16th KAGRA face-to-face meeting, March 28-30th 2017, Satellite Campus Tokimate, Niigata University

Program

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Time	Subject and Title	Speaker	File

11:00-11:30	Registration

11:30-13:10	Status I (Chair: K. Oohara)
	Opening address	T. Sato
	KAGRA status (15 min)	T. Kajita	O
	SEO report (45 min)	Y. Saito	O
	Report from the Committee of Publication Control (10 min)	R. Flaminio	O
	Report from the Author list committee (10 min)	M. Ando	O
	Document & Drawings 1 (10 min)	N. Kanda	O
	Document & Drawings 2: Update on JGWDoc system (10 min)	O. Miyakawa	O

13:10-14:40	Lunch

14:40-14:45	Information (Chair: Y. Michimura)
	New clean room　at　University　of　Toyama　(5 min)	K. Yamamoto	O
14:45-15:35	Proposals for new collaboration (Chair: Y. Michimura)
	Introduction of new collaborators & guest (5 min)
	New people presentation 1 (15 min)	Chunglee Kim (KASI)
	New people presentation 2 (15 min)	Guo-Chin Liu (Tamkang Univ.)
	Votes for approval (15 min)

15:35-15:50	Break

15:50-18:20	KSC (Chair: Y. Aso)
	Agenda	KSC members	agenda R&D and Authorship Authorship KSC Election

18:30-20:45	Parallel business session
	Informal session for sustainable research	Students and young researchers (senior researchers can attend if interested)	O
	IBR meeting at the meeting room A	IBR members Only

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Time	Subject and Title	Speaker	File

9:00-10:45	Subsystem I (Chair: K. Craig)
	VIS 1 (15 min)	K. Okutomi
	VIS 2 (15 min)	M. Barton	O
	VIS 3 (15 min)	A. Shoda	O
	CRY 1: Overview + cryostat cooling test at site (10 min)	K. Yamamoto	O
	CRY 2: Vibration measurement at site (10 min)	T. Ochi	O
	CRY 3: Cryogenic payload (10 min)	T. Miyamoto	O
	CRY 4: Sapphire suspension (10 min)	R. Kumar
	Discussion for CRY (5 min)
	Status of MIF (15 min)	Y. Michimura	O

10:45-11:00	Break

11:00-12:30	Subsystem II (Chair: F. E. Peña Arellano)
	IOO 1: Overview of IOO (15 min)	S. Kawamura	O
	IOO 2: Progress in Kamioka (15 min)	K. Kokeyama	O
	IOO 3: The Measurements for Characteristics of SiC and Prospect to the Design of Beam Dump (15 min)	Y.-Y. Chen	O
	IOO 4: Intensity noise stabilization and green lock system (tentative title) (15 min)	K. Yokogawa	O
	IOO 5: Two axes interferometer tilt sensor for initial mirror alignments and its evaluation results (15 min)	J.-G. Park	O
	VAC (15 min)	T. Uchiyama	O

12:30-14:00	Lunch

14:00-15:00	Status II (Chair: N. Kanda)
	Status and Plans for LIGO (60 min, Invited talk)	David Shoemaker (MIT, LIGO)

15:00-15:15	Break

15:15-16:45	Subsytem III (Chair: R. Kumar)
	LAS (15 min)	N. Mio	O
	AEL (15 min)	T. Tomura	O
	DGS (15 min)	O. Miyakawa	O
	CAL 1: Current status of KAGRA calibration and progress of photon calibrator study (20 min)	Y. Inoue	O
	CAL 2: Analog circuit boards measurements and hardware injection study (10 min)	T. Yokozawa	O
	CAL 3: iKAGRA/bKAGRA h(t) reconstruction (15 min)	T. Yamamoto	O

16:45-17:00	Break

17:00-18:15	Subsystem IV (Chair: S. Haino)
	DET 1 (15 min)	K. Hayama	O
	DET 2 (15 min)	A. Nishizawa	O
	DMG 1: overall and new main storage (15 min)	N. Kanda	O
	DMG 2 (15 min)	K. Sakai	O
	DMG 3: Status of computing resources at KISTI and supports for KAGRA (15 min)	G.-W. Kang

18:15-18:45	Safety (Chair: S. Haino)
	KAGRA safety lecture (30 min)	S. Kawamura	O

19:00-21:00	Banquet at "魚沼釜蔵" (Uonuma-Kamakura)

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Time	Subject and Title	Speaker	File

9:00-10:45	Subsystem V (Chair: M. Barton)
	MIR (15 min)	E. Hirose	O
	AOS 1 (15 min)	T. Akutsu	O
	AOS 2 (15 min)	S. Zeidler	O
	AOS 3 (15 min)	T. Morozumi	O
	GIF 1 (15 min)	A. Araya	O
	GIF 2 (15 min)	K. Miyo	O
	DAS (15 min)	H. Tagoshi	O

