The 23rd KAGRA face-to-face meeting

August 22 (Thur)- 24(Sat) 2019

at Univ. of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

Program (Aug 22), (Aug 23), (Aug 24), (Poster), Registration, Venue,

KAGRA site tour, Access, Accommodation, Dining, Participants

Visa, Invitation Letter, Travel Support

Satellite Meeting on KAGRA Future Upgrades (August 21, 13:00-) Wiki

Basic Lecture of GW for grad/undergrad students in Japanese (August 23)

Outline of the meeting

• The 23rd F2F meeting will be held at Kuroda Hall of University of Toyama, as usual as our summer event. We will discuss both our latest achievements and our managements.

  • LOC: Moriwaki-san and Yamamoto(Yamagen)-san.

    If you have ideas and requests to the program, please mail them to the board, kscboard_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp , by March 1. Registration page will open in mid-March.

  • We welcome contribution talks and poster presentations (with short talk). We will give "Poster Award" for two students by vote.

    Registration page -- The deadline is April 10 (Wed) 23:59 JST.

  • Registration was closed. We have 137 participants.

  Registration webpage here If you made registration twice, we will replace all of your information from the previous one. If you missed to register, please do so at the registration desk. We will collect coffee-and-snack fee at the registration desk; 1,000 JPY for a staff/postdoc, 500 JPY for a student. We will have the meeting dinner in the evening of April 20(Sat) at the cafeteria of Kashiwa campus. 4,000 JPY for a staff, 3,000 JPY for a postdoc/student.

  • Announcements were sent out [kagra 02993] (July 17)

  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.

• Invited Speakers: Helios Vocca (Virgo), Patrick Brady (LIGO)
• Long talks: Tomoya Takiwaki (NAOJ), Shinji Mukohyama (YITP).

• Satellite meeting on Future Upgrades will be held at on August 21 afternoon at multi-purpose room (多目的ホール) at Faculty of Science(Different from the F2F venue, Kuroda Hall). See web page for details. Satellite meeting on Future Upgrades will be held at Univ. of Tokyo Hongo campus on April 18. See web page for details. Satellite meeting on Data Analysis will be held in the evening of the first day (April 19).

  • Satellite meeting on calibration and related grants projects will be held the day after (April 22).

• 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.

timeline

• By the end of June: KSC board accepts your proposals and/or suggestions of the sessions, satellite meetings, style of the meetings, or any other requests.

• July 1: Visa document request deadline.

• July 16: registration will start.

• July 31: registration deadline for KAGRA site tour participants.

• August 7: registration closed.

Program

The asterisk (*) indicates that the talk requires a decision or approval of KSC members.

• Satellite meeting on Future Upgrades will be held 13:00-18:00 at multi-purpose room (多目的ホール) at Faculty of Science(Different from the F2F venue, Kuroda Hall). See web page for details.

Poster session

Kxx: KAGRA group, Sxx: Students, Cxx: Contributions, Gxx: Subgroup. The asterisk (*) indicates a thesis presentation.

• Posters can be posted only for the first two days. Please remove your poster before the meeting dinner. (We could not book the poster room on the last day.)

  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.

Poster Award

• Yes, we will organize poster award for students. This F2F, we will award two.

Satellite Meeting on KAGRA Future Upgrades

• Date : August/21

• Time : 13:00 - (we would like to finish the main discussions by 15:30 when the KAGRA site tour starts)

• Place : Multi purpose room (多目的ホール), Faculty of Science, University of Toyama, Gofuku Campus

• Meeting program

Registration

• Registration webpage here Deadline is July 31 (Wed), 23:59 JST for KAGRA site tour participants. We close the registration August 7 (Wed), 23:59 JST. Registration page -- Deadline is April 10 (Wed), 23:59 JST.

• Registration was closed. We have 137 participants.

If you made registration twice, we will replace all of your information from the previous one.

• If you missed to register, please do so at the registration desk (but please do not expect free meeting dinner).

  We will collect coffee-and-snack fee at the registration desk; 1,000 JPY for a staff/postdoc, 500 JPY for a student. We will have the meeting dinner in the evening of April 20(Sat) at the cafeteria of ICRR. 4,000 JPY for a staff, 3,000 JPY for a postdoc/student.

Visa, Invitation Letter

• If you don’t need visa, but you need only an invitation letter, please send an email to KSC board chair,
  • Hisaaki Shinkai, hisaaki.shinkai_at_oit.ac.jp

• If you need visa to enter Japan, please fill the following document (Word,PDF), and send it to Masafumi Kurachi by July 1st, 2019.

