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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:

Rita Colwell, NSF Director, keynote speaker Barry Barish, Director, LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

What:

Inauguration of LIGO facilities
Media availability
Tour of Livingston facility

When:

Starts at 10 a.m.,Friday, November 12, 1999

Where:

LIGO Livingston Observatory, near Livingston, La. (about one hour from Baton Rouge or New Orleans)

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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