KSC Remote Meetings

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KSC telecon is for all KAGRA collaborators (not only for KSC members). It is organized when we have important issues to decide. Normally, the final vote will be made at a face-to-face meeting, but this telecon is supposed to be a chance to explain the contents in advance and collect opinions from collaborators.

KAGRA Telecon April 30, 2026

April. 30 (Thu) 17:00- (JST, online)
Minutes

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	IGWN Fundamental Documents / Program (30 min)	Masaki Ando, Albert Kong	o
(2)	Publication policy (20 min)	Kentaro Somiya	o
(3)	Announcements
	For KAGRA group leaders: Survey for authorship and membership criteria		o
	Deadline: May 11th, 2026

KSC Meeting December 1, 2025

Dec. 1 (Mon) 17:00– (JST, online)
Minutes

Agenda

IGWN formation [Introduction: Link]

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	IGWN Formation: IGWN Program (~20 min)	Albert Kong, Yuta Michimura	Albert Kong, Yuta Michimura, Document, Philosophy Document, Git Issues, GRASP
(2)	KAGRA Lab / Observatory Group (~20 min)	Yoichi Aso	Presentation
(3)	IGWN Fundamental Documents (~10 min)	Masaki Ando	Presentation, Charter, Bylaws, Structure
(4)	Others
(5)	Feedback page
	LVK-wide feedbacks		Gitlab
	For discussions in KAGRA		Microsoft Form Link

KSC Meeting July 24, 2025

Jul. 24 (Thu) 16:00– (JST, online)
Minutes

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	Collaboration Fee (~30 min)	KSC Board	Link
	Goal: OK to go forward to a KSC vote process? → Agreed.
(2)	IGWN Formation (~20 min)	IGWN Design Committee / IIB	Link
(3)	Others

KSC Meeting March 13, 2025

Mar. 13 (Thu) 16:00– (JST, online)
Minutes

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	Revision of Publication Policy (~15 min)	CPC / KSC Board
(2)	Revision of Authorship Policy (~15 min)	FSC / KSC Board
(3)	IGWN Formation (~30 min)	IGWN Design Committee / IIB
(4)	Others

KSC Meeting November 21, 2024

Nov. 21 (Thu) 16:00– (JST, online)
Minutes

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	CPC Reports on Publication Policy Issue (~30 min)	CPC	Link
	Ref: Materials of Oct. 31 Meeting		Link
(2)	Survey Results and Updates for Digital Infrastructure Fee (~10 min)		Link
(3)	Proposal from FSC on the Authorship Policy (~10 min)	FSC	Link
(4)	Survey of Opinions		Link

KSC Meeting October 31, 2024

Oct. 31 (Thu) 16:00– (JST, online)
Minutes

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	Digital Infrastructure Fee		Link
(2)	Possible Violation against Publication Policy		Link
(3)	Survey of Opinions		Link

KAGRA Telecon Feb 29, 2024

Feb. 29 (Thu) 16:00 - (One hour) JST

Agenda

IGWN Formation process (IGWN Formation Committee)
Publication Control Policy (CPC/JEB)

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	IGWN Formation (40 min)
	Report from IGWN Formation Committee	Sungho Lee	o
	Comments and Discussions	Masaki Ando	o
(2)	Proposal on short-authorlist paper review (20 min)	Kentaro Somiya	o

* Memo of IGWN discussion o

KAGRA Telecon June 30, 2021

June 30 (Wed) 18:00 - (at least one hour :-P) JST

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	O4/O5 schedule (20 min)
	Toward O4 and O5	Takaaki Kajita	o
	KAGRA Schedule	Shinji Miyoki	o
(2)	Author-list making processes (20 min)	Hisaaki Shinkai	o
(3)	Board Election 2021 : schedule (5 min)	Hisaaki Shinkai	o

Regarding the O4/O5 schedule: We want to share our status, and want to have agreements in the fundamental direction.
Regarding the author-list making processes : The board proposes the change of the processes. The final decision will be made at F2F August, but the board suggests several preparations for us all if it will be approved.

KAGRA Telecon May 12, 2021

May 12 (Wed) 18:00 - (max 20:00 hopefully .. :-P) JST
We need approval on the schedule [Agenda (6)].
We need approval on our default author-list 2020 and its usage by KSC members [Agenda (7)].

