Agenda for LSU/LSC Gravitational-Wave Source Workshop ===================================================== WEDNESDAY MARCH 20 - WORKSHOP PLENARY SESSION # 1: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE OF SOURCE ANALYSIS RESEARCH 4PM to about 9:30PM with a break for dinner (The cost of this dinner is not included in your registration fee) Convene in Entry Hall of Corner Station Building at LIGO-Livingston. Purpose of this session: To educate data analysts and experimenters, as well as source analysts, about the current status and future prospects of source analysis --- with emphasis on those aspects of source analysis relevant to data analysis. Chairs: Jorge Pullin and Kip Thorne Speakers, Titles, and Allocated Times -- All times include questions and discussions. Speakers are urged to speak for about 75% of the allotted time and save 25% for discussion. PART 1: MOSTLY BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS Richard Matzner [UT Austin]: Source simulation work at UT Austin - 15 minutes Pablo Laguna [Penn State]: Source simulation work at Penn State - 15 minutes Luis Lehner [UBC]: Source simulation work at UBC and at LSU - 15 minutes Roberto Gomez [U. Pittsburgh]: Source simulation work at Pittsburgh - 10 minutes Ed Seidel [AEI]: Source simulation work at the Albert Einstein Institute and by the new European Network - 20 minutes Manuela Campanelli [UT Brownsville]: Update on Lazarus, and source simulation work at UT Brownsville - 12 minutes Larry Kidder [Cornell]: Source simulation work at Cornell - 15 minutes Mark Scheel [Caltech]: Source simulation work at Caltech/JPL - 5 minutes Luciano Rezzolla [Sissa]: Source simulation work at Sissa and Rome - 10 minutes PART 2: MERGERS OF NEUTRON-STAR / NEUTRON-STAR AND NEUTRON-STAR / BLACK-HOLE BINARIES Fred Rasio [Northwestern]: Source simulation work at Northwestern - 12 minutes Wai-Mo Suen [Washington University at St Louis]: Source simulation work at Wash U. - 15 minutes PART 3: INSPIRAL OF COMPACT BINARIES Balasubramanian Iyer [Raman Research Institute, India]: Current status of post-Newtonian computations of binary inspiral, world wide - 12 minutes Thomas Baumgarte [Bowdoin College]: Research at Bowdoin, Illinois and Tokyo on inspiral analyzed via quasi-equilibrium, adiabatic, numerical relativity techniques - 12 minutes Philippe Grandclement [Northwestern]: Research in Paris on inspiral analyzed via quasi-equilibrium, adiabatic, numerical relativity techniques - 12 minutes Scott Hughes [ITP]: Research, worldwide, on waveforms from the inspiral of stellar-mass objects into supermassive black holes - 12 minutes PART 4: MOSTLY STELLAR CORE COLLAPSE Lee Lindblom [Caltech]: Waves from accretion induced collapse of white dwarfs - 10 minutes Harald Dimmelmeier [MPA Garching]: Waves from rotational supernova core collapse -- new relativistic simulations - 10 minutes David Brown [North Carolina State and Goddard Spaceflight Center]: Rotational instabilities in core collapse supernovae - 10 minutes Joan Centrella [Goddard Spaceflight Center]: Numerical modeling of astrophysical gravitational wave sources at NASA/GSFC - 10 minutes Anthony Mezzacappa [Oak Ridge National Laboratory]: The TeraScale Supernova Intiative: Toward core collapse supernova gravitational wave templates - 10 minutes PART 5: NEUTRON-STAR VIBRATIONS Saul Teukolsky [Cornell]: Gravitational waves from R-modes? - 10 minutes Nils Andersson [Southampton]: Waves from neutron-star vibrations - 10 minutes ****************** THURSDAY MARCH 21 08:00 - Registration for LSC Meeting and Source Workshop 08:30 - 15:00 - LSC PLENARY SESSION; for agenda, see http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_web/conferences/lsc0302.html -- will include three 15 minute talks, summarizing current status and future prospects for source analysts to provide waveform information to use in data analysis, for three classes of sources: Alessandra Buonanno [Caltech] - The late inspiral of comparable-mass compact binaries: the epoch when post-Newtonian expansions become suspect Luis Lehner [UBC] - The merger of black-hole binaries, neutron-star binaries, and neutron-star / black-hole binaries Anthony Mezzacappa [Oak Ridge National laboratory] - Stellar core collapse 15:00 - Break/Snack 15:30 - 18:00 - WORKSHOP PLENARY SESSION # 2: THE INTERFACE OF SOURCE ANALYSIS TO DATA ANALYSIS chair: Patrick Brady 15:30 - Patrick Brady [UWM] -- Introductory remarks 15:35 - Discussion 15:40 - Beverly Berger [NSF], Michael Salamon [NASA], Saul Teukolsky [Cornell; chair of Gravitational Wave Computation Task Group] -- NSF-NASA cooperation to increase support for computational gravitational-wave science. 