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Town Hall Meetings in 2018: March 16-17, 2018 in Cambridge, MA and April 12-13, 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Town Hall Meetings in 2018: March 16-17, 2018 in Cambridge, MA and April 12-13, 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands A message from the LIGO and Virgo spokespersons Details on April 12-13, 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands meeting
Amsterdam Town Hall program
April 12, 09:00-17:30

April 13, 9:00-13:00

Details on March 16-17, 2018 in Cambridge, MA meeting
Friday, March 16, 09:00-17:30 Saturday, March 17, 8:30-13:00 Photos

A message from the LIGO and Virgo spokespersons

Dear Colleague,

The LIGO-Virgo Collaborations will transition to Open, Public Alerts (OPA) for gravitational-wave (transient) event detections starting with the next observing run of the instruments later in 2018. Such OPAs will enable the entire physics and astronomy community in the pursuit of multi-messenger observations of gravitational-wave sources and maximize the science reach of the gravitational-wave instruments. These OPAs are also in line with what the Collaborations have planned with and communicated to the broader science community over the years:

https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-M1000066-v25/public

In anticipation of the OPA era expected to start in late 2018 and with the beginning of the third observing run of LIGO-Virgo, we invite the physics and astronomy community interested in the multi-messenger aspects of the science with gravitational waves to join a new "open forum". Unlike the membership structure based on Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) that has been in place for the past LIGO-Virgo observing runs, the new Open LV-EM forum has no MoU requirements for joining or for participation. It is intended to facilitate the free exchange of information and ideas among gravitational-wave, electromagnetic and other (e.g., neutrino) astronomers. You will find details on how to connect and become involved in this web page:

https://gw-astronomy.org/wiki/OpenLVEM#Get_started

Additionally, we would like to invite the entire community interested in the multi-messenger science enabled by the OPAs provided by LIGO-Virgo to two Town Hall meetings. The first meeting with be in the US and in Cambridge, Massachusetts March 16-17, 2018 and the second one will be in Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands April 12-13, 2018. An early response to this invitation will help us plan for the number of participants. In these meetings we will share details on how we are preparing for the OPA era, invite input, comments and thoughts from the community and prepare and position all well to commence observations as soon as LIGO-Virgo turn on later in 2018. You will find details on how to connect and become involved in this web page:

https://gw-astronomy.org/wiki/OpenLVEM/TownHallMeetings2018

We look forward to your participation in this new and exciting era of multi-messenger science with gravitational-waves through the forum, Town Hall meetings and ultimately multi-messenger observations!

For immediate questions on the Town Hall meetings and the OpenLVEM forum itself, please reach out to the forum conveners at [email protected] .

David Shoemaker (Spokesperson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration); Laura Cadonati (Deputy Spokesperson)Jo van den Brand (Spokesperson, Virgo Collaboration)

Details on April 12-13, 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands meeting Amsterdam Town Hall program
Status of LIGO-Virgo: 9 months outlook; 2 years outlook Update of GW event rates Policy questions on Open Public Alerts (OPAs): threshold(s) for releasing events, event information, timing, timing for GCN notices, circulars, retractions and updates. What is desired, what is needed, what can be provided? Science-driven collaborations/Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs): form sub-groups, meet in parallel, present back to plenary Reminder on tools/information/web pages LVC has/will have available to provide low latency information about the instruments

April 12, 09:00-17:30
09:00-09:15 Welcome and goals of Town Hall (Jo van den Brand) 09:15-09:30 LIGO and Virgo instrument status in preparation for O3 (path to O3, engineering runs, post-O3 plans, target sensitivity outlook) (Nicolas Leroy)Slides 09:30-09:45 Q&A, discussion, open mic on LIGO-Virgo instrument status and preparations 9:45-10:00 Rates of transient gravitational-wave sources in LIGO-Virgo (Thomas Dent) Slides 10:00-10:15 GW data analysis (Ed Porter) Slides 10:15-10:30 Q&A, discussion, open mic on LIGO-Virgo rates/GW data analyisis 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 What constitutes an Open Public Alert (OPA) LIGO-Virgo view (Marica Branchesi) Slides Human Vetting of Alerts (Nicolas Leroy) Slides Q&A, discussion, open mic on OPAs

