IUCAA - Khagol # 111 - July 2017

| KHAG L | | No. 111 - JULY 2017 08 Meeting on LIGO - India: The Road Ahead (LITRA - III) The thirdmeeting in the LIGO-India: The RoadAhead (LITRA) series was held at IUCAA, during March 27 - 28, 2017. There were 33 participants. The primary purpose was to consolidate the progress of the working groups set-up at LITRA - II (December 2016) to help the process of building and commissioning LIGO - India, and to carry out research for designing the next generation detectors beyond Advanced LIGO. Frederick J. Raab (Associate Director for Operations, LIGO, USA) and Dave Reitze (Director, LIGO, USA) shared their experiences. There were presentations and discussions by individual working groups: Sabareesh Rajshekhran (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad) on Wind Studies, Vivishek Sudhir (EPFL) on Quantum Noise LimitedMeasurements, Umakant Rapol (IISER- Pune) on 1 um Squeezed Light, Supratic Chakraborty (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata) on Mirror Coatings, Anil Prabhakar (IIT-Madras, Chennai) on Optical Levers, Deepa Venkitesh (IIT-Madras, Chennai) on 2 um Laser, Joyee Ghosh (IIT, Delhi) and Bhaskar Kanseri (IIT, Delhi) on 2 um Squeezed Light, Ranjana Mehrotra (CSIR-NPL, New Delhi) onNPLFacilities, and Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani (IIT-Madras, Chennai) on Control Systems. Also there were closed door meetings of LIGO-India Science Management Board members with Dave Reitze and Frederick J. Raab. Sukanta Bose, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Ajit Kembhavi, Sanjit Mitra, Somak Raychaudhury, and Tarun Souradeep (all fromIUCAA) were the organizers.