2nd ET GENERAL WORKSHOP

14 Oct 2009, 10:45 → 16 Oct 2009, 15:40 Europe/Rome

Ettore Majorana Foundation

Harald Lueck (MPG Hannover), Michele Punturo (INFN Perugia and EGO)

Second General Meeting of the FP7 activity Einstein Telescope.

The 2nd annual meeting of the ET design study project will be organized in the "Ettore Majorana centre for scientific culture", Erice (Sicily-Italy), from the 14th to the 16th of October 2009. This is an important step toward the realization of a conceptual design of the 3rd generation gravitational wave observatory "ET". The progresses in the design will be reported by the scientists involved in the project and a large fraction of the time will be reserved to the discussion upon the several design possibilities identified in the last year of activity. Site requirements and selection, low frequency noise suppression technologies, detector topologies and QND techniques, science case will be discussed.

Wednesday, 14 October

14:00 → 15:00 Workshop opening session

Welcome talks and status of the GW and ET projects

14:00 Welcome talk(s)

14:10 Status of the current and advanced GW detectors

Speaker: Dr Harald Lueck (AEI Hannover (MPI f. gravitational Physics / Inst. f. Grav.physics Leibniz Uni Hannover))

Slides DetectorStatusHLueck.ppt

14:30 ET project status and evolution

Speaker: Michele Punturo (PG)

Slides EriceOct09-oldppt.pot EriceOct09.pptx

15:00 → 16:20 WG4 - Astrophysics - 1

Astrophysics issues, Science case

15:00 Core-Collapse Supernova and Long-Soft GRB Science Goals with ET

Speaker: Dr Christian Ott (Caltech and Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Ott_ET_Erice_20091014.pdf

15:20 Exploring intermediate and massive black-hole binaries with IMRI sources

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Gair (University of Cambridge)

Slides GairTalkSicilySlides.pdf

15:40 Testing star formation models with ET

Speaker: Dr Christian Van Den Broeck (Nikhef)

Slides vdbroeck_erice.pdf.pdf

16:00 Multi-messengers in ET

Speaker: Dr Martin Hendry

Slides erice_091014.pdf

16:20 → 17:00 Cofee break

Cofee break

17:00 → 18:40 WG4 - Astrophysics - 2

Astrophysics, Science case

slides Multimessengers.pdf

17:00 Accurate SNR and parameter estimation calculations for ET

Speaker: Dr Eliu Huerta (IoA, Cambridge)

Slides HuertaSlidesSicily.pdf

17:20 Stochastic backgrounds and the early universe the Einstein Telescope

Speaker: Dr Thomas Dent (Cardiff University)

Slides stochastic_erice.pdf

17:40 Parametrized tests of post mewtonian Theory with ET

Speaker: Dr Chandrakant Misra

Slides ET_TOG2-4.pdf

18:00 Testing GR with ET

Speaker: Dr Walter Del Pozzo (University of Birmingham)

Slides Testing-GR-wdp.pdf

18:20 Computing infrastructure for ET

Speaker: Dr Leone Battista Bosi (INFN Perugia)

Slides cuInspiral-GPU-ET_Erice_workshop.pdf

Thursday, 15 October

08:30 → 10:30 WG2 - Suspensions and thermal noise

Suspensions issues, thermal noise, coatings

08:30 Thermal Noise Modeling

Speaker: Paola Puppo (RM1)

Slides Puppo_ETThermal_151009.pptx

08:50 Thermal Noise and Material Issues for ET

Speaker: Dr Ronny Nawrodt

Slides Nawrodt_Erice_2009.ppt

09:10 Cryogenic Si-Si Bond Strength Testing

Speaker: Dr Nicola Beverigde

Slides Beveridge_Erice_2009.ppt

09:30 Mirror thermal noise and its implication on the mirror design

Speaker: Ms Janyce FRANC (CNRS)

Slides FRANC-WG2_ERICE-151009.ppt

09:50 Measurements of superattenuator performance on the VIRGO itf:a comparison with ET requirements

Speaker: Dr Stefano BRACCINI

Slides ET_Erice_Suspension_Performance_Oct09.pptx ET_Erice_Suspension_Performance_Oct09_pdf.pdf

10:10 the superattenuator upgrades and the SAFE project

Speaker: Franco Frasconi (PI)

Slides ADiv_erice_oct09.ppt ffra_erice_oct09.ppt

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:50 WG2 - Suspensions and thermal noise 2

Suspensions, Thermal noise, coatings

10:50 Sensor and actuators for ET

Speaker: Ettore Majorana (RM1)

Slides ET-II-GWS_majorana.pdf

11:10 Cooling issues

Speaker: Fulvio Ricci (RM1)

Slides Ricci_ET_Erice_v1.pdf

11:50 → 13:00 Round Table

Round table on the science case of the 3rd generation of GW detectors, synergies with space GW detectors, strategies, ....

