"Black Hole" by Julie Weekes

4th EDOARDO AMALDI CONFERENCE  ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVES     Amaldi 4 July 8 - 13, 2001 The University of Western Australia Perth, Australia

Monday 9th July
Morning Session:  OVERVIEWS - Convenor: B. Barish

Time	Speaker	Title
09.00-09.15	Professor Alan Robson,      Deputy Vice Chancellor,      The University of Western Australia Senator The Hon. Alan Carpenter,      Minister for Education Professor Barry Barish, Chair, GWIC	Welcome Addresses - MC:  Dr. D. McClelland
09.15-09.45	D. Shoemaker	Status of Interferometers and Data Analysis
09.45-10.15	K. Danzmann	Space Interferometers
10.15-10.35	MORNING TEA
10.35-11.05	P. Astone	Resonant Mass Detectors
11.05-11.35	B. Barish and K. Kuroda	First Results from Large Interferometers
11.35-12.05	K.Thorne	Quantum Non-Demolition Interferometers

Afternoon Session:  SOURCES - Co-Convenors: B.S. Sathyaprakash & B. Schutz

Time	Speaker	Title
Includes	5 min discussion after each talk:
14.00-14.30	L. Lindblom	Relativistic Instabilities in Compact Stars
14.30-15.00	D.I. Jones	Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars
15.00-15.30	A. Buonanno	Gravitational waves from inspiralling binary black holes
15.30-15.50	AFTERNOON TEA
15.50-16.20	B.Bruegmann	Making Waves with Black Holes
Includes	3 min discussion after each talk:
16.20-16.35	N.Cornish	Measuring the Cosmic the Gravitational Wave Background
16.35-16.50	J.T. Whelan	Radiation Balanced Simulations for Binary Inspiral
16.50-17.05	M. Miller	Towards the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of the Binary/Neutron Star System/Black Hole
17.05-17.20	H. Dimmelmeier	Gravitational Waves from Relativistic Rotational Core Collapse
17.20-17.35	M. Benacquista	Black Hole Binaries in Globular Clusters as LISA  Sources
17.35-17.50	D. Coward	Simulating a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves from  Neutron Star Formation at Cosmological Distances
17.50-18.05	A.A. Sadoyan	Gravitational Waves from a Possible Model of X-ray Bursts and Soft Gamma Repeaters
18.05-18.20	M. van Putten	Calorimetry of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Echoes in Gravitational Waves

Evening:  Public Lectures

8.00pm    Octagon Theatre

R.N. Manchester - "Pulsars: Nature's Timekeepers"
Dr. Manchester, from the Australia Telescope National Facility, is the world’s
leading discoverer of pulsars: the extraordinary remnants of exploding stars
where time slows down and a pinhead weighs a million tonnes.

W.O. Hamilton - "Joseph Weber - A Man with a Mission"
In memorium to the great pioneer of gravitational wave detection, Professor Hamilton,
a leading US gravity wave researcher, will tell of Weber’s vision and dedication.  Joseph Weber
was the first physicist to seriously investigate the possibilities of detecting gravitational waves.
 

Tuesday 10th July
Morning Session:  OPERATING DETECTORS - Co-Convenors: K. Kuroda & S. Whitcomb

Time	Speaker	Title
09.00-09.05	K. Kuroda	Overview
09.05-09.35	A. Prodi	Search of Gravitational Wave Bursts by the Network of Resonant Detectors
09.35-09.40		Discussion for IGEC
09.40-10.00	B. Willke	Current Status of GEO
10.00-10.10	A. Freise	The First Arm of GEO 600
10.10-10.20	K. Koetter	Detector Characterisation of GEO 600
10.20-10.25		Discussion for GEO
10.25-10.55	M. Ando	Current Status of TAMA
10.55-11.00		Discussion for TAMA
11.00-11.20	MORNING TEA-BRADLEY STUDIO
11.20-11.50	L. Di Fiore	Present Status of the VIRGO Central Interferometer
11.50-11.55		Discussion for VIRGO
11.55-12.20	D. Sigg	Commissioning of the LIGO Detectors
12.20-12.40	M. Evans	Lock Acquisition in Complex Resonant Interferometers
12.40-12.45		Discussion for LIGO
12.45-13.00	A.M. Cruise	Control System, Data Reduction and Noise in the Birmingham Prototype 221MHz Gravity Wave Detector
13.00-13.05		Discussion - General

