Program Advisory Committee [PAC]

PAC04
23-24 April, 1998
LIGO Livingston Observatory

The fourth LIGO Program Advisory Committee Meeting will be held April 23-24, 1998 in Livingston, Louisiana at the LIGO Livingston site. This meeting will concentrate on the Livingston Site: the transition from construction to installation and commissioning for LIGO; and on international issues in LIGO (with a joint session on April 23rd with the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC) representing all the major efforts in gravitational wave research in the world.

I. Agenda

Joint PAC / GWIC Meeting
Thursday, April 23
08:45-09:00	Short PAC Executive session
09:00-12:00	International Collaborative Efforts
	Collaboration on Development of Sapphire Test Masses	S. Whitcomb
	Implementation of LIGO/VIRGO Frame Format	A. Lazzarini
	International Collaboration Optical Test and Development	G. Billingsley
	Proposed Coincidence Experiment (TAMA and 40m)	TBD
	International Collaboration on Data Analysis	R. Weiss
12:30-14:00	Structuring LIGO as an International Collaboration	W. Frazer, B. Barish
14:30	GWIC departs for tour of CB&I factory and LSU Allegro experiment	W. Johnson
15:00	Break
14:30-17:30	PAC Review of LIGO and Installation Plan
	LHO Update	F. Raab
	Detector Installation Plan	D. Coyne
	LLO	M. Coles
	Tour of LLO	M. Coles, G. Stapfer
18:30	Joint GWIC / PAC dinner at Brunet's Cajun Restaurant
Friday, April 24
09:30-10:30	LIGO Data Analysis System	A. Lazzarini
10:30-11:30	Update and Plans for MIT Test Facility	D. Shoemaker
12:00-13:00	Working lunch
	Status of LIGO and LSC	R. Weiss, B. Barish
13:00-15:00	Executive Session and Reports
13:30-14:30	Private Meeting	Louisiana Tech attendees, Barish, Weiss

II. Attendees

PAC members

Barish, Barry [Caltech]
Brillet, Alain [CNRS]
Frazer, William [LBNL]
Hamilton, William [LSU]
Meshkov, Sydney [Caltech]
Nash, Thomas [Fermilab]
Sandberg, Vernon [LANL]
Sanders, Gary [Caltech]
Saulson, Peter [Syracuse U]
Seiden, Abraham [UC Santa Cruz]
Stebbins, Robin [U of Colorado / JILA]

Invited guests

Bartusiak, Marcia [NAS, science writer]
Berley, david [NSF]
Billingsley, GariLynn [Caltech]
Coles, Mark [Caltech]
Collins, Harold [KES]
Drever, Ronald [Caltech]
Eisenstein, Robert [NSF]
Greenwood, Zeno [Louisiana Tech]
Isaacson, Richard [Caltech]
Johnston, Kenneth [Louisiana Tech]
Lazzarini, Albert [Caltech]
Libbrecht, Kenneth [Caltech]
Mokhtari, Susan [Louisiana Tech]
Prince, Tom [Caltech]
Raab, Frederick [LHO]
Roemer, Louis [Louisiana Tech]
Sawyer, Lee [Louisiana Tech]
Shoemaker, David [MIT]
Simicevic, Nemen [Louisiana Tech]
Weiss, Rainer [MIT]
Whitcomb, Stan [Caltech]
Zotov, Natalia [Louisiana Tech]

LLO Staff

Franklin, Cecil
Kern, Jonathan
Riesen, Richard
Sibley, Allen
Stapfer, Gerry
Stiff, Kerry
Svoboda, Julien
Wascom, Bonnie

Dinner information

Brunet's Cajun Restaurant
135 Flannery Rd
Baton Rouge, LA
504.272.6226

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