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| The LIGO journal club usually meets at 3:00PM on Fridays on 2nd floor of W Bridge (room 265). We meet to discuss a recent journal article from PRL, ApJ or the like. Someone is designated as a lead, to initiate the discussion, but not to present slides or give a monologue. The lead should also post a link to the article the Tuesday before meeting in the [[#Meetings and papers|Meetings and papers]] section below. | |
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| Journal club meetings are held weekly on ???days at ??:?? PM. | Preferably, selected articles won't be exceptionally long, and would relate (at least tangentially) to LIGO. You will be emailed by the journal club Tsar two weeks out from your date and again a week out. The rotating roster can be found at [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TxTmFStB9jT1xCvscr5xKY5ovuA4nme58XK4IrqI6_0/edit?usp=sharing| HERE ]] == Pandemic Time Zoom Meetings == This is the recurring zoom link for our virtual Journal Clubs, still at 3 PM on Fridays: https://caltech.zoom.us/j/620707875?pwd=cW9VTkRNMi93aGErOG8xU0tzNzVPUT09 == Mailing List == To send emails to everyone: ligo-journal-club@caltech.edu Click here to [[https://lists.caltech.edu/listinfo/ligo-journal-club|subscribe]] == Zotero == Our group library on [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/2230870/caltechgravity | Zotero]] can be used for adding the Journal Club papers (in the JC folder). You can click the link and request to be added to our group library where we put useful papers. == Meetings and papers == || '''Date''' || '''Lead''' || '''Link (pre-print or other open format) and other links''' || '''Link (official DOI peer reviewed version)''' || '''Attendance ''' || || 2022 Sep 9 || Paco || || || [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.14371.pdf | Generation of entanglement from mechanical rotation ]]|| || 2022 Jul 8 || Aaron || || [[ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01498-4 | Strained crystalline nanomechanical resonators with quality factors above 10 billion]] || || || 2022 Jun 3 || Yehonathan || || [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.170503|Protocol for Generating Optical Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill States with Cavity QED]]|| || || 2022 May 20 || Yuta || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06018]] || [[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/11/008|Stellar interferometry for gravitational waves JCAP11(2021)008]]|| || || 2022 May 06 || Shruti || https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06185 || [[https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-30-9-14161&id=471332| Generation of Schrödinger cat states with Wigner negativity using a continuous-wave low-loss waveguide optical parametric amplifier]]|| || || 2022 Apr 21 || Paco || [[https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1517384113|Discovering governing equations from data by sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems]] || [[https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1517384113|PNAS (2015)]] ||10-ish || || 2022 Apr 7 || Chris || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08748|Estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01612-3|Nature Astronomy (2022)]] || || || 2022 Mar 25 || Alan || [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.04601.pdf]] and [[https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/34]]|| [[https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.101103|Bridging the µHz gap in the gravitational-wave landscape with binary resonance]] || || || 2022 Feb 18 || Hang || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09719]] and [[https://phys.org/news/2022-03-moon-orbit-gravitational-detector.html]]|| [[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab368c|Systematic calibration error requirements for gravitational-wave detectors via the Cramér-Rao bound]] and N/A|| || || 2021 Jan 28 || Aaron || [[]] || [[https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043098| Gravitational wave sensors based on superconducting transducers]]|| || || 2021 Oct 14 || Aaron || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05859]] || [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.071102| Rare Events Detected with a Bulk Acoustic Wave High Frequency Gravitational Wave Antenna]]|| || || 2021 Sep 24 || Hang || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03329]] || [[https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.043831|Quantum correlation measurements in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors]]|| || || 2021 Aug 20 || Koji || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3470]] [[attachment:HigerOrderFluctuation.pptx|[Presentation PPT] ]]|| [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.080602|Nonequilibrium Fluctuation Relations in a Quantum Coherent Conductor]]|| 9 || || 2021 Aug 6 || Gabriele || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13555]]|| [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03667-0|Light bending and X-ray echoes from behind a supermassive black hole]]|| 4 || || 2021 Jul 23 || Shruti || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15188]]|| [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03602-3|Real-time optimal quantum control of mechanical motion at room temperature]]|| || || 2021 Jul 16 || Paco (for Anchal) || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00659 | Rotation sensing with trapped ions]] || https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa5a8f || good? || || 2021 May 7 || Aaron || [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13385.pdf|A diffuse core in Saturn revealed by ring seismology]] || || || || 2021 Apr 30 || Hang || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06296|Bayesian parameter estimation using conditional variational autoencoders for gravitational-wave astronomy]] || || || || 2021 Apr 23 || Ian || [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-018-0121-8|Spatiotemporal control of laser intensity]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-018-0121-8]] || || || 2021 Mar 26 || Koji || Deep phase modulation interferometry || [[https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.019076]] (Open Access) || || || 2021 Mar 19 || Yehonathan || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02765 | Fluidic shaping of optical components]] [[https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11693/116930E/Fluidic-shaping-of-optical-components/10.1117/12.2583390.short?SSO=1 | Conference Presentation ]]|| || || || 2021 Mar 12 || Gabriele || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00912 | 1909.00912]] || [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.098302 | Enforcing Analytic Constraints in Neural Networks Emulating Physical Systems]] || || || 2021 Feb 26 || Shruti || || [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0552-2#Bib1| Laser phase plate for transmission electron microscopy]] || || || 2021 Feb 19 || Anchal || || [[https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.054059| Simulating Ising Spins in External Magnetic Fields with a Network of Degenerate Optical Parametric Oscillators ]] || || || 2021 Feb 12 || Rana || || [[https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1195818|Probing the Ultimate Limit of Fiber-Optic Strain Sensing]] || || || 2021 Feb 5 || Chris || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05296|The Heisenberg limit for laser coherence (arXiv)]] [[https://theconversation.com/reimagining-the-laser-new-ideas-from-quantum-theory-could-herald-a-revolution-147436|Reimagining the laser]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01049-3|Nature Physics (2020)]] || || || 2021 Jan 22 || Jamie ||[[https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01625|Quantum computational advantage using photons (arXiv)]] note: Science link preferred|| [[ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6523/1460|Science]] || || || 2021 Jan 15 || Alan ||[[https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04496|NANOGrav potential isotropic stochastic signal, arXiv]]|| [[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abd401|pub]] || || || 2020 Dec 17 || Jon ||[[https://dcc.ligo.org/P1900287-v2|Point absorbers in Advanced LIGO]]|| || || || 2020 Dec 11 || Paco ||[[https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00380|Accelerating light pulses - preprint]]||[[https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.233901|Accelerating light pulses]] || || || 2020 Nov 20 || Aaron || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11395|Electronic noise of warm electrons in semiconductors from first-principles]] || || || || 2020 Nov 13 || Hang || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03151|Real-time detection of gravitational waves from binary neutron stars using artificial neural networks]] ||https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320301349?via%3Dihub || || || 2020 Nov 6 || Ian M. || [[https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3160665|A one-way speed of light experiment]] ||https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3160665 || || || 2020 Oct 9 || Yehonathan || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10175|Narrow-linewidth lasing and soliton Kerr microcombs with ordinary laser diodes]] ||https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-018-0277-2 || || || 2020 Oct 2 || Koji || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09607|Detecting acoustic blackbody radiation with an optomechanical antenna]] || https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.120603 || || || 2020 Sep 18 || Shruti || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10707|Extending the piezoelectric transducer bandwidth of an optical interferometer by suppressing resonance using a high dimensional IIR filter implemented on an FPGA ]] || https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5143477 || || || 2020-09-11 || Rana || [[https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/138 | Spotlight on LEO sat interference]] || https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12417 || yes || || 2020 August 20 || Raymond || https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02373, [[https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37665.pdf | previous Nature null result]] || [[ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2560-x | Exponentially faster cooling in a colloidal system ]] || || || 2020 August 13 || Jamie || [[ https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.251101 | Pulsar Timing Array Constraints on Primordial Black Holes with NANOGrav 11-Year Dataset ]] || https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12239 || || || 2020 June 19 || Rico || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05472 | Pi from the Sky: null test of GR from a population of GR