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Thermal Noise workshop

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Auditorium (Virgo site)

Auditorium

Virgo site

Via E.Amaldi Cascina, Pisa
Gregory Harry (LIGO/MIT), Michele Punturo (PG), Piero Rapagnani (ROMA1), Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)
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Thermal Noise in advanced Gravitational Wave detectors. LIGO-Virgo workshop. The workshop venue is the Auditorium at Virgo/EGO Site. See here how to reach the site. Registration and accomodation info will be added soon.
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  • Thursday 23 February
    • Past experiences 01

      In this session the experience acheived in the Virgo+ set-up and in the aLIGO prototypes are discussed

      • 1
        Welcome
        Speakers: Mr Federico Ferrini (European Gravitational Observatory), Michele Punturo (PG)
      • 2
        The mechanics of the Virgo Super-Attenuator
        Speaker: Franco Frasconi (PI)
        Slides
      • 3
        The Virgo Super Attuenuator control and the low frequency performances in the past runs
        Speaker: Ettore Majorana (ROMA1)
    • 11:00
      coffee break
    • Past Experiences 02

      ... continuation

    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Past Experiences 03

      ... continuation

      • 7
        Quadruple Suspension Design for Advanced LIGO: Discussion
      • 8
        Tests and understanding of the V+ monolithic suspensions: 01
        Speaker: Dr Marzia Colombini (ROMA1)
        Slides
      • 9
        Tests and understanding of the V+ monolithic suspensions: 02
        Speaker: Matteo Tacca (EGO)
        Paper
    • 16:00
      Coffee break
    • Modeling

      In this session the modeling of the suspension are presented and the expected performances are described.

      • 10
        Coating design for Advanced Detectors
        Speaker: Mr Nazario MORGADO (LMA-CNRS)
        Slides
      • 11
        Modeling of the suspension thermal noise in Virgo
        Speaker: Paola Puppo (ROMA1)
        Slides
      • 12
        The design motivation of the aLIGO final stage, our expectations of its performance etc
        Speaker: Dr Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)
        Slides
  • Friday 24 February
    • Modeling 02

      ... continue

      • 13
        Parametric Instabilities
        Speaker: Dr william kells (Caltech)
        Slides
      • 14
        Advanced Virgo suspension design
        Speaker: Ettore Majorana (ROMA1)
        Slides
      • 15
        Material loss angle from TNI
        Speaker: Innocenzo M. Pinto (SA)
        Slides
    • 11:00
      Coffee break
    • Procedures

      n this session the handling, repairing, ... procedures are described

      • 16
        Repair procedures
        Speaker: Dr Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)
        Slides
      • 17
        Handling procedures (Discussion)
    • 13:00
      break
    • Discussion
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