== 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. [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GGRx_IQNOKvyw4msXyfmE0h4OvvxIUQKy--ceQaDVxw/edit#|Notes here]]. Feel free to add topics to this table that would be of interest!

 || '''Week''' || '''Speaker''' || '''Topic''' || '''Link to talk on DCC''' ||
 || tbd || Yehonathan Dori || Frequency combs || ||
 || 23 June 2020 || Ruth Daly || Supermassive and stellar mass black hole spin values || ||
 || 16 June 2020 || Rana Adhikari || Control System abc's || ||
 || tbd || Aaron Markowitz || Why high Q measurements? || ||
 || tbd || Rana Adhikari || Special Functions and how to invent one || ||
 || tbd || tbd || Quantization noise at the 40m || ||
 || tbd || tbd || technical lecture on photodiode design || ||
 || tbd || tbd || O4 instrument and science upgrades || ||
 || tbd || tbd || science of next gen detectors || ||
 || tbd || tbd || deep dive into the fabry perot cavity || ||
 || tbd || tbd || statistical inference primer || ||
 || tbd || tbd || low noise optomechanics materials || ||
 || tbd || tbd || cryogenic engineering for Mariner || ||
 || tbd || tbd || overview of 'far future' detectors || ||
 || tbd || tbd || low noise electronic measurement || ||
 || tbd || JILA guest? || 123K Si Cavities || ||
 || tbd || tbd || atom-wave interferometers || ||
 || tbd || tbd || Pulsar timing arrays || ||
 || tbd || tbd || LIGO Open Data || ||
 || tbd || tbd || Uses for IFO other than GWs || ||
 || tbd || tbd || How does EM follow-up work? || ||
 || tbd || tbd || Phase sensitive optomechanical amplifier || ||
 || tbd || tbd || Spin Squeezing -- what is it and why is it useful? || ||
 || tbd || tbd || Diode lasers || ||
 || as they arise || author || report on recent publications ||  ||
 || as they arise || conference attendee || report from recent conference ||  ||