The 21st KAGRA face-to-face meeting

December 5 (Wed)-6(Thur) 2018

at NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan)

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	The meeting is coordinated by KAGRA Scientific Congress (KSC)

Program (Dec 5), (Dec 6), (Poster), Registration, Venue, Access

Visa, Invitation Letter, Travel Support

Satellite Meeting on Data Analysis groups at ICRR, Kashiwa, Chiba (Dec 7) Wiki

List of Participants (As of August 17)

Outline of the meeting

The 21st F2F meeting will be held at NAOJ. We will discuss both our latest achievements and our managements.
- LOC: Yoichi Aso, Matteo Leonardi. LOC secretaries: Ohyama-san, Yoshizumi-san, Harada-san, and Sakamoto-san.

Registration will be open in November.

Registration page -- Registration page is open! Deadline is November 22 (Thur), 23:59 JST.
- If you made registration twice, we will replace all of your information from the previous one.
Announcements were sent out [kagra 02458] (Oct 12), [kagra 02462] (Oct 13)
Graduate students who will submit thesis (Master thesis/Doctoral thesis) by March 2019 are supposed to make thesis presentations (both oral and poster) in this meeting.
Satellite meeting on R&D will be held at NAOJ, Mitaka on December 4. Registration will be made separately.
Satellite meeting on Data Analysis will be held at ICRR, Kashiwa on December 7. Registration will be made separately. See Wiki for details.
This is a closed meeting of the KAGRA collaboration.
- If you are a member of the KAGRA collaboration and have recently moved to a new place: Contact the KSC board. You will be requested to make an introduction of your new laboratory at the meeting.
- If you want to join the KAGRA collaboration: Contact the KSC board. You are supposed to make a presentation on your proposal at the meeting.

Program

to be announced.

Planning to start 10:30 am on December 5, and end by 17:00 December 6.

Poster session

Kxx: KAGRA group, S-Exp-xx: Students (Experiments), S-DAT-xx: Students (Data Analysis/Theory), Cxx: Contributions. The asterisk (*) indicates a thesis presentation.

Graduate students who will submit thesis (Master thesis/Doctoral thesis) by March 2019 are supposed to make thesis presentations (both oral and poster) in this meeting.

number	Contributor	Title	File
Poster K1	KSC Newsletter editors	KSC Newsletter, The issue 3 (2018/12)	x
Poster K2	System Engineering Office	Gantt Chart of bKAGRA (2018/12)	x

Poster S-Exp-01*	xxx xxxx (xxx U.)	title title	x
Poster S-Exp-02*	xxx xxxx (xxx U.)	title title	x
Poster S-DAT-01*	xxx xxxx (xxx U.)	title title	x
Poster S-DAT-02*	xxx xxxx (xxx U.)	title title	x

Poster Award

Yes, we will organize poster award for students. This F2F, we will award in two categories; "Experiments" and "Data Analysis/Theory". Please register either one at the registration page. You can register two poster presentations separately.

Satellite Meeting on Data Analysis (December 7)

Wiki
Please note that this satellite meeting will be held at ICRR, Kashiwa. We recommend you to book your room near Kashiwa, Chiba Pref. on the night December 6.

Registration

Registration page -- Registration page is open! Deadline is November 22 (Thur), 23:59 JST.
- If you made registration twice, we will replace all of your information from the previous one.

Visa, Invitation Letter

If you need visa to enter Japan, please send the request both to
- Dr. Hideyuki Tagoshi, tagoshi_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Ms. Rie Kikuchi, rkikuchi_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  - as early as possible. Two will contact you to prepare necessary documents.
- You can find the procedure to apply VISA at the web site of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan https://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html
- Please note that your can not apply for VISA only with the invitation letter. You have to submit special documents for VISA which are prepared by Japanese side.
If you don’t need visa, but you need an invitation letter, please send an email to KSC board chair,
- Hisaaki Shinkai, hisaaki.shinkai_at_oit.ac.jp

Travel Support (oversea)

Core to Core program can support your local expense if you belong to the following countries' universities and institutes, in Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam or India. Firstly, please contact a cordinator of C2C in your country.
Cordinator's list is in http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gr/GWPOHPe/collabo-e.html.

Travel Support (domestic)

Core-to-Core also can support domestic travel expenses for several researchers who belong to institutes/universities in Japan and who will attend F2F@NAOJ and give presentations. Graduate students and postdoc researchers have priorities for support.
If you are a student, please consult with your supervisor and ask him/her to contact Miyoki-san and Kikuchi-san
- Dr. Shinji Miyoki, miyoki_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Ms. Rie Kikuchi, rkikuchi_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  - via e-mail (i.e. e-mail should be from your supervisor).
If you are a post-doctoral researcher or a faculty member, please contact Miyoki-san and Kikuchi-san directly via e-mail.

The venue

Access

Accommodations

Please book a room by yourself. Here is some information about hotels near the JR Toyama station.