IUCAA - Khagol # 111 - July 2017

| KHAG L | | No. 111 - JULY 2017 09 LIGO - India: The Road Ahead (LITRA - IV) The fourthmeeting in the “LIGO-India: The RoadAhead” (LITRA) series was held at IUCAA, during May 15 -16, 2017. The primary theme of this meeting was Gravitational Wave Data Analysis and Detector Characterization. There were about 40 participants from all over the country. Invited speakers and panelists from outside of IUCAA were: B. S. Sathyaprakash, P. Ajith, and Bala Iyer on “Physics andAstronomy with Gravitational Waves”, Peter Saulson and Umakant Rapol on “Gravitational Wave Instrumentation and Detector Characterization”, Tjonnie Li, Rajesh Nayak, B. C. Joshi, and Nathan Johnson-McDaniel on “Characterizing Gravitational Wave Sources and their Populations”, and Leo Singer, Varun Bhalerao, and Poonam Chandra on “Multi-messenger Astronomy with Gravitational Waves”. From IUCAA, Sukanta Bose, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Ajit Kembhavi, Sanjit Mitra, Somak Raychaudhury, andTarun Souradeepwere involved as panelists or organizers. Thismeetingwas funded by theNavajbai Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai.