Preliminary Agenda of LSC Detector Characterization W.G. Sessions
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                  (LIGO Hanford Observatory - August 15-17, 2000)

Tuesday Afternoon Session (4:15-6:30):

   5' Riles/Sigg(Mich/LHO)   Introduction

  20' Zweizig(LIGO-CIT)      Status of the Data Monitoring Tool (DMT)
  10' All                    Discussion

   5' Strom(Oregon)          Status of Data Set Reduction
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Finn(PSU)              Status of Data Set Simulation
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Riles(Michigan)        Status of DMT Software Tasks
   5' All                    Discussion

  20' All                    Round-table discussion of LSC activity at the sites
                             and upcoming engineering runs

Wednesday Morning Session (9:00-10:15):

  20' Klimenko(Florida)      LIGO Data Compression with Wavelets
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Strom(Oregon)          Correlations between Tiltmeters & Arm Length
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Shawhan(LIGO-CIT)      Offline Analysis Environments and Tools
   5' All                    Discussion

  20' All                    Round-table discussion of off-site DC analysis

Wednesday Afternoon Session (1:00-3:45):

  15' Kovalik(LIGO-LLO)      Audit of the PEM system at LLO
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Mauceli(Oregon)        Environmental Monitoring in the DMT
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Klimenko(Florida)      Wavelet Analysis & Line Removal in the DMT
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Sylvestre(LIGO-MIT)    Transient Identification in Engineering Data
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Finn/Gonzalez(PSU)     Transient Detection Techniques
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Riles(Michigan)        Operational State Conditions and Servo Instability
                             Detection in the DMT
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Whiting(Florida)       Comparison of Line Removal Techniques
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Sintes(AEI-Potsdam)    Coherent Line Removal in the DMT
   5' All                    Discussion

Thursday Morning Session (10:45-12:00):

  20' Mavalvala(LIGO-CIT)    Status of LIGO I Commissioning
  10' All                    Discussion

  15' Rong(Florida)          Status of LIGO I Input Optics
   5' All                    Discussion

  20' Schofield(Oregon)      Source and Propagation of the Predominant 1-50 Hz
                             Seismic Signal from Off-site at LIGO Hanford
   5' All                    Discussion

Thursday Afternoon Session (1:00-3:00): (overflow session, if needed)

  10' Penn(Syracuse)         Bilinear Couplings DMT Software
   5' All                    Discussion

  ??' All                    A.O.B.

Further subgroup meetings to be arranged, as needed

Additional contributions are welcome!

Please inform Keith Riles or Daniel Sigg if you wish to speak.