2008-July_15th
Cascina - July 15th - 17th
Tuesday (July 15th):
14:30 - 19:00 Commissioning (E. Tournefier) Auditorium
1- Introduction (E. Tournefier) 5'+5'
2- Magnetic noise investigations (B. Swinkels) 10'+5'
3- Scattered light measurements and curing (B. Canuel) 10'+5'
4- Environmental noise studies and plans (I. Fiori) 20'+5'
5- New ISYS commissioning: status and plans (E. Genin) 20'+5'
6- IMC local controls commissioning (E. Majorana, TBC) 10'+5'
7- Status of DarkF simulations (M. Pichot, TBC) 15'+5'
8- Locking trials with TCS and locking plans (G. Vajente) 20'+5'
9- Alignement plans (M. Mantovani) 15'+5'
Wednesday (July 16th):
9:00 - 13:00 Detector (P. Rapagnani) Auditorium
2- Monolithic Payload development (P. Puppo/H.Vocca) 15'+5'
3- NE Payload Recovery (P. Puppo) 10'+5'
4- New NE Mirror (R. Flaminio TBC) 10'+5
5- IMC Installation (F. Mul) 10'+5'
6- TCS: shutdown works and plans for upgrades (A. Rocchi TBC) 10'+5'
7- Electronics upgrades for suspension control (A. Gennai) 10'+5'
8- New control electronics: installation status and plans (A. Masserot) 10'+5'
9- Infrastructure: works ongoing and planned for the shutdown (P. Popolizio) 10'+5'
13:00 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 18:00 Advanced Virgo (G. Losurdo) Auditorium
G.Losurdo - Towards the AdV review (postponed to the plenary session)
L.Pinard - Mirrors
A.Freise - Optical configuration overview
S. Chelkowski: Advanced Virgo with higher order LG modes, implications for mirror radii of curvature
S.Hild/G.Losurdo/A.Freise - Optimization of the AdV sensitivity for the astrophysical sources
E.Calloni - Interferometer sensing and control overview
B.Canuel - Input Optics progress
V.Fafone/A.Rocchi - TCS update
A.Pasqualetti - Vacuum overview
19:00 - 20:00 Biathlon Relay Run (C. Bradaschia) EGO Site
Teams
"Locking" : E. Campagna, P. Ruggi, B. Swinkels, G. Vajente
"Optics" : B. Canuel, F. Cleva, E. Genin, R. Day
"FCD Old Boys" : C. Bradaschia, S. Braccini, E. Calloni, L. Di Fiore
"S-I & Co" : G. Di Biase, L. Paoli, F. Richard, R. Romboli
"Students" : Jeff, John, Helene, Casey
"Last chance Team": R. Cavalieri, D. Huet, F. Garufi, L. Pinard
20:00 - 22:00 Biathlon Buffet (S. Perus) Cafeteria - Main Building
Thursday (July 17th):
8:30 - 11:00 Data Analysis (G. Guidi) Auditorium
8.30 BURST status report (P. Hello) (10)
8.40 CBC status report (F. Marion) (10+5)
9.55 CW status report (C. Palomba) (15)
9.10 STOC status report (G. Cella) (10+5)
9.25 Discussion about External collaborations (10)
9.35 h(t) and related uncertainties (B. Mours) (15+10)
10.00 h(t) online transfer / online analysis (B. Mours) (10+10)
10.20 VDB/DQ status report (D. Verkindt) (10+5)
10.35 HF burst VSR1 status report (Trento) (10+5)
10.50 Burst search with EGC in S5/VSR1 (Arun) (10)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 13:00 Plenary (C. Bradaschia) Auditorium
F. Fidecaro : News 10'
C. Bradaschia : NE accident 10'
F. Richard : Safety working around viewports 10'
P. Rapagnani : Detector plans 10'
E. Tournefier : Commissioning plans 10'
H. Heitmann : Technical coordination 10'
G. Guidi : Data analysis plans 10'
G. Losurdo : Advanced Virgo progress 10'
All : Discussion on plans for this fall and beyond 25'
13:00 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 17:00 VSC (F. Fidecaro) Council Room
VSC Wide
- Communications
- STAC and EGO Council
- EGO Commissioning fellowships
- Mission rules for French and Italian labs
- Issues from NE incident
- - Commissioning and detector reports
- - Discussion
- Discussions and decisions for:
- - Commissioning
- - Detector
- - Data analysis
- - Advanced Virgo
- - Speakers bureau
- - Editorial board
- - Outreach
- Discussions
- OPC coordinator
- Electronics and Software coordinator
- Revised addendum to MoU between Virgo and GEO
- Proposal of MoU between Virgo and Institute of Applied Physics, Novgorod
- Preliminary discussion on "Access to LSC data before May 18" and "External Collaboration basics" documents
- AOB
VSC- Group leaders only
- Appointments
- OPC coordinator
- Electronics and Software Coordinator
- AOB