KAGRA collaboration MOU

• This MOU has started February 2019. Action from each institute is required.

• Note that this is different from the O3 Commitment Form.

Guidelines

• EO decided to collect "KAGRA collaboration MoU" with each group of the collaboration, in order to confirm the relationship officially between a group and KAGRA, and to proceed to the next responsible contributions including observation shift and future development of the projects. This procedure is supposed to be once. [On April 18, EO decided to change the document name to "memorandum of understanding (MoU)", rather than "Agreement", in order to clarify that the document does not intend to make a restriction with penalties. ]

• The sample format (now version 3) is now updated at JGWdoc-M1909818.

• The draft includes the statement (in section 4-2); "KAGRA will support the local expenses of the members of Group A within limits of the the available budget under the ICRR Inter-University Research program." If your group does not submit this form, then your group members may miss to receive this support.
• In order to plan our O3 observation shift at the KAGRA site, we also collect the list of shift candidates from the group representatives.

  Please note that our Principal Investigator (Kajita-san) says that participating the observational shift is a necessary step to be involved in the next author-list of O3.

• We suppose all collaborators understand the importance for participating the observation shift.
• The new version also have changed the expression of the "Effective Period" (section 6): "This MoU will remain effective for the duration of the project and can be automatically extended or modified as long as Group A and KAGRA agree."
• We ask all group representatives to follow the procedures:

  • Check out the "MoU" draft (attached in this mail) at JGWdoc-M1909818.

  • Also prepare the list of the shift candidates (attached in this mail) in Excel file format.

  • Visit the registration page https://gwcenter.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/collaboration-agreement and tell us who will make a signature, together with the list of shift candidates.

• EO will prepare the "MoU draft" for each group, and will have a sign-up process at the face-to-face meeting in April (at ICRR Kashiwa, April 19-21) or at the face-to-face meeting in August (at Toyama U, maybe August 22-24), by exchanging digital signatures, or by exchanging surface mails.
• At this moment, we do not make a clear definition of each group, so that please think flexibly. One university/institute can prepare one agreement (even there is one person), or a couple universities (like a country, region, whatever) can prepare one agreement.

List of registered groups

• Total 62 groups, as of July 11, 2019; shift list 265 persons.

• No.	Affiliation1	Affiliation2	Region	representative	#_O3shiftcandidates
  102	The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR)	Japan	Masatake Ohashi	39
  108	Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)		Japan	Misao Sasaki	1
  114	The University of Tokyo	Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU)	Japan	Jun'ichi Yokoyama	14
  115	The University of Tokyo	Department of Physics	Japan	Masaki Ando	13
  120	National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)	Gravitational Wave Project Office	Japan	Takayuki Tomaru	20
  126	High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)	Applied Research Laboratory	Japan	Nobuhiro Kimura	7
  130	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Graduate School of Science and Technology	Japan	Kentaro Somiya	8
  136	Waseda University	Department of Physics	Japan	Shoichi Yamada	1
  142	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)		Japan	Shigeo Nagano	1
  144	The Institute of Statistical Mathematics	Department of Mathematical Analysis and Statistical Inference	Japan	Shuhei Mano	1
  150	National Defense Academy of Japan	Department of Communications	Japan	Tomoyuki Uehara	1
  152	Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (JAXA)		Japan	Kiwamu Izumi	2
  153	Aoyama Gakuin University	Department of Physics and Mathematics	Japan	Ryo Yamazaki	10
  154	Toho University	Faculty of Science	Japan	Yuichiro Sekiguchi	1
  160	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	National Metrology Institute of Japan	Japan	Souichi Telada	1
  180	Osaka City University	Graduate School of Science, Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (NITEP)	Japan	Nobuyuki Kanda	12
  185	Osaka University	Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science	Japan	Luca Baiotti	1
  186	Osaka Institute of Technology	Faculty of Information Science and Technology	Japan	Hisaaki Shinkai	1
  192	Kyoto University (w Ryukoku, Kyushu)	Department of Physics	Japan	Takahiro Tanaka	6
  200	Hiroshima University	Department of Physical Science	Japan	Yasufumi Kojima	2
  210	Fukuoka University	Department of Applied Physics	Japan	Kazuhiro Hayama	6
  230	University of Toyama	Department of Physics	Japan	Yoshiki Moriwaki	14
  240	Nagaoka University of Technology	Department of Information \& Management Systems Engineering	Japan	Hirotaka Takahashi	3
  244	Niigata University	Graduate School of Science and Technology	Japan	Ken-ichi Oohara	10
  302	Ewha Womans University	Department of Physics	Korea	Chunglee Kim	2
  304	Hanyang University	Department of Physics	Korea	Hyun Kyu Lee	1
  306	Inje University	Department of Computer Simulation	Korea	Hyung Won Lee	2
  314	Korea University	Department of Physics	Korea	Tai Hyun Yoon	2
  320	Myongji University	Department of Physics, Atom Optics Lab.	Korea	Jaewan Kim	1
  322	National Institute for Mathematical Sciences		Korea	John J. Oh	5
  326	Sejong University	Department of Physics and Astronomy	Korea	Maurice H.P.M. van Putten	1
  332	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	Department of Physics, School of Natural Science	Korea	Kyujin Kwak	4
  334	Chungnam National University	Astronomy & Space Science	Korea	David Chung Yue Hui	2
  404	National Taiwan Normal University	Department of Physics	Taiwan	Feng-Li Lin	5
  406	National Tsing Hua University	Department of Physics and Institute of Astronomy	Taiwan	Albert Kong	5
  408	Tamkang University	Department of Physics	Taiwan	Guo Chin Liu	1
  410	Academia Sinica	Institute of Physics	Taiwan	Sadakazu Haino	5
  412	National Applied Research Laboratories	National Center for High-performance computing	Taiwan	Chun-Yu Lin	1
  420	National Central University	Department of Physics, Center for High Energy and High Field Physics	Taiwan	Yuki Inoue	6
  422	National Chiao Tung University	Department of Electrophysics	Taiwan	Yi Yang	7
  506	Tsinghua University	Research Institute of Information Technology	China	Junwei Cao	2
  512	Shanghai Astronomical Observatory	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	Wenbiao Han	1
  502	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Faculty of Science, Department of Physics	Hong Kong	Tjonnie G. F. Li	3
  522	Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, CAS		China	Mingsheng Zhan	7
  530	Beijing Normal University	Department of Astronomy	China	Zong-Hong Zhu	7
  532	Peking University	Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics	China	Lijing Shao	2
  712	University of Notre Dame	Department of Physics	USA	Lan Nguyen Quynh	1
  904	TNI (University of Sannio, University of Perugia, Camerino University, Sapienza University)		Italy	Innocenzo Pinto, Helios Vocca, Flavio Travasso, Ettore Majorana	11