Agenda of ASIS Sessions, including joint sessions with Detchar
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( LSC meeting at LIGO Hanford Observatory - March 19-22, 2006 )
Please contact Bruce Allen ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu if you
want to give a talk in this session, or to send corrections.
( Detchar -only talks listed at
http://gallatin.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~keithr/lscdc/agenda_mar06.html )
TUESDAY
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* [8:00-12:00 LSC Council meeting]
* [12:00--13:00 Lunch]
* [13:00-14:00 Scimon Discussion]
* [14:00-14:25 Start of technical plenary
- Intermediate LIGO upgrade (Rana Adhikari)]
14:30-16:55 (Joint with Detchar)
Calibrations:
20' S4/S5 Calibration Status (Brian O'Reilly)
10' Discussion
15' High-frequency Calibration (Rick Savage, Stefanos Giampanis)
10' Discussion
15' S5 Calibration Coefficients (Gaby Gonzalez)
5' Discussion
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1:15
S5 Investigations:
30' S5 Glitch Group Overview (Laura Cadonati)
10' Discussion
20' S5 Data Quality (John Zweizig)
10' Discussion
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1:10
* [16:55-17:10 Break]
17:10-18:30 (ASIS only)
20+5' Nick Fotopoulos
Searching for Astrophysical Stochastic Backgrounds
20+5' Richard O'Shaughnessy
Compact object merger rates : predictions and constraints (including short GRBs)
20+5' Patrick Sutton
Coherent network analysis technique for discriminating gravitational-wave bursts from instrumental noise
WEDNESDAY
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08:00-10:05 (ASIS only)
[No ASIS talks currently scheduled]
* [10:05-10:20 Break]
10:20-12:05 (ASIS only)
20+5: Reinhard Prix
The metric of the (multi-IFO) F-statistic
20+5: Ben Owen
Why (else) is PSR J0537-6910 interesting to us?
20+5: Bernard Whiting
The dawn of a golden age - report on recent results in numerical relativity
20+5: Malik Rakhmanov
Network analysis pipeline at PSU
* [12:05-13:15 Lunch]
13:15-15:00 (ASIS only)
[No ASIS talks currently scheduled]
* [15:00-15:30 Closing Plenary]