19th KAGRA face-to-face meeting, May 18(Fri)-20(Sun), Osaka City University
Outline of the meeting
The 19th F2F meeting will be held at Osaka City University. We plan to discuss the summary of phase-1 operation, steps for joining LIGO/Virgo's O3 run, and other urgent issues.
- The planned schedule is to start the first session from 10:30 May 18 (Fri), and end by 17:00 May 20 (Sun).
- The second and third days start at 9:15.
- Introduction time of new members will be in the first session, May 18.
- Registration page -- Registration is closed. Please register at the registration desk if you missed it. 
- Banquet will be held in the evening of May 18. Banquet fee is 3500 JPY (2500 JPY for student).
- deadline of the registration (with the Banquet): April 30 (Mon) 23:59 JST
- deadline of the registration (waitlist Banquet): May 6 (Sun) 23:59 JST
- We will collect 500 JPY from all participants for snacks of coffee breaks at the registration desk.
- Contribution category: (a) report in subgroup session, (b) contribution: oral or poster, (c) contribution: only poster, (d) no presentation
- Poster presenters have oral short-talk session (2-minutes each) in the afternoon of the first day.
- We will award "Poster Presentation Prize" to contributions by students who made entry in the registration.
- If you moved to a new place to KAGRA collaboration: Contact to KSC board. You will be requested to make an introduction at the meeting.
- If you want to join KAGRA collaboration independently: Contact to KSC board. You are supposed to have a public interview at the meeting.
- Please book a hotel by yourself, and as soon as possible, since Osaka is quite busy city. Recommended area is near the Tennoji station or along the Subway Midosuji Line.
- The venue is at Tanaka Memorial hall/田中記念館 at the Sugimoto Campus of the Osaka City University. You can access 5 minutes from Sugimoto-Cho station of JR Hanwa Line, or 20 minutes from Abiko station of Subway Midosuji line.
Program
Almost fixed. Not a final version.
| May 18 th (Fri.) | |||
| Time | Subject and Title | Speaker | File | 
| 
 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
| 9:00-10:30 | Registration | 
 | |
| 10:30- | Opening (Chair: Hisaaki Shinkai) | 
 | |
| 
 | Opening address by Vice-president or dean of OCU (5 min) | 
 | 
 | 
| 10:35-11:15 | Session 01: Status (Chair: Hisaaki Shinkai) | 
 | |
| 
 | KAGRA overview (10 min) | Takaaki Kajita (ICRR) | |
| 
 | GWIC 3G report (5 min) | Takaaki Kajita (ICRR) | |
| 
 | SEO report (10 min) | Masaki Ando (U Tokyo) | |
| 
 | Joining Guidelines to KAGRA collaboration (3 min) | Hisaaki Shinkai (Osaka Inst. Tech.) | |
| 
 | Introduction of new collaborators & guest (15 min) | 
 | |
| 
 | short break (no coffee) | 
 | |
| 11:20-12:15 | Session 02: Summary of bKAGRA Phase-I (Chair: Yoichi Aso) | 
 | |
| 
 | Commissioning of bKAGRA phase-I : Overview (15 min) | Osamu Miyakawa (ICRR) | |
| 
 | Commissioning of bKAGRA phase-I : Details (25 min) | Kiwamu Izumi (ISAS) | |
| 
 | discussion (15 min) | 
 | 
 | 
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | 
 | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Session 03: Proposals for new collaboration (Chair: Sachiko Kuroyanagi) | 
 | |
| 
 | Introduction of New Institute | 
 | 
 | 
| 
 | # Chunglee Kim, moved to Ewha Womans Univ. (5 min) | Chunglee Kim | |
| 
 | # Kiwamu Izumi, moved to ISAS (5 min) | Kiwamu Izumi | |
| 
 | # Kazuhiro Hayama, moved to Fukuoka Univ. (5 min) | Kazuhiro Hayama | |
| 
 | # Kazuki Sakai, moved to National Institute of Technology, Nagaoka College. (5 min) | Kazuki Sakai | |
| 
 | # Nguyen Quynh Lan, moved to Univ. Notre Dame (5 min) | Nguyen Quynh Lan | |
| 
 | New Groups | 
 | 
 | 
| 
 | ## Introduction of Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (WIPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (15 min) | Mingsheng S Zhan | |
| 
