LISA Science Team Working Group 1B (Data Analysis)

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• Challenge 4: entries, solutions, datasets (mirror), graphic representation, specification.
• MLDC4 deadline was Friday, June 17th, 2010.

• The official MLDC website at AstroGravs.
• Google Code site and SVN repository; challenge mailing list.
• Send your comments to our formulation mailing list, or join our taskforce.

• Challenge 3: entries, datasets and specification (= GWDAW-12 proceedings).
• Challenge 1B: http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~mldc/results1B/results.html and solutions.
• Challenge 2: responses and solutions (technical document, entry format document).

• Bibliographies of MLDC taskforce publications and MLDC participant publications.

• 2010/9/2: the 100th telecon was on September 2, at 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CT.

• 2010/6/24: Alberto’s talk at CAPRA/NRDA2010. Here’s the keynote09 and the keynote08 tarballs.

• 2009/2/25: the 99th telecon is on February 26, at 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CT.

• 2010/2/1: John’s poster from the AAS meeting.

• 2009/12/3: the 98th telecon is on December 3, at 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CT.

• 2009/6/23: Michele’s presentation for Amaldi; excerpts for GWDAW.

• 2009/5/1: MLDC3 entries

• 2009/5/1: Post-submission telecon (83th), May 1, at 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CT.
• 2009/4/30: Remember to submit your MLDC3 entry at http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~mldc/submit-3.html.
• 2009/4/7: hp and hc spectra for the basic stochastic signals in challenge 3.5. Note that normalization is arbitrary.
• 2009/3/13: The MLDC3 submission interface is almost ready, have a look.
• 2009/3/12: MLDC for students
• 2009/2/23: Updated 3.5 datasets

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• Ideas for wrap-up paper (methods, results, and astrophysical implications in the first three years of MLDCs)
• Desires for deliverables from the instrument noise characterization taskforce

• Installing and using lisatools.

• Mission statement.
• Challenge definitions (obsolete): Challenge 1, Challenge 2, Challenge 1B, and Challenge 3 definitions.
• Challenge 1 working docs on: Galactic Binaries, SMBHs, EMRIs, File formats, Challenge 1 pipeline
• Challenge 3: Noise specification, Assessment Planning

• Members (to be updated), Charter
• Teleconferences
• Documents
• Links (quick links: LISAtools, MLDC formulation mailing list, MLDC at AstroGravs)

• 2009/6/12: Galactic binaries evaluation plots from Arek Blaut.
• 2008/12/4: The 75th teleconference, all MLDC participants invited, on Thursday, Dec 4, at 8:00am PST, 11:00am EST, 5:00pm CET
• 2008/1/10: instructions to generate single-source datasets.
• 2007/11/29: The Challenge 3 specification document is now in SVN.
• 2007/7/12: Michele’s MLDC presentation at the Amaldi meeting.
• 2007/7/5: Michele’s MLDC how-to poster for the Amaldi meeting.
• 2007/5/26: The revised CQG Assessment (Matt)
• 2007/5/17: Proofs of CQG proceedings for GDWAW (overview of MLDC2)
• 2007/5/15: Matt’s second draft of the entry format document describing the format for returned data.
• 2007/5/3: First look at EMRI posterior distributions for 1.3 training data EMRI notes
• 2007/4/18: Neil, Jeff and Tyson’s draft proposal for how to conduct the MLDC2 assessment.
• 2007/4/21: Neil’s revised notes on how to correct the EMRI key files
• 2007/4/12: The updated draft of the MLDC2 assessment plan.
• 2007/4/2: The semi-final draft of the GWDAW MLDC2 proceedings. (Michele)
• 2007/3/21: The semi-final draft of the GWDAW assessment proceedings. (M. Benacquista)
• 2007/3/12: The second open telecon is Monday, Mar 12, at 8:00 PDT, 11:00 EDT, 4:00 CET
• 2007/3/7: The very first draft of the MLDC2 assessment plan.
• 2007/1/31: Round 2 data sets released on AstroGravS website
• 2007/1/28: Edited draft of the GWDAW proceedings/MLDC document (Michele, 1530PST), smaller figure
• 2007/1/25: Slightly improved draft of the GWDAW proceedings/MLDC2 document - tomorrow it’ll go in svn (and I’ll include the comments received by e-mail
• 2007/1/24: The very first draft of the GWDAW proceedings/MLDC2 document
• 2007/1/11: Matt’s draft of the GWDAW Proceedings Article for the MLDC 1 Summary (updated Jan 18).
• 2007/1/4: Michele’s MLDC poster for the AAS meeting.
• 2007/1/3: John’s GWDAW presentation
• 2007/1/3: Matt’s short and long GWDAW presentation
• 2006/12/13: The draft of the report on challenge 1 (Here’s the latex file)
• 2006/11/01: The new galactic binary generator is finished. Here are the three binaries used in the Training 1.1.1 data sets combined together to form a “galaxy” in LISA Simulator XML bin and Synthetic LISA XML bin formats. The code takes about half a day to simulate a 30 million source galaxy.
• 2006/10/10: Michele’s draft article about the MLDC for the 2nd issue of the LISA newsletter.
• 2006/09/28: The (19th) open teleconference (all challengers invited) is on Thursday, September 28, at 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT, 5:00pm CET.
• 2006/09/20: Michele’s draft Open Telecon Agenda.
• 2006/09/18: Neil’s second draft of the Challenge Evaluation document.
• 2006/09/07: Michele’s (PDF, latex and eps, short version) and Alberto’s (PDF, latex) drafts of LISA6 proceedings.
• 2006/06/30: Challenge 1 is out at the official MLDC website!
• 2006/06/23: Michele’s presentation at the LISA Symposium (also under documents).
• 2006/08/14: Michele’s draft announcement for the astronomy community
• 2006/05/05 (Cinco de Mayo!): New working documents in the File formats subpage
• 2006/04/06: Michele’s initial scheme for the MLDC abstract format.
• 2006/03/29: Curt’s comments on various challenge issues, and Neil’s comments on Stas’ notes (SMBHs and EMRIs)
• 2006/03/19: Updated action items posted

• The AMIGOS meeting (Pasadena, Oct 13-15 2005)
• Minutes of the DASH meeting (Pasadena, Dec 8 2005)
• Michele’s list of interesting open problems in LISA science and data analysis (additions welcome)