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Programme Colloque LVC 17 -21/03/2014 8: 45 - 10: 15 Gallieni 1 (45 p) Galieni 2 (30 p) Gallieni 4 (60 p) Gallieni 5 (70 p) Gallieni 6(30 p) Gallieni 7 (52 p) CBC small groups Optics CBC small groups Burst (grup B) CBC small groups Burst (group. A) CBC small groups Burst (grup B) CW QNWG (20 -30 p) 10: 15 -11: 00 - 12: 30 LUNDI 17 Mars 2014 COFFEE BREAK 12: 30 - 14: 00 - 15: 15 LUNCH CBC small groups 15: 15 - 16: 00 -17: 30 8: 45 - 10: 15 11: 00 - 12: 30 Burst Optics COFFEE BREAK CBC small groups Optics Burst CW QNWG (20 -30 p) Gallieni 1+2 (120 p) Gallieni 3 (30 p) Gallieni 4 (60 p) Gallieni 5 (70 p) Gallieni 6 (30 p) Gallieni 7 (52 p) CBC Stochastic IS Burst CW LAWG CW SWG 10: 15 -11: 00 MARDI 18 Mars 2014 Optics COFFEE BREAK CBC Stochastic 12: 30 -14: 00 IS LUNCH Burst+ CBC Det. Char) Stochastic AIG LSC Instrument Science White Paper planning meeting (~12 people) 14: 00 - 15: 15 -16: 00 16: 0 - 17: 30 COFFEE BREAK Burst+ CBC Det. Char)+ EM Stochastic LIGO+Virgo+Geo+Kagra+India Detchar AIG Salles Gallieni 1&2 8: 45 - 10: 15 -11: 00 -12: 30 MERCREDI 19 Mars 2014 Salle HERMES LAAC Session LSC Business meeting COFFEE BREAK LAAC Session LSC Business meeting 12: 30 -14: 00 LUNCH 14: 00 - 15: 15 Plenary session salle HERMES 15: 15 - 16: 00 COFFEE BREAK 14: 00 - 17: 00 Plenary session salle HERMES 17: 00 -17: 30 Tour rapide des posters 8: 45 - 10: 15 -11: 00 - 12: 30 JEUDI 20 Mars 2014 12: 30 - 14: 00 - 15: 15 - 16: 00 VENDREDI 21 Mars 2014 Plenary session salle HERMES COFFEE BREAK Plenary session salle HERMES LUNCH Poster session sur Agora COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION sur AGORA 16: 00 - 17: 15 Poster session sur Agora 8: 45 - 10: 15 Plenary session salle HERMES 10: 15 -11: 00 COFFEE BREAK 11: 00 - 12: 30 Plenary session salle HERMES

17 Mar 2014, 08: 45 Day 1 – Optics working group parallel session Session ends at 17: 30 Start Title Author 08: 45 FFT simulations of a. LIGO optics performance using measured COC data Hiro Yamamoto 09: 10 Damage Testing on Optics at Caltech Gari. Lynn Billingsley 09: 35 Status of Ad. V? stray light control subsystem Viswanath Bavigadda 10. 00 Ad. V input optics installation status Matteo Tacca 10: 30 Coffee Break 11: 00 Modeling of beam clipping on BS Charlotte Bond 11: 25 Bonding for Crystalline Suspension Rebecca Douglas 11: 50 Young's modulus of coatings Elaine Rhoades 12: 30 14: 00 14: 30 15: 00 15: 30 16: 00 16: 30 17: 00 Lunch Riccardo Bassiri Coating mechanical loss investigations Peter Murray Al. Ga. As coatings Steve Pen Coffee Break Progress of the Construction of THOR, a Coating Thermal Noise Testbed Mike Hartman Research plans at Whitman Greg Ogin Caltech coating work (remote) Tara Chalermsongsak 17 Mar 2014, 14: 00 Start 14: 00 14: 30 15: 00 15: 30 Day 1 – Quantum Noise working group parallel session Title Author(s) New version of finesse Daniel Brown White light cavity using OMIT David Blair Status of the Glasgow Sagnac Speedmeter Project Sebastian Steinlechner Generation of squeezed quantum noise via Amrit Pal-Singh the optical Kerr effect - Length 00: 30

