A one-day instructional camp on information and skills useful to scientific monitoring will be held August 18, 2006 at LIGO Livingston Observatory. There will be a mixture of talks on general concepts relevant to gravitational wave interferometry and on particular software tools available to scimons in the control room.

Camp participants

Getting a General Computing (GC) account - Read before coming!

List of some useful GC workstations at LLO

S5 data set locations

Mailing list for camp announcements & questions  Mailing list archive

Miscellaneous:

• The camp sessions will be held in the Auditorium.
• Lunch and coffee/pastries will be provided courtesy of LIGO Livingston Observatory (which asks only that you study hard in return!).
• Participants should also arrange to obtain general computing (GC) Livingston accounts, if they do not already have them (see instructions).
• Participants wishing to try software tools should bring a laptop computer (windows or linux) that supports ssh and sftp (and ideally X windows display when logged in remotely to a GC computer - commercial packages for Windows include Hummingbird Exceed and Xmanager).
• DMT work will be carried out on the decatur and/or bermuda computers.
• Slides from the presentations will be posted on the web (preferably in advance), and the presentations will be videotaped for later web archiving.