LIGO - Virgo Collaboration
Gravitational Wave
Open Data Workshop #4
May 10 - 14, 2021
This workshop is now available as an online course
Start CourseAgenda of the workshop
In this page you will find the schedule of the plenary sessions and the hands-on sessions. Talks during the plenary sessons will be held in our Virtual Auditorium.Please note: Times are expressed in UTC.
In order to work on the tutorials in the hands-on sessions, you should get the software available at this repository, where you will also find the setup instructions.
Day 1 (10 May 2021)
Plenary Session starts at 7:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- 07:00: Workshop Welcome (Massimiliano Razzano) - slides | video
- 07:15: Introduction to LIGO/Virgo detectors (Eleonora Capocasa) - slides | video
- 08:00: Accessing public gravitational data using the GWOSC website (Agata Trovato) - slides | video
- 08:30: Short Break
- 08:40: Gravitational-wave Data Quality and the GWpy package (Laura Nuttall) - slides | video
- 09:25: Introducing the hands-on sessions and tutorials (Massimiliano Razzano)
- 09:40: Plenary Session end
Hands-on sessions
- Session A: 12:00- 13:30 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- Session B: 22:30- 24:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
Day 2 (11 May 2021)
Plenary Session starts at 7:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- 07:00: Introduction to GW results to far from CBC (Patricia Schmidt) - slides | video
- 07:45: Searches with PyCBC (Gareth Davies) - slides | video
- 08:30: Presentation of the tutorials for Day 2 (Massimiliano Razzano)
- 08:40: Plenary Session end
Hands-on sessions
- Session A: 12:00- 13:30 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- Session B: 22:30- 24:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
Day 3 (12 May 2021)
Plenary Session starts at 7:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- 07:00: Parameter estimation with Bilby (Shanika Galaudage) - slides | video
- 07:45: GW and EM follow-up: working with Skymaps tools (Giuseppe Greco) - slides | video
- 08:30: Presentation of the tutorials of Day 3 and Data Challenge (Massimiliano Razzano and Francesco Di Renzo)
- 08:40: Plenary Session end
Hands-on sessions
- Session A: 12:00- 13:30 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- Session B: 22:30- 24:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
Day 4 (13 May 2021)
Plenary Session starts at 7:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- 07:00: Poster Session (hosted in our virtual Poster Session Room
- 08:30: Session end
Mentors Office Hours
- Session A: 12:00- 13:30 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- Session B: 22:30- 24:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
Day 5 (14 May 2021)
Plenary Session starts at 7:00 UTC (Link to TimeZoneConverter)
- 07:00: Closeout Session
- 07:45: Final remarks and end of the workshop