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
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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