LISA Discussion Group

Welcome to a new semester of LISA Reading Group! Our previous encounters can be found here:

[ Fall 2004 | Spring 2005 | Fall 2005 ]

The goal of this weekly meeting is to survey, discuss and debate the LISA literature, particularly the "famous" works which are typically cited regarding LISA's capabilities, important computational and data analysis challenges for LISA, and essential astrophysics related to LISA sources.

FORMAT: Each week we'll choose some literature to review and discuss. Meeting format for discussion of the papers will be roundtable, *without* prepared presentations. Since everyone will have read the paper(s), we'll work our way through the paper section by section. Each person will take a section and kick start the discussion.

The goal in discussion is summarize the main points of the papers, unveil and flay to death confusing issues and points, and make connections to other interesting tidbits of unique and relevant knowledge that each of us has at our respective fingertips.

PAPERS: The topical areas will vary from week to week, hopefully alternating among astrophysics, data analysis, and detector papers. Papers will be chosen on a rolling basis using a very sophisticated screening process where Louis, Kelly and I huddle together and say "What do you think about this paper?" Suggestions for topics of explicit interest to participants in this reading group will be gratefully accepted.

A chronology of our readings can be found below, with links to electronic documents. For an extensive list of LISA literature, visit our local LISA literature survey. For jumping off points to all things LISA, visit our local LISA Resources Page.

Supplements

1. 21 Feb 2006 (ljr) A tutorial on Bayesian methods;
   also see the website http://bayes.wustl.edu/
   E. T. Jaynes Bayesian methods: General Background
   [ PDF ]

Reading Schedule

Tuesday, 28 February 2006

1. Short GRB and binary black hole standard sirens as a probe of dark energy
   astro-ph/0601275, N. Dalal, D. Holz, S. Hughes and B. Jain
   [ PDF ]

Tuesday, 21 February 2006

1. Bayesian inference on compact binary inspiral data
   gr-qc/0602067, C. Rover, R. Meyer and N. Christensen
   [ PDF ]

Tuesday, 14 February 2006

1. Testbed for LISA Analysis
   White Paper Feb, 2006
   [ PDF ]