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This is a collection of various talks, lectures, books, and other resources that you might find helpful in your quest to learn more about gravitational waves.
Introductory overviews of GW science
General Relativity
Textbooks
Courses
Resources
Advanced topics
Gravitational-wave detectors science
Textbooks
Resources
Courses
Advanced topics
Control Systems Tutorials
Select group meeting recordings
Data analysis
Textbooks
Talks
Courses
Data Analysis Tutorials
Advanced topics
Data Quality Shift Training
Condor
Summer Schools in Gravitational Wave Science
Organizations and News Letters Relevant to Gravitational Wave Science
Introductory overviews of GW science
Broad reviews targeting new undergraduate and graduate students
Discovering gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO
- Jess
McIver
and David Shoemaker, LIGO-P2000530 (2020)
Gravitational Waves
- Amber Stuver, free IOP e-book (2019)
General Relativity
Textbooks
(in increasing order of difficulty)
Bernard F. Schutz,
Gravity from the Ground Up
[Cambridge University Press, 2003]
James B. Hartle,
Gravity, An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
[Addison-Wesley, 2003]
Bernard F. Schutz,
A First Course in General Relativity
[Cambridge University Press, 1985]
Roger D. Blandford, Kip S. Thorne,
Applications of Classical Physics,
Chapters 23-27 [in preparation for publication]
Sean Carroll,
Spacetime and Geometry
[Addison-Wesley, 2004]
Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John A. Wheeler,
Gravitation
[Freeman, 1973]
Robert M. Wald,
General Relativity
[University of Chicago Press, 1984]
Courses
Resources
Advanced topics
Gravitational-wave detectors science
Textbooks
D. G. Blair, E. J. Howell, L. Ju, C. Zhao,
Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors
[Cambridge University Press, 2012]
Jolien D. E. Creighton, Warren G. Anderson,
Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy: An Introduction to Theory, Experiment and Data Analysis
[Wiley, 2011]
Peter R. Saulson,
Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
[World Scientific, 1994]
Roger D. Blandford, Kip S. Thorne,
Applications of Classical Physics
[in preparation;
available online
]. This book includes
physics underlying gravitational wave detectors [Optics in Chapters 6-9; Elasticity in Chapters 10-11]
some mathematics underlying noise theory and data analysis [Theory of Random Processes in Chapter 5]
theory of gravitational waves [Chapter 26]
Kip S. Thorne,
Gravitational Radiation: A New Window onto the Universe
[arXiv, 1997]
This is an extended version of a chapter in
Three Hundred Years of Gravitation
, eds. S.W. Hawking and W. Israel [Cambridge University Press, 1987]
David H. Reitze, Peter R. Saulson, Hartmut Grote,
Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
[World Scientific, 2019]
Resources
Living Reviews in Relativity
GWoptics
provides information and software related to gravitational wave detection, with a special focus on optics research
Gravitational-Wave Resources (external)
Science Education Sites
soundsofspacetime.org
The Physics of LIGO
"Useful Resources for new LSC / LAAC Members" in record
E1300744
Courses
Junior-level course material
LIGO Seminars at Caltech
Web-based course on Gravitational Wave Science
Sonoma State's LIGO Courses & Educator's Guide
Rana Adhikari's talks at the International Centre for Theoretical Science/Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Winter School on Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics
Overview of Gravitational Waves and Detectors
(Survey of past and present detectors)
Details of Current Detectors
(Stories about current and past detectors)
Control Systems
Optics of Fabry-Perot Cavities (Matrix approach for interferometer fields)
Vibration Isolation
Shot Noise and Radiation Pressure Noise
(Vacuum fluctuations/quantum noise propagation)
Introduction to Finesse
Optics of Fabry-Perot Cavities
Thermal Noise
(Coatings, noise cancellation, generalized coordinates)
Rana Adhikari's
CaJAGWR
Seminars that are on
Tuning LIGO to Listen to Gravitational Waves
Sensitivity Improvements in the LIGO Interferometers
Turning on and Tuning in the Gravitational Radiation Antennae
Caltech-JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research (CaJAGWR) seminars
: videos and slides
Caltech LIGO seminars
: videos and slides
Alan Weinstein's 2006 lectures on Gravitational Waves and LIGO:
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Slides
2005 SLAC Summer School:
"Gravitational Radiation" by Alessandra Buonanno:
