KAGRA Scientific Congress (KSC)

KSC board, KSC members

Committees, Working Groups, completed committees

Documents, Links

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

KSC board

• Current (August 2018 - Aug 2019 )
  

  • Hisaaki Shinkai (Chair), Chunglee Kim (Sub Chair), Sadakazu Haino, Yuta Michimura, Nobuyuki Kanda,
    Zong-Hong Zhu, Hyung-Won Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee
    Takahiro Yamamoto, Koji Nagano

• kscboard _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

KSC members

• KSC member list

Working groups and committees in KSC

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

• Author-list committee (Oct 2018 - Sep 2019)
  • chair will be assigned shortly
  • Yoichi Aso, Kazuhiro Hayama, Yosuke Itoh, Feng-Li Lin, John J. Oh, Takashi Uchiyama
  • Three people are appointed by KSC Boards every year. The term is two years for each committee member.

  • Objectives of the committee

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

• Collaborator-list manager (Apr 2018 - Mar 2019)
  • Hideyuki Tagoshi (Manager), Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Vice-manager), Rie Kikuchi (Secretary)
  • Appointed by KSC Boards every year. A term of manager and vice-manager is one year. The vice-manager of this year will be the manager　next year. Manager or vice-manager must be a scientific and permanent staff of ICRR.

  • current list (2018/06)

• Diversity Committee (Aug 2017 -)
  • Keiko Kokeyama, Joseph M Fedrow, Chunglee Kim, Kazuki Sakai, Hirotaka Yuzurihara, Hisaaki Shinkai
  • ksc-diversity _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • objectives, report (2017/12)

Working groups in KSC

• Preparing team of Joint Observations with LIGO/Virgo (2018)
  • discuss data-transfer and data-analysis: Nobuyuki Kanda and Hideyuki Tagoshi
  • discuss MOU: Hisaaki Shinkai
    • MOU WG: Masaki Ando, Kipp Cannon, Yousuke Itoh, Shinji Miyoki, Masatake Ohashi, Takayuki Tomaru
  • "KAGRA spokesperson" for the access to the restricted documents in LIGO DCC: Hisaaki Shinkai
  • discuss the KAGRA members’ access to LIGO documents: Hirotaka Takahashi
  • Joint Run Planning Committee: Shinji Miyoki and Yousuke Itoh
• 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 author list policy in CPC rules (Feb 2016 - until solution)
  • Hideyuki Tagoshi (Chair), Hyung Mok Lee, Ayaka Shoda
  • From EO: Raffaele Flaminio, Nobuyuki Kanda
• Working group for the definition of KAGRA data (Feb 2016 - until solution)
  • Hirotaka Takahashi (Chair), John J. Oh, Sadakazu Haino
  • From EO: Fusakazu Matsushima, Toshikazu Suzuki, Nobuyuki Kanda

Completed committees

• KSC board (August 2017 - Aug 2018)

  • Hisaaki Shinkai (Chair), Chunglee Kim, Sadakazu Haino, Yuta Michimura, Nobuyuki Kanda,
    Yuki Inoue, Kentaro Komori

• Author list committee (Sep 2016 - Aug 2017)
  • Masaki Ando (Chair), Shinji Miyoki, Ken-ichi Oohara, Yoshiki Moriwaki, Hyung Mok Lee, Nobuyuki Kawai
• Author list committee (Oct 2017 - Sep 2018)
  • Hisaaki Shinkai (Chair), Yosuke Itoh, Hyung-Mok Lee, Feng-Li Lin, Yoshiki Moriwaki, Takashi Uchiyama
• Collaborator list manager (Apr 2017 - Mar 2018)
  • Ken-ichi Nakao (Manager), Hideyuki Tagoshi(Vice-manager), Rie Kikuchi(Secretary)
• Committee for the KSC board election rules (Feb 2017 - Jul 2017)
  • Keiko Kokeyama (Chair), Ettore Majorana, Hyung Won Lee, Kazuhiro Hayama, Atushi Nishizawa, Takaaki Yokozawa, Hiroyuki Nakano, Koki Okutomi

Documents

• Guideline for joining the KAGRA collaboration

• Society Regulations of KAGRA Scientific Congress

• Election rule for KSC board members

• 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)

• KAGRA management structure

• KSC Document Tree in JGWDoc

Links

• Face-to-Face Meetings

• KAGRA International Workshops