15:55 - Discussion 16:00 - Barry Barish [Director, LIGO Laboratory] and Rainer Weiss [Spokesman, LSC] -- Views of the LIGO and LSC leadership on this Workshop's issues, and on issues raised by the possible NSF-NASA cooperative support for computation. 16:15 - Discussion Talks relevant to how source analysts might interface with LIGO data analysts: 16:20 - Bruce Allen [UWM] -- What is ASIS? [to be confirmed] 16:30 - Discussion 16:35 - Rai Weiss [MIT] -- What is an Upper Limit Group? 16:45 - Discussion 16:50 - Joan Centrella [GSFC] -- A real life source analyst in the LSC 17:00 - Discussion Talks relevant to possible connections of source analysts to LISA 17:05 - Tom Prince [LISA Mission Scientist] -- LISA science requirements, and possible points of contact between source analysts and the LISA Project 17:20 - Discussion 17:35 - Scott Hughes -- What is LIST Working Group 1? 17:45 - Discussion 18:00 - End Session 18:30 - Conference Dinner ********** FRIDAY MARCH 22 09:00 - 15:00 or later: WORKSHOP PLENARY SESSION # 3: DATA ANALYSIS ISSUES THAT SHOULD IMPACT SOURCE ANALYSIS Format: this session will consist of a series of round-table panel discussions. Each round table will consist of one or more presentations followed by the discussion. Timing, topics, and panelists are as follows. The list of panelists is tentative; not all have agreed to participate as yet. The list of presenters is still being assembled. 09:00-09:30 Detection as statistical process. Moderator - Patrick Brady. Panelists - Jolien Creighton, Sam Finn, Joseph Romano 09:30-10:15 Data analysis for binaries in LIGO frequency band Moderator - Patrick Brady Panelists - Alessandra Buonanno, Jolien Creighton, Vicky Kalogera, Ben Owen, Sathyaprakash, Alan Wiseman 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:20 Data analysis for bursts which are not accurately modeled. Moderator - Patrick Brady Panelists - Warren Anderson, Eanna Flanagan, Sam Finn, Julien Sylvestre, Soma Mukherjee 11:20-12:00 Data analysis for inspiral of stellar-mass objects into supermassive black holes, as observed by LISA Moderator - Kip Thorne Panelists - Teviet Creighton, Scott Hughes, Tom Prince 12:00-13:15 Lunch 13:15-13:55 Interpreting observed gravitational waves Moderator - Joan Centrella Panelists - Stuart Anderson, Patrick Brady, Sam Finn, Vicky Kalogera, Joseph Romano 13:55 - ca. 15:00 General discussion of the main issues for this Workshop: Mechanisms for coordination and communication between the source analysis and data analysis efforts; connections of source analysts to the LSC, to LIGO, and to LISA. This discussion may continue to the end of the afternoon in plenary session, or we can break up into no more than three parallel sessions to, e.g., (i) develop specific proposals for source groups that focus on specific classes of sources, and (ii) give advice to Teukolsky's Gravitational Wave Computation Task Group. ******** SATURDAY MARCH 23 08:00 - 09:45 WORKSHOP PLENARY SESSION #4 Discussion aimed at reaching a tentative consensus on structures to facilitate coordination and communication between source analysts and data analysts. These structures (if any) will be put forward for discussion by the relevant communities. 09:45 SOURCE WORKSHOP ENDS (Though it is possible to continue if there is reason to do so) Source analysts are invited to stay on for the remainder of the LSC meeting: 09:45 Break/Snack 10:00 - LSC Working Group Meetings ... Source Analysts may find of interest the meeting of ASIS, the LSC working group that would most closely interface with source analysts. 12:00 Lunch 13:15 - LSC Working Group Meetings ... Again, source analysts may wish to attend meetings of ASIS 14:15 - Break/Snack 14:30 - LSC PLENARY SESSION: Reports to the full LSC from the Source Workshop (about any consensus that may have been reached), and from various LSC Committees and Upper Limit Groups. 16:00 - LSC Meeting ends