Scope of the meeting

The face-to-face meeting of KAGRA Collaboration will be held at the University of Toyama in Toyama city. The objective of this meeting is to share the information of the construction status of KAGRA and is to let all members be ready for cooperative work on KAGRA site since this fall. The first priority of this meeting is placed on the determination of the installation schedule. Second, we are facing to reorganize the basic plan of KAGRA due to financial requirement after iKAGRA. To overcome difficulties against KAGRA project, novel ideas or positive proposals are wanted. This meeting will present such opportunity for all KAGRA collaboration members to contribute for the success of KAGRA.

In this meeting, we have a sub-meeting of the International Board of Representatives and social banquet. In the afternoon on 30th, July (Wed), the site tour (KAGRA cavern) will be held. In the morning on 30th, July (Wed), KAGRA Summer School (lectures about Gravitational Wave Physics for BEGINNERS) will be held in the University of Toyama. The venue of the meeting and the summer school is the Multi-purpose Hall on the second floor of the main building of Graduate school of Science (Number 7 in University of Toyama Campus map ).

KAGRA Summer School lectures (30th, July)

• -Chair Miyoki-
• 10:00-10:40 ("What will happen after 2015?" by Takashi Nakamura)

• 10:40-11:20 ("Detector" by Kazuhiro Yamamoto)Slides

• 11:20-12:00 ("Data analysis" by Kazuhiro Hayama)

KAGRA site tour (Subscribers only, Afternoon 30th, July)

• KAGRA site tour

• North Exit of Toyama station

• Underpath of Toyama station

• University of Toyama Campus map

Program (31st July - 2nd August)

31st, July (Thu)

• 10:00-11:00 Registration

• 11:00-11:40 Opening session -Chair Kazuaki Kuroda-
  • Greeting message from the president of the University of Toyama (Shunro Endo)

  • Introduction of new people & guest

  • KAGRA overview (Takaaki Kajita)

• 11:40-12:00 KAGRA tunnel Safety lecture (Naoko Ohishi)

• 12:00-12:20 Kamioka mine Safety lecture (Takashi Uchiyama, in Japanese, for ID holders)

• ---Lunch---

• 13:30-14:10 SEO Report -Chair Masatake Ohashi-

  • Present status of iKAGRA and bKAGRA (Yoshio Saito, 15 min)

  • Guideline for "shift work" (Masaki Ando, 10 min)

  • External reviewers comments (Masaki Ando, 15 min)

• 14:10-15:20 iKAGRA Installation & Commissioning -Chair Masaki Ando-

  • Installation schedule (Takashi Uchiyama, 15 min)

  • VAC: installation and anchoring (Takashi Uchiyama, 15 min)

  • FCL: clean booth construction (Shinji Miyoki, 20 min)

  • Commissioning plan (Seiji Kawamura, 20 min)

• ---Coffee Break---

• 15:50-17:30 Report of sub-group 1 -Chair Nobuyuki Kanda-

  • IOO: Overview, PSL, FRC, IMC-WFS (40 min)

  • LAS (30 min)

  • VIS (Ryutaro Takahashi, 30 min)

• 17:30-17:50 Introduction of e-log -Chair Masaki Ando-

  • Experience & development from Virgo/LIGO (Gary Hemming)

• 18:00 IBR

1st, August (Fri)

• 10:00-12:00 Reports of sub–group 2 -Chair Kazuhiro Yamamoto-

  • MIR MIR progress report (Eiichi Hirose)

  • MIF

  • DC readout (Kentaro Somiya, 15 min)

  • OMC (Ayaka Kumeta, 5 min)

  • AEL/DGS

  • DGS/AEL (Osamu Miyakawa, 30 min)

  • GIF (Akiteru Takamori, 30 min)

• ---Lunch---

• 13:30-15:10 Invited Talks -Chair Seiji Kawamura-

  • Commisining of aLIGO at Livingston (Keiko Kokeyama, LIGO Livingston, 50 min)

  • “Low loss coating development at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan” (Shiuh Chao, Inst. Photonics Technology & EE Dept, NTHU, 20 min)

  • "Identification of Compact Object Merger Candidates" (Kipp Cannon, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, 30 min)

• ---Coffee Break---

• 15:30-16:00 Reports from overseas collaborators -Chair Kyuman Cho-

  • (US (Keiko Kokeyama), KOREA (Tai Hyun Yoon),China (Xing-hua Zhai) ,Italy (Innocenzo Pinto), Polish KAGRA Consortium, 5 min each)

• 16:00- 17:30 Report of sub-group 3 -Chair Takayuki Tomaru-

  • AOS

  • CRY

  • DMG

• 18:00- Banquet

2nd, August (Sat)

• 10:00-11:00 Report of subgroup 4 -Chair Tai Hyun Yoon-

  • DetChar

  • DAS(Yousuke Itoh)

• 11:00-12:20 Scope of KAGRA2016 -Chair Yoshio Saito-

  • KAGRA2016 candidates (Aso)

• ---Lunch---

• 13:20-14:30 Advanced R&D -Chair Kentaro Somiya-

  • "High sensitivity, low drift interferometric tilt sensor for initial alignment," (Kyuman Cho, 15+5 min)

  • "Coating development and plans for filter cavity tests at TAMA" (Daisuke Tatsumi, 15+5 min)

  • "Towards the ground-state cooling using combination of active and passive cooling" (Nobuyuki Matsumoto, 25+5 min)

• 14:30-15:00 Closing session "Closing remarks (T. Kajita)"

Hotel and Access

As is usual, please reserve your hotel by yourself. The information about hotel near University of Toyama and access to Toyama are here.

• Hotel

• Access