gwoptics: searching for gravitational waves

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June 3rd, 2012
This graph shows the monthly number of views of the GW Ebook and the monthly downloads of the game Space Time Quest. As an academic in the UK I have to spend considerable time writing documents about the `impact’ of our work. As part of this, I had a look at the gwoptics.org user statistics: The data extracted from the webserver logfiles show a steady and fast increase in visitors to www.gwoptics.org since its launch, with currently an average of 140 unique visitors per day and more than 100,000 page impressions per month. Furthermore Google currently counts more than 1500 incoming links to the gwoptics webpage. Within one year from its first release we have achieved almost 10,000 downloads of Space Time Quest and have close to 5000 downloads for Black Hole Pong. The online high-scores table for STQ shows over 5000 entries. I have tried a number of data sets to show the visitor development over the last year and settled on the figure above: The monthly views of the GW Ebook show a mostly steady increase over time, with peaks of 3000 visitors per month. It can be seen that the interest in our web page is boosted by events, such as releases of new material online, or by promoting our work in a science fair. Also, the slightly different patterns for STQ, GW Ebook highlights that all of both serve as entry points.

This graph shows the monthly number of views of the GW Ebook and the monthly downloads of the game Space Time Quest.

As an academic in the UK I have to spend considerable time writing documents about the `impact’ of our work. As part of this, I had a look at the gwoptics.org user statistics: The data extracted from the webserver logfiles show a steady and fast increase in visitors to www.gwoptics.org since its launch, with currently an average of 140 unique visitors per day and more than 100,000 page impressions per month. Furthermore Google currently counts more than 1500 incoming links to the gwoptics webpage. Within one year from its first release we have achieved almost 10,000 downloads of Space Time Quest and have close to 5000 downloads for Black Hole Pong. The online high-scores table for STQ shows over 5000 entries.

I have tried a number of data sets to show the visitor development over the last year and settled on the figure above: The monthly views of the GW Ebook show a mostly steady increase over time, with peaks of 3000 visitors per month. It can be seen that the interest in our web page is boosted by events, such as releases of new material online, or by promoting our work in a science fair. Also, the slightly different patterns for STQ, GW Ebook highlights that all of both serve as entry points.

May 14th, 2012
The GWADW 2012 has started! First day on the big island of Hawaii.

The GWADW 2012 has started! First day on the big island of Hawaii.

April 18th, 2012
Tokyo 18.04.2012, we have taken a `short-cut’, looking for the banquet of the KAGRA external review meeting.

Tokyo 18.04.2012, we have taken a `short-cut’, looking for the banquet of the KAGRA external review meeting.

April 13th, 2012
Soldering for an Arduino voice recognition experiment, in preparation of our one-week summer school for local PhD students.

Soldering for an Arduino voice recognition experiment, in preparation of our one-week summer school for local PhD students.

April 3rd, 2012
The new logo for the new name of the Japanese graviational wave detector project: http://gwcenter.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/

The new logo for the new name of the Japanese graviational wave detector project: http://gwcenter.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/

March 24th, 2012
Choir practice at the Big Bang Fair?

Choir practice at the Big Bang Fair?

March 17th, 2012
On the way home from the Big Bang Fair (inspiring future scientists!).

On the way home from the Big Bang Fair (inspiring future scientists!).

March 15th, 2012
Curved spacetime, as seen today at the Big Bang Fair.

Curved spacetime, as seen today at the Big Bang Fair.

February 14th, 2012
A look into the vacuum system of the 40m prototype interferometer at Caltech. Many thanks to Koji Arai for giving me the tour!

A look into the vacuum system of the 40m prototype interferometer at Caltech. Many thanks to Koji Arai for giving me the tour!

February 13th, 2012
This is what you get when you mix (interfere) two Laguerre-Gauss beams (LG55 with LG00) and look at the result with a somewhat dirty beam analysing camera. The vortex shows the helical phase straucture of the LG55’s phase. Image by Paul Fulda.

This is what you get when you mix (interfere) two Laguerre-Gauss beams (LG55 with LG00) and look at the result with a somewhat dirty beam analysing camera. The vortex shows the helical phase straucture of the LG55’s phase. Image by Paul Fulda.