Gravitational wave experiments

There were three oral sessions and one poster session for Workshop C1 on Gravitational Wave Experiments. There was also an informal experimental roundtable held one after- noon. The first two oral sessions were devoted mainly to progress reports from various interferometric and bar detector groups. A total of 15 papers were presented in these two sessions. The third session of Workshop C1 was devoted primarily to theoretical and experimental investigations associated with the proposed interferometric detectors. Ten papers were presented in this session. In addition, there were a total of 13 papers presented in the poster session. There was some overlap between the presentations in the third oral session and the posters since only two of the serious posters were devoted to technology not pertinent to interferometers. In general, the papers showed the increasing maturity of the experimental aspects of the field since most presented the results of completed investigations rather than making promises of wonderful results some time in the future. Unfortunately, the limited time allotted to experimental reports made the session more like a session of contributed papers at a very large national meeting rather than a session where work could be presented and the merits of various approaches debated and discussed. Hopefully future GR meetings will have more time devoted to experimental aspects of General Relativity research.