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Optics Performance Simulation and Damage Testing at Caltech

This programme includes presentations on the performance simulation and damage testing of optics used in aLIGO and AdV, as well as advancements in laser technology and interferometer configurations.

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Optics Performance Simulation and Damage Testing at Caltech

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  1. Programme Colloque LVC 17-21/03/2014 17:00 -17:30 Tour rapide des posters

  2. 17 Mar 2014, 08:45 Day 1 – Opticsworking group parallelsession Session ends at 17:30 Start TitleAuthor 08:45 FFT simulations of aLIGOoptics performance usingmeasured COC data Hiro Yamamoto 09:10 Damage Testing on OpticsatCaltech GariLynnBillingsley 09:35 Statusof AdV? stray light control subsystemViswanathBavigadda 10.00 AdVinput optics installation status Matteo Tacca 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Modelingof beamclipping on BS Charlotte Bond 11:25 Bondingfor CrystallineSuspension Rebecca Douglas 11:50 Young'smodulus of coatings Elaine Rhoades 12:30 Lunch 17 Mar 2014, 14:00 Day 1 – Quantum Noise working group parallel session Start TitleAuthor(s) Length 14:00 New version of finesse Daniel Brown 00:30 14:30 White light cavityusing OMIT David Blair 00:30 15:00 Status of the Glasgow SagnacSpeedmeterProject SebastianSteinlechner 00:30 15:30 Generation of squeezed quantum noise via Amrit Pal-Singh 00:30 the optical Kerr effect- 14:00 Riccardo Bassiri 14:30Coatingmechanicalloss investigationsPeter Murray 15:00 AlGaAscoatingsSteve Pen 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 Progress of the Construction of THOR, a Coating Thermal Noise Testbed Mike Hartman 16:30 Research plans atWhitman Greg Ogin 17:00 Caltech coatingwork (remote) Tara Chalermsongsak

  3. 18 Mar 2014, 14:00 Day 2 – Tuesday March 18: SWG Parallel Session Start TitleAuthor(s) Length 14:00 Isolation systemsstatus for Advanced LIGO Hugo Paris 00:30 14:30 High Frequecysensor fusion Christophe Collette 00:25 14:55 Nested Pendula Isolation systemsOdylioAguiar 00:25 15:20 Cooling the LIGO-3 test masses Brett Shapiro 00:25 18 Mar 2014, 09:00 Day 2 – Lasers and AuxiliaryOptics Session ends at 12:00 Start TitleAuthor 09:00 09:50 Hartmann-based laser beam profiler and update on the Hartmann wavefrontsensorPeter Veitch 10:10 Statusreport on cryogenicEr:YAG lasers as a light source for 3rd(4th?)-genGWI Peter Veitch 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 IO topics (ring heaters, fastbeamsteering, adaptive optics, cryogenics, maybeevanescentwavecooling) Guido Mueller 11:30 Suppression of stimulatedBrillionscatteringwithmod/demodtechniques Volker Quetschke 11:45 ISS and PCaltopics Rick Savage 18 Mar 2014, 09:00 Day 2 – Instrument Science for the Second Generation Session ends at12:30 Start TitleAuthor 9:00 10:00 aLIGOSeismiccommissioningstories RichMittleman 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Virgo compensation plates Paola Puppo 11:30 Beampointing control system Maddalena Mantovani 12:00 Advanced Virgo OMC tests Romain Bonnand 18 Mar 2014, 14:00 Day 2 – Advanced Interferometer Configurations Session ends at 17:30 Start TitleAuthor 14:00 Alignmentsensing and control of squeezingatGEO600 Emil Schreiber 14:30 The Syracuse angularopticaltrap James Lough 15:00 MIST Gabriele Vajente 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 Control of cavitymatchingwiththermallydeformablemirrorsMarie Kasprzack 16:30 Adaptive mode-matching system for aLIGOOMC Antonio Perreca 17:00 Modern ControlsJenneDriggers

