Through Birefringence Effects on
Gravitational Waves (with Quentin G.Bailey and Michele Zanolin), Proceedings
of the Eighth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry (2019)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

ERAU graduate instructor for general physics and engineering laboratories, Fall 2016 - Spring 2023


American Physical Society, LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration

Outstanding Woman Student Graduate Student, College of Arts and Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Spring 2022

Chancellor Service Excellence Award nominee, for outstanding contributions Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, for reconstruction and instruction of Lab courses accommodated for COVID-19 adjustments and regulations, March 2021

Invited visitor to the Gravity and Theory Department at the Institute for Nuclear Science at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) to work on the Hamiltonian formulation of the gravity sector of the Standard Model Extension. Awarded 8500 MXN, December 2019

Awarded 595 EUR grant allocation from the organizing committee of Recontres de Moriond 2019

Chancellor Service Excellence Award nominee, for outstanding contributions at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, for going above and beyond, February 2018

Induction into Sigma Pi Sigma, Spring 2016

Funding from Rains Research Assistant Program for the academic years of 2014-2015, and 2015-2016