Sunday March 23rd |
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Morning Session: Project Status Reports Chairman F. Ricci (Roma) |
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VIRGO |
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LIGO |
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GEO600 |
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NAUTILUS/EXPLORER |
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Afternoon Session Test of the equivalence principle Chairman F. Ricci (Roma) |
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AURIGA |
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Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle |
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Point particle limit in a scalar theory of gravitation and the weak equivalence principle |
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Development of a high-sensitivity differential accelerometer to be used in the |
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Ground test of the equivalence principle with the fast rotating GGG accelerometer |
Monday March 24th |
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Morning Session: Sources Chairman L. Blanchet (Paris) |
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Instabilities in rotating neutron stars |
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Gravitational waves from neutron stars |
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Gravitational waves from supernova core collapse, |
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Gravitational lensing action on gravitational radiation |
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Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves applied to Gravitational Waves Detectors |
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The population synthesis view on the gravitational waves from binary inspiral |
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Afternoon SessionGravitation Measurements Chairman S. Reynaud (Paris) |
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GPB |
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LAGEOS |
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The Pioneer anomaly : a bulk scalar field ? |
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Testing general relativity by precision astrometry
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Tuesday March 25th |
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Morning Session 1 : LISA Chairman A. Nobili (Pisa) |
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Lisa, status report |
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Smart-2 and technical development for LISA |
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Time delay interferometry |
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Optics |
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Radiation Effects on Gravitational Reference Sensors in space |
Morning Session 2 : Bars |
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"Dual" wideband acoustic detectors |
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100h SQUID amplifiers for the ultracryogenic gravitational waves detector |
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Present and future of resonant detectors |
Afternoon Session : Data Analysis Chairman G. Esposito-Farese (Paris) |
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Stellar black hole mass function : determination and possible implications for fundamental gravity |
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The LIGO end-to-end simulation program |
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Results from LSC known periodic sources Upper limit group |
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Multiband search of coalescing binaries applied to VIRGO CITF data |
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Detection of galactic supernovae by interferometers |
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Detection of gravitational waves from pulsars in binary systems |
Wednesday March 26th |
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Morning Session : Gravity, Clocks and Quantum Matter Chairman M. Bassan (Roma) |
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PHARAO |
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RACE |
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Testing the stability of fundamental constants using atomic clocks |
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Gravity and matter-wave interferometry |
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A g-sensitive interferometer using inelastic van der Waals - induced transitions as a beamsplitter |
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Observation of quantum states in the gravitation field and limits |
Afternoon Session : R & D Chairman T. Sumner (London) |
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Introduction |
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Advanced LIGO |
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Advanced Optical Configurations |
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Quantum Locking of mirrors in gravitational-waves interferometers |
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Passive and active methods to lower the thermal noise in high sensitivity position measurements |
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Common session with the QCD conference |
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From quarks and gluons to strings : Gauge/Gravity duality |
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The search for new macroscopic forces: past, present and future |
Thursday March 27st |
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Morning Session : Isotropy and Fundamental Tests Chairman D. DeBra (Stanford) |
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Three key tests to gravity |
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New optical tests of relativity on Earth and in space |
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Isotropy of space and relic gravitational waves |
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Fundamental physics using a cryogenic microwave resonator |
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An optical readout configuration for advanced massive GW detectors |
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Laboratory measurements on G |
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Lab search for macroscopic time reversal violation |
Afternoon Session : Detector Characterization Chairman M. Visco (Roma) |
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Results from LSC coalescing binaries Upper limit group |
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Commissioning of the VIRGO CITF |
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Dual Recycling in GEO |
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Lock Acquisition in Virgo CITF |
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Virgo local controls |
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Lines identification and lines removal in Virgo CITF Engineering runs |
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Characterisation of seismic noise at Virgo CITF |
Friday March 28nd |
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Morning Session 1 : Gravitation at short distances and Casimir effect Chairman C. Speake (Birmingham) |
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The search for new weak forces |
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The Casimir force : theory-experiment comparison |
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Measuring gravity at small length scales |
Morning Session 2 : Gravity in extra-dimensional scenarios Chairman C. Speake (Birmingham) |
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Extra dimensions and possible modification of Newtonian law |
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Aspects of brane-world cosmology |
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Gravitational radiation in the brane universe scenario |
Afternoon Session 1 : Generation of gravitational waves Chairman K. Postnov (Moscow) |
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Equations of motion and radiation of inspiralling binaries |
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Problem of searching for spinning black hole binaries |
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Strong Field Gravity Effects and Black Hole Candidates in X-ray Binaries |
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Numerical evolution of binary black holes |
Afternoon Session 2 : Gravity in alternative theories Chairman |
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Gravitational effects on dark matter |
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Scalar-tensor theories and cosmology |
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Variation of fundamental constants |
Saturday March 29rd |
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Closing session Summary Talk Chairman J. Dumarchez (Paris) |
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Summary talk F. Ricci (Roma) Transparencies |