KAGRA Scientific Congress (KSC)

KAGRA Scientific Congress (KSC) is the decision making body of KAGRA collaborators. The aims of KSC are to discuss and to make decisions upon KAGRA science.

• (1) Scientific targets pursued by the collaboration.
  (2) Recommend/Endorse scientific direction and strategy of KAGRA
  (3) Strategies of R&D and data analysis
  

In addition, KSC manage and maintain the collaboration itself.

• (4) Maintenance of the collaborator-list
  (5) Maintenance of the author-list
  (6) Holding the KAGRA face-to-face meeting

KSC board

• Current (August 2018 - Aug 2019 )
  

  • Hisaaki Shinkai (Chair), Chunglee Kim (Sub Chair), Sadakazu Haino, Yuta Michimura, Nobuyuki Kanda,
    Zong-Hong Zhu, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee
    Takahiro Yamamoto, Koji Nagano

• Past (August 2017 - Aug 2018 )

  • Hisaaki Shinkai (Chair), Chunglee Kim, Sadakazu Haino, Yuta Michimura, Nobuyuki Kanda,
    Yuki Inoue, Kentaro Komori

• kscboard _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

KSC members

• KSC member list

Working groups and committees in KSC

• International Cooperation (May 2018 - )
  • (starting members) Tadayuki Tomaru, Nobuyuki Kanda, Hisaaki Shinkai
  • Korea contact person: Hyung-Won Lee
  • China contact person: Zhong-Hong Zhu
  • Taiwan contact person: Feng-Li Lin
  • Italy contact person: Helios Vocca

  • kick-off talk at F2F 2018

• Author-list committee (Oct 2017 - Sep 2018)
  • Hisaaki Shinkai (interim chair, Feb 2018 - Sep 2018)
  • Yosuke Itoh, Hyung-Mok Lee, Feng-Li Lin, Yoshiki Moriwaki, Takashi Uchiyama
  • Three people are appointed by KSC Boards every year. The term is two years for each committee member.

  • Objectives of the committee

  • KAGRA Author List 2017, KAGRA Author List 2016, KAGRA Author List 2015

• Collaborator-list manager (Apr 2018 - Mar 2019)
  • Hideyuki Tagoshi (Manager), Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Vice-manager), Rie Kikuchi (Secretary)
  • Appointed by KSC Boards every year. A term of manager and vice-manager is one year. The vice-manager of this year will be the manager　next year. Manager or vice-manager must be a scientific and permanent staff of ICRR.

  • current list (2018/06)

• Diversity Committee (Aug 2017 -)
  • Keiko Kokeyama, Joseph M Fedrow, Chunglee Kim, Kazuki Sakai, Hirotaka Yuzurihara, Hisaaki Shinkai
  • ksc-diversity _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • objectives, report (2017/12)

Working groups in KSC

• Preparing team of Joint Observations with LIGO/Virgo (2018)
  • discuss data-transfer and data-analysis: Nobuyuki Kanda and Hideyuki Tagoshi
  • discuss MOU: Hisaaki Shinkai
    • MOU WG: Masaki Ando, Kipp Cannon, Yousuke Itoh, Shinji Miyoki, Masatake Ohashi, Takayuki Tomaru
  • "KAGRA spokesperson" for the access to the restricted documents in LIGO DCC: Hisaaki Shinkai
  • discuss the KAGRA members’ access to LIGO documents: Hirotaka Takahashi
  • Joint Run Planning Committee: Shinji Miyoki and Yousuke Itoh
• Paper writing team of bKAGRA phase-1 (2018)
  • Nobuyuki Kanda, Sadakazu Haino, Yuta Michimura, Yamamoto Takahiro, Tomo Akutsu, and Hisaaki Shinkai
• Paper writing team of the revision of the scenario paper (2018)
  • Sadakazu Haino (writer)
  • Masaki Ando, Kipp Cannon (referees)
• Working group for the author list policy in CPC rules (Feb 2016 - until solution)
  • Hideyuki Tagoshi (Chair), Hyung Mok Lee, Ayaka Shoda
  • From EO: Raffaele Flaminio, Nobuyuki Kanda
• Working group for the definition of KAGRA data (Feb 2016 - until solution)
  • Hirotaka Takahashi (Chair), John J. Oh, Sadakazu Haino
  • From EO: Fusakazu Matsushima, Toshikazu Suzuki, Nobuyuki Kanda

Completed

• Author list committee (Sep 2016 - Aug 2017)
  • Masaki Ando (Chair), Shinji Miyoki, Ken-ichi Oohara, Yoshiki Moriwaki, Hyung Mok Lee, Nobuyuki Kawai
• Collaborator list manager (Apr 2017 - Mar 2018)
  • Ken-ichi Nakao (Manager), Hideyuki Tagoshi(Vice-manager), Rie Kikuchi(Secretary)
• Committee for the KSC board election rules (Feb 2017 - Jul 2017)
  • Keiko Kokeyama (Chair), Ettore Majorana, Hyung Won Lee, Kazuhiro Hayama, Atushi Nishizawa, Takaaki Yokozawa, Hiroyuki Nakano, Koki Okutomi

Documents

• Guideline for joining the KAGRA collaboration

• Society Regulations of KAGRA Scientific Congress

• Election rule for KSC board members

• KAGRA Authorship Policy

  • Author list is managed based on this policy by the Author List Committee of KSC

• KAGRA Publication Policy

  • Publications and presentations are controlled based on this policy by the Committee for Publication Control (under EO)

  • JGW-G1706404 (useful publication category table in p.10)

  • JGW-G1503318 (definition of "KAGRA data" in p.4)

• KAGRA management structure

• KSC Document Tree in JGWDoc

Links

• Face-to-Face Meetings

• KAGRA International Workshops