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

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

Outline of the meeting

• The 23rd F2F meeting will be held at 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 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. 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 will close.

Program

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

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.

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 130 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. 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).

• 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 13:00 at Toyama station) and/or August 24 (after F2F finished, start 16:00 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 (as of July 31, 81 members)

• lastname	firstname	Affiliation	AttendSatellite	Aug22	Aug23	Aug24
  Akutsu	Tomotada	NAOJ	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Aritomi	Naoki	U. Tokyo	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Aso	Yoichi	NAOJ	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Capocasa	Eleonora	NAOJ	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  CHEN	YI-RU	IPT, National Tsing Hua University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  DUBEY	RAJESH	LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY, INDIA	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Fong	Heather	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	No
  Guo	Ping	Beijing Normal University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Haino	Sadakazu	Academia Sinica, Institute of Physics	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Han	Jeong-Yeol	Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  Han	Wenbiao	SHAO	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Harada	Ken-ichi	Tokyo Institute of Technology	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Huang	Yao-Chin	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Hui	David C.Y.	Chungnam National University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Itoh	Yousuke	Osaka City University	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Jeon	Chaeyeon	Ewha Womans University. Korea	No	Yes,	No	No
  Jung	Kihyun	UNIST, Korea	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kajita	Takaaki	ICRR, U. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kakizaki	Mitsuru	U. Toyama	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kanda	Nobuyuki	Osaka City U. Graduate School of Science / NITEP	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kawai	Nobuyuki	Tokyo Tech	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kim	Chang-Hee	KASI, Korea	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kim	Chunglee	Ewha Womans U.	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  KIM	JEONGCHO	Inje University	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kim	Jaewan	Myongji University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kim	Yunjong	KASI	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kim	Young-Min	UNIST	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Komori	Kentaro	MIT	No	Yes,	Yes,	No
  Kong	Albert	National Tsing Hua University	No	Yes,	Yes,	No
  Kozakai	Chihiro	NAOJ	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Kwak	Kyujin	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	No	Yes,	Yes,	No
  Lee	Hyung Won	Inje University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Lee	Ray-Kuang	Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Leonardi	Matteo	NAOJ	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  LI	KWAN LOK	UNIST	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Lin	(Lupin) Chun-Che	UNIST	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Liu	Guo Chin	Physics Department, Tamkang University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Luo	Ling-Wei	Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Ma	Yubo	Beijing Normal University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Miyakawa	Osamu	ICRR, U. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Miyo	Koseki	ICRR	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  MIYOKI	Shinji	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Morisaki	Soichiro	RESCEU	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Mukohyama	Shinji	YITP, Kyoto U	No	No	Yes,	Yes
  Nagano	Koji	ICRR, UTokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Nagano	Shigeo	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology	No	Yes,	Yes,
  Nakamura	Kouji	NAOJ	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Nakano	Hiroyuki	Ryukoku U.	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Nishizawa	Atsushi	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	Yes,	Yes,
  Obayashi	Yoshihisa	ICRR, U. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Oh	K	Chungnam National Univ. Korea	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Ohashi	Masatake	ICRR	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Ohkawa	Masashi	Niigata Univ.	No	No	Yes,	Yes
  Oshino	Shoichi	ICRR, U. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Pena Arellano	Fabian	KAGRA Project Office ICRR, The University of Tokyo.	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Saito	Yoshio	ICRR, U. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Sawada	Takahiro	Osaka City University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Sekiguchi	Yuichiro	Toho Univ.	No	Yes,	Yes,
  Shinkai	Hisaaki	OIT	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Shoda	Ayaka	NAOJ	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  sotani	hajime	NAOJ	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Sugai	Issei	Niigata U.	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Tagoshi	Hideyuki	ICRR, Univ. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Takahashi	Ryutaro	NAOJ	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Tanaka	Hiroki	ICRR, U. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Tanaka	Kenta	ICRR	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Tanioka	Satoshi	NAOJ	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Tomaru	Takayuki	NAOJ	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Travasso	Flavio	University of Camerino - INFN Perugia	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  TSAI	DUNG-SHENG	Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Uehara	Tomyouki	National Defense Academy	No		Yes,	Yes
  Ueno	Koh	University of Tokyo	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  van Putten	Maurice	Sejong University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Vocca	Helios	University of Perugia	No	Yes,	Yes,	No
  Wang	He	Beijing Normal University	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Wu	Chien-Ming	National Tsing Hua University	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Wu	Hsun-Chung	National Tsing Hua University / IPT	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Yamada	Tomohiro	ICRR	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Yokoyama	Jun'ichi	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	No	Yes,	Yes,	No
  Yokozawa	Takaaki	ICRR	No	Yes,	Yes,	Yes
  Zhao	Yuhang	NAOJ	Yes,	Yes,	Yes,	Yes