KAGRA collaboration meeting

56th(Domestic): May 26, 2015 (Tuesday) 10:00~17:00 (JST)

Agenda

Participants

55th(International): Dec. 9, 2014 (Tuesday) 9:00~11:00 (JST)

Participants:(SeeVogh) Miyakawa, Saito, Uchiyama, Flaminio, Tagoshi, Ohishi, Aso, Narikawa, Hirose, Kawamura, Ohashi, Michimura, Somiya, Ueno (K), Itoh, Ueda (A), Takahashi (H), Kanda, Kanda Laboratory members, (Kashiwa) Kajita, Sakakibara, Tomaru, Majorana, Kuroda, Suzuki (T)

Agenda

1. Project report (Kajita)

2. SEO report (Saito)

3. Installation of iKAGRA components (Uchiyama)

4. Reports by IBR members(US(Koji Arai), SHNU(Xiang-hua Zhai),KGWG(Hyung-Mok Lee),Polish KAGRA(Tomasz Strecki))

5. Necessity of KAGRA Council and rasing candidates of the members (Kuroda)

6. Intermediate report on authorship policy (Ando/Kuroda)

SeeVogh Information

54th(in Japanese): Oct. 15, 2014 (Wednesday) 13:00~19:00

Kashiwa campus meeting room: 総合研究棟470号室；IP address for TV conference system:157.82.240.189 SeeVogh is booked as usual.

Participants:

[Kashiwa]Kajita,Tomaru,Tanaka,Miyamoto,Suzuki,Nishiuchi,Chen,Yamamoto,Sakakibara,Kuroda

[SeeVogh]Kanayama,Takahashi(H),Kawabe, Kandalab,Ishizaki,Itoh,Ohishi,Flaminio,Izumi,Hayama,Akutsu,Miyakawa,Yano,Saito(Y),Aso,Kawamura,Tagoshi,Sato(T),Ueno,Takahashi(R),Narikawa,yokoyama,hirose,Saito(T),Kataoka

Agenda

General Reports (13:00~15:00)

1. Some thoughts on LIGO progress -Koji Arai (40 min)

2. Project Report -Kajita (20 min)

3. SE Office general report -Saito (20 min)

4. Safety Control -Kuroda ( 10 min)

5. Report of CPC -Flaminio ( 10 min)

6. Report of PR -Aso ( 10 min)

7. Geometry measurement in KAGRA -Tomaru( 10 min)

Subsystem reports I (15:00-15:30)

1. Report of Input/output Optics (30 min)

   • General report	S. Kawamura
     Prestabilized laser	M. Nakano
     Input mode cleaner suspension	T. Saito

Coffee Break (15:30-15:50)

Renewal of Project Plan (15:50-16:20)

1. bKAGRA plan with the present budget expectation -Y. Aso (30 min)

Subsystem reports II (16:20~19:00)

1. Report of Detector Characterization (10min)

   • General report

     K. Hayama

2. Report of Vibration Isolation subsystem (10 min)

   • General report

     R. Takahashi

3. Report of Cryogenic subsystem (10 min)

   • General report

     K. Yamamoto

4. Installation Scheduling Uchiyama(20min)

5. Report of Laser subsystem (15 min)

   • Present status of the laser system for KAGRA

     Ryota Nishiuchi

6. Report of Auxiliary Optics subsystem (10 min)

   • General report

     Akutsu

7. Report of Data Management subsystem (15min)

   • General report	N. Kanda
     Topical report	T. Yamamoto

8. Report of Data Analysis subsystem (15min)

   • General report	H. Tagoshi
     Topical report	M. Kaneyama

9. Report of DGS & AEL (15min)

   • General report

     O. Miyakawa

53rd(International): Jun. 12, 2014 (Thursday) 17:00~19:00 (JST)

Participants:

[Kashiwa] Kajita, Yamamoto, Kawamura, Kuroda, Miyamaoto, Tanaka, Sakakibara, Yamanaka

[SeeVogh] Saito, Ohashi, Itoh, Hayama, Yuzurihara, Ando, Kanda, Flaminio, Ueno, Aso, Miyakawa(PolyCom)

Agenda

1. Project report - Kajita

2. SEO report - Saito

3. Report of subsystem 1
4. Report of subsystem 2
5. Others

52th(Domestic): Apr. 16, 2014 (Wed) 13:00~(JST)

In prior to this doestic meeting, we have lectures for new members staring at 10:00 in the morning. The lecturers are Prof. Kentaro Somiya and Prof Yusuke Itoh.

1. Gravitational-wave detector - Somiya (60 min)

2. Gravitational-wave data analysis - Itoh (60 min)

Agenda

1. Random thoughts about aLIGO and installation　　　　　　　 -Kawabe (45min)

2. Introduction of Fresh persons (10min)

3. Project Report 　　　　　　　　 -Kajita (20min)

4. SE Office report (report of the external review) 　　　　　　　　 –Ando (20min)

Coffee Break (14:35-15:00)

1. Schedule of Installation & Commissioning 　　　　　　　　 -Saito (20min)

2. Report of each subsystem （a few topics selected by SEO）(70min)

   What can we do with iKAGRA ?, Aso Control System of Interferometer, Miyakawa, (30min) Specification of laser(LAS, Suzuki & Mio, 20min) Tunnel structure and status - Tunnel,- FCL, Uchiyama & Miyoki (20min)

3. Status of VIS R&D 　　　　　　　　 -Pena(20min)

4. Status of Cryo-suspension 　　　　　　　　 -Yamamoto(20min)

5. Others (Safety control) 　　　　　　　　 -Kuroda(10min)

Past collaboration meeting

• Meetings in FY2013

• Meetings in FY2012

• Meetings in FY2011

• Meetings in FY2010

• Meetings in FY2008, 2009

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