LSC Talks Database in yellow: invited talks at conference/workshop, on behalf of the LSC presenting results, status of LIGO/GEO, AdvLIGO If the invitee field is empty, this is a contributed presentation

NOTE: the information is complete only as of October 2006, when this database was initiated. Previous information is based on known conferences or information contributed by the speakers, it will be updated as the information comes in.

Invitee Speaker Institution Conference/Seminar Date DCC Title Reviewer Keith Riles Same U. Michigan Colloquium, Rochester 01/19/05 G050666­00 First Results from LIGO Keith Riles Same U. Michigan Seminar, Wayne State University 03/15/07 G050667­00 First Results from LIGO Stephen McGuire Same SUBR World Year of Physics Lecture, Grambling State University, LA 03/17/05 LIGO: Producing initiatives in research and physics education at Southern University Stephen McGuire Same SUBR 79th meeting Louisiana Academy of Sciences, Grambling LA 03/18/05 Integrating research and physics education at Southern University Dennis Ugolini Same Trinity 9­th Texas­Mexico Conference on Astrophysics, Trinity U. 04/15/05 G050223­00 Astronomical Goals of LIGO Chunglee Kim Same Northeastern 7­th Pacific Rim Conference, Seul, Korea 11/03/05 Galactic Merger Rate of DNS systems and Expectations for GW Detection Vicky Kalogera Same Northeastern Seminar, Harvard­Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 12/02/05 Binary Neutron Star Mergers Richard O'Shaughnessy Same Northeastern KICP inaugural symposium, Chicago 12/08/05 Binary models for short GRBs Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT AAS meeting 01/08/06 G060012­00 Detecting GWs with interferometers Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Seminar at Los Alamos National Lab 01/18/06 Detecting Gws with interferometers Richard O'Shaughnessy Same Northeastern Seminar, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 02/16/06 Gravitational wave astronomy: Methods and Applications Peter Shawhan Same CIT UMaryland gravity seminar 02/27/06 G060029­03 LIGO perks up its ears Peter Shawhan Same CIT Syracuse University colloquium 03/02/06 G060029­03 LIGO perks up its ears Mike Zucker Same LLO LSU Physics Colloquium 03/02/06 G060031­05 LIGO listens Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Colloquium, Yale U. 03/03/06 Detecting Gws with interferometers Richard O'Shaughnessy Same Northeastern Caltech, seminar 03/07/06 G060048­00 Critically assessing Binary Mergers as short hard GRBs Peter Shawhan Same CIT Seminar, UMass Amherst 03/10/06 G060029­03 LIGO perks up its ears Laura Cadonati Same MIT Caltech, seminar 03/23/06 G060174­00 LIGO's Eyes Wide Open Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts Gregg Harry Same MIT 9th Eastern Gravity Meeting 03/24/06 G060669­00 Initial and Advanced LIGO Status Matt Abernhaty MIT 9th Eastern Gravity Meeting 03/24/06 G060670­00 Effect of Temperature on Coating Thermal Noise in Advanced LIGO Keita Kawabe Same LHO GW Detection Symposium 2006 Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan03/28/06 G060164­00 Current status of USA LIGO experiment and international collaboration (in Japanese) Stephen McGuire Same SUBR Colloquium, U. Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO 04/07/06 LIGO, materials, research and physics education at Southern University Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Seminar Caltech­JPL 04/18/06 Recent progress towards the sub­quantum limited detection Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Colloquium, Caltech 04/19/06 G060192­00 The Search for Gravitational Waves Mike Zucker Same LLO APS April Meeting 04/22/06 G060198­05 Status Report on the LIGO Interferometers Gabriela Gonzalez Same LSU APS April Meeting 04/22/06 G060185­00 Results from LIGO (plenary talk) Patrick Brady Same UWM APS April Meeting 04/22/06 G060199­00 Results from LIGO observations I Patrick Sutton Same CIT APS April Meeting 04/22/06 G060178­02 Results from LIGO observations II Gregg Harry Same MIT Lecture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 04/25/06 G060671­00 Gravitational Wave Astronomy Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT John de Laeter Youth Lecture, Australian Inst. Phys, Perth 05/16/06 The bizarre quantum nature of light Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Dean's Public Lecture, U. Western Australia, Perth 05/18/06 The search for those elusive GWs Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Questacon Museum of Science, Camberra 05/22/06 The search for those elusive GWs Patrick Sutton Same Caltech Seminar, University of Salerno, Italy 05/25/06 G060276­00 Coherent network searches for GW bursts Valera Frolov