Agenda of Detchar Sessions, including joint sessions with ASIS
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     ( LSC meeting at LIGO Hanford Observatory - March 19-22, 2006 )

     ( ASIS-only talks listed at 

       http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/~ballen/asis.html )

TUESDAY
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*  [8:00-12:00 LSC Council meeting]

*  [12:00--13:00 Lunch]

*  [13:00-14:00 Scimon Discussion]

*  [14:00-14:25 Start of technical plenary 
    - Intermediate LIGO upgrade (Rana Adhikari)]

14:30-16:55 (Joint with ASIS)

  Calibrations:

    20' S4/S5 Calibration Status (Brian O'Reilly)
    10' Discussion
    15' High-frequency Calibration (Rick Savage, Stefanos Giampanis)
    10' Discussion
    15' S5 Calibration Coefficients (Gaby Gonzalez)
     5' Discussion
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  1:15

  S5 Investigations:

    30' S5 Glitch Group Overview (Laura Cadonati)
    10' Discussion
    20' S5 Data Quality (John Zweizig)
    10' Discussion
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  1:10

* [16:55-17:10 Break]

17:10-18:30 (detchar only)

  New detector characterization developments:

    15' Q Scan & Applications to Detector Characterization (Shourov Chatterji)
     5' Discussion
    15' Instrumental Vetoes for Burst Triggers Using
        Noise Projections (P. Ajith for the GEO600 team) 
    10' Discussion
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  0:45

WEDNESDAY
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08:00-10:05 (detchar only)

  DMT Software Development:

    10' Status of PulsarMon (Giovanni Santostasi - by telephone)
     5' Discussion
    10' Status of PlaneMon (Evan Goetz)
     5' Discussion
    15' Status of DMT Infrastructure (John Zweizig)
    10' Discussion
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  0:55

  S5 Investigations:

    15' S5 Timing Status (Szabi Marka - by telephone)
    10' Discussion
    10' S5 Hardware Injections (Vuk Mandic, Peter Shawhan)
    10' Discussion 
    15' S5 Spectral Line Finding (Keith Thorne)
    10' Discussion 
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  1:10

* [10:05-10:20 Break]

10:20-12:05 (detchar only)

  S4/S5 Investigations:

    20' S5 Environmental Disturbances (Robert Schofield)
    10' Discussion
    10' Magnetic Correlations between Hanford & Livingston (Bernard Whiting)
     5' Discussion
    15' S4 AS_I Veto for Inspiral Analysis (Jake Slutsky)
     5' Discussion
    15' S5 Loud Block-Normal Triggers & the Event Display (Shantanu Desai)
     5' Discussion
    15' Spherical Invariant Random Process (SIRP) Modeling of
        IFO Data  (Vincenzo Matta by telephone)
     5' Discussion
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  1:45

* [12:05-13:15 Lunch]

13:15-15:00 (detchar only)

  S5 Investigations & DMT software:

    20' S5 KleineWelle Glitch Studies (Erik Katsavounidis - by telephone)
    10' Discussion
    15' S5 Offline NoiseFloorMon Studies (Soma Mukherjee - by telephone)
     5' Discussion
    10' S5 Online Inspiral Glitch Triggers (Duncan Brown)
     5' Discussion
    10' BicoViewer & BicoMon Developments (Steve Penn)
     5' Discussion
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  1:20

* [15:00-15:30 Closing Plenary]