Name: GWADW 2013 - Gravitational Wave Detectors for the Next Decade Workshop
Start: 2013-05-19T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-05-25T19:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 13 May 2013
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Sunday, 19 May 2013

17:00 Registration
Registration
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Room Elba

19:00 Welcome Cocktail Party
Welcome Cocktail Party
19:00 - 20:00
Room: Hotel Hermitage Swimming Pool Area

Monday, 20 May 2013
08:50
08:50 - 09:30
Contributions

08:50 Welcome - Francesco Fidecaro (PI)

09:00 Setting the Stage - Francesco Fidecaro (PI)
09:30
09:30 - 12:30
Contributions

09:30 First Lessons from the aLIGO Commissioning - Daniel SIGG (LHO)

10:00 Lessons from commissioning cryogenic systems underground - Osamu Miyakawa (ICRR - Tokyo)

11:00 Chasing excess noise, focusing on diffused light - Katherine Dooley (AEI Hannover)

11:30 Coping with aberrations - Jerome DEGALLAIX (LMA)

12:00 Building up a commissioning network - Lisa Barsotti (LIGO-MIT)
12:30
12:30 - 12:31
Contributions

12:30 Active thermal lensing elements for spherical and astigmatic mode matching - D.B. Tanner D.H. Reitze G. Ciani G. Mueller L. Williams M. Arain P. Fulda Z. Liu
12:35 lunch break
lunch break
12:35 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 19:40
Contributions

16:00 LIGO3G - Rana Adhikari (Caltech) Stefan Hild (University of Glasgow)

16:30 ET Overview - Michele Punturo (PG)

17:00 ET Seismic surveys - David Rabeling (Nikhef, Vrije Universiteit)

17:20 Newtonian Noise Substraction - Jan Harms (Caltech) Mark Beker (NIKHEF)

18:15 Optics for Future Detectors - Ronny Nawrodt (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

18:40 Squeezing for future generation detectors - Hartmut Grote (AEI Hannover)

19:00 Suspensions for future GWDs - Ettore Majorana (ROMA1)

19:20 MutiSAS + Control - Mark Beker (NIKHEF)
19:40
19:40 - 19:41
Contributions

19:40 Electronical Absorption of Silicon at Cryogenic Temperatures (Julius Konna, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena) - Julius Komma (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

19:40 Novel alingnment sensing scheme with RF jitter modulation - C. Mueller D. Amariutei D. Tanner D.H. Reitze G. Ciani G. Mueller P. Fulda V. Quetschke
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 Laser frequency noise immune gravitational wave detection using atom interferometry - Mark Kasevich (Stanford University)

09:30 Very long baseline underground gravitation antenna with atom interferometry - Philippe Bouyer (LP2N - IOGS)

10:00 The MAGIA Experiment: current status and future prospects - Fiodor Sorrentino (FI)

11:00 Atomic gravitational wave sensors - Holger Mueller (UC Berkeley)

11:30 Newtonian noise effects in atom interferometers - Andrea Vicerè (FI)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 19:35
Contributions

16:25 Increasing the sensitivity of the NANOGrav PTA: recent improvements in backends and software - Maura McLaughlin (WVU-Morgantown)

17:05 The path to ultra broad band pulsar observations at the Effelsberg 100m and its impact on EPTA results - Ramesh Karuppusamy (MPifR-Bonn)

18:05 LOFAR: Building a Flexible and Responsive Radio Telescope for Pulsars and Transients - Vladislav Kondratiev (ASTRON-Dwingeloo)

18:35 Pulsar timing perspectives with the new Sardinia Radio Telescope - Nichi D'Amico (INAF - Cagliari)

19:00 Improving the capabilities of localizing the sources of gravitational waves with the pulsar timing array(s): news and views from the PPTA - Linquing Wen (UWA - Perth)
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
08:55
08:55 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 Overview talk on advances and challenges in mitigating thermal noise - Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)

09:30 New noise estimates in waveguide coatings - Stefanie Kroker (FSU Jena, Institute of Applied Physics)

09:55 Prospects and Progress in Crystalline coatings: AlGaAs - Garrett Cole (University of Vienna)

10:20 Prospects and Progress in Crystalline coatings: AlGaP - Angie Lin (Stanford University)

11:15 Characterization and direct thermal noise measurement of coatings - Raffaele Flaminio (Laboratoire des Materiaux Avances - CNRS/IN2P3)

11:40 Experimental results on the thermal noise of oscillators in non equilibrium steady states - Claudia Lazzaro (PD)

12:05 Open questions re the use of crystalline coating materials - Matthew Abernathy (University of Glasgow)
12:30
12:30 - 12:31
Contributions

12:30 Mechanical loss of amorphous thin films at low temperatures - Gerd Hofmann (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)
12:31 lunch break
lunch break
12:31 - 15:25
15:25
15:25 - 19:35
Contributions

15:25 Introductory Talk - Hiroaki Yamamoto (LIGO Lab / Caltech)

15:35 A review of optical simulation techniques - Jean-Yves VINET (CNRS)

