KAGRA Scientific Congress (KSC)

KSC board / KSC members

Committees / Working Groups / completed committees / Organization Chart

Rules and Regulations / Documents / Newsletter / Links / KSC members

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 (Vice 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)

• Future Planning Committee (Dec 2018 -)
  • Sadakazu Haino(Chair), Chunglee Kim, Kentaro Komori, Yuta Michimura, Matteo Leonardi, Atsushi Nishizawa, Kentaro Somiya(PRDC chair)
  • ksc-fpc _at_ icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • FPC wiki

• Project R&D Committee (Dec 2018 -)

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

  • PRDC wiki

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
  • (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 (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
  • (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, Atushi Nishizawa, Takaaki Yokozawa, Hiroyuki Nakano, Kazuki Sakai

KSC organization chart

Rules and Regulations

• Guideline for joining the KAGRA collaboration

• 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)

Rules and Regulations (KSC)

• 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

Documents

• KAGRA management structure

• KSC Document Tree in JGWDoc

Newsletter

• KSC Newsletter 3 (2018 December)

• KSC Newsletter 2 (2018 August)

• KSC Newsletter 1 (2018 April)

Links

• Face-to-Face Meetings

• KAGRA International Workshops

• KSC Meetings

• Young Researcher's wiki page

• O3

KSC members

• KSC members consist from all participating institutes/universities (groups). If one group has N>4 KAGRA collaborators, then it can register round(N/4) KSC members. Please contact to KSC_Board for updating KSC members.

• KSC members have right to vote for the decision in KSC.
• As of April 2, 2019, we have 81 KSC members.

  Affiliation1	Affiliation2	LastName	FirstName
  Academia Sinica	Institute of Physics	Haino	Sadakazu
  Beijing Normal University	Department of Astronomy	Zhu	Zong-Hong
  California Institute of Technology		Kumar	Rahul
  Chinese Academy of Sciences	Shanghai Institute of Ceramics	Zheng	Lihe
  Ewha Womans University	Department of Physics	Kim	Chunglee
  Hanyang University	Department of Physics	Lee	Hyun Kyu
  High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)	Applied Research Laboratory	Kimura	Nobuhiro
  High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)	Applied Research Laboratory	Kozakai	Chihiro
  High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)	Applied Research Laboratory	Tomaru	Takayuki
  High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)	Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS)	Kyutoku	Koutarou
  Hirosaki University	Department of Mathematics and Physics	Asada	Hideki
  Hosei University	Graduate School of Science and Engineering	Sato	Shuichi
  Industrial Technology Research Institute	Center for Measurement Standards	Chen	Sheng-Jui
  Inje University	Department of Computer Simulation	Lee	Hyung Won
  Keio University	Graduated School of Science and Technology/Institute for Quantum Studies, Chapman University Affiliated Scholar	Shikano	Yutaka
  Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)		Lee	Hyung Mok
  Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)		Kang	Gungwon
  Korea University	Department of Physics	Yoon	Tai Hyun
  Kyoto University	Department of Physics	Seto	Naoki
  Kyoto University	Department of Physics	Tanaka	Takahiro
  Kyoto University	Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP)	Ioka	Kunihito
  Nagaoka University of Technology	Department of Information \& Management Systems Engineering	Takahashi	Hirotaka
  Nagoya University	Institute for Advanced Research	Kuroyanagi	Sachiko
  National Applied Research Laboratories	National Center for High-performance computing	Lin	Chun-Yu
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)	Kamioka Branch	Aso	Yoichi
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)	Kamioka Branch	Ohishi	Naoko
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)		Akutsu	Tomotada
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)		Flaminio	Raffaele
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)		Hirata	Naoatsu
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)		Takahashi	Ryutaro
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)		Tanioka	Satoshi
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)		Tatsumi	Daisuke
  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)		Zeidler	Simon
  National Defense Academy of Japan	Department of Communications	Uehara	Tomoyuki
  National Institute for Mathematical Sciences		Oh	John
  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)	The Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute	Nagano	Shigeo
  National Taiwan Normal University	Department of Physics	Lin	Feng-Li
  National Tsing Hua University	Department of Physics and Institute of Astronomy	Lee	Ray-Kuang
  Niigata University	Faculty of Engineering	Ohkawa	Masashi
  Niigata University	Faculty of Engineering	Sato	Takashi
  Niigata University	Graduate School of Science and Technology	Oohara	Ken-ichi
  Osaka City University	Graduate School of Science	Itoh	Yousuke
  Osaka City University	Graduate School of Science	Kanda	Nobuyuki
  Osaka City University	Graduate School of Science	Nakao	Ken-ichi
  Osaka Institute of Technology	Faculty of Information Science and Technology	Shinkai	Hisaaki
  Osaka University	Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science	Baiotti	Luca
  Ryukoku University	Faculty of Law	Nakano	Hiroyuki
  Sapienza University	Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare	Majorana	Ettore
  Sejong University	Department of Physics and Astronomy	van Putten	Maurice
  Shanghai Normal University	Shanghai United Center for Astrophysics	Zhai	Xiang-hua
  Tamkang University	Department of Physics	Liu	Guo Chin
  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics	Department of Mathematical Analysis and Statistical Inference	Mano	Shuhei
  The University of Tokyo	Department of Physics	Ando	Masaki
  The University of Tokyo	Department of Physics	Enomoto	Yutaro
  The University of Tokyo	Department of Physics	Michimura	Yuta
  The University of Tokyo	Department of Physics	Shimoda	Tomofumi
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR)	Kajita	Takaaki
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Kawaguchi	Kyohei
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Kokeyama	Keiko
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Miyakawa	Osamu
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Miyoki	Shinji
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Nagano	Koji
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Ohashi	Masatake
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Saito	Yoshio
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Suzuki	Toshikazu
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Uchiyama	Takashi
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Ushiba	Takafumi
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Yamamoto	Takahiro
  The University of Tokyo	Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), KAGRA Observatory	Yokozawa	Takaaki
  The University of Tokyo	Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU)	Morisaki	Soichiro
  The University of Tokyo	Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU)	Yokoyama	Jun'ichi
  Toho University	Faculty of Science	Sekiguchi	Yuichiro
  Tokyo Institute of Technology	Graduate School of Science and Technology	Kawai	Nobuyuki
  Tokyo Institute of Technology	Graduate School of Science and Technology	Somiya	Kentaro
  University of Perugia	Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare	Vocca	Helios
  University of Sannio	Department of Engineering	Pinto	Innocenzo
  University of Toyama	Department of Physics	Kakizaki	Mitsuru
  University of Toyama	Department of Physics	Matsushima	Fusakazu
  University of Toyama	Department of Physics	Moriwaki	Yoshiki
  University of Toyama	Department of Physics	Yamamoto	Kazuhiro
  Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, CAS	Department of Physics	Ni	Wei-Tou