10:45-11:00	Break

11:00-11:50	iKAGRA run and data analysis papers (Chair: H. Shinkai)
	Status on the iKAGRA detector & run paper (20 min)	Y. Itoh	O
	Publication plan of iKAGRA data analysis result (30 min)	H. Tagoshi	O

11:50-13:10	Lunch

13:10-14:50	bKAGRA plan and Advanced R & D (Chair: K. Kokeyama)
	Status on the bKAGRA LRR paper (15 min)	M. Ando	O
	bKAGRA plan discussion (30 min)
	Advanced R & D 1 (Plan) (10 min)	Y. Michimura/K. Somiya	O
	Advanced R & D 2 (Update for the experiment on filter cavity) (15 min)	R. Flaminio
	Advanced R & D 3 (Experiment on crackling noise from geometric anti spring (GAS) filters) (15 min)	S. Kirii	O
	Advanced R & D 3 (Development of an absorption bench and some results about crystalline coatings) (15 min)	M. Marchio	O

14:50-15:05	Break

15:05-16:00	Summary (Chair: Y. Itoh)
	Summary from KSC (35 min)	N.Kanda, K.Kokeyama	O
	Report from IBR and summary (15 min)	T. Kajita	O

Information

Note Outside food & drinks allowed in the meeting room.

Banquet We will have a banquet in the evening on the 29th at a Japanese-style restaurant "魚沼釜蔵" (Uonuma-Kamakura) next to Hotel Mets Niigata in a building directly connected to Niigata station. The banquet fee is JPY4500 for staff (JPY3500 for student). The fee for coffee break, JPY500, will be added to this fee. Please pay by cash at the front desk of secretary BEFORE THE BANQUET.

Venue

Niigata University Satellite Campus "TOKI-MATE"
http://www1.niigata-u.ac.jp/tokimate/outline.html (in Japanese)
"TOKI-MATE" is on the 2nd floor of PLAKA1, which is directly connected to the south exit of Niigata Station.
Map around Niigata Station and TOKI-MATE
http://www1.niigata-u.ac.jp/tokimate/access.html (in Japanese)
SPECIAL NOTICE
- There is another conference place of similar name in Niigata, TOKI MESSE. It is more famous but completely different place.
  Please note that our venue is "TOKI -MATE" near Niigata Station.
  You should also notice that it is not in the main campus of Niigata University; it is far from Niigata Station.

Registration

Registration due date: Feb. 28th (Tue.) [Closed]

Access

From Tokyo, please take Joetsu Shinkansen express (train) to Niigata.
From Toyama, please take Hokuriku Shinkansen express for Tokyo and change at Joetsu-Myoko to Shin-etsu Line for Niigata. There are only five express trains every day between Joetsu-Myoko and Niigata.
Note that partial revisions of the timetable will be made on March 5.
We have domestic and international flights between Niigata and some cities.
There are domestic flights to Niigata from Osaka (Itami; ITM), Nagoya (NGO and NKM), Fukuoka (FUK) and Tokyo/Narita (NRT).
- Note that we have only one flight from/to Narita every day. No flight from/to Tokyo/Haneda.
Flight Schedule
There are a few international flights.
- A flight between Seoul (Incheon, ICN) and Niigata will be operated on Tue. Thu. and Sat. ( updated)
- There are two flights weekly from/to Shanghai, three flights weekly from/to Harbin.
- There are two flights weekly from/to Taipei. ( updated)
Flight Schedule
Niigata Airport
Take a direct (limousine) bus from Niigata Airport to Niigata Station. There is a direct bus every 20 or 30 minutes. It takes 25 minutes and the fare is JPY410. The direct bus will stop at South Exit of Niigata Station beside the building of the venue. Local (regular) buses stop on the other side of Niigata Station (Bnadai Exit), so that we do not recommend taking it unless you go to your hotel on this side.
- timetable of the airport bus (English version)
  timetable of the airport bus (Japanese version)
Car park
There is not a free parking lot in TOKI-MATE. Please use a pay parking lot nearby the venue. Please visit this page for parking lot information (Japanese version only).

Hotel

There are some hotels near Niigata Station. Please book a room by yourself.
Booking.com
Followings are hotels nearby the venue.
- Art Hotel Niigata Station: in the same building to the venue
- Hotel Mets Niigata: on the same side of Niigata Station to the venue
- Toyoko Inn Niigata Ekimae: on the other side of Niigata Station but easiest to access on this side
- Ramda Hotel Niigata: on the other side of Niigata Station, next easiest to access