Program (27 - 29 August)

27th, Aug (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

28th, 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

29th, 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)"