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]