18 Mar 2014, 09: 00 Start 9: 00 10: 30 11: 00 11: 30 12: 00 Title Author a. LIGO Seismic commissioning stories Coffee Break Virgo compensation plates Beam pointing control system Advanced Virgo OMC tests Rich Mittleman 18 Mar 2014, 09: 00 Start 09: 00 09: 50 10: 10 10: 30 11: 00 11: 30 11: 45 Day 2 – Instrument Science for the Second Generation Paola Puppo Maddalena Mantovani Romain Bonnand Day 2 – Lasers and Auxiliary Optics Title Session ends at 12: 30 Session ends at 12: 00 Author Hartmann-based laser beam profiler and update on the Hartmann wavefront sensor Peter Veitch Status report on cryogenic Er: YAG lasers as a light source for 3 rd(4 th? )-gen GWI Peter Veitch Coffee Break IO topics (ring heaters, fast beam steering, adaptive optics, cryogenics, maybe evanescent wave cooling) Guido Mueller Suppression of stimulated Brillion scattering with mod/demod techniques Volker Quetschke ISS and PCal topics Rick Savage 18 Mar 2014, 14: 00 Start 14: 00 14: 30 15: 00 15: 30 16: 00 16: 30 17: 00 Title Author Alignment sensing and control of squeezing at GEO 600 The Syracuse angular optical trap James Lough MIST Gabriele Vajente Coffee Break Control of cavity matching with thermally deformable mirrors Adaptive mode-matching system for a. LIGO OMC Antonio Perreca Modern Controls Jenne Driggers 18 Mar 2014, 14: 00 Start 14: 00 14: 30 14: 55 15: 20 Day 2 – Advanced Interferometer Configurations Session ends at 17: 30 Emil Schreiber Marie Kasprzack Day 2 – Tuesday March 18: SWG Parallel Session Title Isolation systems status for Advanced LIGO High Frequecy sensor fusion Nested Pendula Isolation systems Cooling the LIGO-3 test masses Author(s) Hugo Paris Christophe Collette Odylio Aguiar Brett Shapiro Length 00: 30 00: 25

19 Mar 2014, 09: 00 Start 09: 00 09: 10 10: 20 11: 05 11: 10 Day 3 -- Wednesday March 19: LAAC Session Title Welcome, and overview of the LAAC tutorial(s): commissioning Coffee Break Looking ahead to the Stanford LVC meeting LAAC careers discussion Author(s) Title New LSC member: West Virginia University New LSC member: Whitman College LSC senior member presentation The view from NSF LSC status News on LIGO recompetition Coffee Break Data Analysis Council new initiatives Discussion: Academic Credit committee News on GW-EM follow up MOU applications Discussion: Presentations and Publications Policy 19 Mar 2014, 14: 00 Start 14: 00 14: 15 14: 30 14: 45 15: 00 15: 15 16: 00 16: 20 16: 40 16: 55 17: 00 Poster Session viewing in AGORA 00: 05 Session ends at 12: 30 Author(s) 00: 20 Greg Ogin Chad Hanna (Penn State) Pedro Marronetti Gabriela Gonzalez Barry Barish 00: 45 Laura Cadonati Alberto Vecchio Sergei Klimenko Day 3 -- Wednesday March 19: Plenary Session Title Virgo collaboration report EGO Laboratory Update from LIGO Laboratory LIGO India status update GEO 600 report Coffee Break Advanced LIGO status Advanced Virgo report Status of KAGRA Run reports and plans Length 00: 10 01: 10 00: 45 Brian Lantz 01: 00 19 Mar 2014, 08: 30 Day 3 -- Wednesday March 19: LSC Business Meeting Start 08: 30 08: 50 09: 10 09: 20 09: 40 10: 00 10: 20 11: 05 11: 25 11: 45 12: 05 Session ends at 12: 10 Author(s) 00: 15 David Reitze Bala Iyer 00: 15 00: 45 Brian O’Reilly 00: 20 00: 15 00: 20 Length 00: 20 00: 10 00: 20 00: 20 Session ends at 17: 15 Length 00: 15 00: 20

20 Mar 2014, 08: 45 Start 08: 30 09: 10 09: 35 10: 00 10: 15 11: 00 11: 20 11: 45 12: 00 12: 10 Title Report from Commissioning Virgo Det. Char report LIGO Det. Char report S 6 directed search for supernovae remnants Coffee Break Searches in the AD Era: Burst All-Sky Searches in the AD Era: Binary Neutron Stars Searches in the AD Era: CW All-sky isolated neutron stars Searches in the AD Era: CW Targeted Searches in the AD Era: Isotropic Stochastic 20 Mar 2014, 08: 45 Start 14: 00 15: 15 16: 00 Session ends at 12: 30 Author(s) Anamaria Effier Florent Robinet 00: 25 Benjamin Owen 00: 45 00: 20 00: 25 Length 00: 40 00: 25 Keith Riles Graha Woan 00: 20 00: 15 00: 10 Day 4 -- Thursday March 20: Posters Session Title Author(s) Parallel/Poster Session Highlights (1 min advertisements) Break and Poster Session Viewing continues 21 Mar 2014, 08: 45 Start 08: 30 09: 00 09: 15 09: 30 Day 4 -- Thursday March 20: Plenary Session Day 5 -- Friday March 21: Plenary Session 00: 15 Session ends at 17: 15 Length 01: 15 00: 45 01: 15 Session ends at 12: 30 Title Author(s) Length Instrument Science focus session: Low frequency terrestrial detectors Jan Harms Statistical properties of astrophysical gravitational-wave backgrounds Duncan Meacher All-sky search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients Tanner Prestegard Searching for long-lived transients in the advanced detector era: seedless clustering and GPUs Eric Thrane 00: 15 10: 15 Coffee Break 00: 45 11: 00 Burst focus session 00: 20 11: 20 Astrowatch-GEO GRB 11: 30 CW group highlights Andrzej Krolak 00: 20 11: 50 narrowband search for Crab & Vela Cristiano Palomba 00: 20 12: 10 challenge - preliminary results Evan Goetz/Chris Messenger 00: 20 00: 30 00: 15 00: 10 VSR 2/VSR 4/S 6 Sco X-1 mock data