Joint Gravitational Waves and CERN Meeting

Friday 1 September 2017 - 09:00
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Sept 2017
AM
09:00 Welcome and introduction to the meeting - Eckhard Elsen (CERN) Federico Ferrini (EGO)  
09:20 GW from a particle physics perspective - Gian Giudice (CERN)  
09:45 The New Era of Precision Gravitational-Wave (astro)Physics - Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)  
10:10 Discussion  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 From 2G to 3G detectors - Jo van den Brand (NIKHEF)  
11:15 Governance of CERN - Jean-Michel Favre (CERN)  
11:40 GW Policy - Barry Barish (Caltech)  
PM
12:05 Round table - Gary Sanders (TMT International Observatory, LLC) Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Vacuum (CERN) - Paul Cruikshank (CERN)  
14:15 Underground Facilities (CERN) - John Osborne (CERN)  
14:30 Vacuum and Surface Physics in the Interferometers - Michael Zucker (LIGO Laboratory, MIT)  
14:45 Discussion  
15:00 Cryogenics (Kagra) - Takayuki Tomaru (KEK-Japan)  
15:15 Cryogenics (CERN) - Laurent Tavian (CERN)  
15:30 Discussion  
15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:15 LHC Controls (CERN) - Eugenia Hatziangeli (CERN)  
16:30 Controls (LIGO + VIRGO) - F. Carbognani (EGO)  
16:45 Discussion  
17:00 Computing (CERN) - Ian Bird (CERN)  
17:15 Computing (LIGO+VIRGO) - Peter Couvares (LIGO-Syracuse Univ.)  
17:30 Discussion  
18:15 Conclusions - Francesco Fidecaro (Dipartimento di Fisica) Fulvio Ricci (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))