LSC Meeting Agenda
MIT, November 4-5, 2006
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Saturday November 4th
8:20-9:25 LSC-Virgo MOU (closed session of the LSC), PDF
9:25-10:15 Burst group
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Burst group
- New results: S4 LIGO-GEO burst
search (Siong Heng): 15+10
- New results: SGR 1806-20 oscillation search (Luca Matone):
15+5+10, PPT, PDF
11:45-12:45 Stochastic search group
- S4 Radiometer Analysis Status (S. Ballmer): 15+5+10, ppt, review
- GWDAW Preview: Preliminary Results of LIGO-ALLEGRO Stochastic
Background Search [S4] (J.T. Whelan): 15+5+10 PDF, review
- LIGO-VIRGO Stochastic
Update (J.T. Whelan): 10+5 PDF
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Inspiral group presentations
- Overview; 10 (Patrick Brady) ODP PDF
- Paper, S3/S4 PBH, BNS, BBH; 40+10
(Thomas Cokelaer) Paper
draft; PDF
- Paper, S3/S4 PBH, BNS, BBH;
Review; 10
(Alan Weinstein)PPT,PDF
15:45-16:15 Break (Chowder and Cheese-Platter)
16:15 Inspiral continued
- New Results, S5 BNS; 15+5 (Drew
Keppel)PDF,
PPT
16:40-17:45 CW Group presentations
- Intro 5 (Mike Landry/M.Alessandra Papa)
- S5 known pulsar analyses update 15+10 (Matthew Pitkin), PDF
- S5 fast-track wide parameter space searches 15+10 (Vladimir
Dergachev), PDF
- Einstein@Home hierarchical
search 15+10 (Bruce Allen), PPT
20:00 LSC meeting dinner, Legal Seafood
Sunday November 5th
8:35-9:00 CW Group presentations
9:00-10:00 Inspiral Group
presentations
- S4 ringdowns (Lisa Goggin) PDF,PPT
- S5 BBH (Eirini Messaritaki) PDF,
ODP
- GRBs (Alex Dietz, by phone) PDF,
ODP
- S3 Spinning BBH (Chris Van Der
Brook) PDF
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Stochastic group
- S5 H1H2: Coherence Approach (N. Fotopoulos, 15 min) pdf
- S5 H1H2: Time-shift Approach (V. Mandic, 15 min) ppt
- Discussion (10 min)
- Summary and Plans (V. Mandic, 15+5 min) ppt
11:15-12:35 Burst group
- New results: S5A LIGO
all-sky WaveBurst+CorrPower search (Laura Cadonati): 20+10 - PowerPoint, pdf
- New results: S4 cosmic string search (Xavier Siemens): 10+5 - PowerPoint, pdf (Also: first
draft of paper)
- Status report: S5A Q pipeline search (Shourov Chatterji): 10+5 -
PowerPoint, pdf
- Summary and plans (Erik Katsavounidis): 15+5 pdf/ppt
12:35-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:45 Prospects on detector
performance and running schedules
- Virgo
outlook, 15 mins +
5 discussion, PPT
- LIGO outlook, 15 mins + 5
discussion PDF, PPT
- GEO outlook, 15 mins + 5
discussion, PPT
14:45-15:00 Remarks from the NSF
(Beverly Berger)
15:00-15:40 Burst group
continued
Status report: S5 AstroBurst analysis
(Keith Thorne, by phone): 10+5 - pdf
Status report: S5 Coherent WaveBurst
analysis (Igor Yakushin): 15+10 - pdf