Gravitation and Experiment 2002

Pisa, 6-10 october 2002

 

The Gravitation and Experiment meeting - GREX 2002 - has taken place in Santa Croce in Fossabanda (Pisa) from October 6 to October 10. It was subsidized by CNRS and INFN through GREX and EGO/VIRGO. A visit of the Virgo site has been organized during the meeting.

Scientific chairs :
Alain Brillet, Astrid Lambrecht, Andrea Vicere

Organization and finances :
Serge Reynaud with Monique Bonnamy and Marie-Aimée Durrleman

List of participants

Program

Monday morning : Status of VIRGO
Raffaele Flaminio : Commissioning of the central interferometer [PDF]
Stefano Braccini & Diego Passuello : VIRGO suspensions [PDF]
Antonio Pasqualetti : The ultra high vacuum system [PDF]
Vincent Loriette : Large optics and optical modeling [PDF]
Didier Verkindt : DAQ and noise analysis tools [PDF]

Monday afternoon : Visit of the Virgo site

Tuesday morning : Fundamental physics in space I
Christophe Salomon : Cold Atoms Space Clocks, ACES and fundamental tests [PDF]
Anna Nobili : Galileo Galilei a small satellite to test the equivalence principle [HTML]
Pierre Touboul : MICROSCOPE status [PDF]
Lorenzo Iorio : Testing General Relativity with satellite laser ranging [PaperPDF]
David Lucchesi : Lense-Thirring effect measurement using satellites in Critical Supplementary Orbit Configuration [PDF]
Arnaud Landragin : Advance in the HYPER project [PDF]

Tuesday afternoon : Data analysis and source modeling
Elena Cuoco : Non stationary noise, detection efficiency for coalescing binaries [HTML]
Eric Chassande-Mottin : Robust methods for the detection of gravitational wave transients in VIRGO data [arXiv]
Eugenio Coccia : Event search in bar detectors [arXiv]
Eric Gourgoulhon : Last orbits of inspiralling binary black holes [PDF]
Jean-Yves Vinet : LISA data and time-delay interferometry [PDF]

Wednesday morning : Fundamental physics in space II
Luc Blanchet : Dynamics of binary black holes [ScanPDF]
Linda Mondin : Experimental laser studies for LISA [PDF]
Archana Pai : Improving LISA sensitivity [arXiv]
Marie-Christine Willaime : Temporal dependences in HYPER [PDF]
Charles Antoine & Christian Bordé : Exact phase shifts for atom interferometry [arXiv]
Brahim Lamine : Gravitational decoherence [PDF]

Wednesday afternoon : Experimental gravity on earth and in space
Jacques Baudon : Atomic gravimeter [PDF]
Jean-Philippe Uzan : Fundamental constants and their variation [ScanPDF]
Peter Wolf : Molly and Albert : a test of relativity using a microwave resonator [PaperPDF]
Pierre Teyssandier : Time transfer and frequency shift of the order 1/c^4 in the field of an axisymetric rotating body [PDF]
Bartolomé Coll : A principal positioning system for the Earth [PDF]
Orfeu Bertolami : Gravity control and space propulsion, a scientific assessment [arXiv]

Thursday morning : VIRGO future developments
Laurent Pinard : Towards better optics [PDF]
Michele Punturo : Monolithic suspensions [PDF]
Adalberto Giazotto : Cryogenic advanced interferometers for GW detection : why and how [PDF]
Jean-Michel Courty : Noise model and quantum noise reduction
Catherine Nary Man : Lasers for future ground-based detectors [PDF]
Benoit Mours : R&D on control noises [PDF]

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