This page is for links to pedagogical explanations of techniques and phenomena endemic to LIGO, with a target audience of summer students and visitors. It's called "Tutorials" because that's easier to spell.
[http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=AJPIAS000071000004000365000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes An introduction to signal extraction in interferometric gravitational wave detectors] by Eric D. Black and Ryan N. Gutenkunst
[http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/T/T980045-00.pdf Notes on the Pound-Drever-Hall technique] by Eric D. Black
[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005RvMP...77..783B Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control] by John Bechhoefer
[http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/an_pk/1762 Beginner's Guide to Filter Topologies]
[http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/P/P660001-00.pdf Laser Beams and Resonators] by H. Kogelnik and T. Li (a good introduction to Gaussian beams)
List of HowTo's
IFO Stuff
/Make a calibrated DARM noise spectrum
/Measure the Length of the Input Mode Cleaner
/Set the double demod phases for the Short DOFs
/Diagonalize the DRMI Length Control
/Put Beams on the RF Photodiodes
PSL Stuff
Computer Stuff
Restart computers: Computer Restart Procedures
Boot Fest to Memory Corruption Fixing
/How to copy an entire directory from a remote computer by the terminal window in Linux
/Monitor the status of a running script
/Get data from the cluster while at the 40m
COMSOL Help
/Create Intrusions through Layered Extrusion
Social Stuff
Make Coffee