Same LLO TeV Particle Astrophysics II 08/28/06 G060488­00 Status of LIGO Patrick Brady Same UWM TeV Particle Astrophysics II 08/28/06 LIGO Observational Results Rana Adhikari Same Caltech TeV Particle Astrophysics II 08/28/06 Advanced LIGO interferometers Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT TeV Particle Astrophysics II 08/28/06 Quantum readout in future GW interferometers Junwei Cao Same MIT GridWorld 2006, Washington DC 09/11/06 LSC Data Grid Client/Server Environm Albert Lazzarini Same CIT Univ. of Mississippi Physics Colloquium 09/12/06 G060493­01 The LIGO: Status of operation at design sensitivity and fu tureprospects Laura Cadonati Same MIT COSMO­06 09/25/06 G060501­00 Exploring the gravitational wave sky with LIGO Sutton Dennis Ugolini Same Trinity Texas Section APS­AAPT Joint Meeting, Arlington TX 10/05/06 G060679­00 Developing a Capacitive Probe for Measuring Charging Effects on In­Vacuum Optics Gregg Harry Same MIT LIGO/Virgo Thermal Noise Workshop 10/07/06 G060504­00 LIGO Coating Project Gregg Harry Same MIT Seminar, U. Sannio Benevento (Italy) 10/09/06 G060506­00 Optical Coating Development for the Advanced Optical Coating Development for the Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave LIGO Gravitational Wave Antennas Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton NJ 10/10/06 Gravitational Wave Detectors – nuts and bolts, steel and glass, science and discovery Norna Robertson Same Stanford SLAC Colloquium 10/16/06 G060509­00 LIGO and the search for GW Mike Landry Same LHO Series of Three Lectures at CERN 10/16/06 G060513­00 Gravitational Wave Astronomy lsc­pp Nelson Christenson Same Carlton Montana State University Colloquium 10/20/06 G060594­00 Searching for Gravitational Waves lsc­pp Adrian Melissinos Same Rochester Univ. of Buffalo 10/21/06 G060620­00 The search for GWs using LIGO interferometers lsc­pp Sheila Rowan Same Glasgow Newcastle Astronomical Society 10/26/06 Andres Rodriguez Same LSU SACNAS 2006 10/27/06 G060540­00 Searching for Gravitational Waves with LIGO Cadonati Jim Hough Same Glasgow LEOS Meeting Plenary Presentation 10/30/06 G060573­00 The Search for Gravitational Waves Lantz Dave Reitze Same UF Univ. of Colorado Optical Science and Engineering Program 10/30/06 G060544­00 LIGO. Optical Science and Engineering In Search of Black HolesRowan Shourov Chatterji Same Caltech CaJAGWR seminar 10/31/06 G060545­00 Status of LIGO's 5th science run Duncan Brown Same Caltech Numerical Relativity ­ Data AnalysisWorkshop 11/06/06 G060580­00 Searching for gravitational­waves from compact binariesCadonati Steve Fairhust Same Caltech Numerical Relativity ­ Data AnalysisWorkshop 11/06/06 G060570­00 Systematic effects in gravitational­wave data analysisCadonati Patrick Sutton Same Caltech Numerical Relativity ­ Data AnalysisWorkshop 11/07/06 G060637­00 What we heard about numerical relativity Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Seminar, Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard 11/07/06 Quantum states of light and GIANTs Brian O'Reilly Same LLO South Eastern Section APS SESAPS2006 11/08/06 G060584­00 Status of LIGO lsc­pp Laura Cadonati Same MIT South Eastern Section APS SESAPS2006 11/08/06 G060582­00 Astrophysical sources, analysis methods and current results in LIGO'Sutton s quest for gravitational waves Brian Lantz Same Stanford South Eastern Section APS SESAPS2006 11/08/06 G060581­00 Advanced LIGO: Development and Status lsc­pp Patrick Sutton Same Caltech Seminar, U. of Glasgow 11/15/06 G060588­00 Searching for GW burst with LIGO Cadonati Sheila Rowan Same Glasgow Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 11/15/06 Sergei Klimenko Same UF GW data analysis workshop ­ Poincare Institute, Paris 11/16/06 G060602­00 Detection and reconstruction of burst signals with networks of gravitational wave detectorslsc­pp Gabriela Gonzalez Same LSU GW data analysis workshop ­ Poincare Institute, Paris 11/17/06 Looking for compact binary systems in real LIGO data Alicia Sintes Same Palma GW data analysis workshop ­ Poincare Institute, Paris 11/17/06 Current searches for continuous gravitational waves B. Sathyaprakash Same Cardiff GW data analysis workshop ­ Poincare Institute, Paris 11/17/06 Testing general relativity with the binary inspiral signal Richard O'Shaughnessy Same Northeastern Seminar at Argonne National Lab 11/15/06 Detecting binary mergers with gravitational waves Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Colloquium, U. of Maryland 11/21/06 GW detection: what's new? what's next? Sheila Rowan Same Glasgow University of Warwick 12/07/06 Jay Marx Same Caltech Texas Symposium 2006 12/11/06 G060579­00 Overview of LIGO LSC Vuk Mandic Caltech Texas Symposium 2006 12/11/06 G060595­00 Searching for Stochastic GW Background with LIGOlsc­pp Stefan Ballmer Caltech Texas Symposium 2006 12/11/06 G060594­00 Upper Limit Map of a Stochastic GW Background LSC Norna Robertson Same Stanford Joint Stanford Electronics and Optics Seminar and HEPL/KIPAC seminar12/11/06 G060626­00 LIGO and the Search for Gravitational Waves Reitze Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT QEM­II workshop, Morro Bay, CA 12/13/06 Quantum states of light and GIANTs Brian O'Reilly Same LLO GWDAW­11 12/18/06 G060645­00 Status of LIGO Commissioning Mario Diaz Same UTB TAMEST 2007 01/04/07 G070012­00 Increasing our Knowledge of the Universe with a New Astronomy: LIGO, and the gravitational wave observatoriesCadonati Jim Hough Same Glasgow St. Mungo Lecture at Glasgow 01/09/07 Lasers: the light fantastics Reitze Diego Fazi Same Caltech Seminar at U. of Bologna (Italy) 01/11/07 G070002­00 LIGO and the search for GW's from spinning binaries Brown Lisa Goggin Same Caltech Seminar at UCC college (Ireland) 01/15/07 G070003­00 LIGO and the search for GW's Cadonati Guido Mueller Same UF Seminar at U. San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Arecibo 01/??/07 G070004­00 Gravitational Waves ­ A new window o the UniverseCadonati Alan Weinstein Same Caltech KEKTC6 02/06/07 G070023­00 Status of GW searches M. Hendry, S. Reid Same Glasgow Seminar, Purple Mountain Obs. Nanjing, China 02/07/07 G070011­00 GW Astronomy: opening a new window on the universelsc­pp Gabriela Gonzalez Same LSU Colloquium, Chicago 02/08/07 G070013­00 Searching for GWs: news from the front lsc­pp Gabriela Gonzalez Same LSU Colloquium, Argonne 02/09/07 G070029­00 Interferometric Detectors of GWs: Opening a New Window to the Universe Shawhan, Peter Same UMD Seminar, Columbia U. 02/14/07 G070019­00 Spacetime Sirens Siemens Whitcomb, Stan Same Caltech Seminar, NSCL/Michigan State 02/14/07 G070022­00 LIGO, on the threshold of GW astronomy Reitze Chatterji, Shourov Same Caltech Colloquium, Syracuse 02/15/07 G070026­00 Searching for GW bursts with the new detector network Jay Marx Same Caltech Seminar at NSF 02/16/07 Cadonati, Laura Same MIT Colloquium, Trento U. (Italy) 02/21/07 G070030­00 LIGO e la sfida delle inafferrabili onde gravitazionaliReitze Gabriela Gonzalez Same LSU Annual NSBP­NSHP conference, Boston MA 02/22/07 G070028­00 Gravitational Waves: A new window on the universeCadonati O'Shaughnessy, Richard Same Northwestern Seminar, KICP, Chicago IL 02/23/07 G070009­00 Astrophysical Constraints on BH­NS and NS­NS Mergers and the Short GRB Redshift Distribution Cadonati Erik Katsavounidis Same MIT Twenty Years After Supernova 1987a 02/23/07 G070033­00 Gravity wave detectors Mike Landry Same LHO Seminar at TRIUMF 02/24/07 Searching for GWs with new interferometers Ray Frey Same Oregon C2CR07 02/25/07 G070024­00 Dennis Ugolini Same Trinity Texas Section of APS 03/01/07 Pitkin, Matt Same Glasgow Seminar, Institute of Physics, Southeast Branch, UK 02/27/07 Pitkin, Matt Same Glasgow Seminar, University of Nottingham Astronomy group 03/07/07 Sheila Rowan Same Glasgow Seminar, Imperial College London High Energy Physics Group xx/2007 Tom Nash Same Caltech Seminar, Rio de Janeiro State University 04/2007 Steve McGuire Same SUBR NOBCChE National Conference 04/01/07 Gabriela Gonzalez Same LSU Colloquium, Ole Miss 02/08/07 Jay Marx Same Caltech Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley Lab 04/03/07 Laura Cadonati Same MIT Seminar, Columbia U. 04/04/07 Sheila Rowan Same Glasgow IoP Nuclear and Particle Physics Division Annual Meeting 04/05/07 David Reitze Same UF APS April Meeting 04/14/07 Stan Whitcomb Same Caltech Colloquium, Notre Dame U. 04/18/07 Gabriela Gonzalez Same LSU Colloquium, Carnegie Mellon U. 02/08/07 Laura Cadonati Same MIT Seminar, Indiana U. Bloomington, Nuclear Physics 04/27/07 Steve McGuire SUBR CAMD Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation Conference 04/27/07 X­ray absorption spectroscopy of doped and undoped mul tilayer (SiO2/Ta2O5) coatings on fused silica (SiO2) substrates Stan Whitcomb ???? ???? ICOLS 2007 06/24/07 Vern Sandberg Same LHO TAUP 2007 09/11/07 Gabriela Gonzalez Same LSU Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2007 09/18/07 Rana Adhikari Same CIT Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2007 09/18/07 Nergis Mavalvala Same MIT Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2007 09/18/07 Dave Reitze Same UF Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2007 09/18/07 Harald Lueck Same Hannover Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2007 09/18/07 Maik Frede Same LZH Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2007 09/18/07