Educational Resources

Videos and Slides of Lectures

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 [.rm]
2005 SLAC Summer School:
"Gravitational Radiation" by Alessandra Buonanno: Lecture 1 | Lecture 2
"Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detectors" by Gabriela Gonzalez
Other past conferences and workshops:
Penn State master list with links to slides

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]

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 Processees in Chapter 5]
- theory of gravitational waves [Chapter 26]
Kip S. Thorne, Gravitational Radiation: A New Window onto the Universe [unpublished 1989 monograph; available online - link to come]
- 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]
Warren Anderson, Jolien D.E. Creighton, Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy: An Introduction to Theory, Experiment and Data Analysis [Wiley-VCH]

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