LIGO Seminar

The LIGO seminar is a weekly collaboration-wide seminar held Tuesdays at 1pm Pacific at Caltech and teamspeak, and temporarily over zoom.

Seminars are aimed at a general LIGO audience, who may be thinking about some aspect of GW science not related to the speaker's work. Recently, we've discussed reorganizing the seminar as an "ask me anything" style workshop on topics relevant to grads and postdocs in the group. These talks might include active tutorials in a jupyter notebook, technical 'how tos' not typically covered in talks, and information relevant to SURFs or other newcomers to the collaboration.

How to present a tutorial seminar

It would be useful for someone to prepare an explainer document on how to run a pedagogical seminar. It could include, for example, a template jupyter notebook some modern education theory. Previous years' SURF lectures and materials from Caltech's course in science teaching are handy resources.

Topics and Dates

Meeting time: Tuesdays, 10am Pacific, 3rd Floor West Bridge SCR. Temporarily over zoom:

*** If you would like to give a seminar, including on the topics listed below, please contact Alan (ajw@caltech.edu) and Syd (syd@ligo.caltech.edu) to get on the calendar, and update this wiki with the date and DCC slides when available.

On 9 June 2020, Yehonathan, Lilli, Derek, Shruti, Aaron, and Anchal met to discuss topic ideas. Notes here. Feel free to add topics to this table that would be of interest!

LIGO Seminar (last edited 2020-11-24 20:55:54 by ChristopherwipfATligoDOTorg)