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The Mock LISA Data Challenge begins! by Michele Vallisneri — last modified 2007-02-14 11:25

The first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenge will be presented on Friday, June 23, at the 6th International LISA Symposium

An update on the Mock LISA Data Challenges by Michele Vallisneri — last modified 2007-03-08 12:10

The LISA data analysis contest is now ready to roll: The Mock Lisa Data Challenge Taskforce has posted the challenge datasets, and everything is ready for challengers to get down to work looking for gravitational wave signals

Mock LISA Data Challenge: Round 2 is underway! by Michele Vallisneri — last modified 2007-05-31 19:39

With the first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenge complete, the MLDC team has now released the data set for round 2! Here's your chance to learn more about recent developments in this program to evaluate the readiness and spur the development of LISA data analysis tools and methods.

New LISA Taskforce: Parameter Estimation by Markus Pössel — last modified 2008-11-02 23:34

At the LIST meeting in September 2007, a new taskforce on LISA Parameter Estimation (LISA PE) was established, whose main goal is to foster the development of accurate, reliable and flexible tools and models for calculating how accurately LISA can measure astrophysical parameters for various sources. Interested scientists are invited to join.

Announcing the 3rd round of the Mock LISA Data Challenge! by Markus Pössel — last modified 2009-11-23 19:00

Ready to have your LISA data analysis software measure up against the competition? Then don't miss the 3rd round of the Mock Lisa Data Challenge, which has just been announced by the Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST-WG1B) of the LISA International Science Team. Here's your chance to find massive black hole mergers, smaller black holes falling into larger ones, and even whip-lashing cosmic strings in the kinds of data set LISA is expected to yield.

Time to register for GWDAW 13 in Puerto Rico! by Markus Pössel — last modified 2009-01-09 23:03

Deadlines for registration and submitting abstract for the 13th annual Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, to be held in Puerto Rico, are coming up fast - don't miss them!

Fourth round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges released by Michele Vallisneri — last modified 2010-02-24 01:18

Almost four years after the inception of the program, Challenge 4 proposes a single "whole enchilada" dataset with > 60 million sources of five different types