 | ## Introduction of gravity, earthquake and earth free oscillation research in WHIGG (Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (8 min) | Yan Haoming | |
| 
 | vote (10 min) | 
 | 
 | 
| 14:30-15:00 | Session 04: Poster Lightning talks (Chair: Yuki Inoue) | 
 | |
| 
 | (1.5 min x 20 ) | 
 | 
 | 
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee Break | 
 | |
| 15:15-16:45 | Session 05: Subsystem 1 (Chair: Hyung Won Lee) | 
 | |
| 
 | DMG: Summary of Phase-I and status (15 min) | Ken-ichi Oohara (Niigata U) | |
| 
 | DMG: Toward Phase-II and O3 (15 min) | Nobuyuki Kanda (OCU) | |
| 
 | DAS1: (10min) | Hideyuki Tagoshi | |
| 
 | DAS2: (10min) | Kazuki Sakai | |
| 
 | DAS3: (10min) | Hirotaka Yuzurihara | |
| 
 | DAS4: (10min) | Takaaki Yokozawa | |
| 
 | DAS5: (10min) | Akinobu Miyamoto | |
| 
 | DAS6: (10min) | Hyung Won Lee | |
| 16:50- | Session 06: KSC and Collaborators session 1 : International Cooperation (Chair: ) | 
 | |
| 
 | Towards LIGO/Virgo joint observation plans (15 min) | Hisaaki Shinkai (OIT) | |
| 
 | KAGRA’s future international collaboration programs (30 min) | Takayuki Tomaru (KEK) | |
| --18:00 | (18:00 close all the sessions (rooms!) of the day) | 
 | 
 | 
| 18:15-20:15 | Banquet | 
 | |
| May 19 th (Sat.) | |||
| Time | Subject and Title | Speaker | File | 
| 
 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
| 9:00-9:15 | venue open, coffee | 
 | |
| 9:15-12:00 | Session 07: Subsystem 2 (Chair: Mark Barton) | 
 | |
| 
 | AEL: (15 min) | Tomonobu Tomura | |
| 
 | DGS: (15 min) | Takahiro Yamamoto (ICRR) | |
| 
 | VIS: Summary of VIS control (15 min) | Ayaka Shoda (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | VIS: (Type-A) (15 min) | Ryutaro Takahashi (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | VIS: Type B. Status of SR suspensions assembly. (15 min) | Enzo N. Tapia (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | short break | 
 | |
| 
 | MIR: (slot1) (15 min) | Eiichi Hirose (ICRR) | |
| 
 | MIR: (slot2) (15 min) | xxx (xxx) | |
| 
 | AOS: xxx?? (15 min) | Tomotada Akutsu (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | AOS: AOS activities (15 min) | Simon Zeidler (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | IOO: IOO Phase-2 plan (10 min) | Keiko Kokeyama (ICRR) | |
| 
 | IOO: Report from ISS (5 min) | Toshiya Yoshioka (U Toyama) | |
| 
 | IOO: OMC status and plan (10 min) | Shin Kirii (ICRR) | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch | 
 | |
| 12:15-13:30 | IBR (International Board of Representatives) meeting | 
 | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Session 08: Status talk of LIGO-Virgo (Chair: Yousuke Itoh) | 
 | |
| 
 | [invited talk] "title TBA" (60 min) | Albert Lazzarini | |
| 14:30-15:15 | Posters + Coffee | 
 | |
| 15:15-16:45 | Session 09: Subsystem 3 (Chair: Guo Chin Liu) | 
 | |
| 
 | LAS: (slot1) (15 min) | Norikatsu Mio (U Tokyo) | |
| 
 | CAL: (slot1) (15 min) | Takahiro Yamamoto (ICRR) | |
| 
 | CAL: Instllation of Photon calibrator and operation plan in O3 (15 min) | Yuki Inoue (Academia Sinica) | |
| 
 | DET: Activities and plan of the detector characterization (8 min) | Kazuhiro Hayama (Fukuoka U) | |
| 
 | DET: PEM preparation (8 min) | Kouseki Miyo*(ICRR) | |
| 
 | DET: Result of the PEM injection during bKAGRA phase 1 (8 min) | Koji Nagano (ICRR) | |
| 
 | DET: Status of KGWG DET (8 min) | John J. Oh (NIMS) | |
| 
 | GIF: GIF: status and plan (15 min) | Akito Araya (U Tokyo) | |
| 17:00-- | Young Researchers' session | 
 | |
| --18:00 | (18:00 close all the sessions (rooms!) of the day) | 
 | 
 | 
| May 20 th (Sun) | |||
| Time | Subject and Title | Speaker | File | 
| 
 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
| 9:00-9:15 | venue open, coffee | 
 | |
| 9:15-10:15 | Session 10: Subsystem 5 (Chair: Takayuki Tomaru?) | 
 | |
| 
 | CRY: Overview of the cryogenic payload installation and performance (15 min) | Takafumi Ushiba (ICRR) | |
| 