observables ]] || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08918 | On parametric tests of GR and false d.o.f. ]]|| || || 2020 June 19 || Hang || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0880 | 1103.0880]] || [[https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/418/1/659/970133 | On the excitation of f modes and torsional modes by magnetar giant flares]]|| || || 2020 June 12 || Yehonathan || [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicolas_Fabre5/publication/332168881_Continuous_variables_error_correction_with_integrated_biphoton_frequency_combs/links/5cd95edda6fdccc9dda704d4/Continuous-variables-error-correction-with-integrated-biphoton-frequency-combs.pdf | Continuous variables error correction with integrated biphoton frequency combs]] || || || || 2020 June 5 || Aaron / Shruti || [[https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1176.full | Generation of multiphoton entangled quantum states by means of integrated frequency combs]] || [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.09832.pdf | Continuous-variable quantum computing in the quantum optical frequency comb]] || 8 || || 2020 May 22 || Lilli || [[https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6487/173 | Fractional statistics in anyon collisions]] || [[https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6487/173 | Fractional statistics in anyon collisions]]|| || || 2020 May 15 || Koji || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13392 | Spitzer Observations of the Predicted Eddington Flare from Blazar OJ 287]] || [[https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab79a4 | Spitzer Observations of the Predicted Eddington Flare from Blazar OJ 287]]|| 12 || || 2020 May 8 || gautam || [[https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P190412/public | GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses]] || || 8 || || 2020 May 1 || Yehonathan || [[https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15610 | Harnessing speckle for a sub-femtometre resolved broadband wavemeter and laser stabilization]] [[https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-44-6-1367 | Overcoming the speckle correlation limit to achievea fiber wavemeter with attometer resolution]]|| || || || 2020 Apr 24 || Anchal || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01251 | Highly reflective low-noise etalon-based meta-mirror]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.082003]] || 8|| || 2020 Apr 17 || Shruti || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10615 | Opto-mechanical Bell Test]] || [[ https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.220404]] || || || 2020 Apr 10 || Anchal || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08052 | The PVLAS Experiment: measuring vacuum magnetic birefringence and dichroism with a birefringent Fabry–Perot cavity]] Further reading: [[https://cerncourier.com/a/search-for-wisps-gains-momentum/]]|| [[ https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3869-8]] || 7-9 || || 2020 Mar 13 || Jon || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09602 | Demonstration of interferometer enhancement through EPR entanglement]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0583-3]] || || || 2020 Mar 6 || Duo || [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1157-8]], "All-optical spiking neurosynaptic networks with self-learning capabilities" ||[[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1157-8]] || 5 || || 2020 Feb 7 || Ian || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090]], "What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?" || || 11 || || 2020 Jan 24 || Aidan || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05712]], "Multi-node optical frequency dissemination with post automatic phase correction" || || || || 2020 Jan 17 || Lilli || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04903]] || || || || 2020 Jan 10 || Koji || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06308| arxiv:nucl-ex/1905.06308]] || [[ https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1533-4 | Energy of the 229Th nuclear clock transition ]] || || || 2019 Dec 20 || Yehonathan || [[https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041025]] || [[ https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041025 | Nanorheology of Interfacial Water during Ice Gliding ]] || || || 2019 Dec 13 || Gabriele || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04825 | arXiv:cs-LG/1912.04825]] || [[ | Integration of Neural Network-Based Symbolic Regression in Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery ]] || || || 2019 Dec 06 || Shruti || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412078 | arXiv:quant-ph/0412078]] || [[ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5700/1330 | Quantum-Enhanced Measurements: Beating the Standard Quantum Limit ]] || 8 || || 2019 Nov 22 || Anchal || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04021 | Arxiv Pre-print]] || [[ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)004 | Chaos in quantum channels ]] || 5 || || 2019 Nov 15 || Rana || [[ https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1256-6 | Revsiting Cold Fusion ]] || [[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01675-9 | Commentary]] || || || 2019 Nov 8 || Chris || [[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11579-x | Bell's theorem for temporal order]] || || || || 2019 Oct 31 || Raymond || [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.261302 | Piezoelectrically Tuned Multimode Cavity Search for Axion Dark Matter]] || || || || 2019 Oct 18 || Alan || [[https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P190425 | GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ~3.4 Msun]] || || || || 2019 Oct 11 || Shreya || [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.06615.pdf | Gravitational Probes of Dark Matter Physics]] || || || || 2019 Oct 4 || Jon || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06193 | Novel signatures of dark matter in laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detectors]] || || || || 2019 Sep 27 || Duo || [[https://www.pnas.org/content/115/9/1992 | https://www.pnas.org/content/115/9/1992]] || || || || 2019 Sep 13 || Aaron || [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127519303491?via%3Dihub | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127519303491?via%3Dihub]] || || || || 2019 Aug 9 || Lilli || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10260 | arXiv 1906.10260]] || || || || 2019 Aug 2 || Koji || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03842 | arXiv 1812.03842]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.6.000240| Crystalline optical cavity at 4 K with thermal-noise-limited instability and ultralow drift ]] || || || 2019 July 26 || gautam || [[https://caltech.tind.io/record/745711?ln=en | R. Pintelon, J. Schoukens]], Ch 6: "An Intuitive Introduction to Frequency Domain Identification" || || ~8 || || 2019 July 12 || Gabriele || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07603|Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a 1% Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics Beyond LambdaCDM]] [[https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.061105|Prospects for Resolving the Hubble Constant Tension with Standard Sirens]] [[https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.221301|https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.221301]]|| || || || 2019 June 28 || Nobody || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02017|Axion Dark Matter Search with Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors]] || || || || 2019 June 14 || Rana || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09045|Internal structure of white dwarfs from gravitational waves]] [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04612|Understanding the evolution of close white dwarf binaries]]|| - || || || 2019 Apr 26 || Jon || [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.09942.pdf|arXiv 1812.09942]] || || || || 2019 Apr 12 || Aaron || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00539v2|arXiv 1605.00539v2]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2016.07.012|Introduction to Quantum-limited Parametric Amplification of Quantum Signals with Josephson Circuits]] || 8 || || 2019 Apr 5 || Jess || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07603|arXiv 1903.07603]] || Evidence for Physics Beyond Standard Model Cosmology || 4 || || 2019 Mar 15 || RNaana || [[https://actu.epfl.ch/news/scientists-build-the-smallest-optical-frequency--5/ || Scientists build the smallest optical frequency comb to-date]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1193968| Microresonator-Based Optical Frequency Combs ]] || 9 || || 2019 Mar 1 || Koji || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00728|ArXiv:1810.00728]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.081104|Picometer-Stable Hexagonal Optical Bench to Verify LISA Phase Extraction Linearity and Precision]] || 6 || || 2019 Feb 22 || Aaron || [[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/13/1/013017/meta|Proposal for an Optomechanical Traveling Wave Phonon-Photon Translator]] || [[https://copilot.caltech.edu/documents/512-1901_04129.pdf|Phononic bandgap nano-acoustic cavity with ultralong phonon lifetime]] || 5 || || 2019 Feb 1 || rAnA || [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01060|Pair Fireball Precursors of Neutron Star Mergers]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1800|Pair fireball precursors of neutron star mergers]] || || || 2019 Jan 18 || Gabriele Vajente || [[https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.53.001459|In situ correction of mirror surface to reduce round-trip losses in Fabry–Perot cavities]] || [[https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.082003 |Reduction of higher order mode generation in large scale gravitational wave interferometers by central heating residual aberration correction]] || 6 || [[Journal_Club/Past_meetings|Past meetings (archival)]] == Journal club roster 2018 == You can find an ordered list of upcoming presenters [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TxTmFStB9jT1xCvscr5xKY5ovuA4nme58XK4IrqI6_0/edit#gid=0 | HERE ]]. The JCTsar script will chose people in this order. If you find you can't do a week that you are assigned to then find someone willing to trade and update that spreadsheet. === Highlighted papers pool === If we are short of a presenter we will draw something from this list of papers. If you find any papers that would be interesting to discuss at future journal club meetings, then you should add them to the list on the following page: [[Journal_Club/Interesting_papers|Interesting papers]] Older papers on this list can be found in the [[Journal_Club/Interesting_papers_archive | Interesting papers (archive) ]] page. == Chooser script (Updated python) == [[https://github.com/fincle/RoboTsar]] The