Preliminary Program of Plenary LSC Meeting in Ann Arbor

(last updated - June 15, 2005)



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Saturday June 4:

Burst:
08:30  S3 LIGO-Auriga burst search (Laura Cadonati - LIGO-MIT - by phone)
08:50  Review committee comments (Riles et al)
09:00  Discussion
09:20  Status of LIGO S4 untriggered burst search (Igor Yakushin - LIGO Livingston)
09:40  Review committee comments (Riles et al)
09:50  Discussion

10:10  Break


10:30  S3 LIGO-only burst search results (Erik Katsavounids - LIGO-MIT - by phone)
10:50  Review committee comments (Riles et al)
11:00  Discussion

Stochastic:
11:20  S3 LIGO-only IFO-IFO stochastic search (Stefan Ballmer - LIGO-MIT)
11:40  Review committee comments (Anderson et al)
11:50  Discussion

12:10  Lunch


Inspiral:

13:20  S2 LIGO-only binary black hole search (Eirini Messaritaki - UWM)
13:40  Review committee comments (Weinstein et al)
13:50  Discussion
14:10  S2 LIGO-TAMA binary neutron star search (Steve Fairhurst - UWM)
14:30  Review committee comments (Weinstein et al)
14:40  Discussion
 
15:00  Break

Pulsar:
15:20  S2 Hough-transform incoherent pulsar search (Alicia Sintes - Balearic)
15:40  Review committee comments (Shawhan et al)
15:50  Discussion
16:10  S2 Fstatistic pulsar search (Maria-Alessandra Papa - UWM)
16:40  Review committee comments (Shawhan et al)
16:50  Discussion
17:10  S3 time-domain coherent known pulsar search (Matt Pitkin - Glasgow)
17:30  Review committee comments (Shawhan et al)
17:40  Discussion

18:00  Adjourn

18:30  Dinner at Michigan League (Hussey Room - 2nd floor)


Sunday June 5:

Burst:
08:30  Burst group activities and plans (Peter Shawhan - LIGO-Caltech)
08:40  Discussion
08:50  Update on LIGO-GEO searches (Siong Heng - AEI)
09:05  Discussion
09:15  S4 data quality and vetoes (Alessandra Di Credico  - Syracuse)
09:30  Discussion

Stochastic:
09:45  Status of the S2 LIGO-Allegro stochastic search (John Whelan - Loyola)
10:20  Discussion

10:30  Break

Inspiral:
10:45  S3 & S4 binary neutron star search (Patrick Brady - UWM)
11:05  Discussion
11:15  S3 binary black hole search (Eirini Messaritaki - UWM)
11:30  Discussion
11:40  S3 binary spinning black hole search  (Eirini Messaritaki - UWM)
11:55  Discussion

12:05  Lunch

Pulsar:
13:15  Topics/speakers: (times TBD)

 Pulsar group activities (Mike Landry - LIGO-Hanford)
 S3 & S4 PowerFlux search (Vladimir Dergachev - Michigan)
 S3 StackSlide search (Greg Mendell - LIGO-Hanford)
 Einstein@home (Bruce Allen - UWM)

General:
14:30  Discussion and follow-up on previous day's discussion
15:00  Status of interferometers (Daniel Sigg - LIGO-Hanford)

15:30  Break

15:45  S5 planning and brainstorming (informal / open ended)

16:30  Lab visit for interested persons (undergraduates describing ongoing projects -- 3288 Randall)



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