BelGrav weekly meeting "Roundtable" format

Europe/Brussels
https://cern.zoom.us/j/8354516554?pwd=N3lSOWdhczdLcnNUSkZLRVNMeDFkQT09 (virtual - zoom)

https://cern.zoom.us/j/8354516554?pwd=N3lSOWdhczdLcnNUSkZLRVNMeDFkQT09

virtual - zoom

Daniela Pascucci (Ghent University), Daniela Pascucci (UGent)

Participants

Daniela Pascucci, Giacomo Bruno, Archisman Ghosh, Alba Romero, Alexander Sevrin, Cezary Turski, Federico De Lillo, Freija Beirnaert, Gergely Dálya, Hannah Duval, Jean-René Cudell, Max Lalleman, Maxime Fays, Prasanta Char, Ricardo Cabrita, Vincent Boudart.

Minutes

Jean-René proposes to move the start of the meeting at 11:25 in order to "really" start the meeting at 11:30

News and announcements

  • VSC this afternoon (see slides for details)
  • Last Friday there's been a meeting Belgium in EGO council. An email has been sent to 1 representative per institutes with the details. It will mean to take part at major decisions. At the moment only Italy and France are memebers and Netherlands is associate member.

CBS

  • Gergely: 
    • During the LVK there's been a cosmology session mostly focusing on the preparation for O4. 
    • For the Galaxy catalogue they are finishing to put together the data
  • Jean-René: 
    • become a reviewer for Machine learning results
    • Did the first review for the collaboration on a very interesting paper about how to speed up standard approach with Machine Learning for NBS detections

Bursts

  • Maxime:
    • during the LVK worked on new pipeline to find injections
  • Vincent:
    • Working on improve the pipeline. Need to generate more data

Maxime: Presentation on Bursts updates in two weeks

Optics

  • Ricardo: 
    • Currently help on Virgo commissioning activities
  • Daniela:
    • working on OMC simulations
    • starting soon to set up the optical lab

AOB

  • Decided to skip next week call because of Easter Holiday - Next meeting 12th April 2023
  • Giacomo/ Archisman: 
    • clarification about today election at the VSC: it seems that there will be only the election for the editorial board. Not clear when and if there will be  an election for the speakers commitee.
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    • 11:30 11:35
      News 5m
      Speaker: Archisman Ghosh (Ghent University)
    • 11:35 11:40
      CBC 5m
      Speakers: Eleni Bagui (ULB), Sébastien Clesse (ULB), Cezary Turski (UGent), Freija Beirnaert (UGent), Gergely Dálya (UGent), Archisman Ghosh (Ghent University), Jean-René Cudell (Université de Liège)
    • 11:40 11:45
      Bursts 5m
      Speakers: Vincent Boudart (ULiège), Maxime Fays (ULiège), Gergely Dálya (UGent)
    • 11:45 11:50
      Instrumentation - optics 5m
      Speakers: Ricardo Cabrita, Joris van Heijningen (UCLouvain), Daniela Pascucci (UGent)