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
"Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detectors" by Gabriela Gonzalez:
Lecture
Penn State
master list with links to slides
Jim Burge's extensive Tutorials in Optomechanics
Advanced topics
Control Systems Tutorials
2019 October 2nd T. Dehaeze,
Sensor Fusion Design using H infinity
, slides
G1901936
, recording
G1901937
2020 February 5th, A. Pele,
Seismic Control System
, slides
G2000186
, recording
T2000058
2020 March 5th, J. Rollins,
Advanced LIGO real time control and automation systems
, slides
G2000324
, recording
T2000130
2020 April 9th, E. Schwartz, Improving IFO robustness during Earthquakes, slides
G1902080
, recording
G2000556
2020 May 6th, M. Kasprzack, Angular Sensing and Control in Advanced LIGO, slides
G2000716
, recording
T2000305
Select group meeting recordings
Data analysis
Textbooks
Talks
Courses
Data Analysis Tutorials
Data analysis tutorials at Maastricht 2018 LVC meeting
Jupyter notebook tutorial for parameter estimation
Advanced topics
Data Quality Shift Training
Data quality shift training telecons
slides
Condor
LSC Beginner's Guide:
document in DCC
wiki page
Introduction to Condor
slides by Tanner Prestegard (
associated files
Condor tutorial from LSC Grid Camp
Summer Schools in Gravitational Wave Science
ICTS Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Bangalore, India, August 3-24, 2018
2nd ICE Summer School
Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, July 2-6, 2018
NBIA & DARK PhD Summer School
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, July 2-6, 2018
OSG User School 2018
University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 9-13, 2018
Advanced Software Programming for Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics
Annecy, France, June 4-8, 2018
Neutron Star Merger Summer School
Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, USA, May 16-18, 2018
Indiana University Center for Spacetime Symmetries Summer School
Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 15-21, 2018
International Pulsar Timing Array Student Workshop
Socorro, New Mexico, USA, June 11-15, 2018
XIX LNF Spring School in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy, May 7-11, 2018
Exploring the Universe through Multiple Messengers
Lake Baikal, Russia, July 12 - 21, 2018
Gravitational Waves 2018
Les Houches, France, July 2 - 27, 2018
Dublin School on Gravitational Wave Source Modelling
Dublin, Ireland, June 11 - 22, 2018
The XIII Sigrav Graduate School in Contemporary Relativity and Gravitational Physics
Como, Italy, May 28 - June 1, 2018
The 35th Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics: The Physics of Astronomical Transients
Jerusalem, Israel, December 27, 2017 - January 5, 2018
EU Einstein Toolkit 2017 & EdFest
Mallorca, Spain, October 11-14, 2017
2017 North American Einstein Toolkit School and Workshop at NCSA
Urbana, Illinois, July 31 - August 4, 2017
48th Saas-Fee Course: Black Hole Formation and Growth
Saas-Fee, Switzerland, January 28 - February 3, 2018
Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics: Gravitational Wave Astronomy
St Andrews, Scotland, July 23 - Aug 5, 2017
School on Gravitational Waves for Cosmology and Astrophysics
Benasque, Spain, May 28 - June 10, 2017
Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, July 10 - August 18, 2017
The iPTF Summer School
Caltech, July 18-21, 2016
TACC Summer Supercomputing Institute
The University of Texas at Austin, August 1-5, 2016
Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Performance Tuning Summer School
Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, Texas, August 17 - 21, 2015
International HPC Summer School 2015
Toronto, Canada, June 21-26, 2015
ICTP-SAIFR School on Gravitational Waves: From Data to Theory & Back
, São Paulo, Brazil, August 3-11, 2015
2015 FERMI Summer School
, University of Delaware, May 26-June 5, 2015
Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School
, Caltech, July 6-10, 2015
1st GraWIToN School
, Pisa, Italy, 20 April 2015 - 08 May 2015
Big Data Analytics
, JPL-Caltech, Sept 2-12, 2014
2013 International School on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Waves
, Pohang, Korea
International Summer School on Astroparticle Physics
OHP, Saint Michel l'Observatoire, France
Pulsars and Gravitational Radiation
Green Bank, WV
Organizations and News Letters Relevant to Gravitational Wave Science
Topical Group in Gravity of the American Physical Society
Matters of Gravity
International Society for General Relativity
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