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
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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
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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
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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
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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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