Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2020
Volume 65, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 2–6, 2020; Denver, Colorado
Session K09: Screening of the film: LIGO
7:30 PM–9:00 PM,
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Room: 506-507
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Abstract: K09.00001 : Screening of the Film: LIGO
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“LIGO” is director Les Guthman’s inside story of the LIGO collaboration and its historic discovery of gravitational waves. He began filming a few weeks before the detection of GW150914, and, through great good fortune, was on location at the LIGO Livingston Observatory in Louisiana on the day the binary black hole signal came in. He filmed during the four months LIGO kept the detection secret and continued through 2016 and the summer of 2017, when LIGO and Virgo made a second seminal detection — of two colliding neutron stars — and launched a new era in multi-messenger astronomy. Guthman’s final shoot was in Stockholm in December 2017 with Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish.
“LIGO” was produced by his Advanced LIGO Documentary Project, under a grant from the National Science Foundation and funding from MathWorks, Caltech and MIT.
“LIGO” was produced by his Advanced LIGO Documentary Project, under a grant from the National Science Foundation and funding from MathWorks, Caltech and MIT.
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