(LIGO Livingston Observatory - March 18-20, 2003)
Tuesday Afternoon Session I (13:15-15:15): (Joint with ASIS)
Subsession on Calibration Determination
from the Instruments
(organized by the S2 Calibration Team)
10' O'Reilly
(LIGO-LLO)
Theoretical Background for the Calibration Method
4' All
Discussion
10' Landry
(LIGO-LHO)
Auto-Calibration Studies
4' All
Discussion
10' Gonzalez
(LSU)
Time-evolution of the calibration (LHO and
LLO)
4' All
Discussion
10' Sutton
(Penn State)
SenseMonitor Studies
4' All
Discussion
Subsession on Use of Calibration
Info in Astrophysical Searches and Effects of Calibration Errors
(organized by B. Allen)
10' J.Creighton (UWM) Overview of Calibration Use in Astrophysical Searches
5'
Allen (UWM)
Calibration errors
& effects on Detection /
Parameter Estimation
5'
Brown (UWM)
Calibration in Inspiral Source Searches
5' All
Discussion
5'
Weinstein (LIGO-CIT)
Calibration in Burst Source Searches
5' All
Discussion
5'
Whelan (Loyola)
Calibration in Stochastic Source Searches
5' All
Discussion
5'
Siemens (UWM)
Calibration in Periodic Source Searches (freq domain)
5' All
Discussion
5'
Dupuis (Glasgow)
Calibration
in Periodic Source Searches (time domain)
5' All
Discussion
Tuesday Afternoon Session II (15:30-17:00): (Joint with ASIS)
10' Riles/Sigg
(Mich/LHO)
Introduction
5' All
Discussion
20' Zweizig
(LIGO-CIT) S2
Data Quality Report
5' All
Discussion
20' Marka/Sigg
(CIT/LHO) S2 Timing Precision
Report
5' All
Discussion
10' Cadonati
(LIGO-MIT) Study of
Simultaneous Burst Injections
5' All
Discussion
Wednesday Morning Session I (9:00-10:30):
10' Klimenko
(Florida) S2
Violin Modes Report
5' All
Discussion
15' Chickarmane
(LSU)/
S2 Bilinear Couplings Report
Penn (Hobart-Smith)
5' All
Discussion
15' Christensen
(Carleton) S1 and S2 Inter-channel Correlations
Report
5' All
Discussion
10' Shawhan
(LIGO-CIT) S2
Data Access Report
5' All
Discussion
10' Leonor
(Oregon)
S2 Reduced Data Set
Report
5' All
Discussion
Wednesday Morning Session II (10:45-12:00):
10' Summerscales
(Penn State)A Test for Non-Linear Couplings:
Results from S1
5' All
Discussion
10' Zotov
(La. Tech)
Relative Timing of Glitches: Information from PTmon
5' All
Discussion
10' Brown
(UWM)
The Online Inspiral Event Monitor
5' All
Discussion
10' Harry
(LIGO-MIT)
LIGO Thermal Noise Predictions from Measured
Mirror Q's
5' All
Discussion
10' Ballmer
(LIGO-MIT)
The fastGlitch DMT Program for Studying Glitches
5' All
Discussion
Wednesday Afternoon Session (1:15-3:45): (Joint with ASIS)
Session on Signal and Environmental
Injections
(organized by S. Marka)
15' Leonor
(Oregon)
Introduction
Marka/Shawhan (LIGO-CIT)
5' All
Discussion
15' Brady/Brown
(UWM)
Results from the Inspiral Group
5' All
Discussion
15' Bose
(Wash. State)
Results from the Stochastic Hardware
Injections during S2
5' All
Discussion
15' Weinstein
(LIGO-CIT)
Results from the Burst Group
5' All
Discussion
15' Schofield
(Oregon)
Measurement of Environmental Coupling to the
Gravitational Wave Channel (PEM Injections)
5' All
Discussion
20' All
(moderators: Global Discussion
Marka, Shawhan)
Thursday Morning Session I (8:00-9:45):
10' Coldwell
(Florida) Tchebyshev
Fit Alternative to the Fourier Transforma
5' All
Discussion
10' Whiting
(Florida)
Window Design for Stochastic Analysis
5' All
Discussion
15' Balasubramanian
(Cardiff)GEO Online Detector Characterization
5' All
Discussion
10' Mohanty
(AEI)
Non-Parametric Search for Bursts
5' All
Discussion
10' Mukherjee
(AEI)
Robust Detection of Slow Drifts
5' All
Discussion
Thursday Morning Session II (10:00-12:00):
10' Daw
(LSU)
Results from Two Years of Seismic BLRMS Analysis
5' All
Discussion
15' Evans
(LIGO-CIT)
Lock Acquisition
5' All
Discussion
10'
Rakhmanov (Florida)
Study of Cavity Field Dynamics
at High Frequencies
in the H1 Interferometer
5' All
Discussion