| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 10:30 | -- | Inauguration | ||
| 10:30 to 11:00 | -- | High Tea | ||
| 11:00 to 12:00 | Peter R Saulson | Overview of gravitational waves and detectors (Waves and sources) | ||
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Overview of gravitational waves and detectors (Survey of past and present detectors) | ||
| 13:00 to 14:00 | -- | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:00 to 16:00 | -- | Experiments | ||
| 16:00 to 16:30 | -- | Tea Break | ||
| 16:30 to 17:30 | Peter R Saulson | Interaction of waves and detectors | ||
| 16:30 to 17:30 | Oliver Puncken | The advanced LIGO pre-stabilized laser (PSL) | ||
| 18:30 to 19:30 | -- | Discussion hour | ||
| 19:30 to 20:30 | -- | Dinner |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 10:30 | Oliver Puncken | Laser diagnostics and developmental tools | ||
| 10:30 to 11:00 | -- | High Tea | ||
| 11:00 to 12:00 | Peter R Saulson | Shot noise and Radiation Pressure noise (Classic view / Poisson fluctuations) | ||
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Shot noise and Radiation Pressure noise (Vacuum fluctuations / quantum noise propagation in interferometers) | ||
| 13:00 to 14:00 | -- | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 to 16:00 | -- | Experiments | ||
| 16:00 to 16:30 | -- | Tea Break | ||
| 16:30 to 17:30 | Peter R Saulson | Theory of Linear Systems (Basics) | ||
| 17:30 to 18:30 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Theory of Linear Systems (Network synthesis method for electronics) | ||
| 18:30 to 19:30 | -- | Discussion hour | ||
| 19:30 to 20:30 | -- | Dinner |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 10:30 | Oliver Puncken | Thermo-optical effects | ||
| 10:30 to 11:00 | -- | High Tea | ||
| 11:00 to 12:00 | Peter R Saulson | Vibration isolation (Passive systems) | ||
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Vibration isolation (Active platforms, limits of seismometers, issues with optical, magnetic, and electrostatic levitation) | ||
| 13:00 to 14:00 | -- | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:00 to 16:00 | -- | Experiments | ||
| 16:00 to 16:30 | -- | Tea Break | ||
| 16:30 to 17:30 | Peter R Saulson | Thermal noise (Brownian noise, Zener damping, thermo-elastic noise) | ||
| 17:30 to 18:30 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Thermal noise (Coatings, noise cancellation, generalized coordinates) | ||
| 18:30 to 19:30 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Introduction to Finesse | ||
| 19:30 to 20:30 | -- | Dinner |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 10:30 | Oliver Puncken | Stabilization of the PSL | ||
| 10:30 to 11:00 | -- | High Tea | ||
| 11:00 to 12:00 | Peter R Saulson | Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Plane wave picture, static response, audio frequency transfer functions) | ||
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Higher order transverse modes, geometric stability, ray matrix approach to gaussian beams) | ||
| 13:00 to 14:00 | -- | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:00 to 16:00 | -- | Experiments | ||
| 16:00 to 16:30 | -- | Tea Break | ||
| 16:30 to 17:30 | Peter R Saulson | Control Systems (Basics (feedback)) | ||
| 17:30 to 18:30 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Matrix approach for interferometer fields) | ||
| 18:30 to 19:30 | Oliver Puncken | Installation and Integration of the PSL | ||
| 19:30 to 20:30 | -- | Dinner |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 to 10:30 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Control Systems (Feed-forward, adaptive FF, MIMO, optimal feedback, state-space methods, H-infinity) | ||
| 10:30 to 11:00 | -- | High Tea | ||
| 11:00 to 12:00 | Peter R Saulson | Details of current detectors (Specifications) | ||
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Details of current detectors (Stories about current and past detectors) | ||
| 13:00 to 14:00 | -- | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:00 to 16:00 | -- | Experiments | ||
| 16:00 to 16:30 | -- | Tea Break | ||
| 16:30 to 17:30 | Peter R Saulson | Future detectors (Space) | ||
| 17:30 to 18:30 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Future detectors (ET) | ||
| 18:30 to 19:30 | Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology, USA) | Future detectors (LIGO – III) | ||
| 19:30 to 20:30 | -- | Dinner |