34th Annual Report (2021-22)

78 unravel in the era of LIGO-India, were released on various occasions during 2021. The interviewers includedmany of the LIGO-India team members (Sukanta Bose, Suresh Doravari, Vaibhav Savant). The videos are available on the LIGO-India Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/LIGOIndia “Buildadetectorworkshop”(May31-June11,2021) A collaboration between the Newton-Bhabha and LIGO India partnership, this workshop taught students about gravitational wave (GW) science and the necessary considerations taken in order to design and concept-build a gravitational wave detector as well as the likely signals to be measured. A set of lectures were given on the main budget noises as well as the possible sources to detect. Assignments were given at the end of each lecture and discussed in each Q&A sessions. The last three days of the workshop focused on the teams designing their own gravitational wave detector with its own noise budget and source plot. LOC: Debarati Chatterjee and Mariela Masso-Reid (Newton-Bhabha fund) V o l u n t e e r s f o r D r o p - i n s e s s i o n : M a n a s a d e v i P Thirugnanasambandam, SureshDoravari and. ShivarajKandhasamy National Science Day 2022 - organised by LI-EPO, streamed on YouTube Public talks in English by Shasvath Kapadia (ICTS), ApratimGanguly (IUCAA), Prof Giles Hammond (Uni Glasgow), and in Marathi by Prof VarunBhalerao (IIT Bombay) ImportantLIGO-Indiapress-releases The LI-EPO team was involved in composing and distributing LIGO- India Scientific Collaboration (LISC) press releases among the local and national media in India. These included important announcements and events of LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) for which working groups from the LISC had contributed actively. The work of Indian working groups was highlighted to ensure their visibility in the mainstream media. Some press releases were also translated to Hindi and Marathi. Some of the past press releases are listed below. O3alensing O3IMBH NSBH GW200105 & GW200115 O3 All sky, all frequency search GWTC-3 catalog O3b Tests of GR ● https://www.ligo-india.in/outreach/detections/o3alensing/ ● https://www.ligo-india.in/outreach/detections/o3imbh/ ● https://www.ligo-india.in/outreach/detections/nsbhdiscovery/ ● https://www.ligo-india.in/outreach/detections/o3asaf/ ● https://www.ligo-india.in/outreach/detections/o3bcatalog/ ● https://www.ligo-india.in/outreach/detections/o3btgr/ LIPressConference-July2,2021 Panelist: Debarati Chatterjee, Anupreeta More, Somak Raychaudhuri, SanjitMitra, Sukanta Bose, BalaIyer, P. Ajith, Archana Pai, VarunBhalerao, K. G. Arun, BhoosanGadre, Samir Dhurde A press webinar was organised by LI-EPO to highlight “Recent milestones in GW Astronomy” particularly contributions from scientists fromthe LIGO-India Scientific Collaboration (LISC)