Caltech: Patrick Sutton, John Zweizig
CSUDH: Ken Ganezer
Florida: Sergey Klimenko
Glasgow: Rejean Dupuis
HWS: Steve Penn
LHO: Mike Landry, Fred Raab, Vern Sandberg, Robert Schofield, Daniel Sigg
LLO: Natalia Zotov
Loyola: Marc Cenac, John Whelan
Michigan: Keith Riles
MIT: Erik Katsavounidis
Oregon: Ray Frey, Rauha Rahkola

M5 Preparations:

• Interferometer status (Fred Raab)
  Fred expects full control on the thermal compensation system for both H1 and H2. He expects H1 inspiral sensitivity to reach 5 Mpc in the evenings and to drop to around 4 Mpc during the day, because of nearby excavation work. H2 is not working at the moment, but he expects it to be getting to around 1.5 Mpc by the time of M5, although there is no guarantee of reaching science mode.
  
  
• Run activities (Keith Riles) 
  KR went over plans for evaluating DMT monitors during M5. Contact info for authors has been posted on the M5 web page, along with guidelines for monitor evaluation (taken from last year's M4 run) and a signup sheet for monitor evaluation, where brand-new or significantly changed monitors receive the highest priority. Persons who will be at Hanford during M5 are urged to volunteer to evaluate one or more monitors and let KR know in advance. ( Several LHO staff on the call volunteered to help.) KR hasn't finished updating the M5 page (amalgamation of last year's M4 and S3 web pages), but will work on it in the next several days.

DMT Software:

• Critical DMT issues for M5 preparation:
  
  
• John Zweizig: Infrastructure status and deadlines for new monitors
  John will tag a new CVS release (version 2.10.0) on Monday after incorporating new monitor code. At the moment, he has new code for SenseMonitor, StochMon and SuspensionMon, expects code later today for Seis_Blrms, BurstMon, and PTMon; and expects code on Monday for PulsarMon. After the new DMT release, he plans only minor changes in infrastructure before the S4 run, mostly in the frequency series methods. John will be arriving at Hanford next Wednesday.
  John Whelan asked how to ensure that monitor documentation is made available to users. JohnZ replied that one can use doc++ for documenting the code itself and then run makedoc. The CVS directory containing the code should also have files with the names:
  • monitorname.author - name and e-mail addres of author(s)
  • monitorname.synopsis - 1-sentence synopsis of monitor's function
  • monitorname.html - web-based documentation which can also point to other files, e.g,, pdf files, gif files in same directory. If present, monitorname.pdf overrides the html file.
  
  
• Patrick Sutton: Calibration infrastructure
  No updates since the release of EasyCalibrate. Only one query received from other DMT authors trying to use the new code. (Sergey requested info on obtaining calibrated response functions.) Patrick will work with Mike Landry to get updated H2 response functions into the right xml file format in the coming week. SenseMonitor is ready for testing with the new EasyCalibrate interface.
  
  
• John Whelan / Mark Cenac / Brian O'Reilly: StochMon
  StochMon is now in the CVS tree. It runs offline and online. For now, it does not yet use EasyCalibrate, but does use the old SenseMonitor underlying engine. One change needed before M5 is replacement of a hard-coded filename with a config file line.
  
  
• Ken Ganezer: seis_blrms
  No report.
  
  
• Sergey Klimenko: BurstMon
  BurstMon will go into CVS today with EasyCalibrate being used. Sergey needs to do some running on H1 data between now and M5 to make sure things are working correctly. If EasyCalibrate proves troublesome, he can back out the new code. Two issues that mildly concern him are the need for several input waveforms and the performance of the monitor in real-time. He will let John know what input files must be available to the monitor and is optimistic the monitor will be able to keep up in real-time. KR suggested throttling back the number of injections per unit time, if needed, and living with a larger statistical error on hrss50.
  
  
• Giovanni Santostasi: PulsarMon
  KR reported on Giovanni's behalf that he plans to finish shaking down the PulsarMon code over the weekend at LLO and give it to John on Monday.
  
  
• Rauha Rahkola: SuspensionMon
  A revised SuspensionMon has been committed to CVS and runs, but a new bug associated with trending has appeared in which only one data point (minute) shows up per hour in the trend frame. John suggested checking the dependence on time stride. Rauha said he believe 61-second strides are used now, which John said could well cause troubles. Rauha will track the problem down over the coming weekend.
  
  

A.O.B.

• Next detchar telecon:  Friday October 29 at 1:30 p.m. EDT