Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics (2013, ICTS Winter School)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences    2014年2月20日
PROGRAM: ICTS Winter School on Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics
DATES: Monday 23 Dec, 2013 - Saturday 28 Dec, 2013
VENUE: Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore
PROGRAM LINK: http://www.icts.res.in/program/GWS2013
A worldwide network of detectors are currently involved in an exciting experimental effort for the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). There is also an ongoing proposal to build a GW detector, called LIGO-India, in India with significant international collaboration. Not only that GW astronomy will open up a fundamentally new observational window to the Universe, the experimental effort for GW detection has been driving precision measurement science for the last few decades.
The ICTS Winter School in Experimental GW Physics is meant to train students, young scientists and engineers on the instrumental science and technology for GW astronomy. The school will feature an intense series of lectures and hands-on sessions covering a number of topics including interferometry, highly stabilized lasers, control systems, etc.

Inauguration 33:11
Peter R Saulson - Overview of gravitational waves and detectors (Waves and sources) 1:06:01
Rana Adhikari - Overview of gravitational waves and detectors (Survey of past and present detectors) 52:33
Peter R Saulson - Interaction of waves and detectors 1:10:29
Oliver Puncken - The advanced LIGO pre-stabilized laser (PSL) 1:12:16
Oliver Puncken - Laser diagnostics and developmental tools 1:11:04
Peter R Saulson - Shot noise and Radiation Pressure noise (Classic view /Poisson fluctuations) 58:46
Rana Adhikari Shot noise and Radiation Pressure noise (Vacuum fluctuations / quantum noise propaga 59:27
Peter R Saulson - Theory of Linear Systems (Basics) 47:34
Oliver Puncken - Thermo-optical effects 1:17:01
Peter R Saulson - Vibration isolation (Passive systems) 57:58
Rana Adhikari - Vibration isolation 1:11:16
Peter R Saulson - Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Plane wave picture, static...) 25:34
Rana Adhikari - Thermal noise (Coatings, noise cancellation, generalized coordinates) 27:11
Rana Adhikari - Introduction to Finesse 23:49
Oliver Puncken - Stabilization of the PSL 1:06:11
Peter R Saulson - Thermal noise (Brownian noise, Zener damping, thermo-elastic noise) 1:10:18
Rana Adhikari - Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities 50:38
Peter R Saulson - Control Systems (Basics (feedback)) 53:32
Rana Adhikari - Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Matrix approach for interferometer fields) 1:04:32
Oliver Puncken - Installation and Integration of the PSL 1:13:15
Rana Adhikari - Control Systems 53:37
Peter R Saulson - Details of current detectors (Specifications) 59:55
Rana Adhikari - Details of current detectors (Stories about current and past detectors) 58:27
Peter R Saulson - Future detectors (Space) 53:51
Experiments 2:31
Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Higher order transverse modes, geometric.... by Rana Adhikari 1:04:23