12:30-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:30 Contributed presentations from participants 13:30-13:35 INTEGRAL (Carlo Ferrigno) Slides 13:35-13:40 Fermi-LAT (Nicolò di Lalla) Slides 13:40-13:45 AGILE (Francesco Verrecchia) Slides 13:45-13:50 Apertif (Joeri van Leeuwen) Slides 13:50-13:55 XMM-Newton (Norbert Schartel) Slides 13:55-14:00 H.E.S.S. + CTA (Fabian Schussler) Slides 14:00-14:05 BlackGEM (Paul Groot) Slides 14:05-14:10 Caucasian Mountain Observatory SAI MSU (Postnov Konstantin) Slides 14:10-14:15 Follow-up and spectroscopy of GW alerts with GTC/OSIRIS, BOOTES and the science case of Intermediate Mass Black Holes (Maria D. Caballero-Garcia) Slides 14:15-14:20 ENGRAVE (Stephen Smartt) Amsterdam-TownHall-ENGRAVE.pdf 14:20-14:25 TOROS (Lucas Macri) Slides 14:25-14:30 Rapid response observations with LOFAR (Antonia Rowlinson) Slides 14:30-14:35 VINROUGE: Near-IR searches with ESO/VISTA (Nial Tanvir) Slides

14:30-15:30 Opportunities for science-driven collaboration LIGO-Virgo view (Marie Anne Bizouard) Slides Gravitational-wave cosmology: present and future (Archisman Ghosh) lSlides Q&A, discussion, open mic on science-driven opportunities

15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-17:30 Break-out sessions 16:00-17:30 Cosmology/Hubble constant 16:00-17:30 NS physics/EM broadband modeling and interpretation 16:00-17:30 Fundamental physics/GRB (prompt HE emission) 16:00-17:30 other possible parallel meetings: SN/FRB/neutrinos

April 13, 9:00-13:00
09:00-10:00 Rapporteur presentations from break out sessions Some notes 10:00-11:00 Open mic/discussion on science-driven collaborations, and presentation on possible MOU structure 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:00 Summary of the Town Hall meeting and next steps (David Shoemaker) TownHallSummaryApr2018.pdf 12:00 = adjourn =

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Details on March 16-17, 2018 in Cambridge, MA meeting Friday, March 16, 09:00-17:30
09:00-09:05 Welcome and general organization of the meeting (Erik Katsavounidis) slides 09:05-09:15 Goals of the meeting (David Shoemaker) slides 09:15-09:30 LIGO and Virgo instrument status in preparation for O3 (path to O3, engineering runs, post-O3 plans, target sensitivity outlook) (Brian O'Reilly) slides 09:30-10:00 Q&A, discussion, open mic on LIGO-Virgo instrument status and preparations 10:00-10:15 Rates of transient gravitational-wave sources in LIGO-Virgo (Chris Pankow) slides 10:15-10:30 Q&A, discussion, open mic on LIGO-Virgo rates 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 What constitutes an Open Public Alert (OPA) LIGO-Virgo view (Leo Singer) slides Human Vetting of Alerts (Brian O'Reilly) slides Q&A, discussion, open mic on OPAs

12:30-13:30 Lunch break (on your own) 13:30-14:30 Contributed presentations from participants (must pre-register) 13:30-13:40 Precision standard siren cosmology; Hsin-Yu Chen (Harvard U) slides 13:40-13:50 Joint GW-GRB Localizations with Fermi GBM; Adam Goldstein (STI/USRA) slides 13:50-14:00 Gravitational Wave Follow-up with the Full Suite of Steward Observatory Facilities; Dave Sand (U Arizona) slides 14:00-14:10 Observational implications of lowering the LIGO-Virgo alert threshold; Ryan Lynch (MIT) slides 14:10-14:20 The Importance of Early Optical and Ultraviolet Observations for Constraining Kilonova Physics; Iair Arcavi (UCSB / Las Cumbres Observatory) slides 14:20-14:30 The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network in the LIGO-Virgo era; Hugo Ayala (Penn State) slides

14:30-15:30 Opportunities for science-driven collaboration LIGO-Virgo view (Erik Katsavounidis) slides Q&A, discussion, open mic on science-driven opportunities

15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-17:30 Break-out sessions in building 37 at 70 Vassar Str; this is a 5 minutes walk from Kresge 16:00-17:30 Cosmology/Hubble constant in Marlar Lounge (2nd floor) 16:00-17:30 NS physics/EM broadband modeling and interpretation, room 187 (1st floor) 16:00-17:30 Fundamental physics/GRB (prompt HE emission), room 212 (2nd floor) 16:00-17:30 other possible parallel meetings: SN/FRB/neutrinos, 6th floor conference room

Saturday, March 17, 8:30-13:00
08:30-09:30 Rapporteur presentations from break out sessions (4x15') Cosmology/Hubble constant slides NS physics/EM broadband modeling and interpretation slides Fundamental physics/GRB (prompt HE emission) slides

09:30-10:30 Open mic/discussion on science-driven collaborations, and presentation on possible MOU structure 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:30 Responses to possible homework assignments 11:30-12:00 Summary of the Town Hall meeting and next steps (Peter Shawhan) 12:00 = adjourn =

Photos

Some pictures of the visit to the LIGO MIT Lab (feel free to add your own)

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