Agenda of Detchar Sessions, including joint sessions with ASIS -------------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY ------- 4:30-6:30 (Joint with ASIS) Calibrations: 15' S2 calibration error estimates (Gaby Gonzalez) 5' Discussion 15' S3 calibration status (Gaby Gonzalez) 5' Discussion 15' Time domain calibration (Xavi Siemens) 5' Discussion 15' Producing h(t) - format/storage/retrieval (Martin Hewittson) 5' Discussion ---- 1:20 S2/S3 Investigations: 10' S2/S3 Data Quality (John Zweizig) 5' Discussion 15' Timing stability & atomic clocks (Szabi Marka / Daniel Sigg) 5' Discussion ---- 0:35 --------------------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY ---------- * [8:00-10:45 LSC Council Meeting] * [10:45-11:00 Break] * [11:00-12:00 - Advanced LIGO Technical Plenary] * [12:00-1:15 Lunch] * [1:15-3:15 - Advanced LIGO Technical Plenary] * [3:15-3:30 Break] 3:30-4:30 (Joint with ASIS) S3 hardware signal injections + GRB notification 10' Summary of injections carried out (Peter Shawhan / Szabi Marka) 5' Discussion 10' Results of analysis of S3 pulsar injections (Matt Pitkin) 5' Discussion 5' Results of analysis of S3 burst injections (Erik Katsavounidis) 5' Discussion 5' Notifying the Control Room of GRBs in Real-Time (Rauha Rahkola) 5' Discussion 10' Report of the Detection Committee (Peter Saulson) 5' Discussion ---- 1:05 * [4:30-4:45 Break] 4:45-6:30 S2/S3 investigations: 20' S2/S3 Glitches (Laura Cadonati) 5' Discussion 10' Summary of S3 SenseMonitor performance measurements (Patrick Sutton) 5' Discussion 20' Environmental disturbances and intersite correlated transients (Robert Schofield) 5' Discussion 20' S2/S3 interchannel correlations (Nelson Christensen) 5' Discussion ---- 1:45 * [7:30 LSC Dinner] --------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY -------- 8:00-9:45 (Joint with ASIS) Astrophysical figures of merit for the control room: 10' Standardized interface for strain-based FOM's (Patrick Sutton) 5' S4 plans of the inspiral group (Patrick Sutton) 5' Discussion 10' S4 plans of the stochastic group (Jennifer Barre' & John Whelan) 5' Discussion 10' S4 plans of the pulsar group (Keith Riles) 5' Discussion 10' S4 plans of the burst group (Julien Sylvestre) 5' Discussion ---- 1:05 Offline analysis issues: 15' Optimum H1/H2 combination in stochastic analysis (Albert Lazzarini) 5' Discussion 15' Veto selection criteria for gravitational wave burst searches (Sam Finn) 5' Discussion ---- 0:40 * [9:45-10:00 Break] 10:00-12:00 Software development: 15' DMT trigger generator testing with DMTGen (John Zweizig) 5' Discussion 15' Status of GEO++/GODCS (Stas Babak) 5' Discussion 10' Bilinear couplings (Steve Penn) 5' Discussion 10' WaveMon and a Burst Figure of Merit (Sergey Klimenko) 5' Discussion ---- 0:55 Commissioning: 20' Status of thermal compensation (Phil Willems) 5' Discussion 10' Side band gain dependence on heating (Erika D'Ambrosio) 5' Discussion ---- 1:10 * [12:00-1:15 Lunch] 1:15-2:45 10' The Current Status of Allegro (Peter Zhang) 5' Discussion 10' S2 Calibration of Allegro Data for the Stochastic Analysis (Martin McHugh) 5' Discussion ---- 0:30 * [2:45-3:30 Closeout plenary session]