Agenda of Detchar Sessions, including joint sessions with ASIS -------------------------------------------------------------- (LSC meeting at LIGO Hanford Observatory - August 16-19, 2004) TUESDAY ------- 4:30-6:30 (Joint with ASIS) Calibrations: 30' S2 & S3 calibration status (Gaby Gonzalez) 10' Discussion 15' Time domain calibration (Xavi Siemens) 10' Discussion ---- 0:55 S2/S3 Investigations: 20' S3 Glitches (Laura Cadonati) 5' Discussion 10' S2/S3 Data Quality (John Zweizig) 5' Discussion 15' AS_I/Q glitches from oscillator phase noise (Gaby Gonzalez) 5' Discussion ---- 1:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY ---------- * [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] 3:30-4:55 (Joint with ASIS) Astrophysical figures of merit for the control room, hardware injections & detection committee report: 20' Status of BurstMon and non-stationary noise (Sergey Klimenko) 5' Discussion 10' Status of PulsMon (Giovanni Santostasi) 5' Discussion 10' Status of StochMon (Marc Cenac) 5' Discussion 10' Hardware injections of stochastic waveforms - Results from S3 and plans for S4 (Sukanta Bose) 5' Discussion 10' Report from the Detection Committee (Peter Saulson) 5' Discussion ---- 1:25 * [5:00-5:15 Break] 5:15-6:30 (Detchar only) 10' Planning for the S4 run (Keith Riles) 10' Discussion 10' S3 timing issues (Szabi Marka) 5' Discussion -- 35' Simulations: 10' Modeling the input optics in the LIGO IFO's using E2E (Raghu Dodda) 5' Discussion -- 15' * [7:30 LSC Dinner] --------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY -------- 8:00-9:45 (Detchar only) S2/S3 reports: 20' S2/S3 interchannel correlations (Nelson Christensen) 5' Discussion 20' Environmental disturbances and intersite correlated transients (Robert Schofield) 5' Discussion ---- 0:50 Software development 10' Status of SpecMon (Tim Bodiya) 5' Discussion 10' Status of SuspensionMon (Rauha Rahkola) 5' Discussion 20' Generation of realistically modelled detector noise - production and application (Soma Mukherjee) 5' Discussion ---- 0:55 * [9:45-10:00 Break] * [10:00-11:00 KR in another meeting] 11:00-12:00 Software development: 15' Bilinear coupling monitoring (Steve Penn) 5' Discussion 10' LineAmp studies (Mike Ashley) 5' Discussion ---- 0:35 * [12:00-1:15 Lunch] 1:15-2:45 Commissioning: 15' Study of the Output Mode-Cleaner prototype using the Phase Camera (Joe Betzwieser) 5' Discussion 15' Identification and removal of limiting noise sources of GEO600 (Josh Smith) 5' Discussion ---- 0:40 * [2:45-3:30 Closeout plenary session]