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

5:00 PM Registration
Registration
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Room Elba

7:00 PM Welcome Cocktail Party
Welcome Cocktail Party
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Hotel Hermitage Swimming Pool Area

Monday, May 20, 2013
8:50 AM
8:50 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

8:50 AM Welcome - Francesco Fidecaro (PI)

9:00 AM Setting the Stage - Francesco Fidecaro (PI)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM First Lessons from the aLIGO Commissioning - Daniel SIGG (LHO)

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM 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 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:35 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 7:40 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM LIGO3G - Rana Adhikari (Caltech) Stefan Hild (University of Glasgow)

4:30 PM ET Overview - Michele Punturo (PG)

5:00 PM ET Seismic surveys - David Rabeling (Nikhef, Vrije Universiteit)

5:20 PM Newtonian Noise Substraction - Jan Harms (Caltech) Mark Beker (NIKHEF)

6:15 PM Optics for Future Detectors - Ronny Nawrodt (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

6:40 PM Squeezing for future generation detectors - Hartmut Grote (AEI Hannover)

7:00 PM Suspensions for future GWDs - Ettore Majorana (ROMA1)

7:20 PM MutiSAS + Control - Mark Beker (NIKHEF)
7:40 PM
7:40 PM - 7:41 PM
Contributions

7:40 PM Electronical Absorption of Silicon at Cryogenic Temperatures (Julius Konna, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena) - Julius Komma (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

7:40 PM 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, May 21, 2013
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Laser frequency noise immune gravitational wave detection using atom interferometry - Mark Kasevich (Stanford University)

9:30 AM Very long baseline underground gravitation antenna with atom interferometry - Philippe Bouyer (LP2N - IOGS)

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

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

11:30 AM Newtonian noise effects in atom interferometers - Andrea Vicerè (FI)
12:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 7:35 PM
Contributions

4:25 PM Increasing the sensitivity of the NANOGrav PTA: recent improvements in backends and software - Maura McLaughlin (WVU-Morgantown)

5:05 PM The path to ultra broad band pulsar observations at the Effelsberg 100m and its impact on EPTA results - Ramesh Karuppusamy (MPifR-Bonn)

6:05 PM LOFAR: Building a Flexible and Responsive Radio Telescope for Pulsars and Transients - Vladislav Kondratiev (ASTRON-Dwingeloo)

6:35 PM Pulsar timing perspectives with the new Sardinia Radio Telescope - Nichi D'Amico (INAF - Cagliari)

7:00 PM 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, May 22, 2013
8:55 AM
8:55 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Overview talk on advances and challenges in mitigating thermal noise - Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)

9:30 AM New noise estimates in waveguide coatings - Stefanie Kroker (FSU Jena, Institute of Applied Physics)

9:55 AM Prospects and Progress in Crystalline coatings: AlGaAs - Garrett Cole (University of Vienna)

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM Mechanical loss of amorphous thin films at low temperatures - Gerd Hofmann (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)
12:31 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:31 PM - 3:25 PM
3:25 PM
3:25 PM - 7:35 PM
Contributions

3:25 PM Introductory Talk - Hiroaki Yamamoto (LIGO Lab / Caltech)

3:35 PM A review of optical simulation techniques - Jean-Yves VINET (CNRS)

3:55 PM aLigo analysis pipelines using simulated data - John ZWEIZIG (Caltech)

4:20 PM Experiences and lessons learned from interferometer simulations at GEO - Andreas Freise (University of Birmingham)

4:50 PM Time domain simulation for the lock acquisition study of aLIGO - Kiwamu IZUMI (LHO)

5:45 PM Modal simulation of dual recycled interferometers - Gabriele Vajente (PI)

6:10 PM Using the phase camera in advanced interferometers - Richard Day (European Gravitational Observatory)

6:35 PM Simulation of Sensitivity curves for dual recycled interferometers using DarkF - Mikhael PICHOT (CNRS)

7:00 PM Challenges waiting in commissioning and preparations - Matthew Evans (MIT)
Thursday, May 23, 2013
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Strong field tests of GR - Walter Del Pozzo (Nikhef)

9:30 AM Cosmology - Chris Messenger (AEI Hannover)

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

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

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

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

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

12:35 PM Coating modelling - Martin Hart (Glasgow)

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

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

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

12:35 PM Bonding - Rebecca Douglas (Glasgow)
12:40 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM
3:50 PM - 7:40 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM "Introductory Talk": Light Sources Interferometer Topologies - Roman Schnabel (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Leibniz University Hannover)

4:30 PM Sagnac Interferometer for GW Detection - Stefan Hild (University of Glasgow)

4:55 PM Broadband Sagnac Interferometer with short Filter Cavities - Sthefan DANILISHIN (University of Western Australia)

5:20 PM A polarizing Sagnac topology with DC readout for future gravitational wave detectors - Mengyao Wang (Birmingham)

6:15 PM Anomalous Dynamical Back-Action in Michelson Interferometers - Sergey Tarabrin (AEI Hannover)

6:40 PM Multiple optical springs in coupled resonator systems - Neil Gordon (Glasgow)
8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Maitù Restaurant
Friday, May 24, 2013
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM How does cryogenics improve the sensitivity of interferometers? - Kentaro Somiya (TITECH)

9:20 AM Status of activities on crystalline suspensions at Nikhef - Eric HENNES (Nikhef)

9:40 AM Verification of cooling time reduction of interferometric cryogenic gravitational wave detectors using high emissivity coating - Yusuke Sakakibara (The University of Tokyo)

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM UF-LIGO Cryogenic Test Bed - D.B. Tanner G. Mueller R. Goetz
12:35 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:35 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Geodesic reference performance limits for space gravitational wave missions - William Weber (Trento)

4:40 PM A double pendulum for lab testing of free fall on 2 DoFs - Luciano Di Fiore (NA) Massimo Bassan (ROMA2)

4:55 PM Alternative configurations for Space-based GW detectors - Vitali Mueller (AEI)

5:20 PM LISA 2020: An intermediate scale space gravitational wave observatory for this decade - Sasha Buchman (Stanford University)

5:45 PM Gravitational Reference Sensor Technology Advancements - John Conklin (University of Florida)

5:55 PM eLISA and L2 process. Submission of White paper - Guido Mueller (University of Florida)
6:31 PM
6:31 PM - 6:32 PM
Contributions

6:31 PM Gravitational Reference Sensor Technology Advancements - Andrew Chilton Giacomo Ciani Guido Mueller John W. Conling Ryan Shelley
6:35 PM
6:35 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

6:35 PM Lavender - Stefan Ballmer (Syracuse University)
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

7:00 PM Japan 2014 - Kentaro Somiya (Caltech) Seiji Kawamura
7:30 PM
7:30 PM - 7:55 PM
Contributions

7:30 PM Summary - David McClelland (The Australian National University)
7:55 PM

7:55 PM - 8:25 PM
Saturday, May 25, 2013