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Agenda of Detector Characterization Sessions

March 21-22, 2007 - Baton Rouge Hilton (Victory Room - Mezzanine level)


SLIDES: WEDNESDAY  THURSDAY


* BREAKFAST (7:30-8:30 Foyer)

* TECHNICAL PLENARY I (8:30-10:00 Riverview Ballroom A)

* BREAK (10:00-10:30)

Wed 10:30-12:30 - Victory Room

  S5 Glitch Studies:

  20'  S5 Glitches Overview (Shourov Chatterji - INFN)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  New types of glitches seen in Block-Normal (Shantanu Desai - Penn State)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  Data Quality Epochs in the first year of S5 (Gaby Gonzalez - LSU)
   5'  Discussion
  10'  Update on Glitch Classification (Soma Mukherjee - UT Brownsville) 
   5'  Discussion
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1:20

  S5 Upconversion Studies:

  15'  S5 Upconversion Overview (Sam Waldman - LIGO Caltech)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  Upconversion studies with the Hilbert-Huang Tranform (Jordan Camp - Goddard)
   5'  Discussion
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0:40

* LUNCH (12:30-2:00 - Heidelberg Ballroom - 10th floor)

Wed 2:00-4:00 - Victory Room

  S5 Investigations:

  20'  S5 Data Quality Investigations (John Zweizig - LIGO Caltech)
   5'  Discussion
  10'  DQ Flagging S5 Elog Entries (Tiffany Summerscales - Andrews)
   5'  Discussion
  20'  S5 Spectral Line Cataloguing (Keith Thorne - Penn State)
   5'  Discussion
  10'  S5 Timing Stability (Szabi Marka - Columbia)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  Matched-Filter Recovery of S5 Hardware Injections (Myungkee Sung - LSU)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  S5 Data Set Reduction - Proposed Changes (Greg Mendell - LIGO Hanford)
   5'  Discussion
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2:00

* BREAK (4:00-4:30)

Wed 4:30-6:30 - Victory Room

  DMT Development and Studies:

  15'  DMT Infrastructure Status & Development (John Zweizig - LIGO Caltech)
   5'  Discussion
  10'  PlaneMon Studies (Evan Goetz - Michigan)
   5'  Discussion
  10'  PulsarMon Update (Giovanni Santostasi - McNeese)
   5'  Discussion
  10'  SixtyHertzMon Update (Keith Riles - Michigan)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  NoiseFloorMon Studies (Robert Stone - UT Brownsville)
   5'  Discussion
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1:25

  15'  Method for a safe statistcal veto using IFO channels (Stefan Hild - AEI)
   5'  Discussion
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0:20

* DINNER (7:00 - Heidelberg Ballroom - 10th floor)



Thur 9:00-10:30 - Victory Room

  Calibration Studies:

  15'  LIGO Photon Calibrator Status (Evan Goetz - Michigan)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  Photon-Pressure-Induced Test Mass Deformation (Stefan Hild - AEI)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  VIRGO Calibration (Loic Rolland - Annecy)
   5'  Discussion
  15'  Calibration of the LIGO High-Frequency Channels (Stefanos Giampanis - Rochester)
   5'  Discussion
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1:20

Thur 11:00-12:30 - Victory Room

  10'  Seismic Studies at Hanford (Masahiro Ito - Oregon)
   5'  Discussion
  10'  Inspiral Hardware Injection Followup (Steve Fairhurst - LIGO Caltech)
   5'  Discussion
  60'  Meeting of Detector Characterization Committee (open to all)
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1:15

* CLOSEOUT LUNCH (12:30-2:00 - Riverview Ballroom A)