  • Masafumi Kurachi (University Research Administrator, ICRR), kurachi_AT_km.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • You can find the detailed 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

  • Note that you can not apply for VISA only with the invitation letter. You have to submit special documents for VISA which are prepared by Japanese side.
  • Even if you ask ICRR for an invitation letter with an institute stamp, we can not provide it. We can provide an invitation letter without an institute stamp, and a working proof for one of professors.

Travel Support (oversea)

• Core to Core program can support your local expense if you belong to an institute/university in Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam or India. Firstly, please contact to 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 program also can support domestic travel expenses for several KAGRA collaborators who belong to institutes/universities in Japan and who will attend F2F@U-Toyama and give presentations. Graduate students and postdoc researchers have priorities for this 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.

Access

• From Tokyo, one can either take JR Hokuriku-Shinkansen express (train, 2h10m) or fly from the Tokyo-Haneda airport (55min).
• From the Toyama airport, one can take a bus to the Toyama station (410 JPY).

• From the Toyama station to the university, one can take a tram to "Daigaku-mae" (Note that there is also a loop tram that does not go to Daigaku-mae). https://www.chitetsu.co.jp/english/trams/

• Campus map

• Kuroda Hall (Campus map #23, First Building from the Main Gate, Right Side)

KAGRA site tour

• We plan to organize KAGRA-site tour on August 21 (afternoon, start 15:30 at Univ. Toyama, 15:40 pick up at station) and/or August 24 (after F2F finished, start 15:30 at Univ. Toyama). The tour includes the visit of the control room and tunnel, together with some explanation of the accommodation of the shift-takers. Both tour will take 5 hours and return to the Toyama station.
• If you are interested in this tour, please click your preference day. We will rent a (small) bus for round-trip (paid by ICRR).

Some more details:

• We accept this tour registration by July 31. Please finish your registration by July 31.
• You need to prepare your snack and drink (if you need) by yourself in advance.
• The KAGRA tunnel is wet and muddy. Please wear a long sleeve shirt, a casual pants and shoes which may be stained.
• Please understand we limit the number of participants due to the bus capacity. If the applicants are too many, then we may first choose participants from non-Japanese institutes, then second pick up young researchers.
• The bus capacity is 22 (+6 extra sheets).
• We closed the tour entry. For whom made entry, the information has sent.

Accommodations

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

• Booking.com (Toyama, Aug 21-25)

• ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel

• Dormy Inn

• APA Ville Hotel

• APA Hotel

Lunch Place

Wireless Internet connection

• Internet connection will be prepared.

Other information

List of Registered Persons (registration closed, 137 members)

