KAGRA Scientific Congress (KSC)

Contents in this page : (some are links)

• [2] Organization	[3] Rules and Regulations	[4] Documents	[5] KAGRAcollaborators
  Board	Guideline for joining KAGRA	Newsletter	Member list How to update the member list
  Committees	Authorship Policy	Links	KSC member list
  Working Groups	Publication Policy		Latest KAGRA author list (2022)
  LVK joint committees	CPC submission
  past committees	LVK-CoC, MoA, Att A, LoI

Links:

• FAQ		Meetings	Groups in KSC	Information		YourActionRequired
  Publications PublicationsLVK		Face-to-Face	Data Analysis	Young Researcher's wiki		Collaboration MOU
  JGWDoc		KAGRA Int. Workshop	Future-Planning	O3a O3b
  klog		KSC telecons	Project R&D	Educationo/Training
  new wiki (access)

[0] LVK Code of Conduct

English Japanese

[1] Objectives of 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

[2] Organization

KAGRA organization chart

KSCorganizationchart20240602.pdf

KSC board

• Current (August 2023 - August 2024)
  

  • Masaki Ando (Chair), Ray-Kuang Lee (Vice Chair), Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Vice Chair), Hirotaka Takahashi,
    June Gyu Park, Albert Kong, Xing-Jiang Zhu, Sadakazu Haino, Marc Eisenmann, Daiki Watarai
    

  • kscboard _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Committees in KSC

• International Cooperation (May 2018 - )
  • (starting members) Takayuki 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

• Committee of Publication Control (CPC)
  • (Aug 2024 - Aug 2025) Kentaro Somiya(chair), Norikatsu Mio, Hiroyuki Nakano, Sadakazu Haino, Sungho Lee, Shuichi Sato, Kazunori Kohri
  • (Sep 2023 - Aug 2024) Kentaro Somiya(chair), Norikatsu Mio, Hiroyuki Nakano, Atsushi Nishizawa, Akiteru Takamori, Chun-Yu Lin, Shaoqi Hou, Sadakazu Haino, Sungho Lee, Shuichi Sato

  • (Aug 2022 - Sep 2023) Norikatsu Mio (chair), Kentaro Somiya(vice chair), Tomoyuki Uehara, John J. Oh, Hiroyuki Nakano, Atsushi Nishizawa, Akiteru Takamori, Chun-Yu Lin, Sungho Lee ref

  • (Aug 2021 - Aug 2022) Norikatsu Mio (chair), Kentaro Somiya(vice chair), Tomoyuki Uehara, John J. Oh, Hayama, Yamamoto, Asada, Feng-Li Lin, Xilong Fanref

  • (Aug 2020 - Aug 2021) Norikatsu Mio (chair), Hyung-Won Lee, Yuta Michimura, Hideki Asada, Xilong Fan, Kazuhiro Hayama, Feng-Li Lin, Kazuhiro Yamamoto
  • Half the members are replaced every year, appointed by KSC. The basic term is two years.
  • kagra-cpc _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • CPC submission page

• Author-list committee (Sept 2022 - Aug 2023)
  • Hideyuki Tagoshi (Chair), Jun’ichi Yokoyama, Matteo Leonardi (Sept 2021 - Aug 2023)
  • Tatsuya Narikawa, Takahiro S. Yamamoto, Xing-Jiang Zhu (Sept 2022 - Aug 2024)
  • Three people are appointed by KSC Boards every year. The term is two years for each committee member.
  • kagra-author-com _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Objectives of the committee

  • KAGRA Author List 2019, KAGRA Author List 2018, KAGRA Author List 2017, KAGRA Author List 2016, KAGRA Author List 2015

• Collaborator-list manager (Apr 2020 - )
  • Akiko Sakai (Secretary), Naomi Kudo (Secretary), Hideyuki Tagoshi

  • KAGRA member list

• Diversity Committee (Sep 2023 -)
  • Ray-Kuang Lee (chair) (National Tsing Hua University), Yuta Michimura (Univ. Tokyo, Japan), Luca Baiotti (Osaka Univ., Japan), Nami Uchikata (ICRR, Univ. Tokyo, Japan), Matteo Leonardi (NAOJ, Japan), Keiko Kokeyama (Cardiff Univ, UK), Chunglee Kim (Ewha Womans Univ, Korea), Lan Quynh Nguyen (Univ. Notre Dame, USA), Chian-Shu Chen (Tamkang University, Taiwan), Kyujin Kwak (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea), Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
  • ksc-diversity _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • objectives, report (2017/12)

• Overleaf manager (Sep 2021 - )
  • Tatsuya Narikawa
  • kagra-overleaf _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • For applying overleaf project, please follow the procedure written here (FAQ Level 3)

• Author-list manager (Sep 2021 - )
  • Hideyuki Tagoshi
  • The latex files of the author list are produced from the KAGRA member list database. Contact kagraros _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp for the corrections of your information.

