ET-EMR workshop on geometry and noise feasibility

Thursday 21 May 2026, 09:30 → 17:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Colloquium room and Veltman centre (Nikhef)

Location at Nikhef, see the website www.nikhef.nl

There are parking places, but Nikhef can be best reached by public transport.

Take train station "Amsterdam Science Park"

 

1 Welcome - introduction - bidbook - ET symposium Aachen (and proxy to store background materials)

Newtonian-Noise-Roadmap.pptx

SiSeC 20260511_SCB_status.pptx

Common introduction

2 Opening: Why the triangle now?

3 Integral feasibility

Noise block 1

4 Status of sensors; transient noise sources

5 Policy toward Datta sharing with ETC

6 Site Selection Criteria - SG1

7 Discussing the narrative at ET symposium

Status and preparations trianglular geometry

8 Null stream theory and signal-space decomposition

9 Glitch mitigation with the null stream

10 Calibration with the null stream

11 Uniform sky coverage and constraining polarisation

12:10 lunch

Joint meetings geometry and noise

12 Correlated seismic and Newtonian noise at the EMR site —

13 Impact of correlated NN on SGWB searches

14 Newtonian noise cancellation: fusion sensor arrays and ML

15 Single-site advantage: coordinated NN mitigation in the triangle

16 Discussion: consolidating the seismology & NN arguments

14:40 tea

Geometry session 3

17 Discussion: drafting the astrophysics section of the bidbook

18 Duty cycle and redundancy: quantitative science metrics

19 Infrastructure risk and single-site containment

Noise block 3

20 Noise mitigation: Wiener filter and Neural Networks

21 Our feedback on the paper of Jan Harms

22 Discussion

Wrap-up

23 Publication and dissemination plan