Monday March 12th |
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Morning Session: A1: Project Status Reports (1) Chairperson H. Grote (Hannover) |
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Welcome |
25' |
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LIGO: status and update |
25' |
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Status of VIRGO |
25' |
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Current status of TAMA |
25' |
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Status of the gravitational-wave detector GEO600 |
25' |
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Recent measurements of IGEC2 GW observatory |
Afternoon Session 1: A1: Project Status Reports (2) Chairperson R. Flaminio (Pisa & Annecy) |
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25' |
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Future LIGO Interferrometers |
25' |
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Future Virgo Upgrades |
25' |
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CLIO and LCGT |
25' |
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AIGO: the Southern Hemisphere GW Detector and applications of the Probability Event Horizon Tool to data analysis. |
Afternoon Session 2: A4: R & D (1) Chairperson R. Flaminio (Pisa & Annecy) |
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20' |
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Low temperature and Gravitational Waves detectors |
15' |
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New coatings and new substrates for low mechanical loss mirrors |
15' |
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Development of Fused Silica Ribbon Fibres for Gravitational Wave Detectors and Characterisation of Mechanical Losses |
Tuesday March 13th |
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Morning Session: B2: Clocks, Tests of fundamental symmetries, variation of constants Chairperson A. Nobili (Pisa) |
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30' |
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Fundamental Physics Research with Clocks |
25' |
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Status of the ACES/PHARAO mission |
25' |
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ICE : new transportable atom inertial sensor for applications to space experiments |
15' |
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Systematic phase shifts in cold atom gravimeters |
15' |
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Dynamical emergence of 3-space in general relativity: implications for the ACES mission. |
Afternoon Session 1: A5: LISA and Bars ChairpersonM. Cerdonio (Padova) |
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30' |
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LISA Pathfinder and LISA |
15' |
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Realising ultra-stable interferometric measurements for LISA |
15' |
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An Advanced Modular Gravitational Reference Sensor for the Detection of Gravitational Waves in Space |
15' |
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DUAL: R&D for an advanced acoustic gravitational wave detector |
Afternoon Session 2: A4: R & D (2) Chairperson M. Cerdonio (Padova) |
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15' |
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Experimental investigation of a control scheme for a tuned resonant sideband extraction interferometer for next-generation gravitational-wave detectors |
15' |
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Interferometry with gratings |
Wednesday March 14th |
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Morning Session: A3: Data Analysis Chairperson L. Piro (Roma) |
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20' |
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Search for stochastic background |
15' |
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Data quality and Virgo detector characterization for the GW burst search |
15' |
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All-sky search for GW bursts in C7 Virgo commissioning run |
20' |
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Searching for gravitational-wave bursts with LIGO |
20' |
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Search for gravitational waves from compact binary systems in the third and fourth LIGO science runs |
20' |
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Recent preliminary results from the LIGO pulsar searches |
15' |
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Coherent Bayesian inference on binary inspiral signals |
15' |
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Evaluating a coherent method for source location reconstruction on coalescing binaries gravitational wave events |
15' |
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Host galaxy identification in a world array of gravitational wave detectors that includes AIGO |
Afternoon Session: B1: Tests of the equivalence principle and Gravitation Measurements (1) ChairpersonM. Bassan (Roma) |
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25' |
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East of the Sun (G), West of the Moon (the Equivalence of Gravitational Energy) and a Little Bit Down to Earth (g) |
25' |
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Precision Microwave Oscillators and Interferometers to Test Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics |
15' |
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STEP: Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle |
Afternoon Session 2: Common Session with the Electroweak Conference ChairpersonJ. Trân Thanh Vân (Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay) |
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35' |
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Tests of gravity at short and long distances |
35' |
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Highlights from VHE astronomy |
Thursday March 15th |
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Morning Session: A2: Detector charaterization ChairpersonM. Evans (Pisa) |
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25' |
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Experiences operating GEO600 |
20' |
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Noise budget and noise hunting in VIRGO |
25' |
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Lessons from LIGO1 |
15' |
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Automatic alignment in VIRGO |
15' |
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Modeling of thermal effects in VIRGO |
25' |
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The parametric instability problem in advanced GW detectors |
Afternoon Session 1: B3: Gravity at short or long distances, Casimir, X-tra dimensions (1) ChairpersonT. Piran (Jerusalem) |
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30' |
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The BMV project: optical detection of axions? |
Afternoon Session 2: B4: Alternative theories ChairpersonT. Piran (Jerusalem) |
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35' |
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Large scale modifications of gravity |
15' |
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In Search of the Spacetime Torsion |
30' |
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Evading Gravitational Tests with a Chameleon |
Friday March 16th |
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Morning Session 1: B1: Tests of the equivalence principle and Gravitation Measurements (2) Chairperson S. Reynaud (Paris) |
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30' |
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The Promise and Challenge of Gravitational Experiments in Space: The GP-B experiment and its lessons for LISA, and STEP |
25' |
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Limitations to testing the Equivalence Principle with Satellite Laser Ranging |
25' |
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Equivalence Principle and quantum test particles |
Morinig Session 2: A6: Sources (1) ChairpersonS. Reynaud (Paris) |
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25' |
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GW from supernova core collapse: new general relativistic simulations including microphysics |
15' |
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Estimating the distribution of the White Dwarf -White Dwarf galactic binary background with LISA. |
Afternoon Session: A6: Sources (2) ChairpersonH. Lück (Hannover) |
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25' |
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GWs from Newborn Magnetars |
20' |
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Gravitational waves from population III binaries |
15' |
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The effect of supernova asymmetry on the coalescence rate of binary neutron stars |
15' |
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Search for gravitational waves associated with GRB 050915a using the VIRGO detector during C7-run |
25' |
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X-rays and Gamma-rays counterparts to GW sources |
25' |
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Gravitational Radiation from GRBs |
15' |
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A new approach to study QNMs of rotating stars |
15' |
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Extension of the frequency-range of interferometers for the "magnetic" components of gravitational waves? |
Saturday March 17th |
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Morning Session: A4: R & D (2) ChairpersonM.A. Bizouard (Orsay) |
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Radiation pressure effects in interferometric measurements |
20' |
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Squeezed light and radiation pressure effects in suspended interferometers |
25' |
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Preparing squeezed states of light for gravitational wave detectors |
15' |
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Sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit in a Michelson-Fabry-Perot with detuned cavities |
15' |
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Thermomechanical characterization of materials for future interferometric GW detectors |
30' |
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Experimental constrains for additional short-range forces from neutron experiments |
Afternoon Session: B3: Gravity at short or long distances, Casimir, X-tra dimensions (2) Chairperson P. Wolf (Paris) |
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25' |
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The Microscope space mission |
25' |
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Optical clocks in space |
25' |
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Gravity at short distance |
30' |
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Experiments for Gravitation in the Solar System |
30' |
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Gravity at long distances |
15' |
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MoonLIGHT: a lunar laser ranging array for the 21st century |
15' |
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Analytically derived limits on scalar and pseudo-scalar forces (short-range fifth forces) from quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field |
Sunday March 18th |
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Closing Session: Summary Talk ChairpersonJ. Dumarchez (Paris) |
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40' |
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Summary Talk |