GWDAW-99

4th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop
Rome 2-4 December 1999

http://grwav1.roma1.infn.it/gwdaw

 

Department of Physics - University of Rome "La Sapienza"
I.N.F.N. - Section of Roma 1

 

Second Announcement

 

 

 

 

The GWDAW 99 workshop is devoted to the gravitational wave data analysis problems.

The program includes a first section based on presentations of the status of the experiments fully focused on data taking and data analysis preparation.

The other sections are based on introductory talks of selected topics followed by extensive and exhaustive discussions.

Short and well focused contributions can be hosted in the context of the discussion of each topic.

Participants who would like to present their recent work are asked to submit abstractselectronically to the discussion leaders with a carbon copy to the secretariat of the workshop: e-mail address of the discussion leaders are given in the program. Some of them may be asked by the discussion leaders to make brief presentations during the workshop.

 

Workshop Program

 

9.00 - 9.15 -Welcome

 

Thursday Dec. 2^th , Morning Section

Status of the experiments

 

9.15 –10.45 - Detectors taking data  (chair. M. Davier LAL)

• Allegro
• Auriga
• Doppler tracking experiment
• Niobe
• Rome resonant bars
• Tama

 

Coffee Break - 10.45 - 11.15

11.15 –11.30 - ICEG Report

11.30 –12.45 - Detectors preparing the data taking  (chair. B Hamilton LSU)

• ACIGA,
• GEO,
• LIGO,
• LISA,
• VIRGO

 

 

Thursday Dec 2^nd. Afternoon Session

Detector characterization, data validation and data rejection

 

14.30 –15.30 - Many bars have excess noise: Can data analysis provide

                        clues for discovering common noise sources?

Discussion Leader : W. Johnson, LSU ( johnson@phgrav.phys.lsu.edu   )

 

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

 

16.00 – 18.00 Calibration, data diagnostic and data validation

Discussion leaders:   B. Mours - LAPP, Annecy  ( mours@lapp.in2p3.fr )

                                S. Vitale – Univ. of Trento   ( vitale@science.unitn.it )

 

 

Friday Dec. 3^rd. Morning Session

Transient events

 

9.00 -10.30 Sources, Filtering and parameter extraction,

Discussion Leader : BS Sathyaprakash, University of Cardiff  ( b.sathyaprakash@astro.cf.ac.uk )

 

10.30 –11.00 Coffee break

 

11.00 -12.00 - Upper limits and confidence interval

Discussion leader: Samuel Finn, Penn State Univ.  ( lsf@marlowe.astro.nwu.edu ) 

 

12.00-13.00 Coincidence Analysis

Discussion leader: G. Pizzella, Univ. of  Tor Vergata,  pizzella@roma2.infn.it )

 

 

Friday Dec. 3^rd. Afternoon Session

Continuous signals (stochastic background)

 

14.30 –15.30 Stochastic Background

Discussion leader : P. Astone , INFN-Roma1 ( astone@roma1.infn.it   )

 

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

 

Hardware and Software environment for gravitational wave experiments

16.00 –16.45 Hardware selection

Discussion Leader : B. Allen Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee ( ballen@ligo.caltech.edu )

 

16.45 – 17.30 Software tools; data access, linking to libraries, code generation, graphical representation.

Discussion Leader: F. Fidecaro Univ. of Pisa  ( fidecaro@galileo.pi.infn.it )

 

17.30 - 18.00 Software validation

Discussion Leader :  Kent Blackburn, LIGO Caltech,  ( blackburn_k@ligo.caltech.edu )

 

 

Saturday Dec. 4^th. Morning Session

Continuous signals (Pulsars)

 

9.00 -10.30 Periodic sources : hierarchical searches, noise removal

Discussion leader:  M.A. Papa, Max Planck - Potsdam  ( papa@aei-potsdam.mpg.de  )

 

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

 

11.00 – 12.30 Round table about data exchange and software   networking developments

Chairman:

R. Weiss, MIT  ( weiss@ligo.mit.edu )

A. Giazotto , INFN-Pisa  ( giazotto@pi.infn.it )

 

12.30-12.45 Concluding Remarks