 | CRY: Development of Cryogenic Optical Displacement Sensor for Cryogenic Payload II (15 min) | Masashi Fukunaga* (ICRR) | |
| 
 | MIF: MIF subgroup report (15 min) | Yoichi Aso (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | VAC: Progress report (15 min) | Takashi Uchiyama (ICRR) | |
| 
 | short break (no coffee) | 
 | |
| 10:20-12:00 | Session 11: Immediate Future : bKAGRA Phase-2 and O3 (Chair: Sadakazu Haino) | 
 | |
| 
 | Science (20 min) | Hideyuki Tagoshi (ICRR) | |
| 
 | Configuration, Loadmap (40 min) | Masaki Ando (U Tokyo) | |
| 
 | Discussion (20 min) | 
 | 
 | 
| 12:00-12:15 | Safety Lecture | 
 | |
| 
 | Safety Lecture in Japanese (15 min) | Takashi Uchiyama (ICRR) | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | 
 | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Session 12: Topics, R&D (Chair: Kentaro Somiya) | 
 | |
| 
 | Generation and detection of squeezed vacuum states at 1064 nm (15 min) | Ray-Kuang Lee (National Tsing Hua U.) | |
| 
 | Status of the frequency dependent squeezing experiment at TAMA (15 min) | Matteo Leonardi (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | Parameter estimation with inspiral waveforms of compact binary coalescences including nontensorial gravitational waves polarizations (15 min) | Hiroki Takeda (U Tokyo) | |
| 
 | Search for the central engine of GRB170817A (15 min) | Maurice H.P.M. van Putten (Sejong U.) | |
| 14:30-14:45 | coffee | 
 | |
| 14:45-16:15 | Session 13: KSC and Collaborators session 2 (Chair: Chunglee Kim) | 
 | |
| 
 | Default Author-List 2017 (5 min) | Hisaaki Shinkai (OIT) | |
| 
 | Phase-1 paper (15 min) | Hisaaki Shinkai (OIT) | |
| 
 | KAGRA physics targets (20 min) | Sadakazu Haino (Academia Sinica) | |
| 
 | CPC (5 min) | Raffaele Flaminio (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | R&D authorization (15 min) | Yoichi Aso (NAOJ) | |
| 
 | short break (no coffee) | 
 | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Session 14: Summary (Chair: ) | 
 | |
| 
 | Summary from KSC (10 min) | Hisaaki Shinkai (OIT) | |
| 
 | Presentation Award (6 min) | Takaaki Kajita (ICRR) | 
 | 
| 
 | Report from IBR and summary (15 min) | Takaaki Kajita (ICRR) | |
| --18:00 | (18:00 close all the sessions (rooms!) of the day) | 
 | 
 | 
Poster session
Kxx: Kagra group, Sxx: Students', Cxx: Contributions. Number with * made an entry for Poster Presentation Prize.
| number | Contributor | Title | File | 
| Poster K1 | KSC News Letter editors | KSC News Letter, The Premiere issue (2018/04) | |
| Poster K2 | System Engineering Office | Gantt Chart of bKAGRA (2018/05) | |
| Poster C01 | Darkhan Tuyenbayev (Academia Sinica) | Using Fisher matrices for optimizing calibration line frequencies | |
| Poster C02 | Kouji Nakamura (NAOJ) | Double Balanced Homodyne Detection and Fabry-Perot gravitational-wave detector | |
| Poster C03 | John J. Oh (NIMS) | DET: Development of correlation based Detchar tool for KAGRA's detector characterization (CAGtool) | |
| Poster C04 | Yuki Inoue (Academia Sinica) | Improving the absolute accuracy of the gravitational wave detectors by combining the photon pressure and gravity field calibrators | |
| Poster C05 | Satoshi Tsuchida (OCU) | Measurements of transfer functions and h(t) reconstruction | |
| Poster C06 | Chihiro Kozakai (KEK) | Laser power calibration for photon calibrator | |
| Poster C07 | Takaaki Yokozawa (ICRR) | KAGRA Telephoto camera system : Efforts and future prospects | |
| Poster S01* | Bin-Hua Hsieh (ICRR) | The performance of photon calibrator for KAGRA | |
| Poster S02* | Takuya Kawasaki (U. Tokyo) | Optical Levitation of a Mirror | |
| Poster S03* | Rishabh Bajpai (KEK) | Development of Cryogenic Accelerometer for Vibration Measurement at KAGRA Cryostat | |
| Poster S04* | Satoru Takano (U. Tokyo) | TOBA: TOrsion Bar Antenna, Current Status and a Future Plan | |
| Poster S05* | Ching Pin Ooi (U. Tokyo) | Mechanical Loss of Crystal Fibres for Torsion Pendulum Experiments | |
