Agenda of Detchar Sessions, including joint sessions with ASIS -------------------------------------------------------------- (LSC meeting at LIGO Livingston Observatory - March 20-23, 2005) TUESDAY ------- * [8:00-10:45 LSC Council meeting] * [10:45-11:00 Break] 11:00-12:00 (Joint with ASIS ) S3/S4 Investigations (Joint with ASIS) 20' S3/S4 Calibration Status (Gaby Gonzalez, Mike Landry, Brian O'Reilly) 10' Discussion 10' Status of Time Domain Calibration (Xavi Siemens) 5' Discussion 15' S4 Data Quality (John Zweizig) 5' Discussion ---- 1:05 * [12:05-1:15 Lunch] * [1:15-3:15 Initial LIGO Upgrade discussion] * [3:15-3:30 Break] 3:30-5:00 (Joint with ASIS) Detector Characterization Needs & AstroWatch Proposal 15' Detector Characterization "Wish List" (Keith Riles / Daniel Sigg) 10' Proposed AstroWatch Expansion (Fred Raab) 35' Discussion (All) ---- 1:00 S3/S4 Investigations 20' Environmental Disturbances (Robert Schofield) 10' Discussion ---- 30' * [5:00:5:15 Break] 5:15-6:30 S3/S4 Investigations 10' S4 Timing Stability (Szabi Marka, Daniel Sigg) 5' Discussion 15' S3/S4 Glitch Investigations Overview (Laura Cadonati) 5' Discussion 15' Glitch Investigations with KleineWelle (Alessandra Di Credico) 5' Discussion 10' BlockNormal Veto Studies (Shantanu Desai) 5' Discussion ---- 1:10 * [7:30 LSC Dinner] --------------------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY ---------- 8:00-10:00 [Joint with ASIS] Reports on New Astrophysical FOM DMT monitors: 10' PulsarMon (Giovanni Santostasi) 5' Discussion 10' StochMon (Marc Cenac, John Whelan) 5' Discussion 15' BurstMon (Sergey Klimenko) 5' Discussion 15' InspiralMon (Duncan Brown) 5' Discussion ---- 1:10 S3/S4 Investigations 15' S4 Hardware Injections (Vuk Mandic, Peter Shawhan) 5' Discussion 10' Analysis of S4 Stochastic Hardware Injections (Sukanta Bose) 5' Discussion 10' AS_I Veto Studies (Chad Hanna) 5' Discussion ---- 50' * [10:00-10:15 Break] 10:15-12:00 S3/S4 Investigations 10' Spectral Lines in S3 / S4 data (Keith Thorne) 5' Discussion 15' Calibration of the Allegro Detector for S2 & S4 (Martin McHugh) 5' Discussion ---- 35' Detector Studies and Modelling 20' Initial LIGO Thermal Noise Studies (Gregg Harry) 10' Discussion 10' LIGO detector response at High Frequencies and its Implications for Calibration above 1 kHz (Malik Rakhmanov, Rick Savage) 5' Discussion 15' Effects of Thermal Lensing on WFS signals - FFT study (Biplab Bhawal) 5' Discussion ---- 1:05 * [12:00-1:15 Lunch] 1:15-2:45 Detector Studies and Modelling 10' Modeling the Input Optics with E2E (Tiffany Findley) 5' Discussion ---- 15' * [2:45-3:30 Closing Plenary]