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
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GWADW 2013 - Gravitational Wave Detectors for the Next Decade Workshop

from Sunday, 19 May 2013 (17:00) to Saturday, 25 May 2013 (19:00)

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