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NSF PA/M 99-27 - November 8, 1999
NSF Director to Inaugurate LIGO on November 12
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is designed
to detect and measure the faintest of signals reaching earth from space and
test fundamental predictions of physics. Funded by the National Science Foundation
(NSF) and designed and constructed by the California Institute of Technology
and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the LIGO facilities in Hanford, Wash.,
and Livingston, La., have completed capital construction. The Livingston facility
will open its doors for an inauguration, media availability, and tour on November
12.
Who:
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Rita Colwell, NSF Director, keynote speaker Barry Barish, Director,
LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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What:
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Inauguration of LIGO facilities
Media availability
Tour of Livingston facility |
When:
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Starts at 10 a.m.,Friday, November 12, 1999
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Where:
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LIGO Livingston Observatory, near Livingston, La. (about one hour
from Baton Rouge or New Orleans)
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For more information contact:
Amber Jones (703) 292-8070/aljones@nsf.gov
See also Factsheet - "NSF Support of LIGO:
Energizing the Search for Gravitational Waves"
See agenda and map at: http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_web/inauguration/ nov12.html
Broadcasters: Contact Dena Headlee for B-roll of gravitational wave
observations with LIGO, at (703) 292-8070/dheadlee@nsf.gov
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