python script TsarMailer.py downloads the [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TxTmFStB9jT1xCvscr5xKY5ovuA4nme58XK4IrqI6_0/edit?usp=sharing| google spreadsheet list ]]. This sheet contains an ordered list of names and a list of public holidays to veto. It counts the number of days since the start of the year, vetoing public holidays and chooses presenters sequentially from the list. The scripts loops back to the beginning once the end is reached. An arbitrary phase shift is also added to the week number so that the list position can be twiddled in the event the presenter list length changes and position needs to be fixed. If a swap of names is performed leaving the list length the same there is no need to adjust the phase factor. Three other scripts exist to remind the presenter to post a paper and to remind people on the day. == Reorganization and topics == We are looking to shake up the structure of journal club by focusing attention on singular themes for month periods. The idea is to develop a deeper understanding of each topic rather than dipping into topics at random. Please edit this section with any ideas and suggestions as we figure out exactly what we are going to cover. Some suggested themes Experimental: - Thermal noise topics - Quantum mechanics in GW detectors and optimal detector design - Seismic cloaking and novel 'feed forward' reduction of seismic noise - Alternaive GW detectors (i.e. not laser interferometry) Data and astrophysics: - GW sources and astrophysics of a particular class of stars (i.e. Kilonovae, pulsars etc) - Cosmology and GW detection topic (GW CMB, early universe remnants?) - Exotic blackhole high energy physics coming out of GW detection - Glitches and detector characterization (machine learning stuff too?) - Bayesian statistics and optimal parameter extraction Other: - Effective outreach and evidence based teaching - Diversity in physics |
The LIGO journal club usually meets at 3:00PM on Fridays on 2nd floor of W Bridge (room 265). We meet to discuss a recent journal article from PRL, ApJ or the like. Someone is designated as a lead, to initiate the discussion, but not to present slides or give a monologue. The lead should also post a link to the article the Tuesday before meeting in the Meetings and papers section below.
Preferably, selected articles won't be exceptionally long, and would relate (at least tangentially) to LIGO.
You will be emailed by the journal club Tsar two weeks out from your date and again a week out. The rotating roster can be found at HERE
Pandemic Time Zoom Meetings
This is the recurring zoom link for our virtual Journal Clubs, still at 3 PM on Fridays: https://caltech.zoom.us/j/620707875?pwd=cW9VTkRNMi93aGErOG8xU0tzNzVPUT09
Mailing List
To send emails to everyone: ligo-journal-club@caltech.edu
Click here to subscribe
Zotero
Our group library on Zotero can be used for adding the Journal Club papers (in the JC folder). You can click the link and request to be added to our group library where we put useful papers.
Meetings and papers
Journal club roster 2018
You can find an ordered list of upcoming presenters HERE. The JCTsar script will chose people in this order.
If you find you can't do a week that you are assigned to then find someone willing to trade and update that spreadsheet.
Highlighted papers pool
If we are short of a presenter we will draw something from this list of papers. If you find any papers that would be interesting to discuss at future journal club meetings, then you should add them to the list on the following page:
Older papers on this list can be found in the Interesting papers (archive) page.
Chooser script (Updated python)
https://github.com/fincle/RoboTsar
The python script TsarMailer.py downloads the google spreadsheet list. This sheet contains an ordered list of names and a list of public holidays to veto. It counts the number of days since the start of the year, vetoing public holidays and chooses presenters sequentially from the list. The scripts loops back to the beginning once the end is reached. An arbitrary phase shift is also added to the week number so that the list position can be twiddled in the event the presenter list length changes and position needs to be fixed.
If a swap of names is performed leaving the list length the same there is no need to adjust the phase factor.
Three other scripts exist to remind the presenter to post a paper and to remind people on the day.
Reorganization and topics
We are looking to shake up the structure of journal club by focusing attention on singular themes for month periods. The idea is to develop a deeper understanding of each topic rather than dipping into topics at random.
Please edit this section with any ideas and suggestions as we figure out exactly what we are going to cover.
Some suggested themes Experimental: - Thermal noise topics - Quantum mechanics in GW detectors and optimal detector design - Seismic cloaking and novel 'feed forward' reduction of seismic noise - Alternaive GW detectors (i.e. not laser interferometry)
Data and astrophysics: - GW sources and astrophysics of a particular class of stars (i.e. Kilonovae, pulsars etc) - Cosmology and GW detection topic (GW CMB, early universe remnants?) - Exotic blackhole high energy physics coming out of GW detection - Glitches and detector characterization (machine learning stuff too?) - Bayesian statistics and optimal parameter extraction
Other: - Effective outreach and evidence based teaching - Diversity in physics