KAGRA face to face meeting

Date: Feb 14(Thu)- Feb 16(Sat), 2013

Location and access: ICRR U-tokyo, Kashiwa campus, 6F large conference room

http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access/index_eng.html


F2F meeting

The face-to-face meeting of KAGRA Collaboration will be held at Kashiwa campus from the 30th of July to the 1st of August, 2012. The objective of this meeting is to let all collaboration members know the current status of KAGRA and is to exchange information among different sub-systems for coherently and efficiently conducting the project. We may have to discuss unsolved problems that have been studied by the special working groups and will make decisions if possible. On the first day, we will hear talks from persons and groups that hope to join the collaboration, and also decide upon their application. We shall also hear about management issues. After the meeting, International Board of Representatives will be held on. On this evening, there is the ceremony for KAGRA new logo in Banquet. Proposers of the KAGRA logo will be rewarded. On the second and third days, the report of the sub-working groups will be presented. In the third day, we will have talks on R&D for advanced detectors.

I hope in this meeting that we have wide and deep discussions to find the best ways to fulfill the scientific objectives of KAGRA.

Kazuaki Kuroda


Registration

If you will attend this KAGRA f2f meeting, please visit below page and register AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

We plan to have a banquet in the evening on February 15th. If you attend the banquet please put 'yes' in the box for attending the banquet on the registration page and pay the fee JPY3500 for staff (JPY2500 for student) by cash at the front desk of conference.

The fee for coffee break is JPY500 for others.

If you plan to stay at the lodge in Kashiwa-campus of ICRR, U-Tokyo, please put the dates you hope to stay in the box for accommodation request on the registration page. Note that we have limited number of rooms, so please register ASAP if you are thinking to stay at campus.


Partipants list


Free shuttle bus for visitors from Kashiwa-no-Ha station to ICRR Kashiwa-campus

Here is an information for those who attend the f2f meeting. We have Free shuttle bus for visitors from Nishi-guchi (West Exit) of Kashiwa-no-Ha station to ICRR Kashiwa campus. It takes about 10 minutes.

Information is written in Japanese, but you can see a map of bus stop and time table.

Buses leaving Kashiwa-no-Ha station in the morning:

8:00, 8:20, 8:40,
9:00, 9:40,
10:00, 10:20, 10:40 (last in the morning)

Additionally, there are the public bus (Tobu-bus), all the day. It takes about 10 minutes. If you get on the bus Nishikashiwa 03 (for Nagareyama-Ohtakanomori Eki Higashiguchi or Todai Nishi) or 04 (for Edogawadai Eki Higashiguchi), the nearest bus stop to the conference room is "Kokuritsu Gan Kenkyu Center" (National Cancer Research Center). If you get on the bus Nishikashiwa 10 (for Edogawadai Eki Higashiguchi (via Midoridai) in the below table, it has *), the nearest bus stop is "Todai-mae" (In front of the University of Tokyo).

8:00, 8:10, 8:21, 8:31, 8:35*, 8:43, 8:52, 8:59
9:09, 9:21, 9:40, 9:45*,
10:03, 10:21, 10:33*, 10:35, 10:41


Banquet


Program

February 14 (Thu.)

Time

Title

Speaker [time for a talk + questions]

File

10:00-11:00

Registration

11:00-11:15

KAGRA project (chair: K. Kuroda)

Introduction of New Members & guests

K. Kuroda

KAGRA Overview

T. Kajita [10 min]

11:15-12:40

Proposal by new collaborators (chair: S. Kawamura)

Toyama University

F. Matsushima and Y. Ono [25 min]

National Defense Academy of Japan

T. Uehara [20 min]

The development of a super high sensitivity shadow sensor for Gravitational Waves detection (Yokohama City University)

R. Micheletto [20 min]

Institute for Molecular Science

Y. Shikano [20 min]

Lunch time 12:40~14:00

14:00-14:20

Status of International Collaborations I (chair: K. Kuroda)