Afternoon Session:  DATA ANALYSIS - Co-Convenors: S. Dhurandhar& A. Lazzarini

Time (incl 5 min discussion)	Speaker	Title
14.00-14.20	S. Bose	Network Gravitational Wave Analysis
14.20-14.40	L.S. Finn	Network Analysis
14.40-15.00	P. Astone	Coincidence Analysis in GW Experiments
15.00-15.20	A. Vecchio	LISA and Gravitational Wave Stochastic Background
15.20-15.40	AFTERNOON TEA-BRADLEY STUDIO
15.40-16.00	A. Ortolan	Parametric Adaptive Filtering Tests for Data Validation in Bar Gravitational Wave Detectors
16.00-16.20	I.M. Pinto and B.S. Sathyaprakash	Searching coalescing binary chirp signals by cardinal interpolation
16.20-16.40	A.C. Searle and S.M. Scott	Numerical model of a global array of gravitational wave detectors
16.40-17.00	J.K. Blackburn	LDAS/LSC Mock Data Challenges

 

Evening Session:  POSTERS, PIZZAS and SPARKLER TALKS - Convenor: S. Buchman

17.00-18.00    University House - bar service
18.00-19.45    Sparkler talks - one minute each - see list below.  Octagon Theatre.
19.45 ' til late  Pizzas, Posters and Beer - Bradley Studio behind the Octagon Theatre.
 
 

Wednesday 11th July
Morning Session:  CONFIGURATIONS - Convenor: S. Kawamura

Time (incl 5 min discussion)	Speaker	Title
09.00-09.05	S. Kawamura	Overview
09.05-09.30	G. Heinzel	Signal recycling in GEO 600
09.30-09.55	D. Reitze	Demonstration and characterisation of a tabletop cavity-enhanced, dual recycled interferometer
09.55-10.20	O. Miyakawa	Development of an RSE Interferometer Using the Third Harmonic Demodulation
10.20-10.45	D. Shaddock	Experimental Demonstration of a Continuously Tunable RSE Michelson Interferometer
10.45-11.05	MORNING TEA
11.05-11.30	A. Buonanno	Signal recycled laster-interferometer GW detectors as optical springs: beating the standard quantum limit
11.30-11.55	A. Weinstein	Advanced LIGO Optical Configuration and Controls
11.55-12.20	P. Beyersdorf	Results from the Stanford 10m Sagnac Interferometer
12.20-12.45	D. McClelland	ACIGA: Toward a Future Southern Hemisphere Laser Interferometer GW Detector

Afternoon Session:  ISOLATION and SUSPENSION - Convenor: A. Giazotto

Time (incl 5 min discussion)	Speaker	Title
14.00-14.15	J.Giaime	Seismic isolation for Advanced LIGO
14.15-14.30	R.Takahashi	Improvement of vibration isolation system for TAMA300
14.30-14.45	S.Marka	Seismic attenuation system for TAMA300 (TAMA SAS): prototype
14.45-15.00	A.Takamori	Seismic attenuation system for TAMA300 (TAMA SAS): operation in a prototype interferometer
15.00-15.15	S.Braccini	The VIRGO Suspensions
15.15-15.30	G. Losurdo	Active Controls of the VIRGO Superattenuator
15.30-15.45	D.Passuello	Controlling the VIRGO mirrors with the Superattenuator
15.45-16.05	AFTERNOON TEA
16.05-16.20	J.Winterflood	High performance vibration isolation using springs in Euler column buckling mode
16.20-16.35	N.Mio	Application of high-performance damping metal to GW detectors
16.35-16.50	K.Libbrecht	Thermal Noise Interferometer at Caltech
16.50-17.05	G.Cagnoli	Silica research in Glasgow
17.05-17.20	M.Punturo	Thermal noise limit to the Virgo sensitivity: monolithic approach
17.20-17.35	H.Vocca	Fused silica suspension for the Virgo optics: status and perspectives
17.35-17.50	P.La Penna	Status of the Low Frequency Facility Experiment
17.50-18.05	B.Slagmolen	Techniques for thermal noise measurements: a progress report
18.05-18.20	K.Yamamoto	Study of thermal noise caused by inhomogeneously distributed loss
18.20-18.35	K.Numata	Intrinsic losses of various kind of fused silica
18.35-18.50	Ju Li	High Q sapphire test mass suspension with niobium membrane flexure