• Project R&D Committee (Dec 2018 -)

  • Kentaro Somiya (Chair), Yousuke Itoh, Shinji Miyoki
  • kagra-prdc _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • PRDC wiki

• Future Strategy Committee (from Mar 2024 -)
  • Yuta Michimura (chair), Sadakazu Haino (co-chair), Atsushi Nishizawa (co-chair), and Kentaro Somiya(co-chair)
  • kagra-fsc _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • FSC wiki

Working groups in LVK (current)

• Public data-release scheduling committee (June 2020 -)
  • Yousuke Itoh, Yuki Inoue, Keiko Kokeyama, Masaki Ando, Nobuyuki Kanda

Working groups in KSC (current)

Joint committees with LIGO/Virgo (Oct 2019 - )

• LVK-MoA 2019-2023 main, Attachment A, LoI

• "KAGRA spokesperson" for the access to the restricted documents in LIGO DCC: Hisaaki Shinkai
• Joint Review Committee (MoA AttA sec 2.5)
  • assigned article by article
• Joint Run Planning Committee (MoA AttA sec 3.1)
  • Shinji Miyoki (contact person), Yousuke Itoh
• Detector Characterization and Data Quality Committee (MoA AttA sec 3.2)
  • Keiko Kokeyama (Chair), Takahiro Yamamoto
• Calibration Committee (MoA AttA sec 3.3)
  • Yuki Inoue (Chair)
• Joint Computing and Software Committee (MoA AttA sec 3.4)
  • Ken-ichi Ohara (Chair), Nobuyuki Kanda
• Joint Editorial Board (MoA AttA sec 3.5)
  • Kazuhiro Yamamoto (chair), Xing-Jiang Zhu, Hyung-Won Lee, Keiko Kokeyama, Tomoyuki Uehara, Yuta Michimura, Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Akiteru Takamori [if one is KSCboard or CPC, the term ends when they finish KSCboard or CPC.]
  • kagra-editorial _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Joint Meeting Board (MoA AttA sec 3.6)
  • Jun'ichi Yokoyama, Ray-Kuang Lee
• Joint Detection Board (MoA AttA sec 3.7)
  • Nobuyuki Kanda (Chair)
• Joint Review Committee (MoA AttA sec 2.4.4)
  • will be assigned paper by paper
• LIGO KAGRA Identity and Access Management team
  • Hirotaka Takahashi, Shoichi Oshino
• LVK climate change committee
  • Luca Baiotti, Quynh Lan Nguyen
• Education and Public Outreach (Sep 2021 -)
  • Heather Fong, Hisaaki Shinkai, Koji Nagano, Takahiro Yamamoto, Albert Kong, Kuo-Chuan Pan, Kwan Lok Li, He-Feng Hsieh, Li-Ting Ma, Lupin Lin, Lijing Shao, Wei-Tou Ni, Hyung Won Lee, Quynh Lan Nguyen
  • kagra_epo _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Operations Working Group
  • Takahiro Sawada, Osamu Miyakawa

Completed committees and working groups

• KSC board

  • period	vote selected	regional	EO	PD, student
    Aug 2016 - Aug 2017	Nobuyuki Kanda(Chair), Hyung Mok Lee (Vice Chair), Youichi Aso, Yousuke Itoh, Keiko Kokeyama, Yuta Michimura
    Aug 2017 - Aug 2018	Hisaaki Shinkai(C), Chunglee Kim(VC), Sadakazu Haino, Yuta Michimura		Nobuyuki Kanda	Yuki Inoue, Kentaro Komori
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2019	(same with above)	Zong-Hong Zhu, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee	Nobuyuki Kanda	Takahiro Yamamoto, Koji Nagano
    Aug 2019 - Aug 2020	Hisaaki Shinkai(C), Shinji Miyoki(VC), Chunglee Kim(VVC), Hideyuki Tagoshi, Tomotada Akutsu	Zhoujian Cao, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee		Hirotaka Yuzurihara, Tomohiro Yamada
    Aug 2020 - Aug 2021	(same with above)	Zhoujian Cao, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee		Tatsuki Washimi, Satoru Takano
    Aug 2021 - Aug 2022	Jun’ichi Yokoyama(C), Matteo Leonardi(VC), Keiko Kokeyama, Sachiko Kuroyanagi	Xing-Jiang Zhu, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee	Hideyuki Tagoshi	Tatsuya Narikawa, Surojit Saha
    Aug 2022 - Aug 2023	Jun’ichi Yokoyama(C), Matteo Leonardi(VC), Keiko Kokeyama, Sachiko Kuroyanagi	Xing-Jiang Zhu, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee	Hideyuki Tagoshi	Takahiro S. Yamamoto, Yuka Oshima

