Preliminary Agenda of LSC Detector Characterization W.G. Sessions
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                  (LIGO Hanford Observatory - August 14-16, 2001)

Tuesday Afternoon Session (3:45-6:00):

  10' Riles/Sigg(Mich/LHO)  Introduction
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Shawhan(LIGO-CIT)      What's New in LIGOTools
  10' All                    Discussion

  15' Sylvestre(LIGO-MIT)    The TID Program
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Daw(LSU)               The IIR Filter Class in the DMT
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Sutton(PSU)            DMT monitor of Rayleigh Behavior (Gaussianity)
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Rogers(PSU)            DMT monitor of Channel Excursions
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Klimenko(Florida)      Coherence of LLO and LHO power monitors
   5' All                    Discussion

Wednesday Morning Session (9:05-10:30):

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

  10' Sigg(LIGO-LHO)         Summary of E5 Engineering Run
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Christensen(Carleton)  Summary of Inspiral Detector Characterization Subgroup Results
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Christensen(Carleton)  E3/E4 Investigation: Correlations between GW and Other Channels
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Raab(LIGO-LHO)         E3/E4 Investigation: Tidal Modelling
   5' All                    Discussion

   5' Strom(Oregon)          E3/E4 Investigation: More on Tidal Modelling
   5' All                    Discussion

Wednesday Afternoon Session (3:00-6:00):

  15' Landry (LIGO-LHO) /    E3/E4 Investigation: Inter-site Environmental Correlations
      Schofield(Oregon)
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Schofield(Oregon)      E3/E4 Investigation: Environmental Disturbances
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Landry(LIGO-LHO)       E3/E4 Investigation: Calibration Studies
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Riles(Michigan)        E3/E4 Investigation: Lock Losses
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Sigg(LIGO-LHO)         E3/E4 Investigation: Timing Precision
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Zweizig(LIGO-CIT)      E3/E4 Investigation: Data Integrity
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Shawhan(LIGO-CIT)      E3/E4 Investigation: Data Merging
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Klimenko(Florida)      E3/E4 Investigation: Line Noise
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Penn(Syracuse)         Bi-Coherence DMT Monitor
   5' All                    Discussion

Thursday Morning Session (8:00-9:45):

  10' Weiss(LIGO-MIT)        Implications of the Spiky Noise at Livingston
   5' All                    Discussion

  20' Coles(LIGO-LLO)        Report on Seismic Noise at Livingston
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Greenwood(La Tech)     Results from Livingston Seismic Array
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Marka(LIGO-CIT)        Storing and Retrieving Reference Spectra - A Web Interface
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Ito(Oregon)            DMT Histogramming Demo (control room)
   5' All                    Discussion
 

Thursday Afternoon Session (1:15-2:45): (Overflow, if needed)
 
 

Further subgroup meetings to be arranged, as needed

Additional contributions are welcome!

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