SECOND EDOARDO AMALDI CONFERENCE ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
1-4 July 1997.

PROGRAM


Tuesday, 1 July 1997
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9:00- 9:45      Welcome address and introduction
		C.H. Llewellyn Smith (CERN Director-General) 
9:45-10:30      C. Will		Gravitational Radiation and the
				Validity of General Relativity
10:30-11:00     coffee break
11:00-11:45     R. Price 	Black holes and GWs
11:45-12:30     G.V. Pallottino The Resonant Mass Detectors of the Rome Group

                lunch

                Workshop 1 - Sources
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14:00-14:30     A. Burrows      GWs from Supernovae
14:30-15:00     F. Verbunt      Properties of Close Binaries that are Sources
				of Gravitational Waves
15:00-15:30     B. Allen	Stochastic Background
15:30-16:00     M. Gasperini	Stochastic Backgrounds of Relic Gravity Waves
				in String Cosmology
16:00-16:15     coffee break    
16:15-16:45     L. Krauss	Stochastic Background  
16:45-19:45     Communications:
16:45-17:00	Yu.V. Baryshev	Interpretation of Amaldi-Weber Events as
				Possible Detection of Scalar Gravitational
				Waves from SN1987A
17:00-17:15	A.F. Zakharov	SN as a Strong Source of Gravitational
				Radiation
17:15-17:30	W.H. Lee	Gravitational Radiation Waveforms from
				Mergers of Black Hole-Neutron Star Binaries
17:30-17:45	C. Palomba	Gravitational Wave Signals from Black Holes
17:45-18:00	M.A. Papa	Stellar Oscillations and Neutron Star
				Internal Structure
18:00-18:15	G. Schaefer	Radiation Reaction to 3.5 Post-Newtonian
				Order
18:15-18:30	B.S. Sathyaprakash    Gravitational Waves from Compact
				Binary stars: Signal Modelling and
				Detection
18:30-18:45	A. Vecchio	Coalescing Binaries and Doppler Experiments
18:45-19:00	A. Vecchio	Observing Coalescing Binaries with Space-
				based Laser Interferometric Gravitational 
				Wave Detectors: Angular Resolution and
				Astrophysical Parameter Measurements
19:00-19:15	I.M. Pinto	Efficient Gravitational Wave Computation
				from Long Lived Binary Stars with any 
				Eccentricity
19:15-19:30	I.M. Pinto	Time-Frequency Search of GW Chirps: a
				Rigorous Framework and a FORTRAN Code
19:30-19:45	B. Basset	Spectrum of Stochastic Gravitational
				Waves of Long Wavelenghts
Poster Session:
		A. Borrelli	On the Perturbations of Non-rotating Compact
				Objects Excited by Massive Sources
		C. Del Noce	Angular Momenta in Coalescing Binaries
		L.C. Garcia	Gravitational Impulsive Waves and Ghost
				Neutrinos from Torsion Step Functions
		B.R. Iyer	Second Post-Newtonian Gravitational 
				Radiation Reaction for Two-body Systems
		A. Spallicci	On the Perturbations of a Schwarzschild
				Black Hole for Particle Motion
		W.D. Walker	Retardation of Gravitational Interaction:
				Theoretical Foundations Revisited
		

Wednesday, 2 July 1997
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9:00 - 9:50     P. Fritschel    The LIGO Project - Progress & Plans
9:50 -10:30     K.Tsubono       TAMA Project
10:30-10:50     coffee break
10:50-11:30     D. Blair        NIOBE: Present Status and Steps Towards 
				the Quantum Limit
11:30-12:10     G. Prodi        (AURIGA)
12:10-12:40     G. Frossati     Some Aspects of the GRAIL Project

                lunch

  	        Workshop 2 -  Instrumentation
		-----------------------------
14:00-19:45     Communications:
14:00-14:15	F. Cleva	VIRGO Laser Source
14:15-14:30	L. Gammaitoni	Thermal Noise Limit to the VIRGO Sensitivity
14:30-14:45	G. Losurdo	Active Control Hierarchy in the VIRGO
				Superattenuators
14:45-15:00	A. Di Virgilio	A Facility to Measure the Displacement Noise
				of Mirrors Suspended as in the VIRGO Antenna,
				Aimed to Improve the Performance of the Antenna
				below 600 Hz
15:00-15:15	L. Sievers	Control System Modeling and Design for
				Acquisition of a LIGO Interferometer
15:15-15:30	N. Mavalvala	Implementation of Automatic Aligment for a
				Power-Recycled Michelson Interferometer with
				Fabry-Perot Arm Cavities
15:30-15:45	H. Luck		GEO600: Progress on Site, Signal Recycling
				Control
15:45-16:00	O.S. Brozek	The Laser System for the Gravitational Wave
				Detector GEO600
16:00-16:15	S. Rowan	The Design of Ultra Low Loss Suspensions
				for Gravitational Wave Detectors
16:15-16:30     coffee break   
16:30-16:45	G. Heinzel	Recent Progress at the Garching 30 m
				Protype Interferometer
16:45-17:00	N. Mio		Laser and Optics for TAMA300
17:00-17:15	C. Zhao		A 8m Suspended Power Recycling Interferometer
				with in Line Mode Cleaner
17:15-17:30	L. Ju		Sapphire Test Masses for Gravitational Wave
				Detectors Design for High Q Suspension and
				Optical Performance
17:30-17:45	M. Peterseim	Earthbound and Deep Space Testing of Laser
				Metrology
17:45-18:00	H. Ward		Weak Light Phase Locking for LISA
18:00-18:15	J. Oberski	Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations in a
				Solid Aluminium Sphere and Bar Excited by
				0.5 GeV Electrons
18:15-18:30	M.E. Tobar	Next Generation Resonant-Mass Gravitational 
				Wave Detector with a Sapphire Dielectric 
				Transducer Readout
18:30-18:45	M.P. McHugh	A Three-Mode System for the ALLEGRO Detector
18:45-19:00	H.J. Paik	Inductive Transducer with Dual-SQUID Readout
				for the AURIGA Detector
19:00-19:15	O.D. Aguiar	Determination of the Electric Quality Factor
				of a Superconductive Pancake Coil of an 
				Inductive Transducer
19:15-19:30	C. Frajuca	On the Mechanical Q of a Two-Mode Inductive
				Transducer
19:30-19:45	V.V. Kulagin	Sensitivity of an Optical Transducer with
				Squeezed Pump and Optimal Vector Filtration
				of the Output
Poster Session:
		M. Barsuglia	VIRGO Laser Amplitude Noise and Interferometer
				Modulation Frequency Choice
		Y. Ben-Aryeh	Detection of Gravitational Waves by 
				Interference Experiment
		L. Gammaitoni	Experimental Tests on Low Dissipation 
				Suspension Systems
		N.I. Kolosnitsyn    Calculation of Laser Interferometer
				Detector with Help of the Maxwell Equations
		C.R. Locke	Measuring the Standard Quantum Limit Using a
				Sapphire Dielectric Bar Transducer
		N.S. Magalhaes	Shielding against Cosmic Rays in Resonant-Mass
				Gravitational Wave Detectors
		E. Majorana	Mechanical Thermal Noise in Coupled Oscillators
		P. Puppo	Test on a Membrane Resonant Trasducer with an
				Optical and a Capacitive Readout
		M. Taniwaki	Low Loss Sapphire Test Masses with Niobium
				Suspension Elements
		S.M. Twyford	Losses Associated with the Bonding of Fused
				Quartz Suspension Fibres onto Fused Quartz
				Test Masses
		W.F. Velloso	A Mechanical-isolator/heat-conductor Rigid
				Module Calculated by the Finite Elements Method
		L.V. Verozub	Project DEFOSP
		J. Winterflood	Ultra-low Frequency Pre-isolation in Three
				Dimensions