15:55 aLigo analysis pipelines using simulated data - John ZWEIZIG (Caltech)

16:20 Experiences and lessons learned from interferometer simulations at GEO - Andreas Freise (University of Birmingham)

16:50 Time domain simulation for the lock acquisition study of aLIGO - Kiwamu IZUMI (LHO)

17:45 Modal simulation of dual recycled interferometers - Gabriele Vajente (PI)

18:10 Using the phase camera in advanced interferometers - Richard Day (European Gravitational Observatory)

18:35 Simulation of Sensitivity curves for dual recycled interferometers using DarkF - Mikhael PICHOT (CNRS)

19:00 Challenges waiting in commissioning and preparations - Matthew Evans (MIT)
Thursday, 23 May 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Strong field tests of GR - Walter Del Pozzo (Nikhef)

09:30 Cosmology - Chris Messenger (AEI Hannover)

10:00 Detecting chirping gravitational waves in real time and its astrophysical implications - Wen Linqing (University of Western Australia)
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:35
Contributions

11:00 Design and expected thermal noise of the KAGRA sapphire suspensions - KAZUHIRO YAMAMOTO (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The university of Tokyo)

11:25 Bulk silicon mechanical loss for estimates of thermal noise-what do know/need to know? - Gerd Hoffman (Jena)

11:50 Optical techniques for reducing thermal noise - Stefan Ballmer (Syracuse University)

12:15 System for characterising Virgo/Advanced Virgo test mass Qs - Paola Puppo (ROMA1)
12:35
12:35 - 12:36
Contributions

12:35 Coating modelling - Martin Hart (Glasgow)

12:35 Non-equilibrium thermal noise - Paolo De Gregorio (INFN - Padova)

12:35 Silicon suspensions - Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)

12:35 Silicon absorption - Alexander Khalaidovski (AEI Hannover)

12:35 Bonding - Rebecca Douglas (Glasgow)
12:40 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 - 15:50
15:50
15:50 - 19:40
Contributions

15:50 "Introductory Talk": Light Sources Interferometer Topologies - Roman Schnabel (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Leibniz University Hannover)

16:30 Sagnac Interferometer for GW Detection - Stefan Hild (University of Glasgow)

16:55 Broadband Sagnac Interferometer with short Filter Cavities - Sthefan DANILISHIN (University of Western Australia)

17:20 A polarizing Sagnac topology with DC readout for future gravitational wave detectors - Mengyao Wang (Birmingham)

18:15 Anomalous Dynamical Back-Action in Michelson Interferometers - Sergey Tarabrin (AEI Hannover)

18:40 Multiple optical springs in coupled resonator systems - Neil Gordon (Glasgow)
20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:30
Room: Maitù Restaurant
Friday, 24 May 2013
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 How does cryogenics improve the sensitivity of interferometers? - Kentaro Somiya (TITECH)

09:20 Status of activities on crystalline suspensions at Nikhef - Eric HENNES (Nikhef)

09:40 Verification of cooling time reduction of interferometric cryogenic gravitational wave detectors using high emissivity coating - Yusuke Sakakibara (The University of Tokyo)

10:30 Cryogenic Silicon Research for the Future of LIGO - Nicolas Smith-Lefebvre (LIGO Caltech)

10:50 Optical measurements at cryogenic temperatures - Julius Komma (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

11:10 Properties of silicon and coatings for a low temperature detector - Massimo Granata (Lyon)
12:30
12:30 - 12:31
Contributions

12:30 Cryogenic properties of sapphire fibres - Christian Schwarz (Jena)

12:30 UF-LIGO Cryogenic Test Bed - D.B. Tanner G. Mueller R. Goetz
12:35 lunch break
lunch break
12:35 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 18:30
Contributions

16:15 Geodesic reference performance limits for space gravitational wave missions - William Weber (Trento)

16:40 A double pendulum for lab testing of free fall on 2 DoFs - Luciano Di Fiore (NA) Massimo Bassan (ROMA2)

16:55 Alternative configurations for Space-based GW detectors - Vitali Mueller (AEI)

17:20 LISA 2020: An intermediate scale space gravitational wave observatory for this decade - Sasha Buchman (Stanford University)

17:45 Gravitational Reference Sensor Technology Advancements - John Conklin (University of Florida)

17:55 eLISA and L2 process. Submission of White paper - Guido Mueller (University of Florida)
18:31
18:31 - 18:32
Contributions

18:31 Gravitational Reference Sensor Technology Advancements - Andrew Chilton Giacomo Ciani Guido Mueller John W. Conling Ryan Shelley
18:35
18:35 - 19:00
Contributions

18:35 Lavender - Stefan Ballmer (Syracuse University)
19:00
19:00 - 19:30
Contributions

19:00 Japan 2014 - Kentaro Somiya (Caltech) Seiji Kawamura
19:30
19:30 - 19:55
Contributions

19:30 Summary - David McClelland (The Australian National University)
19:55

19:55 - 20:25
Saturday, 25 May 2013