Evening Session:  SPACECRAFT METHODS - Co-Convenors: T. Prince and S. Vitale

Time (incl 5 min discussion)	Speaker	Title
20.00-20.20	T. Prince and S.  Vitale	Overview
20.20-20.50	K. Thorne	LISA Science/Mission
20.50-21.10	R. Dolesi	LISA Drag-free Technology
21.10-21.30	S. Buchman	LISA Technology Demonstation Mission
21.30-21.50	O. Jennrich	Progress on Optics for LISA

Thursday 12th July
Morning Session:  LASERS and OPTICS - Convenor: P. Veitch

Time (incl 5 min discussion)	Speaker	Title
08.00-08.05	P. Veitch	Overview/introduction
08:05-08:25	I. Zawischa	The GEO 600 Prestabilised Laser System
08.25-08.45	R. Byer	Progress in Edge-Pumped Slab Lasers
08.45-09.05	D. Mudge	High Power Nd:YAG Lasers Using Stable/Unstable Resonators
09:05-09:25	G. Mueller	Thermal Effects in Faraday Isolators and Modulators
09:25-09:45	D. Shoemaker	Adaptive Thermal Compensation of Test Masses
09.45-10.05	B. Kells	In-situ characterisation of LIGO optics

10.05 - 10.15   MORNING TEA

Morning Session:  OPTICAL SUBSYSTEMS - Convenor: A. Brillet

Time (incl 5 min discussion)	Speaker	Title
10.15-10.35	D. Shaddock or B. Slagmolen	Double Pass Tilt Locking of a Pre-Mode-cleaner Cavity
10.35-10.55	N. Mavalvala	LIGO  Sensing System Performance
10.55-11.15	F. Bondu	The Virgo Injection System :  Laser, Long Mode-cleaner, Alignment and Locking Sequence
11.15-11.35	S. Gossler	The Mode-cleaner System and Suspension Aspects of GEO 600
11.35-11.55	K. Arai	Sensing and Controls for Power-Recycling of TAMA 300
11.55-12.15	H. Grote	The Auto-Alignment System of GEO 600
12.15-12.35	R. Flaminio	Signal Detection System for the VIRGO Interferometer

Afternoon Session:  CONFERENCE EXCURSION and DINNER

Time
12.50	Buses depart
13.50	Lunch with koalas and kangaroos at Yanchep National Park
14.50	Buses depart for Australian International Gravitational Observatory (AIGO), Gingin
15.30	Buses arrive at AIGO
	Winetasting Aboriginal artifact displays Percussion group and didgeridoos Bushwalk with student guides Afternoon tea
17.30	Buses depart for Conference Dinner at Cheriton Lodge, Gingin
18.00	Conference Dinner
~21.00	Buses depart to return to UWA
~23.00	Buses arrive at UWA

Friday 13th July
Morning Session:  RESONANT MASS DETECTORS - Co-Convenor: M. Cerdonio & G. Frossati

Time (incl 5 min discussion)	Speaker	Title
08.30-08.50	D. Blair	Improved Sensitivity of the Niobe in 2001 and Search for Anomalous Cosmic Ray Events
08.50-09.05	M. Tobar	Prospects of Measuring and Surpassing the Standard Quantum Limit Using Parametric Transducers
09.05-09.25	Ik S. Heng	Operating ALLEGRO in the Wider Community
09.25-09.40	F. Ronga	Energetic Cosmic Rays Observed by the Resonant Gravitational Wave Detector NAUTILUS
09.40-10.00	M. Visco	The New Run of the Explorer Resonant Gravitational Wave Detector
10.00-10.20	E. Coccia	The New Run of NAUTILUS
10.20-10.35	R. De Rosa	Experimental Results on the AURIGA Optical Readout
10.35-10.55	MORNING TEA
10.55-11.15	J. Zendri	Status Report and Near-Future Prospects for the GW Detector AURIGA
11.15-11.30	A. de Waard	MiniGrail Progress Report
11.30-11.50	L. Gottardi	Preliminary Tests for a Two Mode Transducer for miniGrail
11.50-12.05	O. Aguiar	The Status of the Brazilian Spherical Detector
12.05-12.25	N. Magalhaes	Response of Spherical Gravitational Wave Antenna Modes to High Energy Cosmic Ray Particles
12.25-12.40	C. Frajuca	Transducers for the Brazilian GW detector 'Mario Schenberg'