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch

Lunch

15:00 → 16:40 WG3 - Topology, geometry, Optics

Interferometer topologies, geometries and optical issues

15:00 Squeezed light integration at GEO 600 and beyond

Speaker: Mr Alexander Khalaidovski

Slides khalaidovski-erice-15.10.2009.ppt

15:15 Squeezed light generation at 1064 nm and 1550 nm

Speaker: Dr Tobias Eberle

Slides Generation_of_Squeezing.pdf

15:30 Absorption measurements on silicon

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Steinlechner

Slides ET2_Steinlechner_2.pdf

15:50 Parametric instability of a cavity of ET

Speaker: Dr Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Slides Yamamoto150109.pdf

16:10 Thermal Noise Reduction through LG modes

Speaker: Dr Janyce FRANC

Slides FRANC-WG3_ERICE-151009.ppt

16:25 LG Mode Generation

Speaker: Dr Keiko Kokeyama

Slides kokeyama_151009.ppt

16:40 → 17:20 Coffee break

Coffee Break

17:20 → 19:00 WG3 - Topology, geometry, Optics - 2

Interferometer topology, geometries, Optical issues

17:20 Displacement Noise Free Interferometry

Speaker: Dr Sergey Tarabrin

Slides DFI.pdf

17:40 xylophone topologies

Speaker: Dr stefan hild

Slides ET_Sicily_hild_upload.pdf

18:05 Topology comparison RSE vs. Sagnac using GWINC

Speaker: Dr Simon chelkowski

Slides ET-topology-comparison-10-2009-short.ppt

18:30 Next steps: from technology reviews to detector design

Speaker: Dr Andreas Freise

Slides freise_ETtopology_151009.ppt

Friday, 16 October

09:20 → 10:50 WG1 - Site Issue

Site selection, Seismic noise, Infrastructures

09:20 Status plans for ET WG1

Speaker: Prof. Jo van den Brand (Nikhef - VU)

Slides etwg1oct162009.pdf etwg1oct162009.pptx

09:40 Suspension an Mirror Cooling : impact on the infrastructure

Speaker: Fulvio Ricci (RM1)

Slides Infrastructure-impact_ricci.pdf

09:55 Cultural Noise Measurements for Particle Accelerator Site selection

Speaker: Dr Heiko Ehrlichmann

Slides Ehrlichmann.ppt

10:15 Plans for IliasNext

Speaker: Alessio Rocchi (RM2)

Slides 091016_Rocchi_ETMeeting_v3.ppt

10:30 Possible candidates for the site of ET

Speaker: Dr Istvan Racz

Slides ET-site-Hu.pdf ET-site-Hu.ppt

10:50 → 11:30 Coffee break

Coffee break

11:30 → 13:00 WG1 - Site issues - 2

Site selection, Seismic noise, Infrastructuree

11:30 Gravity gradient noise: estimates and reduction strategies

Speaker: Giancarlo Cella (PI)

Slides GGN_Erice_2009.pptx

11:50 GGN subtraction in homogeneous media

Speaker: Dr Jan Harms

Slides Riccardo-Jan-Homestake-status.pptx

12:10 FEA of GGN for subterranean gravitational wave detectors

Speaker: Dr Mark beker

Slides Erice.pdf

12:25 Sensing and subtraction of GGN

Speaker: Dr David Rabeling

12:40 Aspects of seismic noise detection for GGN suppression

Speaker: Dr Riccardo DeSalvo

Slides Riccardo-Jan-Homestake-status.pptx

13:00 → 13:20 Conclusive remarks

Conclusive remarks

13:00 Conclusive remarks

Speaker: Dr Harald Lueck (AEI Hannover (MPI f. gravitational Physics / Inst. f. Grav.physics Leibniz Uni Hannover))

Slides Conclusion.pptx