Gravitational Wave Data Analysis workshop

General Relativity Trimester

Workshop
Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
13-17 November 2006

Coordinator: Luc Blanchet

The workshop will be devoted to: (i) the theoretical aspects of gravitational radiation which are directly used in the data analysis of detectors LIGO/VIRGO/LISA/... (construction of template waveforms), (ii) the specific data analysis techniques that are currently implemented in these detectors (depending on the type of sources), (iii) the relevant astrophysical models of some particularly promising gravitational-wave sources.

Please note that the workshop will not consist of courses, but rather specialized talks, on exciting current research topics. Since most of students following the courses will probably attend the workshop, the speakers will provide short pedagogical introduction to the subject before entering the more advanced details.

The workshop will be held the afternoons of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and the morning of Thursday, of the week from November 13th to 17th 2006. It will be held in Amphi Hermite of the Institut Henri Poincaré.

List of participants

SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Gérard Auger (APC, Paris, France)

Marie Anne Bizouard (LAL, Orsay, France)

Luc Blanchet (IAP, Paris, France)

Eric Chassande-Mottin (Obs. Nice & APC, Paris, France)

Christian Corda (EGO, Pisa, Italy)

Guillaume Faye (IAP, Paris, France)

Gabriela Gonzalez (Univ. Louisiana, USA)

Philippe Grandclément (LUTH, Meudon, France)

Bala Iyer (RRI, Bangalore, India)

Sergey Klimenko (Univ. Florida, USA)

Kostas Kokkotas (Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece)

Carlos Lousto (Univ. Brownsville, USA)

Benoit Mours (LAPP, Annecy, France)

Ewald Mueller (MPI, Garching, Germany)

Himan Mukhopadhyay (IUCAA, Puna, India)

Alessandro Nagar (Univ. Torino, Italy)

Eric Plagnol (APC, Paris, France)

Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Univ. Cardiff, UK)

Misao Sasaki (YITP, Kyoto, Japan)

Gerhard Schäfer (Univ. Jena, Germany)

Guenter Sigl (APC & IAP, Paris, France)

Alicia Sintes (Univ. Palma, Majorca, Spain)

Andrea Vicere (Univ. Urbino, Italy)

PROGRAM

Monday 13 November (chair: Luc Blanchet)

02:30--02:45 : Luc Blanchet (IAP, Paris, France)
Opening remarks
02:45--03:30 : Benoit Mours (LAPP, Annecy, France)
h(t) reconstruction and validation
03:30--04:15 : Andrea Vicere (Univ. Urbino, Italy)
Analysis of real (Virgo) detector data
04:15--04:45 : Coffee break
04:45--05:30 : Gérard Auger (APC, Paris, France)
Preparation of the data analysis of the gravitational wave space antenna
05:30--06:15 : Eric Plagnol (APC, Paris, France)
The simulator LISAcode for the gravitational wave data analysis of LISA

Tuesday 14 November

02:30--03:15 : Misao Sasaki (YITP, Kyoto, Japan)
Self-force approach to EMRIs
03:15--04:00 : Bala Iyer (RRI, Bangalore, India)
Inspiralling compact binaries in quasi-elliptical orbits
04:00--04:30 : Coffee break
04:30--05:15 : Gerhard Schäfer (Univ. Jena, Germany)
Gravitational waves from eccentric binaries
05:15--06:00 : Guillaume Faye (IAP, Paris, France)
High order spin effects in the dynamics of compact binaries

Wednesday 15 November

02:30--03:15 : Ewald Mueller (MPI, Garching, Germany)
Simulation of general relativistic core collapses
03:15--04:00 : Guenter Sigl (APC & IAP, Paris, France)
Astrophysical gravitational wave backgrounds
04:00--04:30 : Coffee break
04:30--05:15 : Carlos Lousto (Univ. Brownsville, USA)
Gravitational waves from spinning-black-hole binaries
05:15--06:00 : Philippe Grandclément (LUTH, Meudon, France)
Accurate and realistic initial data for black hole-neutron star binaries

Thursday 16 November

09:00--09:45 : Sergey Klimenko (Univ. Florida, USA)
Detection and reconstruction of burst signals with networks of gravitational wave detectors
09:45--10:30 : Marie Anne Bizouard (LAL, Orsay, France)
Network analysis between LIGO and Virgo
10:30--11:00 : Coffee break
11:00--11:45 : Kostas Kokkotas (Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece)
Oscillations and instabilities of relativistic stars
11:45--12:30 : Eric Chassande-Mottin (Obs. Nice & APC, Paris, France)
The best chirplet chain for the detection of gravitational wave chirps
12:30--01:00 : Himan Mukhopadhyay (IUCAA, Puna, India)
Detecting gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries with a network of detectors : coherent versus coincident strategies

Friday 17 November

02:30--03:15 : Gabriela Gonzalez (Univ. Louisiana, USA)
Looking for compact binary systems in real LIGO data
03:15--04:00 : Alicia Sintes (Univ. Palma, Majorca, Spain)
Current searches for continuous gravitational waves
04:00--04:30 : Coffee break
04:30--05:15 : Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Univ. Cardiff, UK)
Testing general relativity with the binary inspiral signal
05:15--05:45 : Alessandro Nagar (Univ. Torino, Italy)
Transition from inspiral to plunge in binary black hole system in the extreme mass ratio
05:45--06:15 : Christian Corda (EGO, Pisa, Italy)
Response of laser interferometers to scalar gravitational waves