Thursday, 3 July 1997
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9:00 - 9:50     A. Brillet      Status of the VIRGO Project
9:50 -10:30     K. Danzmann     Status of GEO600
10:30-10:50     coffee break
10:50-11:30     W. Hamilton     The ALLEGRO Detector and the Future of
				Resonant Detectors in the USA

                Workshop 3 -  Non-gaussian Noise Sources
                ----------------------------------------
11:30-11:50     M. Hildreth
11:50-12:10     R. De Salvo	Some Sources of Non Gaussian Noise in
				Gravitational Wave Detectors
12:10-12:30     S. Vitale	Hysteresis, Creep, Damping and 1/f 
				Brownian Noise
12:30-12:45	Communication:
		V. Ianovski	Geomagnetic Backgrounds in Gravitational
				Wave Detectors

                lunch

                Workshop 4 -  Data Analysis
                ---------------------------
14:00-14:30     S. Finn      	
14:30-15:00     J. Armstrong    The Galileo/Mars Observer/Ulysses 
				Coincidence Experiment
15:00-15:30     P. Astone       On the Detection of Monochromatic and
				Stochastic Gravitational Waves with
				Resonant Gravitational Wave Detectors
15:30-16:00     G. Vedovato     Data Analysis for the Resonant Gravitational
				Wave Detector AURIGA: Optimal Filtering,
				x2-test, Signal Timing and Events Reconstruction
16:00-16:15     coffee break     
16:15-16:45     S. Frasca       Data Analysis with an Array of Gravitational
				Antennas
16:45-18:30     Communications:
16:45-17:00	M. Tinto	Spacecraft Doppler Tracking as a Narrow-Band
				Detector of Gravitational Waves
17:00-17:15	I.S. Heng	The Calibration and Filtering of Data from a
				Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Antenna
17:15-17:30	G.V. Pallottino Filters, Events and Coincidences
17:30-17:45	X. Grave	Some Realistic Algorithms for the Search of 
				Gravitational Waves Emitted by Pulsars
17:45-18:00	V.N. Rudenko	Searching for Joint Gravity-Gamma Events
18:00-18:15	V.N. Rudenko	Phenomenon of Neutrino-Gravity Correlation
				and Gamma-Ray Bursts
18:15-18:30	A. Morse	Method for Calibrating Resonant Mass 
				Gravitational Wave Detectors Including 
				Mechanical Mistuning
Poster Session:
		A. Camacho	Measurability of Gravitational Waves and the
				"Best" Detector
		G.N. Izmailov	The Cross-section of an Interferometric 
				Gravitational Wave Antenna
		M.A. Papa	DAGA2-HF: On-line Data Analysis System for
				Gravitational Wave Detection
		I.M. Pinto	A Comparison between Stochastic Resonance and
				Matched Filtering for Continuous Gravitational
				Wave Detection
		V.N. Rudenko	Geophysical Perturbations of a Free Mass
				Gravitational Antenna

20:00		Social Dinner


Friday, 4 July 1997
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                Workshop 5 -  G.W. Future
                -------------------------
9:00 - 9:30	J.A. Lobo  	Spherical Detectors and Geometry
9:30 -10:15	Communications:
9:30 - 9:45	S.M. Merkowitz	Recent Progress Towards a Truncaned
				Icosahedral Gravitational Wave Antenna
9:45 -10:00	E. Coccia       R & D for a Spherical Gravitational Wave 
				Detector
10:10-10:15	O. Jennrich	An Experiment for the Investigation 
				of the SQL
10:15-10:45	R.W.P. Drever	Progress with a Low-Frequency Gravitational
				Wave Interferometer System
10:45-11:05     coffee break  
11:05-11:45	J. Hough      	LISA - Recent Developments in Design
11:45-12:30     B. Schutz       Summary
                end of the conference
  

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