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Program Schedule

Program Schedule


1 November

Time Speaker Title
0900 REGISTRATION
0945 Welcome, Introductory Remarks
1015 Francesco Fidecaro Status of Virgo: Brief history, Commissioning experience, Latest performances
1100 COFFEE BREAK
1130 Tarun Souradeep IndIGO: Current Status and Future Plans
1215 Giovanni Losurdo Advanced Virgo and the 2nd generation interferometers network
1245 LUNCH BREAK
1400 Archana Pai Hunting Gravitational Waves with a Multi-Detector Antenna
1430 Franco Frasconi The VIRGO suspension system for seismic noise suppression
1500 C.S. Unnikrishnan The IndIGO 3-m Advanced Prototype Interferometer Detector at TIFR: Features and Goals
1530 COFFEE BREAK
1600 Alesso Rocchi Focus on technology: adaptive optical systems for future gravitational wave interferometers
1630 Sanjay Malhotra Accelerator Technology,Magnetic confinement of Plasmas and Magnet for INO project
1700 Jean-Yves Vinet The European Gravitational Observatory, EGO: its role in international GW research (Federico Ferrini)
1730 COFFEE BREAK
1800 DISCUSSIONS
2000 CONFERENCE BANQUET

2 November

Time Speaker Title
0930 Lidia Szpyrkowicz Indo-Italian collaboration in Science & Technology
1000 Sanjeev Dhurandhar IndIGO GW Data Centre plans
1030 Raffaele Flaminio LMA - The Virgo mirrors facility
1100 COFFEE BREAK
1130 Manasadevi P.T. Diffraction-free laser sources: Bringing the coolest physical phenomena to existence
1200 Jean-Yves Vinet Numerical propagation of light beams in refractive and diffractive devices
1230 Sanjit Mitra Radiometric searches of GWs
1300 LUNCH BREAK
1400 Michele Punturo Third Generation of GW observatories: The ET project
1430 Sukanta Bose GW sources for 2nd and 3rd Generation
1500 Fulvio Ricci Thermal noise reduction using cryogenic techniques
1530 COFFEE BREAK
1600 Pradeep Kumar Single-photon optics and instrumentation
1630 Sadiq Rangwala Experiments with cold atoms in a Fabry Perot cavity in UHV
1700 Umakant Rapol Quantum optics and Quantum Information processing with cold atoms and Scanning probe microscopy
1730 COFFEE BREAK
1800 DISCUSSIONS
1930 DINNER