GWDAW-14

Europe/Rome
Physics Department, University of Rome

Physics Department, University of Rome

Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
Description

The Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop is an annual meeting devoted to data analysis for current and future gravitational wave detectors and studies of potential gravitational wave sources.

The 14th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW-14) will be held from January 26th to 29th, 2010, in Rome, Italy. It will take place at the Department of Physics of the University of Rome "Sapienza".


Conference home page:

http://www.roma1.infn.it/GWDAW14

The workshop is organized by the INFN, Universities of Rome Sapienza and Tor Vergata and the University of Sannio.

Local Scientific Secretariat Mrs. Alba Perrotta

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  • Alberto Colla
    • 18:30
      Welcome Party
    • Welcome Session Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 1
        Welcome of the Faculty Dean Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 2
        Welcome of the Director of the Department of Physics Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 3
        Welcome of the Director of the INFN Section of Rome Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 4
        Introduction of the E4 Computer Engineering and announcement of the E4 Computer Engineering award Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
        Slides
    • Detector Status Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 5
        Detectors on the Earth Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
        Speaker: Piero Rapagnani (RM1)
        Slides
        Video
      • 10:15
        Coffee break Coffee TBD (Physics Department, University of Rome)

        Coffee TBD

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 6
        Space-borne Gravitational Wave Observatories Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
        Speaker: Stefano Vitale (Department of Physics, University of Trento, and INFN Gruppo di Trento, Italy)
      • 7
        Pulsar timing measurements Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
        Speaker: David Champion (Max-Plank-Institute für Radioastronomie)
      • 8
        3rd generation GW observatories: Science potentialities and new technologies Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
        Speaker: Michele Punturo (INFN Perugia)
        Slides
    • 9
      Lunch & Social Events information
      Speaker: Fulvio Ricci (RM1)
      Slides
    • 12:35
      Lunch break
    • Noise analysis methods, data characterization and instrumental artifacts (Part I) Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 10
        Coherent Target Detection in Heavy-Tailed Compound-Gaussian Clutter: Survey and New Results
        Speakers: Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa), Kevin Sangston (Atlanta, GA, USA), Maria Greco (DII, University of Pisa, IT)
        Slides
      • 11
        Back-scattered light noise in Virgo second science run data
        Speaker: Irene Fiori (European Gravitational Observatory)
        Slides
      • 12
        Robust multi-detector statistics for coherently searching for signals from coalescing compact binaries
        Speaker: Shaon Ghosh (Graduate student)
        Slides
    • Noise and data characterization - Poster presentations (Part I)
      • 13
        High frequency band sensitivity of large gravitational wave interferometers.
        Speaker: Valentin Rudenko (Sternberg Astronomical Institute of MSU, Moscow)
        Slides
      • 14
        Deep Underground Environmental Studies for 3rd Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
        Speaker: Nelson Christensen (Carleton College)
        Poster
      • 15
        Noise Line Searches for LIGO S6
        Speaker: Michael Coughlin (Carleton College)
        Poster
      • 16
        The Used Percentage Veto for LIGO S6 and Virgo VSR2 Gravitational Wave Searches
        Speaker: Tomoki Isogai (Carleton College)
        Poster
      • 17
        Background estimation by time slides in a network of gravitational wave detectors
        Speaker: Michal Was (LAL - Orsay)
        Poster
    • 15:45
      Coffee break
    • Noise analysis methods, data characterization and instrumental artifacts (Part II) Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 18
        Data quality in gravitational wave burst and inspiral searches in the second Virgo science run
        Speaker: Florent Robinet (LAL IN2P3)
        Slides
      • 19
        LIGO S6 Detector Characterization Studies
        Speaker: Nelson Christensen (Carleton College)
        Slides
    • Noise and data characterization - Poster presentations (Part II) Aula

      Aula

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 20
        Direction independent null streams in multiple co-located gravitational wave detectors
        Speaker: Birjoo Vaishnav (CGWA, University of Texas, Brownsville)
      • 21
        Classification of Glitch Waveforms in Gravitational Wave detector characterization
        Speaker: Razib Obaid (University of Texas at Brownsville)
      • 22
        Application of support vector machines to multivariate gravitational-wave veto analysis
        Speaker: Xiaoge Wang (Tsinghua University)
        Slides
      • 23
        Tools for noise characterization in Virgo
        Speaker: Elena Cuoco (PI)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 24
        Time Delay Interferometry and Clocknoise Removal
        Speaker: Markus Otto (AEI Hannover)
        Slides
      • 25
        Data Quality studies for low frequency non-stationarity present in LIGO science data
        Speaker: Robert Stone (The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College)
        Slides
      • 26
        A Neural Net for Glitch-Burst Discrimination and Glitch Classification
        Speakers: Innocenzo Pinto (WavesGroup, INFN and LSC), Luigi Troiano (University of Sannio at Benevento), Maria Principe (University of Sannio at Benevento), Salvatore Rampone (University of Sannio at Benevento), Vincenzo Pierro (University of Sannio at Benevento)
        Slides
      • 27
        Impact of Residual non-Gaussianity after Line Removal in Interferometric Data on Detection Performance
        Speakers: Innocenzo Pinto (University of Sannio at Benevento, LSC and INFN), Maurizio Longo (University of Salerno and LSC), Roberto Conte (University of Salerno and LSC), Vincenzo Matta (University of Salerno andLSC)
        Slides
    • Round table: What evidence would make a convincing case for the first GW detection claim? Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      Convener: Nobuyuki Kanda (Univ. of Osaka, Japan)
      • 28
        Round table: What evidence would make a convincing case for the first GW detection claim? Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

        Physics Department, University of Rome

        Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
        Speakers: Benoit Mours (LAPP - Annecy, France), Ettore Fiorini (MI), Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin Madison), James Cordes (Univ. of Cornell, Ithaca, NY, USA), Neil Gehrels (NASA-GSFC), Nobuyuki Kanda (Department of Physics, Osaka City University)
    • Short GW transient events Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 29
        Long Gamma Ray Burst Observations
        Speaker: Luigi Piro (INAF - IAS)
        Slides
      • 30
        Results and Challenges in Astrophysically Triggered Gravitational Wave Searches
        Speaker: Szabolcs Marka (Columbia University)
        Slides
      • 31
        LIGO-Virgo Triggered Follow-up with NASA High Energy Photon Survey Missions
        Speaker: Jordan Camp (NASA)
        Paper
    • Short GW transient events - Poster presentations Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 32
        Proposed Multi-messenger observation plan for Sco X-1 with RXTE and gravitational wave detectors
        Speaker: Kazuhiro Hayama (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
        Slides
      • 33
        Search for Gravitational Waves from Soft Gamma Repeaters
        Speaker: Zsuzsa Marka (Columbia University)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 34
        Selecting Candidate GW Detections for EM Follow-up Observations
        Speaker: Laura Nuttall (Cardiff University)
        Slides
    • 10:35
      Coffe break
    • Short GW transient events II Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 35
        Probing the physics of neutron stars with gravitational waves
        Speaker: Valeria Ferrari (RM1)
        Slides
      • 36
        Testing scalar-tensor theory from observations of gravitational wave bursts with a network of interferometric detectors
        Speaker: Kazuhiro Hayama (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
        Slides
      • 37
        Estimation of the False Alarm Rate for coherent searches of gravitational waves.
        Speaker: Giovanni Andrea Prodi (Univ. of Trento and INFN)
        Slides
      • 38
        From the detection to the measurement of transient gravitational wave characteristics
        Speaker: Gabriele Vedovato (INFN Padova)
        Slides
      • 39
        Matching Pursuit algorithm – an outline of possible usage for gravitational waves’ data analysis
        Speaker: Adam Zadrozny (The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies (IPJ))
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    • Short GW transient events II - Poster presentations Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 40
        A chirplet pipeline for the detection of gravitational wave bursts
        Speaker: Philip Charlton (Charles Sturt University)
        Slides
      • 41
        Accretion Induced Collapse of WDs as a potential GW source for LIGO
        Speaker: John Cannizzo (UMBC/CRESST/GSFC)
      • 42
        Model selection using Bayesian evidence for LISA gravitational wave burst signals
        Speaker: Philip Graff (University of Cambridge)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 43
        Detection of GW bursts with chirplet-like template families
        Speakers: Eric Chassande-Mottin (CNRS AstroParticule et Cosmologie), Miriam Miele (AstroParticule et Cosmologie)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 44
        One More Technique for Burst Source Position Identification: X-Wigner Spectra
        Speakers: Fabio Postiglione (DIIIE, University of Salerno, INFN and LSC), Innocenzo Pinto (WavesGroup, University of Sannio, IT, INFN and LSC), Maria Principe (WavesGroup, University of Sannio, IT, INFN and LSC), Rocco Croce (WavesGroup, University of Sannio, IT), Vincenzo Pierro (WavesGroup, University of Sannio, IT, INFN and LSC)
        Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch break Rome (Rome)

      Rome

      Rome

    • Short GW transient events III Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 45
        Toward the Computation of Gravitational Wave Signatures in Three-Dimensional Multi-Physics Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae
        Speaker: Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA)
        Slides
      • 46
        All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run
        Speaker: Sergey Klimenko (University of Florida)
        Slides
      • 47
        Real-time Astronomy with LIGO and Virgo: Status and Prospects
        Speaker: Erik Katsavounidis (for the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 48
        Directional searches for transient gravitational waves using a coherent analysis on a selectable sky region
        Speaker: Francesco Salemi (AEI Hannover)
        Slides
      • 16:00
        Coffee break
      • 49
        IceCube: Multiwavelenght Astronomy with Neutrinos
        Speaker: Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin Madison)
        Slides
      • 50
        The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope and Multi-Messenger Astronomy
        Speaker: Thierry Pradier (IReS & Université Louis-Pasteur)
        Slides
      • 51
        Joint searches of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos
        Speaker: Eric Chassande-Mottin (CNRS AstroParticule et Cosmologie)
        Slides
    • Long and Short GW transients - Poster presentations Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 52
        Searching for Intermediate-Duration Gravitational-Wave Transients
        Speaker: Eric Thrane (University of Minnesota)
        Poster
      • 53
        Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from multiple coalescing binaries
        Speaker: Ilya Mandel (Northwestern University)
        Slides
      • 54
        Compact binary waveform recovery from the cross-correlated data of two detectors by matched filtering with spinning templates
        Speaker: László Á Gergely (University of Szeged)
        Poster
      • 55
        Physical Templates in the Search for Gravitational Waves from Spinning Compact-Object Binaries with LIGO
        Speaker: Diego Fazi (Northwestern University)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 56
        Gravitational waves from highly eccentric binary black hole encounters: first steps toward detection
        Speaker: Birjoo Vaishnav (CGWA, University of Teas at Brownsville)
        Slides
      • 57
        Systematic errors in the construction of hybrid waveforms for binary black holes
        Speaker: Frank Ohme (Albert Einstein Institute)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 58
        Test on simulated data of cuInspiral, the GPU high arithmetic intensity prototype library for coalescing binaries detection.
        Speaker: Leone Battista Bosi (PG)
        Slides
      • 59
        Wet and dry mergers of binary black holes in the gravitational wave spectrum
        Speaker: Birjoo Vaishnav (Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University fo Texas, Brownsville, TX, USA.)
        Slides
      • 60
        The Impact of Mergers on Parameter Accuracy with LISA
        Speaker: Sean McWilliams (NASA GSFC)
        Poster
        Summary
      • 61
        Hybrid spin Taylor waveforms with ring-down attached
        Speaker: Riccardo Sturani (Università di Urbino - INFN Firenze)
        Slides
      • 62
        Measuring the black hole mass function using LISA capture sources
        Speaker: Jonathan Gair (University of Cambridge)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 63
        An improved method for estimating the efficiency of detectors
        Speaker: Craig Robinson (Cardiff University)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 64
        Measuring the precession during the inspiral of spinning Massive Black Hole binaries with LISA
        Speaker: Antoine PETITEAU (Albert Einstein Institute - Potsdam)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 65
        Supermassive black hole spin-flip during the inspiral
        Speaker: László Á Gergely (University of Szeged)
        Poster
      • 66
        Mapping the Galaxy with LISA
        Speaker: Jose Mckinnon (University of Texas at Brownsville)
        Slides
      • 67
        Model selection with Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo results applied to Gravitational Waves
        Speaker: Vivien Raymond (Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
        Poster
    • Long GW transient events Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 68
        Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and Related Science
        Speaker: Shiho Kobayashi (Liverpool John Moores University)
        Slides
      • 69
        What Are We Learning On Coalescing Binaries From Gamma Ray Bursts
        Speaker: L. Juracy Rangel-Lemos (ICRA & Dip. di Fisica, Universita' di Roma "Sapienza")
        Slides
      • 70
        Search for gravitational waves associated with short gamma-ray bursts in LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run
        Speaker: Alexander Dietz (LAPP Annecy-le-vieux)
        Slides
      • 71
        Very Low Latency Search for Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescences in the LIGO S6 and Virgo VSR2 Data
        Speaker: Damir Buskulic (Université de Savoie / LAPP / IN2P3)
        Slides
      • 72
        Efficiently Enclosing the Signal Manifold: SVD Approximations of Compact Binary Coalesence Gravitational-Wave Signals
        Speaker: Drew Keppel (LIGO Lab and Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Techonology)
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Coffe break
      • 73
        Status of the search for untriggered gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences in LIGO and Virgo data during S5/VSR1
        Speakers: For the LSC and Virgo (many), Ian Harry (Cardiff University)
      • 74
        Overview of the search for gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences in LIGO and Virgo data during S6/VSR2
        Speaker: Andrew (for LSC collaboration and Virgo collaboration) Lundgren (Syracuse University)
      • 75
        General Relativistic Simulations of Compact Binaries
        Speaker: Bruno Giacomazzo (University of Maryland, USA)
        Slides
      • 76
        The interface between numerical relativity and gravitational wave data analysis
        Speaker: Krishnan Badri (Albert Einstein Institute)
        Slides
      • 77
        The Mock LISA Data Challenges: Challenge 4
        Speaker: Edward Porter (APC Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 78
        Measuring Massive Black Hole Binaries with LISA
        Speaker: Ryan Lang (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
        Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch break Rome (Rome)

