Gravitational Wave physics isn't your cup of tea?
The understanding of gravity does not end with Newton's Gravitational laws. Albert Einstein's papers on General Relativity paved the way towards Gravitational Waves. He showed that accelerating compact dense objects would create ripples on space-time fabric in space but the intensity of these emitted waves will be low that we won't be able to detect or observe it.
Fast forward 100 years and LIGO in Livingston and Hanford in 2015 detects gravitational waves for the first time. These waves were formed by mergers of two black holes.
Regional Outreach
The outreach program of LIGO-India maintains participatory relationship with the people of Aundha Nagnath Taluka, Hingoli. LIGO-India EPO is committed to spread the right information about the project to the people of the Hingoli. We have conducted programs which were aimed at career and educational development for the people of Hingoli.
National Outreach
With our national outreach program we educate people by participating in technology and science festivals in Indian institutes. In these festivals we talk about upcoming career opportunities in gravitational waves physics and LIGO.
Online Outreach
We organize online events, spread LIGO-India information and advertise public lectures for the people on Social Media.
Want to read more about gravitational waves and LIGO?
Head on to our blog "Gravity Matters"
Educational Resources
LIGO-India offer's exciting career opportunities in the field of gravitational wave physics and engineering.
Resources
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LIGO SURF Caltech
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Summer Schools
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Research Opportunities at LIGO-India
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GW Open data workshop
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GW citizen science
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GW Science Games
Graduate students in physics, astronomy, engineering graduate students, & postdocs working in GW astrophysics & related fields. A small number of highly motivated senior undergraduates can also be considered.
MaNiTou Summer School on Gravitational Waves
Master and PhD students, and also to young (and not so young) scientists who would like to get better acquainted with gravitational waves.
Kavli-Villum Summer School on Gravitational Waves
Junior scientists (graduate students and advanced undergraduate students with a background in general relativity)
1. Access to observatory datasets for analysis.
2. Tutorials offering guidance on software setup and the analysis and interpretation of LIGO data.
3. Well-defined learning pathways designed for both students and educators.
4. Implementation of a catalog query feature to facilitate rapid searches.
This free workshop provides a crash-course in GW data analysis.
You can participate online or in an in-person Study Hub.
You can help scientists to study and reduce the noise in the gravitational detectors, with the goal of improving their sensitivity and catching more gravitational waves
2. Blackhole Hunters:
Using data from the TESS satellite, you can look at graphs of how the brightness of stars changes over time, and for an effect called gravitational microlensing.
3. Gravity Spy:
One can learn to characterize and classify potentially new sources of noise in the LIGO system.
4. Einstein @ Home:
instein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars.
In Black Hole Hunter, your objective is to listen to gravitational wave detector data and determine whether its noise or merger signal.
The objective of the 2-player game; Position their black hole such that a passing star is engulfed. Whoever lets a star slip past loses!
The game puts you in charge of designing your own gravitational wave detector.
Contact Us
LIGO-India Education and Public Outreach: ligoindiaepo [at] gmail [dot] com
Saurabh Salunkhe: Senior Outreach Coordinator: saurabh [dot] salunkhe [at] iucaa [dot] in