The 20th KAGRA face-to-face meeting

August 24(Fri)-26(Sun) 2018, at Toyama University

Program (August 24), (August 25), (August 26), (Poster), Registration, Venue, Access

Satellite Meeting on Data Analysis group reorganization (August 23)

Basic Lecture on GW for grad/undergrad students in Japanese (August 23)

Outline of the meeting

The 20th F2F meeting will be held at Toyama University as usual as our summer event. We plan to discuss the status of phase-2 construction, preparations for joining the LIGO/Virgo's O3, and other urgent issues.

• If you have ideas and requests to the program, please mail them to the board, kscboard@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp, by July 16. (closed)

• Registration page -- Registration page is open!

• Registration deadline is August 7(Tue) 23:59 JST for the registration with the banquet, August 16 (Thur) 23:59 JST without banquet.

• Banquet will be held in the evening of the second day at the university cafeteria. The banquet fee is FREE (maybe).
• The invited speakers are
  • Hajime Sotani (NAOJ), Gravitational waves and neutron stars
  • Raffaele Flaminio (CNRS/LAPP and NAOJ), Status of Virgo
• Announcements were sent out [kagra 2333] (July 10), [kagra 2344] (July 18), [kagra xxxx] (August 2)
• If you are a member of the KAGRA collaboration and have recently moved to a new place: Contact the KSC board. You will be requested to make an introduction of your new laboratory at the meeting.
• If you want to join the KAGRA collaboration: Contact the KSC board. You are supposed to make a presentation on your proposal at the meeting.

Program

Poster session

Kxx: KAGRA group, Sxx: Students', Cxx: Contributions. Number with * made an entry for Poster Presentation Prize.

Poster Presentation Prize

• We will organize poster session and have "poster presentation prize" at every F2F.
• Awards are for students only.
• Vote will be made by all the participants, and the vote will be closed at the lunch time of the final day.
• Ballot paper is prepared with two-types, for permanent staff and others, in order to make statistics.
• We will award two persons, for his/her "Beautiful Presentation" and "Fruitful Contents".
• A small awarding ceremony is at the final session.

• Winners’ names and brief description of their works (provided by authors) will appear in wiki and KSC NewsLetters.

Events on August 23

Satellite Meeting on Data Analysis /Data Managing groups reorganization (August 23)

The satellite meeting will start at 11:00 a.m., and will end around 18:00 p.m. See [kagra 02343] for the details from Tagoshi-san.

Lecture on GW for New Graduate Students (August 23)

Prof Norikatsu Mio will give fundamental lectures on gravitational wave (in Japanese) for graduate (& undergrad) students, one day before the F2F at Toyama Univ.

• August 23 (Thur) 13:00-18:00 Toyama Univ, Room C104 of the #7 Faculty of Science building

  http://www.sci.u-toyama.ac.jp/_images/aboutus/img_05_F1a.jpg

We encourage to attend the lectures for beginners.

Registration

• Registration page -- Registration page is open!

• Banquet will be held in the evening of the second day. Banquet fee is FREE (maybe).

• Deadline is August 7(Tue) 23:59 JST for the registration with the banquet, August 16 (Thur) 23:59 JST without banquet.

• inquiry before registration to Hisaaki Shinkai, the board of KSC.
• inquiry after registration to Sadakazu Haino, the board of KSC.

Visa, Travel Support

• If you need visa to enter Japan, please send the request to the following three addresses. We will contact you to prepare necessary documents.
  • Dr. Hideyuki Tagoshi, tagoshi_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  • Ms. Rie Kikuchi, rkikuchi_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  • Ms. Ai Chida, achida_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

• JSPS Core-to-Core program can support local expenses for (limited) participants from abroad. (Note that this is for researchers including grad students, and not for undergrad students.) If you would like to apply this support, please email your request by the end of July directly both to

  • Dr. Shinji Miyoki, miyoki_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  • Ms. Kikuchi, rkikuchi_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

The venue

Access

• From Tokyo, one can either take JR Hokuriku-Shinkansen express (train, 2h10m) or fly from the Tokyo-Haneda airport (55min).
• From the Toyama airport, one can take a bus to the Toyama station (410 JPY).
• From the Toyama station to the university, one can take a tram to "Daigaku-mae" (Note that there is also a loop tram that does not go to Daigaku-mae).

• Campus map (#7 Faculty of Science　2nd floor)

• Multi-purpose room

Accommodations

Please book a room by yourself. Here is some information about hotels near the JR Toyama station.

• Booking.com (Toyama, Aug 23-26)

• ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel

• Dormy Inn

• APA Ville Hotel

• APA Hotel

Lunch Place

Wireless Internet connection

Other information