Mini-Symposium: Early History of LIGO

Presentations

• Why Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington?: How the National Science Foundation Chose LIGO's Sites

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2025, 1:45 PM – March 17, 2025, 2:21 PM

  Publication: (forthcoming) Tiffany Nichols. "'One of the best sites on the East Coast': When LIGO Might Have Been in the Blueberry Barrens of Maine," Isis.<br>Tiffany Nichols. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Discerning Signal from Noise in the Expanded Laboratory Environment." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 1 June 2024; 54 (3): 335–364. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.3.335.<br>Tiffany Nichols, "Constructing Stillness: Theorization, Discovery, Interrogation, and Negotiation of the Expanded Laboratory of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory" (PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2022).

  Presenters

  • Tiffany Nichols

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Tiffany Nichols

    Princeton University

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• An Unusual Orbit: The Life and Discoveries of Carolyn Shoemaker

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2025, 2:21 PM – March 17, 2025, 2:57 PM

  Publication: APS FHPP History of Physics Essay Contest 2021

  Presenters

  • Briley L Lewis

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Briley L Lewis

    University of California, Santa Barbara

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• The Lessons and Legacy of Carolyn Beatrice Parker

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2025, 2:57 PM – March 17, 2025, 3:33 PM

  Presenters

  • Justine Singleton

    Cornell University

  Authors

  • Justine Singleton

    Cornell University

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