Afternoon Session: FUTURE DETECTORS - Convenor: R. Byer

Time (incl 5 min discussion)	Speaker	Title
14.00-14.20	G. Mueller	The X-Coupled Interferometer
14.20-14.40	C. Will	Testing Gravity Using Current and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors
14.40-15.00	J. Hartle	Overview Talk
15.00-15.20	R.W.P. Drever	Extension of Interferometer Operation to Low Frequencies, and other areas
15.20-15.40	AFTERNOON TEA
15.40-16.00	L. Conti	A Wideband and Sensitive GW Detector for kHz  Frequencies: the Dual Sphere
16.00-16.20	R . DeSalvo	Pathfinding Towards Cryo-LIGO
16.20-16.40	A. Lobo	Hollow Sphere :  A Flexible Multimode GW Detector
16.40-17.00	I.Bilenko	Thermal and Excess noise in suspension fibers
17.00-17.20	V.P.Mitrofanov	Test mass damping associated with electrostatic actuator
17.20-17.40	R. Ingley	An electromagnetic detector for high frequency gravitational waves
17.40-17.55	TBA	Overview of EGO

Evening Session:  CLOSING SESSION and FAREWELL DRINKS
18.00-20.00 Farewell drinks in the bar at University House
 
 
 

POSTERS and SPARKLER TALKS TO BE PRESENTED
at the Bradley Studio behind the Octagon Theatre

A sparkler talk will last the length of time it takes for a sparkler to burn down, approx. 1 minute.  Presenters will be allowed a maximum of one transparency for their talk.  The sparkler talks will allow you to "advertise" your poster by outlining the main points from your poster.
 

There will be a prize for the best poster!
 

Dr. G. Vedovato
A Frame Based Data Acquisition and Analysis System for GW Experiment AURIGA

E. Boldt
Black-Hole Galactic Nuclei - A High Energy Perspective

B. Lange
Drag-free Performance in a LISA Mission with Spherical Proof Masses

G.N.Izmailov
Can we Use LISA for the Hubble Constant Measurement

S. Merkowitz
The LISA Disturbance Reduction System

E. Waluschka
LISA Telescope Sensitivity Analysis

Y. Cheng
Walk-off Sensor for Measurement of Seismic Tilt

T. Barber
Geometric Anti-Spring Euler Isolators

H. Hoffmann
Vibration Isolation Systems and Seismic Waves

N.Ibrahim and Y.T.Chen
Present work on gravitational wave detection in Malaysia

K.L. Ribeiro, E.Ivanov, D. G. Blair, M.Tobar, O.D. Aguiar, C.Frajuca
Improvements In The Noise Floor Of The Gravitational Wave Antenna Niobe

S.R.Furtado, O.D. Aguiar
Fast Cooling Techniques For Gravitational Waves Antennas

W.J. Weber
Progress in the Development of Free Fall Sensors for LISA

A.A. Sadoyan
Computer Simulation of GW Emission during SGR Activity

A. Aluigi
a) A Detector for Gravitational Waves (Part One: Description and operating the detector)
b) A Detector for Gravitational Waves (Part two: Multiple Nucleus Quasars)

A. Vinante
A 200 hbar Two-Stage DC SQUID for Resonant Detectors

S. Mukherjee
Detector Characterisation Helper Robot

W.F. Velloso Jr.
Vibration Isolation Support System for SCHENBERG Detector

M.  Mohseni
Spinning Particles and Gravitational Waves

T. Strohmayer
Gravity Waves from Rotating Neutron Stars and Evaluation of Fast Chirp Transform Techniques

R. Dupuis
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Pulsars

C. Leshanu
Hole Teleportation have a lot of Advantageous toward to Quantum One

A. Pai
Computational Cost for Detecting Compact Binaries using a Network of Broadband Detectors

R. Konoplya
Quasinormal Modes of String  Analog of R-N Black  Hole

D. Tsipenyuk
Structure of the Extended Space

G. Izmailov
Wireless Set-up of Data Control and Acquisition

J. Zweizig
The LIGO Global Diagnostics System and Program of Engineering Runs

S. Klimenko
Wavelet Analysis of Data from Gravitational Wave Interferometers

A. Lazzarini
A Technique for Modulating the Experimental Signature of a Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background

