KAGRA Future Working Group 5th open meeting & Quantum probes for gravity workshop 2025
Contents
Meeting information
- Date : 2025/11/06 (Thu)
 - Hybrid-style
 - Venue : Room 207, Science Building #1 at Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo 
Access: UTokyo Access and Campus Maps page or Google Maps
- eduroam and UTokyo-Guest is available at the venue
 
 ZOOM URL : https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/86245747610?pwd=JQqjafR5TMrATlLqOiSxWpDylZfYnb.1
Registration page: https://forms.gle/UdctGkhGRMHEjPYS7
Invited Speakers
- Jérôme Degallaix (Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés)
 - Youka Kaku (Kobe University)
 
Program (Japan Time)
09:30  | 
  Registration open (2000 JPY will be collected for banquet registrants)  | 
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Morning session chair : Ryosuke Sugimoto  | 
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09:58  | 
  Welcome  | 
  Yuta Michimura  | 
  2 min  | 
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10:00  | 
  Optomechanical systems for testing gravity-induced entanglement  | 
  Youka Kaku  | 
  30+10 min  | 
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10:40  | 
  Magnetically levitated oscillators for ultraprecise gravimeter  | 
  Shilu Tian  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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11:10  | 
  Ultra-precise measurement landscape at Hongo  | 
  Kentaro Komori  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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11:40  | 
  Lunch break  | 
  80 min  | 
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Afternoon session 2 chair : Kentaro Somiya  | 
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13:00  | 
  Introduction of LMA  | 
  Jérôme Degallaix  | 
  10+5 min  | 
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13:15  | 
  Tiny mirrors  | 
  David Hofman  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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13:45  | 
  Polishing and characterisation of sapphire substrates for third-generation gravitational wave detectors in Lyon  | 
  Severin Nadji  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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14:15  | 
  LMA and NAOJ coating mechanical loss at cryogenic temperatures  | 
   Rikuto Watanabe,  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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14:45  | 
  Break  | 
  30 min  | 
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Afternoon session 2 chair : Micheal Page  | 
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15:15  | 
  Characterization of silicon test mass with crystalline coatings in UWA  | 
  Haoyu Wang (remotely)  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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15:45  | 
  Recent optimizations of sapphire bonding techniques: melting in a furnace and ultrafast laser welding  | 
   Alexey Kuzmichev,  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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16:15  | 
  Welding Experiments of KAGRA Sapphire Fibers at the University of Glasgow  | 
  Munetake Otsuka (remotely)  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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16:45  | 
  Demonstration of frequency dependent squeezing via quantum teleportation at ANU  | 
  Ryo Iden (remotely)  | 
  20+10 min  | 
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17:15  | 
  Free discussion  | 
  30 min  | 
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18:00  | 
  Banquet at Matsumotoro (for banquet registrants only)  | 
  120 min  | 
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Banquet information
Banquet will be held from 18:00 at Matsumotoro in Hongo Campus (3 minutes walk from the workshop venue).
- Because of reservation arrangements, the banquet will be open only to those who register by October 22, 2025.
 - The meal will be provided free of charge, but a fee of 2000 JPY will be collected at the registration for drinks (CASH ONLY).
 - If you have dietary restrictions, please let the organizers know via the registration page.
 
Participants
- As of October 22 (In-person: 33, Banquet: 32)
 
Name  | 
  Affiliation  | 
  In-person  | 
  Banquet  | 
Chenjie Zhou  | 
  NAOJ  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
David Hofman  | 
  CNRS  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Egami Taisei  | 
  Science Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Hinata Takidera  | 
  The University of Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Hiroaki Yamamoto  | 
  Institute of Science Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Hiroki Fujimoto  | 
  NAOJ  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Homare Abe  | 
  Science Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Jerome Degallaix  | 
  LMA - IP2I  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Kaido Suzuki  | 
  Science Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Kazuhiro Yamamoto  | 
  University of Toyama  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Kentaro Komori  | 
  University of Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Kentaro Somiya  | 
  Science Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Kento Takeshita  | 
  Science Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Masaki Ando  | 
  University of Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Maxime LE JEAN  | 
  Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés / CNRS  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Michael Page  | 
  NAOJ  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Naoki Aritomi  | 
  University of Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Nayuta Yoshitome  | 
  Institute of Science Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Riku Fujii  | 
  Universal of Toyama  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Rikuto Watanabe  | 
  University of Toyama  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Ryosuke Sugimoto  | 
  UTokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Severin Nadji  | 
  Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA)  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Shalika Singh  | 
  ISCT  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Shilu Tian  | 
  Science Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Sotatsu Otabe  | 
  The University of Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Takuya Kawasaki  | 
  University of Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Tatsuya Sugioka  | 
  U Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Tomohiro Fujita  | 
  Ochanomizu University  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Tomotada Akutsu  | 
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Yohei Nishino  | 
  NAOJ/U.Tokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Youka Kaku  | 
  Kobe University  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Yuta Michimura  | 
  RESCEU, UTokyo  | 
  In-person  | 
  Yes  | 
Yoichi Aso  | 
  ICRR  | 
  In-person  | 
  No  | 
Atsushi Nishizawa  | 
  Hiroshima University  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Dan Chen  | 
  NAOJ  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Haoyu Wang  | 
  Institute of Science Tokyo  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Jheng-Min Chen  | 
  National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Kouji Nakamura  | 
  NAOJ, GWSP  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Masatake Ohashi  | 
  ICRR  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Osamu Miyakawa  | 
  ICRR U-Tokyo  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Ray-Kuang Lee  | 
  NTHU  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Ryo Iden  | 
  Institute of Science Tokyo  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Ryutaro Takahashi  | 
  NAOJ  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Satoru Takano  | 
  Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics  | 
  Online  | 
  No  | 
Subaru Shibai  | 
  U-tokyo, ISAS  | 
  Undecided  | 
  No  | 
Yuheng Ye  | 
  NAOJ/U.Tokyo  | 
  Undecided  | 
  No  | 
Support
- The workshop is supported by: 
JST ASPIRE-GW (PI: Kentaro Somiya, Co-I: Masaki Ando)
- JSPS Bilateral Collaborations, Joint Research between France (MEAE-MESRI) and Japan (Sakura Program) (PI: Jérôme Degallaix, Yuta Michimura)
 - JSPS KAKENHI No. JP20H05854 (PI: Yuta Michimura, Co-Is: Tomohiro Fujita, Shinji Miyoki, Matteo Leonardi)
 
 