      Rome

      Rome

    • SOC lunch TBD

      TBD

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome

      Discussion on GWDAW 15/16 organization
      EVO connection provided if needed

    • Continuous waves and Neutron star structure Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 79
        Radio Pulsar observations
        Speaker: James Cordes (Univ. of Cornell, Ithaca, NY, USA)
      • 80
        Continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars
        Speaker: Benjamin Owen (The Pennsylvania State University)
        Slides
      • 81
        A method for detection of known sources of continuous gravitational wave signals in non-stationary data.
        Speaker: Pia Astone (RM1)
        Slides
      • 16:05
        Coffe break
      • 82
        Sequential Tests: a Tool for GW Detection
        Speaker: Vincenzo Matta (University of Salerno)
        Slides
      • 83
        Search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the F and G statistics
        Speaker: Andrzej Krolak (Institute of Mathematics, Polish academy of Sciences)
        Paper
      • 84
        Discrete Resampling for Doppler and Spin Down correction in CW semitargeted searches
        Speaker: Stefano Braccini (INFN - Pisa)
        Slides
      • 85
        Optimizing sensitivity of searches for continuous gravitational waves at fixed computing cost
        Speaker: Miroslav Shaltev (AEI - Hannover)
        Slides
      • 86
        Detecting signatures of the cosmic thermal history through pulsar observations
        Speaker: Massimiliano Lattanzi (ICRA & Dip. di Fisica, Universita' di Roma "Sapienza")
        Slides
    • Continuous Waves and Neutron star structure - Poster presentations Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 87
        A directed search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown isolated neutron stars
        Speaker: Berit Behnke (Albert Einstein Institut)
      • 88
        Coherent metric for continuous gravitational waves from isolated systems
        Speaker: Reinhard Prix (Albert-Einstein-Institut Hannover)
        Slides
      • 89
        A Bayesian strategy for the generation of pulsar time-of-arrival measurements
        Speaker: Chris Messenger (AEI Hannover)
        Poster
      • 90
        Parameter-space metric of semicoherent searches for continuous gravitational waves
        Speaker: Holger Pletsch (Albert-Einstein-Institut Hannover)
        Slides
      • 91
        Search for continuous gravitational waves from PSR J2144-3933 using a magnetically-levitated torsion antenna
        Speaker: Koji Ishidoshiro (Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 92
        An all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in binary systems using the TwoSpect algorithm
        Speaker: Evan Goetz (University of Michigan)
        Poster
        Slides
      • 93
        Polynomial search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in binary systems
        Speaker: henk J. bulten (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Nikhef)
        Slides
    • 20:00
      Social Dinner at Casina Valadier Casina Valadier (Casina Valadier)

      Casina Valadier

      Casina Valadier

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    • Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 94
        Cosmological stochastic backgrounds
        Speaker: Michele Maggiore (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
        Slides
      • 95
        CMB and B-modes : Planck and future perspectives
        Speaker: Paolo De Bernardis (INFN Roma, Italy)
      • 96
        Measuring the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with LIGO-Virgo
        Speaker: Eric Thrane (University of Minnesota)
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Coffe break
      • 97
        Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves from extragalactic sources
        Speaker: Raffaella Schneider (INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
        Slides
      • 98
        Parameter estimation of massive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays.
        Speaker: Alberto Sesana (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm)
        Slides
      • 99
        Cosmology with 300,000 Standard Sirens
        Speaker: Curt Cutler (Jet Propulsion Lab)
        Slides
    • E4 Computer Engineering Award Ceremony Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
    • Concluding remarks Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor

      Physics Department, University of Rome

      Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome
      • 100
        Perspectives of GW data analysis