Name: LSC-Virgo August 2017 Meeting
Start: 2017-08-28T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-09-01T23:59:00+02:00
Location: CERN

LSC-Virgo August 2017 Meeting

from Monday, 28 August 2017 (08:00) to Friday, 1 September 2017 (23:59)

Monday, 28 August 2017
08:30
08:30 - 18:00
Contributions

08:30 Snova

08:30 TBC

11:00 (TBC)

11:00 Burst 11:00-12:30

14:00 Burst I

16:00 Burst II
08:30 - 18:00
Contributions

08:30 CBC-Burst:GRB

08:30 CBC-EM Follow up

08:30 CBC:PE Monday 8:30-10:45

11:00 CBC-Burst: GRB I

11:00 CBC-EM Follow up I

11:00 CBC:PE Monday 11:00-12:30

13:30 CBC:PE Monday 13:30-15:30

14:00 CBC:Waveforms

14:00 CBC:TGR

16:00 CBC:Waveforms I

16:00 CBC:TGR I

16:00 CBC:PE Monday 16:00-17:30
08:30 - 12:30
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

08:30 CW

11:00 CW I
08:30 - 18:00
Contributions

08:30 Machine Learning

08:30 Joint IS DetChar

11:00 Joint IS DetChar I

11:00 Machine Learning I

14:00 Joint IS Controls

16:00 IS:Plenary
14:00
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 SBCW Dtchr

16:00 SBCW Dtchr I
EPO
EPO
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 4/3-001
Contributions

14:00 EPO

16:00 EPO I
18:00 Beer and Cheese - Students and young PostDocs
Beer and Cheese - Students and young PostDocs
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Outside CERN, venue TBC
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
08:30
08:30 - 12:30
Room: 40/S2-A01 - Salle Anderson
Contributions

08:30 Bursts f2f Tuesday 8:30-10:30

11:00 Bursts f2f Tuesday 11:00-12:30
08:30 - 12:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 CBC Plenary I

11:00 CBC Plenary II
08:30 - 18:00
Room: 160/1-009
Contributions

08:30 CW II

11:00 CW III

14:00 CW IV

16:00 CW V
08:30 - 18:00
Contributions

08:30 Detchar - Plenary small I

11:00 Detchar - Plenary small II

14:00 Joint CBC Burst Detchar I

16:00 Joint CBC Burst Detchar II
08:30 - 18:00
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
Contributions

08:30 SWG

08:30 LAWG

08:30 Instrument Science (NN)

11:00 Instrument Science (NN) I

11:00 LAWG I

11:00 SWG I

14:00 Optics

14:00 AIC

16:00 QNWG

16:00 Optics I
08:30 - 18:00
Room: 4/3-001
Contributions

08:45 SB I

11:00 SB II

14:00 SB III

16:00 SB IV
12:30 LSC-VSC Lunch
LSC-VSC Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Restaurant 2, bdg 504

18:00

18:00 - 19:30
Room: 61/1-201 - Pas perdus - Not a meeting room -
19:30 Public Lecture : Gravitational Waves: An Entirely New Window onto the Cosmos - David Reitze (LIGO, Caltech and University of Florida)
Public Lecture : Gravitational Waves: An Entirely New Window onto the Cosmos
- David Reitze (LIGO, Caltech and University of Florida)
19:30 - 20:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Wednesday, 30 August 2017

08:30

08:30 - 12:30
Room: 60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F)
08:30 - 12:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Virgo status - Jo van den Brand (NIKHEF)

08:50 LSC Status - David Shoemaker (MIT LIGO) Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech)

09:10 LIGO laboratory status - Albert Lazzarini (California Institute of Technology)

09:30 EGO status - Federico Ferrini (EGO)

09:50 GEO600 status - Harald Lueck

10:10 LIGO-India status - Somak Raychaudhury (IUCAA)

11:00 The NSF view - Pedro Marronetti (NSF)

11:20 Third generation perspective - Michele Punturo

11:40 Education & Public Outreach Update - Martin Hendry

12:00 Publication plans - Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech)
14:00
14:00 - 16:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 CBC Plenary Presentation - CBC Group

14:45 Bursts Overview Talk - Ik Siong Heng

15:00 Burst analysis of recent detections - Daniel Williams (University of Glasgow / GEO600 / LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

15:15 GRB Results and Plans - Michal Was

15:30 Fermi-GBM report - Valerie Connaughton (remote)

15:50 Poster sparkler slides
16:30

16:30 - 18:00
Room: 61/1-201 - Pas perdus - Not a meeting room -

18:00 LSC Council - Dinner Session
LSC Council - Dinner Session
18:00 - 22:00
Room: Restaurant 1 - Extension
Thursday, 31 August 2017
08:30 IS and DA
IS and DA
08:30 - 13:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Status of data analysis guide paper - Andy Lundgren

08:50 CW overview talk - Evan Goetz

09:10 O1 Narrow-band observational paper - Simone Mastrogiovanni

09:30 Reviewer report on O1 Narrow-band paper - Andrzej Krolak

09:40 Overview of Stochastic Searches - Andrew Matas

10:10 Search for the stochastic background from unresolvable binary black hole mergers - Rory Smith

11:00 LIGO DetChar status - Jessica McIver (Caltech; LIGO Lab)

11:25 Virgo DetChar status - Florent Robinet

11:50 Data Cleaning - Jenne Driggers

12:10 Calibration update - TBD

12:30 Diversity at CERN - Genevieve Guinot (CERN)
13:00 Open microphone diversity lunch
Open microphone diversity lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Restaurant 1 - extension
14:00 IS and DA
IS and DA
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Hot topics in Instrument Science R&D: LSC Center for Coatings Research - Riccardo Bassiri

14:20 AdVirgo: commissioning for O2 - Alessio Rocchi (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

14:40 AdVrgo: from O2 to O3 - Henrich Heitmann (Artemis, Observatoire de la Cöte d'Azur, Nice)

15:00 KAGRA status, prospects and plans - Haino Sadakazu

15:20 aLIGO: current issues; preparation and goal sensitivity for O3 - Valera Frolov (LIGO lab)

16:30 Summary of O2 EM follow-up program - Leo Singer (NASA Goddard / LIGO Scientific Collaboration) Marica Branchesi

16:50 Future of follow-up: policies and plans - Erik Katsavounidis

17:05 Computing resources, software testing and change control - Peter Couvares (California Institute of Technology)

17:30 March 2018 meeting at SSU - Lynn Comnsky

17:35 Close-out - Jo van den Brand (NIKHEF)
15:00 Visits - CERN
Visits - CERN
15:00 - 18:00

20:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
20:00 - 23:00
Friday, 1 September 2017

09:00

09:00 - 18:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium