The 2004 Aspen Winter Conference on Gravitational Waves and their Detection will be, as usual, a very interactive Gravitational Wave Advanced Detectors Workshop (GWADW). The subtitle is "Advancing Gravitational Wave Detectors: Pushing the Quantum Limits".

In addition to our normal focus, the special goal of this workshop is to consider novel Gravitational Wave detectors beyond the concepts used in Advanced LIGO and other future interferometers and bars. Particular emphasis will be placed on various methods that approach and exceed the quantum limit, as, for example, with Quantum Non Demolition (QND).

Each day of the workshop will consist of about six hours of scheduled talks and discussion as well as scheduled workshop interactions. The nature of the housing, with all participants living and dining under the same roof, at the Aspen Meadows, encourages extensive opportunities for informal scientific exchange. In addition, as is the custom at the Aspen Winter conferences, a public lecture will be given on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at the Wheeler Opera House.

Application / Lodging

To apply, please fill out an online application form as soon as possible. The poster that was sent out by the Aspen Center for Physics has a deadline date of Nov. 15, but that is not correct.

Most importantly, please call the Aspen Meadows immediately to make your room reservations. The rates are $190/day, single occupancy and $130.80/day, double occupancy. Both rates include breakfast and dinner.

The Aspen Meadows phones are

800.452.4240
970.925.4240

The Registration Fee is $300. It is payable to Aspen Center for Physics and should be sent to:

Jane Kelly
Aspen Center for Physics
700 W. Gillespie St.
Aspen, CO 81611

Organising Committee

S. Meshkov (Caltech) Chair
C. Bradaschia (Pisa)
E. Coccia (Rome)
R. DeSalvo (Caltech)
F. Fidecaro (Pisa)
S. Finn (Penn State)
J. Hough (Glasgow)
S. Kawamura (NAOJ)
N. Mavalvala (MIT)
N. Robertson (Stanford)
G. Sanders (Caltech)
D. Shoemaker (MIT)
K. Strain (Glasgow)
B. Willke (Hannover)

Webmistress:
V. Kondrashov (Caltech)

Participants

Aso, Youichi (U. of Tokyo)
Beyersdorf, Peter (NAOJ)
Cerdonio, Massimo (INFN and Padua U.)
Chen, Yanbei (Caltech)
Cho, Yongmin (Seoul Nat'l U.)
Cohadon, Pierre-Francois (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)
Coles, Mark (NSF)
Corbitt, Thomas (MIT)
DeSalvo, Riccardo (Caltech)
Drever, Ronald (Caltech)
Fidecaro, Francesco (U. of Pisa)
Gretarsson, Andri (LLO)
Johnson, Warren (LSU)
Kawamura, Seiji (NAOJ)
Kells, William (Caltech)
Kim, Juho (Seoul Nat'l U.)
Krolak, Andrzej (JPL)
Kuhnert, Andreas (JPL)
Kuroda, Kazuaki (U. of Tokyo/ICRR)
Majorana, Ettore (INFN Pisa)
Matone, Luca (LIGO Hanford)
Matzner, Richard (UT Austin)
Mavalvala, Nergis (MIT)
Meshkov, Sydney (Caltech)
Mittleman, Richard (MIT)
Müller, Guido (U. of Florida)
Okutomi, Akira (U. of Tokyo/ICRR)
Rakhmanov, Malik (University of Florida)
Robertson, Norna (Stanford and Glasgow)
Rüdiger, Albrecht (MPI Garching)
Sato, Shuichi (NAOJ)
Schnabel, Roman (U. of Hanover)
Shaddock, Daniel (JPL)
Somiya, Kentaro (NAOJ)
Spero, Robert (JPL)
Te Plate, Maurice (ESA)
Tinto, Massimo (JPL)
Tournefier, Edwige (VIRGO-LAPP)
Vetrano, Flavio (Urbino U.)
Whitcomb, Stan (Caltech)
Willke, Benno (GEO600)