VESB NEWS Viviana Fafone and Roberto Passaquieti for

VESB NEWS Viviana Fafone and Roberto Passaquieti for the VESB VIR-XXXXX-17 VSC Meeting - July 19, 2017 VIR-XXXXX-17 1

AMALDI -12 Update q Twelfth Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Pasadena: July 09 -14) q Giovanni Losurdo (invited): O 2: detectors, results so far perspectives q Cris Van Den Broek (invited): GW Test of GR q Flavio Travasso: Status of the Monolithic Suspensions for Advanced Virgo q Luca Naticchioni: The payloads of Advanced Virgo: current status and upgrades q Alex Amato: High-Reflection Coatings for Gravitational-Waves Detectors: State of The Art and Future Developments q Laura Van Der Schaaf: Phase cameras for Advanced Virgo: first experience q J. M. Gonzales Castro: Current status of noise hunting in Advanced Virgo q J. M. Gonzales Castro et al. : (Poster) Estimating noise from stray light with ray tracing q Flavio Travasso et al. : (Poster)Folded pendulum dynamical behavior in cryogenics conditions q Valeria Sequino et al. : (Poster) Development of an audio-frequency band vacuum squeezer for the quantum noise reduction in the Gravitational Wave detector Advanced Virgo VSC Meeting - July 19, 2017 VIR-XXXXX-17 2

NEXT CONFERENCES q Balaton Summer School in Physics (Lake Balaton-HU: July 17 -23) q Franco Frasconi (invited): Seismic noise suppression in ground based interferometric detectors for Gravitational Waves - the Advanced VIRGO Superattenuator q Eric Genin (invited): Detection of Gravitational Waves with laser interferometers: focus on Virgo Laser and optics q TAUP 2017(Subdury, ON, Canada, : July 24 -29) q Antonino Chiummo: Advanced Virgo Status (for the Virgo Coll. ) q Sexten 2017 Gamma -ray Astrophysics with CTA (Sexten-Sesto- Italy, July 24 -28) q Barbara Patricelli (invited): Searching for gamma-ray counterparts to gravitational wave sources q 18 th Lomonosov Conference (Moscow, Sept. 11 -15) q Jo Van den Brandt: title TBD q Walter Del Pozzo: title TBD q The amazing life of stars: from the Main Sequence to the GW emission (Cefalù, Sicily: Sept. 04 -08) q Fulvio Ricci (invited): Ad. V status q Giulia Stratta: EM counterparts of GW detections q Pia Astone: The future astrophysics of GW VSC Meeting - July 19, 2017 VIR-XXXXX-17 3

NEXT CONFERENCES q Italian Physical Society (SIF) (Trento, ITA: Sept. 11 -15) Francesco Fidecaro (invited): Status of Advanced Virgo G. ovanni Losurdo (invited): Advanced Virgo Lorenzo Aiello: Update on the commissioning of thermal compensation system for Advanced Virgo Matteo Di Giovanni: Robust estimation of the waveform of gravitational wave transients signals by a general method. q Massimiliano Razzano: Multimessenger astrophysics in the era of gravitational waves: first results and perspectives q Claudio Casentini: La risposta di un network mondiale di rivelatori al segnale in neutrini di una supernova a collasso gravitazionale q q q Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP 2017) (Malaga, Spain: Sept. 12 -15) q Isabel Cordero-Carrión: On the convexity of relativistic ideal magneto-hydrodynamics and the associated gravitational wave emission q Ninth Aegean Summer School (Apollonia, Sifnos, Greece: Sept. 24 -26) q Matteo Barsuglia (invited): LIGO and Virgo: current status and future plans q IAU 338 symposium on Gravitational Wave Astrophysics ( Baton Rouge, LA: Oct. 1619) q Jan Harms (invited): Science and Cosmology with future ground-based interferometric detectors focusing on the long term (TBC) VSC Meeting - July 19, 2017 VIR-XXXXX-17 4

2018 CONFERENCES q EWASS 2108 (Liverpool, UK: Sept. 03 -06/04/2018) q Marica Branchesi (invited): GW interferometry and EM follow-up over the next decade (TBC) q Giulia Pagliaroli (invited): GW/neutrino search for core-collapse SN (TBC) q Gianluca Guidi (invited): LIGO/Virgo GW observation status (TBC) q Signal Processing and Art. Intelligence- ICASSP 2018 (Seoul, Korea: 22 -27/04/2018) q Elena Cuoco: Machine Learning for Gravitational Wave signals classification in LIGO and Virgo VSC Meeting - July 19, 2017 VIR-XXXXX-17 5

INVITED TALKS – Rules (new -release) q In agreement with the last (June 21 ) VSC decision, a new release of The Virgo Collaboration Publication and Presentation Rules was delivered and notified to the collaboration on July 10. q With respect to the previous 2015 document (VIR-0335 C-13. pdf) this new release contains just the approved amendment to section “ 3. 5. 1 Speaker Selection” q TDS link: https: //tds. ego-gw. it/? content=3&r=13448 q TDS code: VIR-0335 D-13. VSC Meeting - July 19, 2017 VIR-XXXXX-17 6