LV-EM Open Forum Telecon - Thursday, February 14, 2019 @15:00 UTC

Telecon time: 07:00 US Pacific / 09:00 US Central / 10:00 US Eastern / 12:00 Chile / 15:00 UK / 16:00 Central Europe / 20:30 India / 23:00 Australia West, China / 00:00 Japan (Fri Nov 16) / 02:00 (Fri Nov 16) Australia East

The call will be one hour long.

You can connect to this telecon with either of two methods (the audio will be bridged):

• Using the free TeamSpeak software: Download from here and install the software, preferably in advance. Please use either an anti-echo USB speakerphone (Phoenix, Jabra, Sennehiser, etc.) or headphones to prevent echoes. At the beginning of the telecon, connect to the server at zam.mit.edu and use the password la$er. Please find the microphone symbol at the top, 3rd from the left, and click on it to mute -- it starts with the microphone 'live'. (Note to LVC members: this is not the usual LVC telecon server.) Once you are connected to the server, stay on "Open LVEM Towm Meeting" channel. For more details and usage advice, see TeamSpeakInfo.
• Telephone: Dial the access numbers 1-800-704-9804 (toll free in the US; possibly accessible toll-free via skype from outside the US too) and internationally 1-404-920-6604 with participant code 8295093# . To mute/unmute your line, press *6 Please note this telecon, agenda, and minutes are not password-protected.

Agenda

(links to arrive shortly before the call)

• Welcome and Agenda
• Status of the instruments; Timeline on the ER14, and O3
  • Useful links to preserve:
    • Detector status data portal: https://www.gw-openscience.org/detector_status/
    • Real-time up/down status: https://ldas-jobs.ligo.caltech.edu/~gwistat/gwistat/gwistat.html
  • Questions/ideas on this scope to Lisa Barsotti <lisabar@ligo.mit.edu>, Nicolas Leroy <leroy@lal.in2p3.fr>
• Move to the OpenLVEM mailing list; deprecation of the O1-O2 lists
  • The top level wiki for the OpenLVEM is here, which will further point to you to...:
  • instructions on how to sign up with the OpenLVEM forum which are here.
  • Please note that you will need to register under this new platform even if you had registered with the MOU-based mailing lists (e.g., lv-em@gw-astronomy.org , lv-em-observers@gw-astronomy.org) during O1 and O2, or with openlvem@MIT.EDU since the end of O2. Those mailing lists are being discontinued for new messages.
• Update on Public Alerts:
  • LIGO/Virgo Public Alerts User Guide
• • Questions/ideas on this scope to Leo Singer, Patrick Brady, Erik Katsavounidis, Sarah Antier and the low-latency team at contact+emfollow/userguide@support.ligo.org .
• Observing scenario paper update OSP_teleconFeb14.pdf
  
  • Questions/ideas on this scope to Marica Branchesi <marica.branchesi@gssi.it>, Brian O'Reilly <brian@ligo-la.caltech.edu> at contact+publications-detectors-obs-scenarios-2018-2451-issue-@support.ligo.org
• Q&A
  • A listing of conferences of interest to LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA, and also MMA topics, is maintained at https://wiki.ligo.org/LSC/UpcomingConferencesAndMeetings -- please let us know if there are meetings we should add and bring to the attention of the LVK Community.
  • General questions/ideas on LVC-MMA communication and organization to Laura Cadonati <laura.cadonati@physics.gatech.edu>, Jo van den Brand <jo@nikhef.nl>, David Shoemaker <dhs@mit.edu>

Minutes

-- Main.David - 2019-02-04