LIGO · LSC March 2004 Meeting

LIGO Livingston Observatory
Livingston, Louisiana, USA
15-18 March 2004

ASIS Session Schedule

Three ASIS sessions and three joint ASIS/Detchar sessions are planned.
The ASIS sessions are organized by Bruce Allen.
Additional Detchar sessions are organized by Keith Riles.


      Agenda of ASIS sessions, including joint sessions with Detchar
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                      ( PRELIMINARY! )

TUESDAY
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4:30-6:30 (Joint with Detchar)

  Calibrations:

    15' S2 calibration error estimates (Gaby Gonzalez)
     5' Discussion 
    15' S3 calibration status (Gaby Gonzalez)
     5' Discussion
    15' Time domain calibration (Xavi Siemens)
     5' Discussion
    15' Producing h(t) - format/storage/retrieval (Martin Hewitson)
     5' Discussion 
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  1:20

  S2/S3 investigations:

    10' S2/S3 data quality (John Zweizig)
     5' Discussion
    15' Timing stability & atomic clocks (Szabi Marka / Daniel Sigg)
     5' Discussion  
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  0:35

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WEDNESDAY
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*  [8:00-10:45 LSC Council Meeting]

*  [10:45-11:00 Break]

*  [11:00-12:00 - Advanced LIGO Technical Plenary]
 
*  [12:00-1:15 Lunch]

*  [1:15-3:15 - Advanced LIGO Technical Plenary] 

*  [3:15-3:30 Break]

3:30-4:30 (Joint with Detchar)

  S3 hardware signal injections:

    10' Summary of injections carried out (Peter Shawhan / Szabi Marka)
     5' Discussion
    10' Results of analysis of S3 pulsar injections (Rejean Dupuis / Matt Pitkin)
     5' Discussion
     5' Results of analysis of S3 burst injections (Erik Katsavounidis)
     5' Discussion
     5' GRB notification in the control room (Rauha Rahkola)
     5' Discussion
    10' Report of the detection committee (Peter Saulson)
     5' Discussion
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  1:05

*  [4:30-4:45 Break]

4:45-6:05

  Pulsar / CW source detection

    15' Joel Veitch / Nelson Christensen: Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for pulsars
     5' Discussion
    15' Xavier Siemens: Expected values of phase in hardware injected pulsar signals
     5' Discussion
    15' Badri Krishnan: Optimized hierarchical continuous-wave searches
     5' Discussion
    15' Ian Jones: Template placement for all-sky pulsar search
     5' Discussion
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  1:20

*  [7:30 LSC Dinner]

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THURSDAY
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8:00-10:00 (Joint with Detchar)

  Astrophysical figures of merit for the control room:
  
    10' Standardized interface for strain-based FOM's (Patrick Sutton)
     5' S4 plans of the Inspiral Group (Patrick Sutton)
     5' Discussion
    10' S4 plans of the Stochastic Group (Jennifer Barre' & John Whelan)
     5' Discussion
    10' S4 plans of the Pulsar Group (Keith Riles)
     5' Discussion
    10' S4 plans of the Burst Group (Julien Sylvestre)
     5' Discussion
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  1:05

  Offline analysis issues:

    15' Optimum H1/H2 combination in stochastic analysis (Albert Lazzarini)
     5' Discussion
    15' Veto selection criteria for gravitational wave burst searches (Sam Finn)
     5' Discussion
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  0:40

*  [9:45-10:15 Break]

10:15-12:15

  Inspiral / burst source detection

    15' Ben Owen: Template placement for precessing binary search
     5' Discussion
    15' Duncan Brown: Search algorithms for binary inspirals
     5' Discussion
    15' Bernard Schutz /  B. S. Sathyaprakash: Triggered and blind searches for NS normal modes
     5' Discussion
    15' Laura Cadonati: Performance of r^2 statistic in S2
     5' Discussion
    15' Saikat Ray Majumder: Excess power method: preparing for automated analysis of LIGO data for burst sources
     5' Discussion
    15' Amber Stuver: A gravitational-wave simulation engine
     5' Discussion
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  2:00

*  [12:00-1:15 Lunch]

1:15-2:45

  Burst source detection

    20' Mike Ashley / Sam Finn / John McNabb / Keith Thorne: Block-normal
    20' Sam Finn: Tuning Event Trigger Generators
     5' Discussion
    20' Sergey Klimenko / Igor Yakushin / Ken Yoshiki Franzen: Waveburst/wavemon I
    20' Sergey Klimenko / Igor Yakushin / Ken Yoshiki Franzen: Waveburst/wavemon II
     5' Discussion
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  1:30

*  [2:45-3:30 Closeout plenary session]