Agenda of LSC Detector Characterization Working Group Sessions

(Note: Several sessions are joint with the ASIS working group)
 

(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