P.R. Charlton
Detection of Gravitational Waves from Inspiralling Compact Binaries Using a Fast Chirp Transform

S. D'Antonio
On-line Data Filters for Gravitational Wave Detectors

A.S.Sengupta
Extended Heirarchical Search (EHS) Algorithm for Detection of Gravitational Waves from Inspiraling Compact Binaries

S. Mukherjee
Coincidence Analysis Without Fixed Window Size

S. Mohanty
False dismissals vs false alarms: issues in coincidence detection

L. Febo
Search for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binaries with the Ulysses Spacecraft

R. Terenzi
IGEC Database System: A Building Block for Network  Gravitational Events Data Analysis

J. Whelan
Progress on Stochastic Background Search Codes for LIGO

S.R. Valluri
A Study of the Gravitational Wave Signal from a Pulsar

B. S. Sathyaprakash & B. Schutz
Triana

V. Parfenov
High  Stable Single-Frequency Nd:YAG Lasers

V. A. Parfenov and V. A. Parfenov
Compact Universal Faraday Isolator Based On Nd:Fe:B Permanent Magnets

V.Leonhardt
Towards measuring the off-resonant thermal noise of a pendulum mirror

R. de Rosa
A real time procedure for environmental noise detection in GW laser interferometer

A. Ceapa
On the subquantum origin of the gravitational waves: experimental consequences

D.Paget
Improved technique for measuring high pendulum Q factors

Y. Cheng
Tilt sensor and servo control system

J.C. de Araujo
Background of Gravitational Waves from Population III Black

S. Repin
Observational Manifestation of General Relativity in Accretion Disk Spectra

 M. Melek
On the Sole Influence of Plane Gravitational Waves on the Magnitude  of the Gradient of a Scalar Field

V. Kurbanova
World-line Deviation in the Systems with Hidden Interactions in the  Gravitational Wave Background

R. Konoplya
Quasi-normal Modes of String Analog of R-N Black Hole

M.A. Ivanov
Non-Dopplerian Cosmological Red Shift Parameters in a Model of Graviton-Dusty Universe

U.A. Mofiz
Electromagnetic Jet from a Black Hole

P.J. Sutton
Bounding the Mass of the Graviton Using Binary Pulsars

A.F. Zakharov
Influence of Gravitational Lensing on Sources of Gravitational Radiation

A.B. Balakin, Daishev R.A., Murzhakhanov Z.G., Skochilov A.F.
Gravitational Wave Project Dulkyn:  Concept, Status and Perspectives

M. Hueller
Torsion Pendulum Facility for Ground Testing of Inertial Sensors for LISA

A.R. Ahmedjonov, R. Kalonov and K. Khasanov
About Phenomenon of Electromagnetic Field Influence on Gravitational Mass

F. Barone
An adaptive optics approach to the reduction of mis-alignments and beam jitters in gravitational wave interferometers

C. Moreno
Gravitational and electromagnetic perturbation to the Kerr solution

A. Marin
Noise measurement and optimisation of the high-sensitivity capacitive transducer of AURIGA

T. Tomaru
Thermal lensing in cryogenice sapphire substrates

S. Marka
Network Data Analysis Server (NDAS) Prototype

T.B.Omarov, I.V. Strokova and L.M. Chechin
Gravitational Radiation Of Nonlinear Cosmic String

D Coward, R Burman, S Woodings and D Blair
Cosmology and the Supernova Count Rate

L. V. Grunskaya, V. V. Isakevich, I.N. Gavrilov
The Searching Of The Correlation Between Electromagnetic Field Of The Earth In The ELF Range And The Gravitational Wave Radiation Of The Binary Stars

V. Noskov
Electromagnetic Red Shift In The Model Of Enclosed Spaces: Possibilities Of Experimental Verification

M. Tinto
The CASSINI Ka-Band Gravitational Wave Experiments

S. Woodings, R. Burman and D. Blair
The Local Rate Density of Core-Collapse Supernovae

S. Schediwy, J. Winterflood, D. Blair and M. Zadnik
Thermal Actuation for Control of Very Low Frequency Vertical Pre-isolation Stage.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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