AGENDA OF LSC DETECTOR CHARACTERIZATION W.G. SESSIONS

(Hannover - August 18-21, 2003)


MONDAY:

Monday Morning Session (9:15-10:30): [LIGO-I Data Quality Session - Plenary]

   5' Riles(Michigan)        Data Quality Session Overview

  15' Landry(LIGO-LHO)       S2 Calibration Summary
   5' All                    Discussion

   5' Marka(LIGO-CIT)        S2 Timing Summary
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Cadonati(LIGO-MIT)     S2 Glitches Summary
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Zweizig(LIGO-CIT)      S2 Data Quality Summary
   5' All                    Discussion

Rest of Monday: LIGO I parallel and plenary sessions of Upper Limit Groups (closed)


TUESDAY:

Tuesday Morning
Plenary Session until lunch at 12:00
Tuesday Afternoon
Advanced LIGO Technical Plenary (Part I) 1:15-2:45
More LIGO I Sessions 3:00-6:00 (closed)

WEDNESDAY:

Wednesday Morning Session I (9:00-10:30): [Joint Detchar/ASIS Session]

  90' Stan and UL group representatives discussing astrophysical detection criteria

      --> Scenarios for UL groups to examine
 

Wednesday Morning Session II (10:45-12:00): [Joint Detchar/ASIS Session]

  10' Allen(Milwaukee)       S2 LIGO Pulsar Hardware Injections
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Weiland(Hannover)      Plans for GEO Pulsar Hardware Injections
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Brown(Milwaukee)       S2 LIGO Inspiral Hardware Injections
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Cadonati(LIGO-MIT)     S2 LIGO Burst Hardware Injections
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Cadonati(LIGO-MIT)     R-Statistic Studies for Burst Detection
   5' All                    Discussion

Click here to see ASIS sessions agenda

Wednesday Afternoon Session I (1:15-3:30): [First 30 minutes - joint with ASIS]
 

  15' O'Reilly(LIGO-LLO)     Calibration Model (Calibration Details I)
  10' Sutton(Penn State)     SenseMon Coefficient Generation (Calibration Details II)
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Riles/Sigg(Mich/LHO)   Detector Characterization Issues - S2 analysis & S3 planning
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Klimenko(Florida)      S2 Violin Modes Report
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Christensen(Carleton)  S2 Inter-channel Correlations Report
   5' All                    Discussion

   8' Katsavounidis(LIGO-MIT)MIT Group Glitch Investigations (Glitches Details I)
   8' DiCredico(Syracuse)    Syracuse Group Glitch Investigations (Glitches Details II)
   8' Klimenko(Florida)      Florida Group Glitch Investigations (Glitches Details III)
   6' All                    Discussion

  15' Johnson(LSU)           S2 Performance of the ALLEGRO Detector
   5' All                    Discussion

Wednesday Afternoon Session II (3:45-6:25):

  20' Schofield(Oregon)      Post-S2 Acoustic Mitigation
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Penn(Hobart-Smith)     S2 Bilinear Couplings Report I
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Gonzalez (LSU)         S2 Bilinear Couplings Report II
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Gonzalez(LSU)          ASQ Outliers and Trend Information (DQ details I)
  10' Riles  (Michigan)      Data Quality Segments Repository (DQ details II)
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Mukherjee(AEI)         Simulating Realistic Non-Stationary Noise --
                             A Case Study with LIGO S2
   5' All                    Discussion

  15' Finn(Penn State)       Identification of Non-Stationary Intervals and
                             the medNoiseChar MATLAB tool
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Zweizig(LIGO-CIT)      Signal and Noise Simulation Tools in the DMT
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Chatterji(LIGO-MIT)    Data Conditioning for Glitch Detection and Burst Detections
   5' All                    Discussion


THURSDAY:

Thursday Morning
Advanced LIGO Technical Plenary (Part II) 9:00-10:30

Click here to see ASIS sessions agenda
 

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

  30' Churches(Cardiff)      The GEO Online Detector Characterization System (GODCS)
   5' All                    Discussion

  20' Yamamoto(LIGO-CIT)     Recent End-To-End Simulation Results for LIGO I
   5' All                    Discussion

  10' Cokelaer(Cardiff)      The GEO Line Detection Monitor
   5' All                    Discussion

Thursday Afternoon

Closeout LSC Plenary Session