LIGO e-lab Workshop — June 11 - 12, 2012

On June 11 and 12 the UM Physics Department will host a 2 day workshop titled “LIGO e-lab”. The workshop will train teachers to use the I2U2 online e-lab interface (http://www.i2u2.org/), specifically the LIGO e-lab
( http://www.i2u2.org/elab/ligo/home/project.jsp). E-labs are web based science activities readily accessible to students in the classroom. The workshop is held at Lewis Hall on the UM campus.

The LIGO experiment (http://www.ligo.org/) is searching for gravitational waves produced by violent cosmological events taking place in our universe. The e-lab is based on seismic data recorded near the LIGO Hanford interferometer. The LIGO e-Lab provides an experience in which students can investigate the seismic activity surrounding the sensitive interferometer.

Teachers will be introduced to the LIGO research program and the basis of laser interferometry. The workshop will instruct teachers on the I2U2 interface, train teachers to become expert in using the LIGO e-lab, and give teachers hands on experience with seismometers and interferometers.

Please email Dr. Cremaldi (cremaldi@phy.olemiss.edu) with the following information if you are interested in attending:

Name:
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Attendance is limited to high school math and science teachers.