Activities under JSPS program (Germany)

K. Somiya [10min]

ELiTES activity report

K. Somiya [10min]

14:20-16:35

Project management I (chair: I. Nakatani)

Overview

I. Nakatani [5min]

Budget Status

M. Ohashi [5min]

Status of Follow-up of PAB Recommendations (Overview)

T. Kajita [5min]

Status of Follow-up of PAB Recommendations (Operations Budget and Access Tunnel at X-end)

M. Ohashi [5min]

Status of Follow-up of PAB Recommendations (Resources[manpower] and Role of System Engineering Office)

S. Kawamura [10min]

Status of Follow-up of PAB Recommendations (Position and role of Project Manager)

T. Kajita [5min]

Break 15:00~15:30

System Engineering Office Activities and Internal/External Reviews

S. Kawamura [15 min]

Interface Control

K. Somiya [10min]

Risk Management

M. Ando [10 min]

Transition from EVO to Another Network

Y. Aso [10 min]

Activity of Public Relations Committee

M-K. Fujimoto [10 min]

Activity of Publication Committee

K. Tsubono [10 min]

17:00-18:00

International Board of Representatives (chair: T. Kajita)


February 15 (Fri.)

Time

Title

Speaker [time for a talk + questions]

File

10:00-10:15

Project management II (chair: TBD)

Status of Follow-up of PAB Recommendations (Safety/Hazard Analysis)

S. Miyoki [5min]

(1)Schedule Management (2) Keeping Track of Purchased Items (3) Temporary Storage of Purchased Items

S. Miyoki [10 min]

10:15-11:00

Status of International Collaborations II (chair: K. Kuroda)

Overview

K. Kuroda [5min]

Concept of Data shairing

N. Kanda and M. Ando [10min]

Attachments to MOU among LIGO/LSC & EGO/Virgo

M. Ando [15min]

Activities under JSPS program (Korea)

S. Kawamura [10min]

Status of JSPS program (Core-to-Core Program)

S. Kawamura [5min]

11:00-11:40

Reports of sub-groups 1 (chair: TBD)

Facility

S. Mioki [20+5min]

Vacuum

Y. Saito [10+5min]

Lunch time 11:40~13:30

13:30-17:00

Reports of sub-groups 2 (chair: TBD)

Auxiliary Optics

T. Akutsu [20+5min]

Tunnel

T. Uchiyama [15+5min]

Cryogenic

T. Suzuki and K. Yamamoto [10+15+5min]

Vibration Isolation

R. Takahashi and R. DeSalvo[15+10+5min]

Break 15:15~15:45

Mirror

N. Mio and E. Hirose [10+10+5 min]

Laser

N. Mio [10+5 min]

Input Output Optics

S. Telada [5+5 min]

Geophysics Interferometer

A. Araya [20+5 min]

19:00~

Moving to Doma-Doma Kashiwa-no-Ha Campus branch (Japanese style dish),map


February 16 (Sat.)

Time

Title

Speaker [time for a talk + questions]

File

9:00-9:35

Science (chair: N. Kanda)

How to use gravitational waves to test the Einstein gravity

T. Tanaka [30+5 min]

9:35-12:10

Reports of sub-groups 3 (chair: TBD)

Main Interferometer

Y. Aso [25+5 min]

Input Output Optics (Ouput Mode Cleaner)

K. Somiya [10+5 min]

Break 10:20~10:40

Detector Characterization

K. Hayama [15+5 min]

Analog Electronics

O. Miyakawa [10+5 min]

Digital System

O. Miyakawa [10+5 min]

Data Management

N. Kanda [15+5 min]

Data Analysis

H. Tagoshi [15+5 min]

12:10-12:30

Closing session (T. Kajita)


EVO broadcast

EVO broadcast is available during the KAGRA f2f meeting.

We will support only for listening the meeting, but not for saying something from listeners since this face to face meeting, as shown in its name, is supposed that all the participants meet at the conference room directly.

EVO information:

Help for EVO is here.