• Author list committee
  • (Sep 2016 - Aug 2017) Masaki Ando (Chair), Shinji Miyoki, Ken-ichi Oohara, Yoshiki Moriwaki, Hyung Mok Lee, Nobuyuki Kawai
  • (Oct 2017 - Sep 2018) Hisaaki Shinkai (Chair), Yosuke Itoh, Hyung-Mok Lee, Feng-Li Lin, Yoshiki Moriwaki, Takashi Uchiyama
  • (Oct 2018 - Sep 2019) Yosuke Itoh (Chair), Yoichi Aso, Kazuhiro Hayama, Feng-Li Lin, John J. Oh, Takashi Uchiyama
  • (Oct 2019 - Sep 2020) Kentaro Somiya (Chair), Yoichi Aso, Kazuhiro Hayama, John J. Oh, Albert Kong, Atsushi Nishizawa
  • (Oct 2020 - Sep 2021) Atsushi Nishizawa (Chair), Albert Kong, John J. Oh, Wenbiao Han, Kentaro Somiya, Hiroyuki Nakano, Takafumi Ushiba
  • (Oct 2021 - Sep 2022) Hideyuki Tagoshi (Chair), Jun'ichi Yokoyama, Matteo Leonardi, John J. Oh, Wenbiao Han, Hiroyuki Nakano, Takafumi Ushiba
  • (Oct 2022 - Sep 2023) Hideyuki Tagoshi (Chair), Jun’ichi Yokoyama, Matteo Leonardi, Tatsuya Narikawa, Takahiro S. Yamamoto
• Author list manager
  • (Sep 2020 - Aug 2021) Hisaaki Shinkai, Reymond Yeung
  • (?) Xin-Jian Zhou, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee, Keiko Kokeyama
• Collaborator list manager
  • (Apr 2017 - Mar 2018) Ken-ichi Nakao (Manager), Hideyuki Tagoshi(Vice-manager), Rie Kikuchi(Secretary)
  • (Apr 2018 - Mar 2020) Hideyuki Tagoshi(manager), Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Rie Kikuchi(Secretary)
• Committee for the KSC board election rules
  • (Feb 2017 - Jul 2017) Keiko Kokeyama (Chair), Ettore Majorana, Hyung Won Lee, Atushi Nishizawa, Takaaki Yokozawa, Hiroyuki Nakano, Kazuki Sakai
• Committee for the KSC board election
  • (June 2019 - Aug 2019) Sadakazu Haino (Chair), Yuta Michimura, Nobuyuki Kanda, Zong-Hong Zhu, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee
• Diversity Committee
  • (Aug 2017 - Jan 2020) Keiko Kokeyama (chair), Eleonora Capocasa, Chunglee Kim, Chihiro Kozakai, Matteo Leonardi, Chun-Che (Lupin) Lin, Yuta Michimura, Kazuki Sakai, Hisaaki Shinkai
  • (Feb 2020 - Aug 2021) Hideyuki Tagoshi (chair), Chunglee Kim, Matteo Leonardi, Chun-Che (Lupin) Lin, Yuta Michimura
  • (Sep 2021 - Aug 2023) Hideyuki Tagoshi (chair), Yuta Michimura, Luca Baiotti, Nami Uchikata, Matteo Leonardi, Keiko Kokeyama, Chunglee Kim, Lan Quynh Nguyen, Chian-Shu Chen, Kyujin Kwak, Sachiko Kuroyanagi
• 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 definition of KAGRA data (Feb 2016 - Dec 2018)
  • Hirotaka Takahashi (Chair), John J. Oh, Sadakazu Haino
  • From EO: Fusakazu Matsushima, Toshikazu Suzuki, Nobuyuki Kanda
• Preparing team of Joint Observations with LIGO/Virgo (2018)
  • discuss MOU: Hisaaki Shinkai
    • MOU WG: Masaki Ando, Kipp Cannon, Yousuke Itoh, Shinji Miyoki, Masatake Ohashi, Takayuki Tomaru
    • discuss data-transfer and data-analysis: Nobuyuki Kanda and Hideyuki Tagoshi
• Committee of Publication Control (CPC moved under KSC after August 2019)
  • (Aug 2019 - Aug 2020) Norikatzu Mio (Chair), Masashi Ohkawa, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Zong-Hong Zhu, Hyung-Won Lee, Yuta Michimura
• Working group for the publication policy in CPC rules (Feb 2016 - Aug 2020)
  • Hideyuki Tagoshi (Chair), Hyung Mok Lee, Ayaka Shoda
  • From EO: Raffaele Flaminio, Nobuyuki Kanda
• Education and Public Outreach (Oct 2019 - Aug 2021)
  • Heather Fong, Albert Kong, Hyung Won Lee, Kwan Lok Li, Wei-Tou Ni, Quynh Lan Nguyen, Yoshihisa Obayashi, Kuo-Chuan Pan, Hisaaki Shinkai, Leo Tsukada
• Future Planning Committee
  • (Dec 2018 - Sep 2021) Sadakazu Haino(Chair), Chunglee Kim, Kentaro Komori, Yuta Michimura, Matteo Leonardi, Atsushi Nishizawa, Kentaro Somiya(PRDC chair)
  • (Sep 2021 - Mar 2024) Sadakazu Haino (chair), Matteo Leonardi
  • ksc-fpc _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • FPC wiki

