Schedule for the LVC face-to-face Meeting.
We will use the NumRel channel on TeamSpeak for remote access.
Live commenting/minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BT8m1Ge8t_1vN-eAi7TO2GQcD5heF4Y_P2-WHTmlRuk/edit#
Tuesday October 30th
| 10.00-10.15 | Sascha Husa: Welcome – goals we want to achieve |
| 10.15-11.00 | Frank Ohme: Summary of last meeting, status of last meeting’s plans |
| 11.00-11.30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Alessandro Nagar, Roberto Cotesta: EOB: status update and plans |
| 12:30-12:45 | Ethan Payne: Comparison between IMRPhenomHM and NRSur7dq2 |
| 13.00-14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15-15:15 | Michael Pürrer, Harald Pfeiffer, Ben Lackey: ROM and surrogate models: status and plans |
| 15:15-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-16:30 | Mark Hannam, Sebastian Khan, Sascha Husa, Geraint Pratten, Marta Colleoni, Cecilio García, Héctor Estellés: Phenom status and plans |
| 16:30-17:00 | Break |
| 17:00-17:30 | Maria Haney: Post-Newtonian status + expected future developments |
| 17:30-18:30 | Status and plans for numerical relativity simulations |
Wednesday October 31st
Breakout session format: brief summary of goals for session – 1 hour discussion – summary and discussion of results with all participants.
| 9.00-10.00 | Sarah Caudill, Thomas Dent: Searches and waveform models |
| 10.00-11.00 | Geraint Pratten: PE follow up of events |
| 11:00-13:00 | Breakout sessions: numerical relativity catalog/NR waveforms review/waveform conventions; measuring the equation of state; paper writing & giving credit; ??? |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30-16:30 | Breakout session: precession & eccentricity; code optimisation; ??? |
| 16:30-17:00 | Break |
| 17:00-18:30 | House cleaning session: clean up wiki pages, … [parallel hands-on session possible if necessary] |
Thursday November 1st
| 9.00-9.30 | Maria Haney, Sebastian Khan: Discussion on waveform group mission statement |
| 9.30-11.00 | Breakout sessions: waveform systematics & joint waveform calibration activities; preparing for the detection of BH-NS; ??? |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-13:00 | Discussion on O3 deliverables and action items |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30-15:00 | Closeout discussion session |
| 15.00-open end | “Hands-on” time for work and discussion in smaller groups |