• Lastname	Middle	Firstname	Affiliation	Attend Aug22	Aug23	Aug24	Satellite	Dinner
  Akutsu		Tomotada	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Aritomi		Naoki	U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Aso		Yoichi	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Bajpai		Rishabh	SOKENDAI	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Brady		Patrick	U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Capocasa		Eleonora	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Chen		Yi-Ru	IPT, National Tsing Hua University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Dubey	Kumar	Rajesh	LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY, INDIA	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Enomoto		Yutaro	U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Fong	Kin Yee	Heather	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Fujikawa		Yuta	Grad school of Sci. & Tech. Niigata Univ.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Guo		Ping	Beijing Normal University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Haino		Sadakazu	Academia Sinica, Institute of Physics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Han		Jeong-Yeol	Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  Han		Wenbiao	SHAO	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Harada		Ken-ichi	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Hasegawa		Masaya	University of Toyama	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
  Hasegawa		Kunihiko	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Hattori		Kanta	U.Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Hayama		Kazuhiro	Fukuoka	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Hirata		Naoatsu	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Hsieh		Bin-Hua	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Huang		Yao-Chin	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Hui	Chung Yue	David	Chungnam National University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Inoue		Yuki	NCU	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Ito		Kouki	I.Toyama	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
  Itoh		Yousuke	Osaka City University	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Izumi		Kiwamu	ISAS/JAXA	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Jeon		Chaeyeon	Ewha Womans University. Korea	Yes	No	No	No	No
  Jung		Kihyun	UNIST, Korea	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Kaihotsu		Kiichi	Department of Physics, University of Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Kajita		Takaaki	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kakizaki		Mitsuru	U. Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kanda		Nobuyuki	Osaka City U. Graduate School of Science / NITEP	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kato		Takashi	ICRR,U.Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Kawaguchi		Kyohei	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kawai		Nobuyuki	Tokyo Tech	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kim		Chang-Hee	KASI, Korea	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kim		Chunglee	Ewha Womans U.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Kim		Jeongcho	Inje University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kim		Jaewan	Myongji University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kim		Yunjong	KASI	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kim		Young-Min	UNIST	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kokeyama		Keiko	ICRR, U Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Komori		Kentaro	MIT	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Kong	K. H.	Albert	National Tsing Hua University	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Kozakai		Chihiro	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Kuromiya		Yuuki	U. Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Kuroyanagi		Sachiko	Nagoya University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Kwak		Kyujin	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Lee		Eunsub	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Lee		Hyung Won	Inje University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Lee		Sungho	KASI (Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Lee		Ray-Kuang	National Tsing Hua University	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Leonardi		Matteo	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Li		Kwan Loc	UNIST	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Lin		Chun-Che (Lupin)	UNIST	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Liu		Guo Chin	Physics Department, Tamkang University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Luo		Ling-Wei	Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Ma		Yubo	Beijing Normal University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Michimura		Yuta	Department of Physics, University of Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Mio		Norikatsu	IPST, U. Tokyo	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Miyakawa		Osamu	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Miyo		Kouseki	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Miyoki		Shinji	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Mori		Yukino	U.Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Morisaki		Soichiro	RESCEU	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Moriwaki		Yoshiki	U. Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Mukohyama		Shinji	YITP, Kyoto U	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Nagano		Koji	ICRR, UTokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Nagano		Shigeo	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology	Yes	Yes		No	No
  Nakamura		Kouji	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Nakano		Hiroyuki	Ryukoku U.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Nakano		Masayuki	Toyama Univ.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Nakashima		Ryosuke	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Nakayama		Yota	U.Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Negishi		Ryo	Niigata University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Nishizawa		Atsushi	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	Yes			Yes	No
  Obayashi		Yoshihisa	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Oh		Kwangmin	Chungnam National Univ. Korea	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Ohashi		Masatake	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Ohkawa		Masashi	Niigata Univ.	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Okabayashi		Kazumasa	Osaka City University	No	No	No	No	No
  Oohara		Ken-ichi	Niigata University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Oshino		Shoichi	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Otabe		Sotatsu	Tokyo Tech	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Pang		Harn Fung	National Central University	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Park		June Gyu	KBSI	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Peña Arellano	Erasmo	Fabián	KAGRA Project Office ICRR, The University of Tokyo.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Saito		Yoshio	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Sawada		Takahiro	Osaka City University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Sekiguchi		Yuichiro	Toho Univ.	Yes	Yes		No	No
  Seong		Hyeon-Cheol	KASI	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Shimoda		Tomofumi	U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Shinkai		Hisaaki	OIT	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Shishido		Takaharu	SOKENDAI	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Shoda		Ayaka	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Somiya		Kentaro	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Sotani		Hajime	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Sugai		Issei	Niigata U.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Sugimoto		Ryosuke	U. Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes
  Tagoshi		Hideyuki	ICRR, Univ. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Takahashi		Ryutaro	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Takamori		Akiteru	ERI, U.Tokyo	No	No	Yes	No	No
  Takano		Satoru	U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Takeda		Mei	Niigata University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Takeda		Hiroki	U of Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Tanaka		Hiroki	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Tanaka		Kenta	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Tanaka		Takaaki	Ohkawa Lab, U.Niigata	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Tanaka		Taiki	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Tanioka		Satoshi	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Tomaru		Takayuki	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Travasso		Flavio	University of Camerino - INFN Perugia	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Tsai		Dung-Sheng	Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Tsuchida		Satoshi	Osaka City University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Tuyenbayev		Darkhan	Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Uchiyama		Takashi	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes		No	No
  Uehara		Tomoyuki	National Defense Academy		Yes	Yes	No	No
  Ueno		Koh	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Ueshima		Gen	Nagaoka University of Technology	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Ushiba		Takafumi	ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  van Putten	H.P.M.	Maurice	Sejong University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Vocca		Helios	University of Perugia	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Wang		He	Beijing Normal University	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Washimi		Tatsuki	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Wu		Chien-Ming	National Tsing Hua University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Wu		Hsun-Chung	National Tsing Hua University / IPT	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Yamada		Tomohiro	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Yamamoto		Kazuhiro	Faculty of Science, University of Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Yamamoto		Takahiro	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Yokoyama		Jun'ichi	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
  Yokozawa		Takaaki	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Yoshioka		Toshiya	University of Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Yuzurihara		Hirotaka	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Zeidler		Simon	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Zhao		Yuhang	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes