Name: GWDAW-14
Start: 2010-01-25T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2010-01-29T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Physics Department, University of Rome

GWDAW-14

from Monday 25 January 2010 (09:30) to Friday 29 January 2010 (18:00)

Monday 25 January 2010

18:30 Welcome Party
Welcome Party
18:30 - 19:30
Tuesday 26 January 2010
08:45
08:45 - 09:30
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

08:45 Welcome of the Faculty Dean

08:55 Welcome of the Director of the Department of Physics

09:05 Welcome of the Director of the INFN Section of Rome

09:15 Introduction of the E4 Computer Engineering and announcement of the E4 Computer Engineering award
09:30
09:30 - 12:30
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

09:30 Detectors on the Earth - Piero Rapagnani (RM1)

10:40 Space-borne Gravitational Wave Observatories - Stefano Vitale (Department of Physics, University of Trento, and INFN Gruppo di Trento, Italy)

11:20 Pulsar timing measurements - David Champion (Max-Plank-Institute für Radioastronomie)

11:55 3rd generation GW observatories: Science potentialities and new technologies - Michele Punturo (INFN Perugia)
12:30 Lunch & Social Events information - Fulvio Ricci (RM1)
Lunch & Social Events information
- Fulvio Ricci (RM1)
12:30 - 12:35
12:35 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:35 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:35
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

14:30 Coherent Target Detection in Heavy-Tailed Compound-Gaussian Clutter: Survey and New Results - Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa) Kevin Sangston (Atlanta, GA, USA) Maria Greco (DII, University of Pisa, IT)

15:00 Back-scattered light noise in Virgo second science run data - Irene Fiori (European Gravitational Observatory)

15:20 Robust multi-detector statistics for coherently searching for signals from coalescing compact binaries - Shaon Ghosh (Graduate student)
15:35
15:35 - 15:45
Contributions

15:35 High frequency band sensitivity of large gravitational wave interferometers. - Valentin Rudenko (Sternberg Astronomical Institute of MSU, Moscow)

15:37 Deep Underground Environmental Studies for 3rd Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors - Nelson Christensen (Carleton College)

15:39 Noise Line Searches for LIGO S6 - Michael Coughlin (Carleton College)

15:41 The Used Percentage Veto for LIGO S6 and Virgo VSR2 Gravitational Wave Searches - Tomoki Isogai (Carleton College)

15:43 Background estimation by time slides in a network of gravitational wave detectors - Michal Was (LAL - Orsay)
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:05
16:05
16:05 - 16:55
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

16:05 Data quality in gravitational wave burst and inspiral searches in the second Virgo science run - Florent Robinet (LAL IN2P3)

16:30 LIGO S6 Detector Characterization Studies - Nelson Christensen (Carleton College)
16:55
16:55 - 17:15
Room: Aula
Contributions

16:55 Direction independent null streams in multiple co-located gravitational wave detectors - Birjoo Vaishnav (CGWA, University of Texas, Brownsville)

16:57 Classification of Glitch Waveforms in Gravitational Wave detector characterization - Razib Obaid (University of Texas at Brownsville)

16:59 Application of support vector machines to multivariate gravitational-wave veto analysis - Xiaoge Wang (Tsinghua University)

17:01 Tools for noise characterization in Virgo - Elena Cuoco (PI)

17:03 Time Delay Interferometry and Clocknoise Removal - Markus Otto (AEI Hannover)

17:05 Data Quality studies for low frequency non-stationarity present in LIGO science data - Robert Stone (The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College)

17:07 A Neural Net for Glitch-Burst Discrimination and Glitch Classification - 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)

17:09 Impact of Residual non-Gaussianity after Line Removal in Interferometric Data on Detection Performance - 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)
17:15
17:15 - 18:15
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

17:15 Round table: What evidence would make a convincing case for the first GW detection claim? - 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)
Wednesday 27 January 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:25
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

09:00 Long Gamma Ray Burst Observations - Luigi Piro (INAF - IAS)

09:35 Results and Challenges in Astrophysically Triggered Gravitational Wave Searches - Szabolcs Marka (Columbia University)

10:05 LIGO-Virgo Triggered Follow-up with NASA High Energy Photon Survey Missions - Jordan Camp (NASA)
10:25
10:25 - 10:35
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

10:25 Proposed Multi-messenger observation plan for Sco X-1 with RXTE and gravitational wave detectors - Kazuhiro Hayama (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

10:27 Search for Gravitational Waves from Soft Gamma Repeaters - Zsuzsa Marka (Columbia University)

10:29 Selecting Candidate GW Detections for EM Follow-up Observations - Laura Nuttall (Cardiff University)
10:35 Coffe break
Coffe break
10:35 - 10:55
10:55
10:55 - 12:50
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

10:55 Probing the physics of neutron stars with gravitational waves - Valeria Ferrari (RM1)

11:30 Testing scalar-tensor theory from observations of gravitational wave bursts with a network of interferometric detectors - Kazuhiro Hayama (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

11:50 Estimation of the False Alarm Rate for coherent searches of gravitational waves. - Giovanni Andrea Prodi (Univ. of Trento and INFN)

12:10 From the detection to the measurement of transient gravitational wave characteristics - Gabriele Vedovato (INFN Padova)

12:30 Matching Pursuit algorithm – an outline of possible usage for gravitational waves’ data analysis - Adam Zadrozny (The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies (IPJ))
12:50
12:50 - 13:00
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

12:50 A chirplet pipeline for the detection of gravitational wave bursts - Philip Charlton (Charles Sturt University)

12:52 Accretion Induced Collapse of WDs as a potential GW source for LIGO - John Cannizzo (UMBC/CRESST/GSFC)

12:54 Model selection using Bayesian evidence for LISA gravitational wave burst signals - Philip Graff (University of Cambridge)

12:56 Detection of GW bursts with chirplet-like template families - Eric Chassande-Mottin (CNRS AstroParticule et Cosmologie) Miriam Miele (AstroParticule et Cosmologie)

12:58 One More Technique for Burst Source Position Identification: X-Wigner Spectra - 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)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Rome
14:30
14:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

14:30 Toward the Computation of Gravitational Wave Signatures in Three-Dimensional Multi-Physics Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae - Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA)

15:00 All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run - Sergey Klimenko (University of Florida)

15:30 Real-time Astronomy with LIGO and Virgo: Status and Prospects - Erik Katsavounidis (for the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:45 Directional searches for transient gravitational waves using a coherent analysis on a selectable sky region - Francesco Salemi (AEI Hannover)

16:30 IceCube: Multiwavelenght Astronomy with Neutrinos - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin Madison)

17:05 The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope and Multi-Messenger Astronomy - Thierry Pradier (IReS & Université Louis-Pasteur)

17:40 Joint searches of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos - Eric Chassande-Mottin (CNRS AstroParticule et Cosmologie)
18:00
18:00 - 18:45
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

18:00 Searching for Intermediate-Duration Gravitational-Wave Transients - Eric Thrane (University of Minnesota)

18:02 Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from multiple coalescing binaries - Ilya Mandel (Northwestern University)

18:04 Compact binary waveform recovery from the cross-correlated data of two detectors by matched filtering with spinning templates - László Á Gergely (University of Szeged)

18:06 Physical Templates in the Search for Gravitational Waves from Spinning Compact-Object Binaries with LIGO - Diego Fazi (Northwestern University)

18:08 Gravitational waves from highly eccentric binary black hole encounters: first steps toward detection - Birjoo Vaishnav (CGWA, University of Teas at Brownsville)

18:10 Systematic errors in the construction of hybrid waveforms for binary black holes - Frank Ohme (Albert Einstein Institute)

18:12 Test on simulated data of cuInspiral, the GPU high arithmetic intensity prototype library for coalescing binaries detection. - Leone Battista Bosi (PG)

18:14 Wet and dry mergers of binary black holes in the gravitational wave spectrum - Birjoo Vaishnav (Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University fo Texas, Brownsville, TX, USA.)

18:16 The Impact of Mergers on Parameter Accuracy with LISA - Sean McWilliams (NASA GSFC)

18:18 Hybrid spin Taylor waveforms with ring-down attached - Riccardo Sturani (Università di Urbino - INFN Firenze)

18:20 Measuring the black hole mass function using LISA capture sources - Jonathan Gair (University of Cambridge)

18:22 An improved method for estimating the efficiency of detectors - Craig Robinson (Cardiff University)

18:24 Measuring the precession during the inspiral of spinning Massive Black Hole binaries with LISA - Antoine PETITEAU (Albert Einstein Institute - Potsdam)

18:26 Supermassive black hole spin-flip during the inspiral - László Á Gergely (University of Szeged)

18:28 Mapping the Galaxy with LISA - Jose Mckinnon (University of Texas at Brownsville)

18:30 Model selection with Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo results applied to Gravitational Waves - Vivien Raymond (Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
Thursday 28 January 2010
08:45
08:45 - 13:00
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

08:45 Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and Related Science - Shiho Kobayashi (Liverpool John Moores University)

09:20 What Are We Learning On Coalescing Binaries From Gamma Ray Bursts - L. Juracy Rangel-Lemos (ICRA & Dip. di Fisica, Universita' di Roma "Sapienza")

09:35 Search for gravitational waves associated with short gamma-ray bursts in LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run - Alexander Dietz (LAPP Annecy-le-vieux)

09:50 Very Low Latency Search for Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescences in the LIGO S6 and Virgo VSR2 Data - Damir Buskulic (Université de Savoie / LAPP / IN2P3)

10:05 Efficiently Enclosing the Signal Manifold: SVD Approximations of Compact Binary Coalesence Gravitational-Wave Signals - Drew Keppel (LIGO Lab and Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Techonology)

10:40 Status of the search for untriggered gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences in LIGO and Virgo data during S5/VSR1 - For the LSC and Virgo (many) Ian Harry (Cardiff University)

10:55 Overview of the search for gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences in LIGO and Virgo data during S6/VSR2 - Andrew (for LSC collaboration and Virgo collaboration) Lundgren (Syracuse University)

11:15 General Relativistic Simulations of Compact Binaries - Bruno Giacomazzo (University of Maryland, USA)

11:45 The interface between numerical relativity and gravitational wave data analysis - Krishnan Badri (Albert Einstein Institute)

12:10 The Mock LISA Data Challenges: Challenge 4 - Edward Porter (APC Laboratory)

12:40 Measuring Massive Black Hole Binaries with LISA - Ryan Lang (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Rome

13:00 - 14:30
Room: TBD
14:30
14:30 - 18:10
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

14:30 Radio Pulsar observations - James Cordes (Univ. of Cornell, Ithaca, NY, USA)

15:10 Continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars - Benjamin Owen (The Pennsylvania State University)

15:40 A method for detection of known sources of continuous gravitational wave signals in non-stationary data. - Pia Astone (RM1)

16:25 Sequential Tests: a Tool for GW Detection - Vincenzo Matta (University of Salerno)

16:55 Search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the F and G statistics - Andrzej Krolak (Institute of Mathematics, Polish academy of Sciences)

17:25 Discrete Resampling for Doppler and Spin Down correction in CW semitargeted searches - Stefano Braccini (INFN - Pisa)

17:40 Optimizing sensitivity of searches for continuous gravitational waves at fixed computing cost - Miroslav Shaltev (AEI - Hannover)

17:55 Detecting signatures of the cosmic thermal history through pulsar observations - Massimiliano Lattanzi (ICRA & Dip. di Fisica, Universita' di Roma "Sapienza")
18:10
18:10 - 18:30
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

18:10 A directed search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown isolated neutron stars - Berit Behnke (Albert Einstein Institut)

18:12 Coherent metric for continuous gravitational waves from isolated systems - Reinhard Prix (Albert-Einstein-Institut Hannover)

18:14 A Bayesian strategy for the generation of pulsar time-of-arrival measurements - Chris Messenger (AEI Hannover)

18:16 Parameter-space metric of semicoherent searches for continuous gravitational waves - Holger Pletsch (Albert-Einstein-Institut Hannover)

18:18 Search for continuous gravitational waves from PSR J2144-3933 using a magnetically-levitated torsion antenna - Koji Ishidoshiro (Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo)

18:20 An all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in binary systems using the TwoSpect algorithm - Evan Goetz (University of Michigan)

18:22 Polynomial search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in binary systems - henk J. bulten (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Nikhef)
20:00 Social Dinner at Casina Valadier
Social Dinner at Casina Valadier
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Casina Valadier
Friday 29 January 2010
09:00
09:00 - 12:20
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

09:00 Cosmological stochastic backgrounds - Michele Maggiore (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

09:35 CMB and B-modes : Planck and future perspectives - Paolo De Bernardis (INFN Roma, Italy)

10:10 Measuring the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with LIGO-Virgo - Eric Thrane (University of Minnesota)

11:10 Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves from extragalactic sources - Raffaella Schneider (INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

11:40 Parameter estimation of massive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays. - Alberto Sesana (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm)

12:00 Cosmology with 300,000 Standard Sirens - Curt Cutler (Jet Propulsion Lab)
12:20

12:20 - 12:30
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
12:30
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st Floor
Contributions

12:30 Perspectives of GW data analysis

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