Cascina - April 2^nd - 4^th

Monday (April 2^nd):

14:30 Commissioning (E. Tournefier) Seminar room (2h30)

• Automatic alignment status and plans : H. Heitman (20+10)
• MSC status and plans: E. Majorana (20+10)
• Locking status and plans: F. Cavalier (20+10)
• Control noises: G. Vajente (20+10)
• Calibration update and automation: L. Rolland (15+5)
• Environmental sensors: R. De Rosa (10+5)
  
  

17:30 parallel meetings: E&S -- Noise -- Data Transfer -- FP7

17:30 Noise ( C. Fidecaro) Seminar room (TBC) (parallel with E&S)

• 1. Acoustic and tapping tests (Irene Fiori, F. Paoletti) 20'
• 2. HACR results (Gabriele Vajente) 20'
• 3. Nonstationarity measurements TBC
• 4. Monitoring Virgo noise progress TBC

17:30 E&S (F. Carbognani) Council room (TBC) (parallel with Noise)

• E&S planning for the Long Science Run

17:00 - 20:00 FP7 - M. Punturo (Council room)

Tuesday (April 3^rd):

09:00 - 10:30 parallel: Data Analysis F2F  ---  Locking

• CB (F. Marion) (Seminar Room)
  

• Organization of the work to prepare small scall data exchange
• Organisation of the work for the joint data analysis

• Locking (Fabien Cavalier) (Council Room)
•   alpha(f) (Bas)
•   new SSFS (Francois)
• Activities before run (discussion)
• Organization for the restart
• SSFS improvements
• alpha(f) ?
• beta ?
• new Gc
• Run preparation (discussion)
• procedures
• on call organization
• After run commissioning (discussion)
• how to reduce the control noises ? (Gabriele)
• Virgo + (discussion)
• simulations to be done
• task sharing
  

•     10:30 - 10:40     Introduction (M. Punturo)
•     10:40 - 11:10     Mirrors for the FP cavities (R. Flaminio)
  
•     11:10 - 11:40     Monolithic Suspensions (H. Vocca)
•     11:40 - 11:55     Mirror Cleanliness upgrade (P. Puppo)
•     11:55 - 12:15     Infrastructure upgrade (p. Popolizio)
•     12:15 - 12:55     Laser improvements (P. La Penna et al.) + FI remote tuning in SIB

•     14:30 - 14:50     Pre-MC (F. Cleva)
•     14:50 - 15:20     Thermal compensation (A. Rocchi)
•     15:20 - 15:40     Accoustic isolationof the end benches (F. Richard)
•     15:40 - 16:10     New LA electronics , Anderson et al. (H. Heitmann)
•     16:10 - 16:40     New control and DAQ electronics (A. Masserot)
•     16:40 - 17:00     Changes in the detection scheme - DC detection? (E. Tournefier)
•     17:00 - 17:20     Locking changes in Virgo+ (F. Cavalier)
•     17:20 - 17:50     Conclusion, planning, next steps (M. Punturo)
  

Wednesday (April 4^th):

09:00 Plenary (Th. S. Bauer ) Seminar room

• General News : B. Mours  (20 min)
• Data Analysis Update  :  A. Vicere  (20 min)
• Commissioning plans until science run :  E. Tournefier  (15 min)
  
• Run organization : R. Passaquieti  (15 min)
• Information from the Speakers Bureau : C. Bradaschia (10 min)
  
• Information about next VESF Council : F. Fidecaro  (10  min)
  
• Information about FP7 E.T. Design Study :  M. Punturo  (10 min)
  

14:00 VSC (B. Mours)

1. News (LIGO-Virgo joint meeting)
2. Start of the data sharing part of the LIGO-Virgo MOU.
3. MOU between SCOX1-LIGO-Virgo
4. Update of the Speakers bureau rules with a possible discussion on the Editorial board rules
5. Other decisions to be made for:

•  Commissioning;
•  Detector,
•  Data analysis,
•  Speakers bureau,
•  Editorial board,
•  Outreach.
• Please bring only items that require decisions