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	From KSC board (10 min)	Hisaaki Shinkai	o
	KSC board election 2021
	Coming F2F, KIW8, LVK
(2)	From Joint Editorial Board (5 min)	Kazuhiro Yamamoto	o
(3)	From Project R&D Comm. (5 min)	Kentaro Somiya	o
(4)	PTEP Paper Status (10 min)
	Overview of KAGRA : (2) Noise Budget	Kazuhiro Yamamoto	o
	Overview of KAGRA : (4) Data transfer and management	Nobuyuki Kanda	o
	Overview of KAGRA : (5) Data analysis methods
	Overview of KAGRA : (7) Future plans
(5)	O3GK Paper Status (10 min)	Tagoshi	o
(6)	Preparation Schedule for O4 (20 min)	Shinji Miyoki	x
(7)	From Author-list Comm. (10 min)	Atsushi Nishizawa	o
(8)	On the Author-list making process (? min)	Hisaaki Shinkai	o
(9)	From Operations Group (10 min)	Takahiro Sawada	o
(10)	Short Report of New Grant (5 min)	Yuta Michimura	o
(11)	else?

KSC Telecon December 1, 2020

December 1 (Tue) 18:00 - (max 19:30 hopefully .. :-P) JST
https://zoom.us/j/99757340854 See the password in Email.
All the decisions will be made in December F2F KSC session, except the agenda (3) & (6). The objective is to make announcement, explanations, collecting opinions, and to have opportunities to blush up proposals.

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	Future Strategy Committee (15 min)	Masaki Ando	O -- presentation will be after 18:30
(2)	Public data-release schedule (10 min)	Yousuke Itoh	Presentation file, Report in JGWDoc and in LIGO DCC
(3)	Petition for the playground data (10 min)		[kagra 03828] slide
(4)	Theory Group in KAGRA (5 min)	Takahiro Tanaka
(5)	Amendment of Authorship policy (5 min)	Hisaaki Shinkai	o
(6)	Statement on Diversity (5 min)	Hisaaki Shinkai	o
(7)	Coming F2F, KIW7

KSC Telecon July 29, 2020

Meeting

July 29 (Wed) 18:00 - (max 19:30 hopefully .. :-P) JST
https://zoom.us/j/91197814699
see the password in Email.
No decisions will be made in this telecon. All the decisions will be made in August F2F KSC session. The objective is to make announcement, explanations, collecting opinions, and to have opportunities to blush up proposals.

Agenda

	Title	Speaker	File, Link
(1)	Amendment of Joining Guideline (10 min)	Tagoshi	slide
(2)	Amendment of Authorship policy (5 min)	Shinkai	file
(3)	Proposal on Publication policy (20 min)	Shinkai	survey results, LSC's case, proposal
(4)	Public data-release schedule in O4/O5 (10 min)	Itoh, Inoue	O
(5)	klog protection (10 min)	Washimi	file
(6)	CPC member change (5 min)	Shinkai	file
(7)	Style of the August F2F (10 min)	Akutsu	file
(8)	else

Video recording (from 30 min. after the beginning)

KSC Telecon May 27 (Wed) & 28 (Thur), 2020

Meeting

This telecon was held as the alternative to April Face-to-Face meeting 2020.

Information page

KSC Telecon November 22, 2019

Meeting

November 22 (Fri) 17:00 (JST) https://zoom.us/j/5045179604

Planned Agenda

Agenda JGWdoc-10991
revision of Guidelines for joining the KAGRA collaboration: Plan is in JGWdoc-10991
revision of KAGRA authorship policy: Plan is in JGWdoc-10557, Comparison table is in JGWdoc-10991
revision of KAGRA publication policy: Plan1, 2A and 2B are in JGWdoc-10991

KSC Telecon September 23, 2019

Meeting

September 23 (Mon) 18:00 (JST) https://zoom.us/j/5045179604

Agenda

JGW-G1810820
MoA, LoI with LIGO/Virgo
KSC organization
PTEP paper plans
F2F 2020 Spring
else

KSC Telecon July 5, 2019

Meeting

July 5 (Fri) 18:00 (JST) https://zoom.us/j/7631499341

Agenda

KSC board election rule revisionJGW-G1806956
Procedure of the KSC board election
JRPC taskforce report
else

KSC Telecon January 28, 2019

Meeting

January 28 (Fri) 17:00 (JST) https://zoom.us/j/7631499341

Agenda

Commitment form for LIGO/Virgo-O3 data access JGW-G1709616
Report from Project R&D committee
else

KSC Telecon November 19, 2018

Meeting

November 19 (Mon) 15:00--16:00 (max 17:00) (JST) https://zoom.us/j/7631499341

Agenda

Future-Planning committee (Aso) JGW-G1809271
Project R&D (Somiya) JGW-G1809279
O3 data access, open data policy (Shinkai, Majorana) JGW-G1809281
Phase-1 paper draft (Michimura) Phase 1 paper wiki
Reconfirm the author list rule for the domestic conference (Kanda) ReconfrimShortAuthList.pdf
Discussion on participation of DET and CAL to DAWG (Tagoshi) JGW-G1809286
If you need any other circulation before F2F, please raise topics at the end.

Minutes

JGW-L1809305: Shorthand note taken by Sadakazu Haino and summary by Hisaaki Shinkai
A summary by Hisaaki Shinkai was circulated as [kagra 02545] (Nov 20, 2018).