  4. 19 Mar 2014, 09:00Day 3 -- Wednesday March 19: LAAC Session Session ends at 12:10 Start TitleAuthor(s) Length 09:00 Welcome, and overview of the LAAC 00:10 09:10 LAAC tutorial(s): commissioning 01:10 10:20 Coffee Break 00:45 11:05 Lookingahead to the Stanford LVC meeting Brian Lantz 00:05 11:10 LAAC careersdiscussion 01:00 19 Mar 2014, 14:00 Day 3 -- WednesdayMarch 19: PlenarySession Session ends at17:15 Start TitleAuthor(s) Length 14:00 Virgo collaboration report 00:15 14:15 EGO Laboratory 00:15 14:30Update from LIGO Laboratory David Reitze 00:15 14:45 LIGO Indiastatus update Bala Iyer 00:15 15:00 GEO 600 report 00:15 15:15 Coffee Break 00:45 16:00 Advanced LIGO status Brian O’Reilly 00:20 16:20 Advanced Virgo report 00:20 16:40 Status of KAGRA 00:15 16:55 Run reports and plans 00:20 19 Mar 2014, 08:30 Day 3 -- Wednesday March 19: LSC Business Meeting Session ends at 12:30 Start TitleAuthor(s) Length 08:30 New LSC member: West Virginia University 00:20 08:50 New LSC member: Whitman College Greg Ogin 00:20 09:10 LSC senior memberpresentationChadHanna (Penn State) 00:10 09:20 The viewfrom NSF Pedro Marronetti 00:20 09:40 LSC status Gabriela Gonzalez 00:20 10:00 News on LIGO recompetition Barry Barish 00:20 10:20 Coffee Break 00:45 11:05 Data Analysis Council new initiatives Laura Cadonati 00:20 11:25 Discussion: AcademicCreditcommittee Alberto Vecchio 00:20 11:45 News on GW-EM follow up MOU applications 00:20 12:05 Discussion: Presentations and Publications Policy Sergei Klimenko 00:20 17:00 Poster Session viewing in AGORA

  5. 20 Mar 2014, 08:45 Day 4 -- Thursday March 20: Plenary Session Session ends at 12:30 Start TitleAuthor(s) Length 08:30 Report fromCommissioningAnamariaEffier 00:40 09:10 VirgoDetChar report Florent Robinet 00:25 09:35 LIGO DetChar report 00:25 10:00 S6 directedsearch for supernovaeremnants Benjamin Owen 00:15 10:15 Coffee Break 00:45 11:00 Searches in the AD Era: Burst All-Sky 00:20 11:20 Searches in the AD Era: Binary Neutron Stars 00:25 11:45 Searches in the AD Era: CW All-skyisolated neutron starsKeith Riles 00:15 12:00 Searches in the AD Era: CW TargetedGrahaWoan 00:10 12:10 Searches in the AD Era: IsotropicStochastic 00:20 20 Mar 2014, 08:45 Day 4 -- Thursday March 20: Posters Session Session ends at17:15 Start TitleAuthor(s) Length 14:00 Parallel/Poster Session Highlights (1min advertisements) 01:15 15:15 Break and Poster Session Viewing 00:45 16:00 Poster Session Viewing continues 01:15 21 Mar 2014, 08:45 Day 5 -- Friday March 21: Plenary Session Session ends at 12:30 Start TitleAuthor(s) Length 08:30 Instrument Science focus session: Lowfrequencyterrestrial detectorsJan Harms00:30 09:00Statisticalproperties of astrophysicalgravitational-wave backgrounds Duncan Meacher00:15 09:15 All-skysearch for long-livedgravitational-wavetransients Tanner Prestegard 00:15 09:30 Searchingfor long-livedtransients in the advanced detector era: seedlessclustering and GPUs Eric Thrane 00:15 10:15 Coffee Break 00:45 11:00 Burstfocus session 00:20 11:20 Astrowatch-GEO GRB 00:10 11:30 CW group highlights Andrzej Krolak 00:20 11:50 VSR2/VSR4/S6 narrowbandsearch for Crab & VelaCristiano Palomba 00:20 12:10 Sco X-1 mock data challenge - preliminaryresultsEvanGoetz/Chris Messenger 00:20

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