| Experimental General Relativity | |
| Honours course and AIGO summer school | |
| Physics, UWA (28 February - 2 March) | |
| This 3 day intensive residential course will be held at AIGO Research Centre, from Sunday to Tuesday. It includes lectures from international and local experts as well as hands on practical experience with lasers, vibration isolation, interferometers and optical cavities. The final three lectures on data analysis will take place at UWA. | |
| Day 1 | |
| 10:00-13:00 | |
| · Gravitational waves and gravitational w | Coleman Miller (University of Maryland) |
| · General relativity for experimentalists | |
| Hands on gravitational lensing task | David Blair |
| · Introduction: Gravitational wave detectors | |
| 14:00-17:00 | |
| · Ground based
gravitational wave detectors --case study GEO project |
Stefan Goßler (Albert Einstein Institute) |
| · Optical cavities and their mode structure | Chunnong Zhao |
| · Cavity locking schemes | Chunnong Zhao |
| Day 2 | |
| 10:00-13:00 | |
| · High optical
power cavities--thermal lensing and opto-acoustic interactions |
Chunnong Zhao |
| · Hands on locking of suspended cavities | Yaohui Fan |
| · GW detectors at the quantum limit | Haixing Miao |
| 14:00-17:00 | |
| · GW detectors as quantum instruments | Haixing Miao |
| · Quantum measurement experimental approa | Chunnong Zhao |
| · Multi-messenger gravitational wave astr | David Coward |
| Evening session: Hands on optical transient searching with Zadko telescope | Timo Vaalsta |
| Day 3 | |
| 10:00-13:00 | |
| · Thermal noise issue in GW detectors | Li Ju |
| · Seismic noise and isolation technique | Jean-Charles Dumas |
| · Control schemes for vibration isolations | Pablo Barriga |
| · Hands on vibration isolation and control | |
| 14:00-16:00 | |
| · New concepts in GW Data analysis: time delayed IIR filterbank methods | Shaun Hooper |
| · Harnessing the Tflop supercomputer in your desktop: scientific computing with GPUs and applications to detecting gravitational waves | Shinkee Chung |
| · GPU and IIR filter demonstrations | |
| Lecture At UWA (Time to be confirmed) | |
| · Concepts of GW
data analysis and coherent searches for binary coalescence signals |
Linqing Wen |
| Assessment:
The students will be asked to write an essay on the nominated topic based on the question set provided |
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