Links to Helpful Websites

LIGO and Virgo:

• LIGO Lab/Caltech/MIT site: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration: https://www.ligo.org
• All About LIGO: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/about
• LIGO Livingston USA Observatory: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA
• LIGO Hanford USA Observatory: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA
• Virgo Observatory, Italy: https://www.virgo-gw.eu
• European Gravitational Observatory (EGO): http://www.ego-gw.it/
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: https://pnnl.gov/
• Gravitational Wave Open Science Center: https://www.gw-openscience.org/about/

Other Observatories:

• KAGRA Observatory, Japan: https://gwcenter.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/
• GEO600 GW Detector, Germany: https://www.geo600.org/
• LIGO India (planned observatory): https://www.ligo-india.in/

GWA Information:

• GW Wikipedia site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave
• Multi-Messenger Astronomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-messenger_astronomy

Future GW Observatory Endeavors:

• Cosmic Explorer: Next Generation GW Detector (40km vs existing 4km LIGO)
• LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna): Space-based GW Observatory
• ET (Einstein Telescope): 3rd Generation GW Observatory

IEEE Milestones:

• Gravitational-Wave Antenna IEEE Milestone Proposal

• Milestones By Year Dedicated And Region: https://ethw.org/Milestones:List_of_Milestones

• Chronological List of Milestones: https://ethw.org/Milestones:List_of_IEEE_Milestones

• Engineering and Technology History Wiki: https://ethw.org/Main_Page

• IEEE History Center: https://www.ieee.org/about/history-center/Click
• 40 Years of the IEEE History Center

Instructive Videos:

• When Stars Collide: A Neutron Star Death Spiral
• LIGO Detection (award-winning short documentary by Kai Staats)
  • While worth watching in its entirety, you can jump to 15:43 in Kai Staats' film to get a nice animation of the GWA's operation as narrated by Nobel Laureate Dr. Rainer Weiss, who first proposed a GW instrument in 1972
• IEEE Silicon Valley Technical History Committee Event on LIGO: Video and Slides
• Official Interview Videos of the Nobel Laureates:
  • Rainer Weiss
  • Kip Thorne
    • Click here to jump to an excerpt about how Kip got involved in the 2014 film Interstellar
  • Barry Barish

Other Interesting Related Websites

• LabEx UnivEarthS, University of Paris: GW stories and videos
• The Rhythm of Space: Art and Science, from Marconi to Gravitational Waves (Pisa Graphic Museum, 2019)

Images for Promotion of This Event:

• Zip File of Images