Dear Alan, Mike,

here are the minutes of the TAG - hope you like them.

Cheers,

Ken


40m TAG minutes 19th March 2003

Present: Mike Zucker, Ken Strain


After hearing a concise progress report from Osamu, the following
points were raised.

1) it was noted that progress was excellent, keeping very well to
schedule and the team is clearly working efficiently and doing the
job completely

2) it was suggested that, since there was a working cavity with
wavefront sensing, this be used to measure the typical pitch and
yaw noise on the campus site, to allow optimization of the
suspensions/controllers under constructin

3) it was noted that the suspension controllers are under
development and the 40m team are learning the techniques required.

4) it was noted that lock acquisition studies, aided by the E2E
team, are quite urgent

5) the team requested help, if possible, in the area of noise
modelling (tools are available but the team feel they lack
experience in this area.

6) Other outstanding items were seen to be less urgent.