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| Monday AM | Status of Present Detectors-I |
| January 5 | Chair: S. Meshkov |
| 8:00 | S. Meshkov (Caltech) Jane Kelly (ACP) | Welcome |
| 8:10 | A. Gennai (Pisa) | Status of Virgo |
| 8:45 | A. Ruediger (Garching) | Status of GEO 600 |
| 9:35 | D. McClelland (ANU) | Status of ACIGA |
| 10:10 | R. Takahashi (NAO) | Status of TAMA |
| Monday PM | A. Advanced Interferometer Topologies-I |
| January 5 | Chair: A. Ruediger |
| 4:30 | D. McClelland (ANU) | Advanced Interferometer Topologies I (requires Acrobat Reader) |
| 5:30 | R. Takahashi (NAO) | Cryogenic Mirrors |
| B. Advanced Concepts in Suspensions and Noise-I | |
| Chair: J. Faller |
| 6:20 | P. Saulson (Syracuse) | Thermal Noise Tutorial-I |
| Tuesday AM | Advanced Concepts in Suspensions and Noise-II |
| January 6 | Chair: R. Stebbins |
| 8:00 | S. Traeger (Hannover) | Fundamental Noise Processes |
| 8:35 | G. Cagnoli (Perugia) | Status of Thermal Noise R&D in VIRGO |
| 9:25 | P. Saulson (Syracuse) | Thermal Noise II |
| Tuesday PM | Advanced Interferometer Topologies-II |
| January 6 | Chair: R. Takahashi |
| 4:30 | D. McClelland (ANU) | Advanced Interferometer Topologies II (requires Acrobat Reader) |
| 5:30 | A. Ruediger (Garching) | Goals of GEO 600 |
| 6:45 | M. Gray (ANU) Presented by D. McClelland | Experiments on Resonant Sideband Extraction Using a Sagnac Interferometer. |
| Wednesday AM | LIGO Research Community (LRC) |
| January 7 | Chair: S. Finn |
| 8:00 | G. Sanders (Caltech) | Status of LIGO |
| 8:45 | D. Berley (NSF) | The View From NSF |
| 9:45 | LIGO Research Community Meeting and Discussion |
| Wednesday PM | LISA |
| January 7 | Chair: J. Hough |
| 4:30 | R. Stebbins (JILA) | Status of LISA-An American Perspective |
| 4:50 | Y. Jafry (ESA) | Status of ELITE |
| 5:10 | J. Hough (Glasgow) | LISA: Experimental Work by GEO |
| 5:40 | S. Finn (NWU/Caltech) | Report on GWDAW Meeting |
| (Continued Friday PM) |
| Wednesday Evening: | Public Lecture, Wheeler Opera House |
| Chair: S. Meshkov |
| 8:00 | Peter Saulson (Syracuse) | The Quest for Gravitational Waves: Fulfilling Einstein's Vision |
| Thursday AM | Advanced Interferometer Topologies-III |
| January 8 | Chair: M. Cerdonio |
| 8:00 | D. McClelland (ANU) | Advanced Interferometer Topologies III (requires Acrobat Reader) |
| 9:00 | P. Beyersdorf (Stanford) | Sagnac Interferometry |
| 9:35 | M. Cerdonio (Padova) | Role of Thermal Noise in Bar Detectors |
| 10:00 | E. Daw (MIT) | Search for Halo Axions |
| Thursday PM | Advanced Concepts in Suspensions and Noise-III |
| January 8 | Chair: D. DeBra |
| 4:30 | S. Rowan (Glasgow) | Ultrahigh Q Measurements at GEO, Silicate Bonding |
| 5:05 | M. Plissi (Glasgow) | GEO Suspension |
| 5:40 | A. Gennai (Pisa) | VIRGO Suspensions Control |
| 6:30 | V. Sannibale (Annecy) | VIRGO Alignment System |
| 7:05 | S. Yoshida (Florida) | Faraday Rotators |
| Friday AM | A. Advanced Interferometer Topologies-IV |
| January 9 | Chair: G. Sanders |
| 8:00 | C. Walsh (CSIRO) | LIGO Optical Substrates |
| 8:35 | B. Lantz (MIT) | Phase Noise Interferometer |
| B. Source Calculation | |
| Chair: W. Frazer |
| 9:25 | S. Finn (NWU/Caltech) | Random Signals from Non-random Sources |
| Friday PM | Advanced Concepts in Suspensions and Noise-IIII |
| January 9 | Chair: D. DeBra |
| 4:30 | R. Stebbins (JILA) | Tutorial Lecture |
| 5:30 | P. La Penna (Pisa) | VIRGO Low Frequency Facility |
| 6:15 | F. Bondu (NIST) | New Calculation of Internal Mirror Thermal Noise |
| 6:50 | M. Barton (Caltech) J. Giaime (JILA) | LIGO I Suspensions |
| Saturday AM | Advanced Detectors |
| January 10 | Chair: J. Hough |
| 8:00 | E. Gustafson (Stanford) P. Beyersdorf (Stanford) | Interferometry |
| 9:00 | R. Stebbins (JILA) J. Hough (Glasgow) | Suspension Issues |
| 10:15 | Y. Jafry (ESA/ESTEC) | Space Experiments |