Educational Resources

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

Broad reviews targeting new undergraduate and graduate students

General Relativity

Textbooks

(in increasing order of difficulty)

Courses

Resources

Advanced topics


Gravitational-wave detectors science

Textbooks

Resources

Courses

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

Advanced topics

Data Quality Shift Training

  • Data quality shift training telecons slides

Condor


Summer Schools in Gravitational Wave Science


Organizations and News Letters Relevant to Gravitational Wave Science


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Topic revision: 2022-04-26, aaron.markowitz@ligo.org
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