During the Summer of 2020, I had the privilege of working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Professor Rana Adhikari on a research project that was funded by the Richard Brewer Fellowship Prize. During this 10-week period, I worked on an element of the LIGO Voyager Cryo-Q upgrade: the gravitational-wave detector had started to get so sensitive that it was detecting the thermal noise from its own Silicon atoms located in the Fabry-Perot mirror cavity. So, my research focused on finding a way to block the tranmission of noise (the natural vibrating frequency of Silicon) using band-limiting filters, and designing different acoustic geometries which I simulated using finite element analysis. See my final report below!