| Poster S06* | Tomohiro Yamada (ICRR) | Vibration Transmission via Heatlink in KAGRA Cryogenic Payload System | |
| Poster S07* | Koji Nagano (ICRR) | Environmental monitors in bKAGRA phase-1 | |
| Poster S08* | Ryosuke Sugimoto (Toyama U) | Development of ALS system in KAGRA | |
| Poster S09* | Takaharu Shishido (KEK/SOUKENDAI) | Development of new precise sapphire fibers for KAGRA cryogenic suspension | |
| Poster S10* | Kouseki Miyo (ICRR) | Seismic motion during bKAGRA phase1 | |
| Poster S11* | Yuhang Zhao (NAOJ) | The status of 300m filter cavity at TAMA | |
| Poster S12* | Marika Sasai (OCU) | Development of DMG online monitor | |
| Poster S13* | Akinobu Miyamoto (OCU) | Evaluate possible confirmation of the existence of Population III stars using binary black holes detected by LIGO | |
| Poster S14* | Hiroyuki Tahara (U. Tokyo) | Preparation of the laser system for KAGRA Phase-2 | 
Poster Presentation Prize
- We will organize poster session and have "poster presentation prize" at every F2F.
- Awards are for students only, and will be selected from whom made entry at the registration.
- Award-entried posters will be marked with a sticker, and will be marked in the program.
- Vote will be made by all the participants, and the vote will be closed at the lunch time of the final day.
- Ballot paper is prepared with two-types, for permanent staff and others, in order to make statistics.
- We will award two persons, a small awarding ceremony is at the final session.
- Winners’ names and brief description of their works (provided by authors) will appear in wiki and KSC newsletters.
Registration
- Registration page -- Registration is closed. Please register at the registration desk if you missed it. 
- Banquet will be held in the evening of May 18. Banquet fee is 3500 JPY (2500 JPY for student).
- deadline of the registration (with the Banquet): April 30 (Mon) 23:59 JST
- deadline of the registration (waitlist Banquet): May 6 (Sun) 23:59 JST
- We will collect 500 JPY from all participants for snacks of coffee breaks at the registration desk.
The venue
- The meeting site is "Tanaka Memorial hall/田中記念館" at the Sugimoto Campus of the Osaka City University. (No. 8 building in the campus map available at the university official page). It takes less than 5 minutes on foot from JR "Sugimoto-cho/杉本町" Station (JR line) East exit. 
- You can also access from "Abiko/あびこ" Station (Subway Midosuji line) within 20 minutes on foot (directions). 
Access
There are several ways to come to the meeting venue (Tanaka Memorial hall/田中記念館 at the Sugimoto Campus of the Osaka City University).
1. From the main terminals:
- From Kansai International Airport (KIX/関西国際空港) : Take the JR Kansai-Airport Rapid Service, change at Sakai-shi/堺市 Station to a local train for Tennoji/天王寺 Station and get off at Sugimoto-cho/杉本町 Station. 
- From Shin-Osaka/新大阪 Station : (a) Take the subway Midosuji/御堂筋 Line and get off at Abiko/あびこ Station. or (b) Take the subway Midosuji/御堂筋 Line and change to JR Hanwa/阪和 Line at Tennoji/天王寺 Station, and get off at Sugimoto-cho/杉本町 Station.
- From Osaka International Airport (Itami/大阪国際空港(伊丹空港)) : Take an Airport Limousine Bus to Abenobashi/あべの橋 Station, then take a local train on the JR Hanwa/阪和 Line from JR Tennoji Station and get off at Sugimoto-cho Station. 
2. From Tennoji Station (JR/Subway Midosuji line)
- Take a JR Hanwa-line train from Tennoji Station and get off at Sugimoto-cho Station. It takes 14-20 minutes and costs 180 JPY.
- note: At the Tennoji station, please take a local train. No rapid train stops at Sugimoto-cho Station. Usually, the track number 7 and 8 of Tennoji Station are for Hanwa-line local trains. 
For the campus map and additional details please look at the University web site.
Accommodations
Please book a hotel by yourself, and as soon as possible, since Osaka is quite busy city. It is recommended to book a hotel near the Tennoji station or along the Subway Midosuji Line.
