Weekly Report for Week Ending August 13, 2009

LSC	Administration	Hanford Observatory	Livingston Observatory
Optical & Mechanical	Controls and Data Systems	40 Meter Facility	TNI
LASTI	CIT Science Group	Laboratory Computing	Adv. LIGO Development & Project

Past Weekly Reports

The LIGO Executive Committee Agenda for Monday, August 17, 2009 will be:

(Meeting time: 10:30 am Pacific Time)

1. Announcements

2. LSC - Reitze

3. Focus Topic

4. Change Control Actions

5. Advanced LIGO

Overall - Shoemaker

Project Management - Wilkinson

6. Enhanced LIGO - Adhikari / Zucker

S6 Preparation - Whitcomb

7. Sites

Hanford - Raab

Livingston - Giaime

MIT - Shoemaker / Fritschel

8. Caltech

Administration - Lindquist

Engineering

Optical and Mechanical - Coyne
Control and Data Systems - Bork

Lab Computing - Anderson

Instrument Science - Gustafson

Data Analysis and 40M - Weinstein

Calendar of future Executive Commitee Meetings

Special Announcements:

Weekly Report Highlights:

LSC Issues (Reitze)

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LIGO Laboratory Administration (Lindquist)

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Quality/Safety (Nolting)

ADVANCED LIGO SAFETY IS BEING REPORTED UNDER ADVANCED LIGO, BELOW

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LIGO Hanford Observatory (LHO) and Interferometer Operations (Raab)

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LIGO Livingston Observatory (LLO) and Interferometer Operations (Giaime)

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Mechanical and Optical Systems (Coyne)

See Advanced LIGO

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Controls and Data Systems (Bork)

See Advanced LIGO

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40-Meter Interferometer (Adhikari)

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Thermal Noise Interferometer (Black)

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LASTI (Mittleman)

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CIT Science Group (Weinstein)

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Laboratory Computing (Anderson)

General Computing (Wallace)

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Distributed (Grid) Computing R&D (Blackburn)

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Advanced LIGO and Supporting R&D (Shoemaker)

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