Kipp Cannon
| LIGO Laboratory, Caltech 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 |
Office: (626) 395-2905 Fax: (626) 793-9744 E-mail: kcannonREMOVETHIS@ligo.caltech.edu |
| LIGO Laboratory, Caltech 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 |
Office: (626) 395-2905 Fax: (626) 793-9744 E-mail: kcannonREMOVETHIS@ligo.caltech.edu |
I am a senior post-doctoral researcher in the LIGO Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. I am a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and work primarily on searches for gravitational wave bursts.
Most recently, I've been working on a fast algorithm for low-frequency synthesis imaging. Here's an example picture.
Click here for a movie (23 MB).
Both ellipses are Mollweid projections of the sky in equatorial co-ordinates. In each image, the horizontal axis is the equatorial plane, the vernal equinox is at the centre, the north equatorial pole is at the top, and right ascension increases to the left. Two sources of Gaussian white noise (indicated by the red markers) have been placed, one each, at the locations of the Crab pulsar and the galactic core, and three detectors have been placed, one each, at the locations of the LIGO Hanford and Livingston observatories, and the GEO600 observatory. The time is approximately 0 h GMST, and the top image shows the sky synthesized from an integration of the last 4 minutes of data, and the bottom image from an integration of the last 24 hours.
These approximate images were synthesized at nearly 500 times real-time on a single 1.8 GHz Pentium M processor, and differ from the exact results with a signal-to-noise of about +26 dB.
I have been running the excess power burst search online during S5. A GUI interface to the triggers is available here. The usual LSC password is required.
I have put together a Makefile that automates most of the steps involved in processing LaTeX documents. Included, of course, is the ability to run latex the correct number of times, but the algorithm will also run bibtex and makeindex as needed. A very nice feature of this Makefile is the ability to automatically process xfig .fig files for inclusion in your LaTeX documents.
More information can be found here.
Since you asked, why yes I do still own the bus! It's a 1990 International with a 360 cu-in turbo diesel engine, three-speed Allison automatic transmission, and a Wayne body. It has four of the original bench seats.
Why do I own a bus? It started out as a cheaper alternative to renting a U-Haul for a cross-country move. It turned out to not be cheaper (although not by much), but WAY more fun. So I kept it. I love my bus.
Yet another implementation of minesweeper --- everybody's favourite waste of CPU cycles! My implementation's claim to fame is that it includes a game solver so that at each move it can tell you whether or not you need to guess and/or what the mine probabilities are. Or just watch the computer play for you!
A Linux device driver for the Backer video tape backup device.
Last updated 2006-12-6.