Open science has become a crucial research issue. The gravitational wave community has set up the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC).
In particular, GWOSC makes gravitational wave detection data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors available to the public. LIGO and Virgo are currently taking data. Since their first detection in 2015 (crowned by a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017), LIGO and Virgo have delivered around a hundred detections.
Since 2018, GWOSC has organized an annual Open Data Workshop, with this year’s edition taking place in mid-May. At this event, open to all, participants will learn the basics of analyzing data from gravitational wave detections. They will put them into practice using the same data and software as those used for data analysis by members of the LIGO and Virgo collaborations.
For the second year running, L2IT is joining this event by organizing a local study group in Toulouse to participate remotely in the event. Experts in gravitational wave data analysis from L2IT will be present on site at L2IT to help our local workshop participants. Our workshop is open to anyone interested.
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