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"

 

09:30 → 10:00 Welcome - introduction - bidbook - ET symposium Aachen (and proxy to store background materials)

Newtonian-Noise-Roadmap.pptx

SiSeC 20260511_SCB_status.pptx

10:00 → 10:40 Common introduction

10:00 Opening: Why the triangle now?

10:20 Integral feasibility

10:40 → 12:10 Noise block 1

10:40 Status of sensors; transient noise sources

11:00 Policy toward Datta sharing with ETC

11:20 Site Selection Criteria - SG1

11:40 Discussing the narrative at ET symposium

10:40 → 12:10 Status and preparations trianglular geometry

10:40 Null stream theory and signal-space decomposition

11:00 Glitch mitigation with the null stream

11:20 Calibration with the null stream

11:40 Uniform sky coverage and constraining polarisation

12:10 → 13:00 lunch

13:00 → 14:40 Joint meetings geometry and noise

13:00 Correlated seismic and Newtonian noise at the EMR site —

13:20 Impact of correlated NN on SGWB searches

13:40 Newtonian noise cancellation: fusion sensor arrays and ML

14:00 Single-site advantage: coordinated NN mitigation in the triangle

14:20 Discussion: consolidating the seismology & NN arguments

14:40 → 15:00 tea

15:00 → 16:00 Geometry session 3

15:00 Discussion: drafting the astrophysics section of the bidbook

15:20 Duty cycle and redundancy: quantitative science metrics

15:40 Infrastructure risk and single-site containment

15:00 → 16:00 Noise block 3

15:00 Noise mitigation: Wiener filter and Neural Networks

15:20 Our feedback on the paper of Jan Harms

15:40 Discussion

16:00 → 17:00 Wrap-up

16:00 Publication and dissemination plan