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January 29, 2011
Center for Gravitation and Cosmology hosts Gravitational-wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop
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There are plenty of entertaining resources about gravitational waves and the LIGO experiment. Here we list a small selection, from popular science articles and books to videos and games.
Popular Articles:
- Sounding
Out the Big Bang
(Physics World; June 2007) - Gravitational
Waves: New Observatories for New Astronomy
(The Physics Teacher; October 2006) - Waiting
for Gravity
(IEEE Spectrum; July 2006) - LIGO
and the Detection of Gravitational Waves
(Physics Today; October, 1999)
Books
- Marcia Bartusiak: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
- David Blair, Geoff McNamara: Ripples in a Cosmic
Sea
Virtual Exhibits, Games and Software
- Gravity:Making Waves, a virtual exhibit.
- Black Hole Hunter, the game that lets you search for gravitational waves
- Einstein@Home, Do you want to help looking for gravitational waves? Download this software and start right now
- Black Holes Ringtones, Listen to gravitational waves each time that your phone rings!
Web Sites
- LSC Introduction to LIGO and Gravitational Waves
- Cardiff University Gravitational Waves Tutorial
- Follow LIGO on Twitter!
- LIGO's Blog
- Become friends with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration on Facebook!
Kids
Teachers and Students:
- LSC Resources for teachers, including activities and information about visiting the observatories
- LIGO Hanford Observatory Teachers' Corner
- Virtual laboratory where your students can work with real LIGO data!
- Teacher's study guide to Einstein's Messengers online documentary
- Group High School classroom activities (Penn State Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Group)
- LSC resources that are of special interest to students
- Student and teachers research opportunities
- LIGO Academics
Affairs