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Are you new to WAO? Have you changed your organization or made a major modification or update to your facility? This session is an opportunity to tell the broader accelerator operations community all about your operations. Tell us about your mission, how you are organized, how you staff the control room, your operational rhythm, how your operators are trained, and any other operations-focused topics you want to share

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Gravitational wave astronomy is in its early state, but the seed for gravitational waves was planted over a century ago with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Follow a journey covering the genesis of gravitational wave observation from construction, initial operations, a major upgrade, the historic first gravitational wave detection, and the state of gravitational wave astronomy currently and in the future. This will be an in depth and behind the scenes look at what it has been like working at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) from an Operator’s point of view who has been with the project since the last century (1998). Also learn the personal journey of a shy “reluctant science communicator” who has also learned the importance of science communication and how to integrate his Blackfoot culture into the science of spacetime.