I am not sure if he plays any part in the research. However, some of his colleagues at LSU are involved. Warren Johnson, who worked on Allegro, is involved. Dr. Hamilton has been out to the site several times though.
Shannon On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 10:08, Banker, Craig wrote: > Is Dr. Hamilton involved with this research? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Byron Como [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour > > > No pictures, although you'd need a telephoto crank attachment to get a good > shot of the liquid nitrogen tanks at the end of each leg of the machine, 4km > away from the control building. And yes, they have a control room with lots > of monitors and wall displays, and remote controls for remote cameras and > process controls for all sorts of remote switches and measuring devices. > Quite an ordinary control room actually. Its a real yawner when you have to > wait for the seismic wave action in the Gulf of Mexico to subside in order > to get good readings from the machine. Yes, yes, quite ordinary. The real > action is in the lecture hall where demonstrations of the technology and > science are setup. Tesla coils, plasma tubes, spectrum analysis devices and > other unidentifiable but no less interesting bits of scientific hardware. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:23 AM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour > > > > Did anyone take pictures? I couldn't make it. > > > > Regards, Dustin > > > > At 12:33 AM 6/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >Shannon, that was great, and thank Ed too. I'll sleep tonight with dreams > of > > >SunFire 880's and terabytes and terabyes of storage space. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Shannon Roddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: <[email protected]> > > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:04 PM > > >Subject: Re: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour > > > > > > > > > > Your Welcome! Just sorry it took so long to get it organized! > > > > > > > > The other guy was Ed Daw. I am not the best tour guide in the world. > I > > > > also cannot explain much of the physics, so I appreciated him helping > > > > out on fairly short notice! > > > > > > > > Shannon > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 22:29, John Hebert wrote: > > > > > First off, a big thank you to Shannon Roddy for > > > > > organizing and handling the tour. I forgot the > > > > > scientist's name who also helped with the tour, but > > > > > please thank him for us, Shannon. > > > > > > > > > > The LIGO tour was great. It really is a first-class > > > > > scientific research operation that is equal to an > > > > > elite few around the globe that we can only read > > > > > about. The data acquisition and data storage hardware > > > > > was extremely cool. Very nice collection of computing > > > > > power there. I strongly recommend that you take a tour > > > > > sometime. Check the LIGO website for tour times: > > > > > http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu . > > > > > > > > > > Shannon Roddy will try to organize another tour in the > > > > > near future, so watch for updates on [email protected] > > > > > mailing list. > > > > > > > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > > > > > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > General mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -- > > > > Shannon Roddy > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory > > > > ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane > > > > fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 > > > > Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy > > > > Calendar/Schedule See Home Page > > > > Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > General mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >General mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > --- > > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > UNIX and Network Consultant > > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > > PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net > > In the beginning the Universe was created. > > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Shannon Roddy __________________________________________________________________ Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy Calendar/Schedule See Home Page Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