• Project R&D Committee

  • (Dec 2018 - Mar 2024) Kentaro Somiya (Chair), Yousuke Itoh, Shinji Miyoki, and Sadakazu Haino(FPC Chair)
• Future Strategy Committee
  • (Dec 2020 - Mar 2024) Masaki Ando (chair), Sadakazu Haino (co-chair), Kentaro Somiya(co-chair)
• Overleaf manager
  • (Oct 2019 - Aug 2021) Nami Uchikata, Hisaaki Shinkai
• Joint editorial board
  • (Oct 2020 - Aug 2022) Kazuhiro Yamamoto (chair), Zhoujian Cao, Yousuke Itoh, Chunglee Kim, Keiko Kokeyama, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee, Tjonnie Li, Yuta Michimura, Hisaaki Shinkai
  • (Sep 2022 - Aug 2023) Kazuhiro Yamamoto (chair), Keiko Kokeyama, Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Hyung-Won Lee, Chun-Yu Lin, Yuta Michimura, Akiteru Takamori, Tomoyuki Uehara, Xing-Jiang Zhu
  • (Sep 2023 - Aug 2024) Kazuhiro Yamamoto (chair), Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Chun-Yu Lin, Yuta Michimura, Kentaro Somiya, Hirotaka Takahashi, Akiteru Takamori,

[3] Rules and Regulations

• LVK Code of Conduct: English Japanese

• Guideline for joining the KAGRA collaboration

  • Instruction for updating the KAGRA member list

• 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)

• Society Regulations of KAGRA Scientific Congress

• Election rule for KSC board members

• Observation Run 3 (O3) Commitment Form

  • Please download the form, print it, sign it, scan it, edit the file name, and submit it. Submission page

[4] Documents

• KAGRA management structure

• KSC Document Tree in JGWDoc

Newsletter

• KSC Newsletter 10 (2023 Sep)

• KSC Newsletter 9 (2022 Dec)

• KSC Newsletter 8 (2021 May)

• KSC Newsletter 7 (2020 April)

• KSC Newsletter 6 (2019 December)

• KSC Newsletter 5 (2019 August)

• KSC Newsletter 4 (2019 April)

• KSC Newsletter 3 (2018 December)

• KSC Newsletter 2 (2018 August)

• KSC Newsletter 1 (2018 April)

Collaboration Open Data

• Open data list

Links

• Face-to-Face Meetings

• KAGRA International Workshops

• KSC Meetings

• Young Researcher's wiki page

• O3

[5] KAGRA collaborators

• List is available from here (restricted to the collaboration members)

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KSC members

• KSC member list

• According to Society Regulations of KAGRA Scientific Congress, KSC consists of

  • One congress member from each institute
  • In addition to the above rule, one congress member per 4 KAGRA collaborators in each institute. E.g., if there are 1~3 KAGRA collaborators in the institute, then that institute can elect one congress member. If there are 4~7 KAGRA collaborators in the institute, then that institute can elect two congress members. (round(N/4) KSC members.)
  • 3 congress members from all graduate students in the KAGRA collaboration.
  • 3 congress members from all post-docs in the KAGRA collaboration.
  • KAGRA Principal Investigator (PI)
• Each constituent body (that is, a group that has a right to elect its KSC members) defines the method to elect its KSC members and their terms of service.
• Please note that KSC members are not registered automatically. Please contact to KSC_Board for updating KSC members.
• KSC members have right to vote for the decision in KSC.