[Ian, Sander, Torrey]

As part of the Watson Lectures at Caltech, we gave a tour of the lab spaces and gave a brief talk to some students from South Pasadena High School before an Athenaeum dinner with them and attending the lecture by Prof. Chatziioannou. We showed them a video describing gravitational waves before we gave a brief talk on exactly how GQuEST is different from LIGO and what Sander and I both work on. We then gave them a tour of the lab and showed them inside of one of the laser cavities. They were very interested in lasers so we also discussed some of the laser work that is going on in the LIGOX group and LIGO in general. It was a good event.

We should invest in a model interferometer that we can use to demonstrate how it works to students and the public. It would have been helpful.