24th KAGRA face-to-face meeting

• 4 (Wed) - 5 (Thr) Dec 2019 (JST)

• Host: RESCEU (Research Center for the Early Universe), Univ. of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

• LOC: Jun'ichi Yokoyama and Atsushi Nishizawa

Satellite Meeting on future upgrade (Dec 4) Wiki Satellite Meeting on Data Analysis groups at ICRR, Kashiwa, Chiba (Dec 7) Wiki Basic Lecture of GW for grad/undergrad students in Japanese (August 23) List of Participants (as of November 23) The 24th face-to-face (F2F) meeting will be held at Koshiba Hall, Hongo Campus, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. We will discuss XXX.

If you have ideas and requests to the program, please mail them to the board, kscboard@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp , by October 26. Registration will be open in November.

• Registration page -- Registration page is open! Deadline is November 26 (Tue), 23:59 JST.

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

* Registration was closed. We have 103 participants.

* If you missed to register, please do so at the registration desk. * The meeting fee is 500JPY for coffee and snack. We will collect the fee from all participants at the registration desk.

* Announcements were sent out [kagra 02458] (Oct 12), [kagra 02462] (Oct 13), [kagra 02493] (Nov 2)

• Graduate students who will submit thesis (Master thesis/Doctoral thesis) by March 2020 are supposed to make thesis presentations (both oral and poster) in this meeting.

• Satellite meeting on Data Analysis will be held on December 3. Talk registrations will be made separately. See Wiki for details.

• We will organize the meeting dinner on December 4. The fee is 1500 JPY for a participant (4000 JPY for an accompanied person).
• 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 (planned)

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Poster session

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

Poster Award

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

* Two "Most Outstanding Presentation Prize" were given to Hiroyuki Tahara (U Tokyo) and Kazuya Yokogawa (U Toyama). Congratulations!

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

• See Wiki for more details.

• Date Time: Dec. 3 (Tue), 13:00-18:00
• Place: Univ. Tokyo, Hongo campus; Dept. Science building #1, Room 341.

  • The University of Tokyo Access and Campus Maps (The building is #100 of the Hongo Campus map.)

Registration

• Registration page -- Registration page is open! Deadline is November 26 (Tue), 23:59 JST.

• If you made registration twice, we will replace all of your information from the previous one.
• We will organize the meeting dinner on December 4. The fee is 1500 JPY for a participant (4000 JPY for an accompanied person).

* Registration was closed. We have 103 participants.

* If you missed to register, please do so at the registration desk. * The meeting fee is 500JPY for coffee and snack. We will collect the fee from all participants at the registration desk.

Visas and/or invitation letters

You can find the detailed procedure to apply for a visa at the web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Note that you can not apply for the visa with only invitation letters; for the visa application, you have to submit special documents that are prepared by Japanese side. If you need a visa to enter Japan, please fill one of the following documents (Word,PDF; these are updated since the last f2f meeting), and send it as soon as possible (the earlier the better) or by strictly the end of October, 2019 (JST) to Masafumi Kurachi,

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

If you don’t need a visa, but you need only an invitation letter, please send an email to the KSC board chair,

• Hisaaki Shinkai, hisaaki.shinkai_at_oit.ac.jp

Travel support

International travel

Our Core-to-Core (C2C) program can support your local expenses if you belong to universities/institutes in the following countries: Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, or India. Firstly, please contact to a coordinator of the C2C program in your country.

• List of the C2C coordinators http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gr/GWPOHPe/collabo-e.html.

Domestic travel

It might be possible that ICRR would support domestic travel expenses for students and/or post-doctoral researchers who will have one or more poster/oral presentations at the f2f meeting, in case their universities or institutes could not provide their travel expenses; please consult with the secretary's office of ICRR-GW,

• office-icrrgw_AT_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

If you are a student, firstly please consult with your supervisor, and then ask the supervisor to contact the secretary's office of ICRR-GW from the supervisor.

The venue

• Koshiba hall, in Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo.

Access

• The nearest subway station is Todai-mae of Nanboku-line, Hongo-Sanchome of Marunouchi-line, or Nezu of Chiyoda-line. You can reach the venue around 5-7 minutes.
• You can walk from JR Ueno station in 20 minutes.

• The nearest bus stop to the venue is the Todai Konai (next to the Building #5 of the Hongo Campus map). You may take a bus that leaves from the Ueno Station or the Ochanomizu Station bus stop.

• The University of Tokyo Access and Campus Maps (The Koshiba Hall is in the building #98 of the Hongo Campus map.)

• The RESCEU Symposium 2016 Access page gives a bit more detail on how to reach the campus.

Other information

Wireless Internet connection

• Internet access is available via eduroam. We will also provide internet access service for visitors from institutions that do not participate in eduroam.

Lunch Place

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Accommodations

• Please book a room by yourself. Followings are hotels nearby the Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo.

  • Forest Hongo : Near to the Main Gate of U-Tokyo.

  • Hotel KIZAN-KAN : Near to the Akamon Gate (Red Gate) of U-Tokyo.

  • Hotel Tokyo Garden Palace : A little more luxurious than two hotels above, ~15min. from the venue on foot.

  The other hotels around Ochanomizu, Ueno, Korakuen areas, which are within walking distance (<30min) from the venue.

  • Booking.com around Ueno station.

List of Registered Persons (as of November 21, 57 members)

• lastname	firstname	Affiliation	Dec4	Dec5	Dinner	Satellite
  Akutsu	Tomotada	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Enomoto	Yutaro	U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Fong	Heather	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Fujii	Yoshinori	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Ge	Junqiang	NAOC	Yes	Yes	Yes+1	Yes
  Ge	Gui-Guo	WIPM, CAS	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Haino	Sadakazu	Academia Sinica, Institute of Physics	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Hasegawa	Kunihiko	ICRR, U.Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Hayama	Kazuhiro	Fukuoka U.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Hsieh	Bin-Hua	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Huang	Guo-Zhang	National Taiwan Normal University	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Hui	David C.Y.	Chungnam National University	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Itoh	Yousuke	Osaka City University	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Jin	Hong-Bo	NAOC, CAS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Kajita	Takaaki	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	No	Yes	No
  KIMURA	Nobuhiro	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Kong	Albert	National Tsing Hua University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Kuo	Han-Shiang	National Taiwan Normal University	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Lee	Ray-Kaung	National Tsing Hua University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Li	Kwan Lok	National Tsing Hua University	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  li	pengbo	Wuhan University, CHINA	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Liang	Yurong	WIPM, CAS, China	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Lin	(Lupin) Chun-Che	UNIST	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Majorana	Ettore	INFN Roma	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Miyakawa	Osamu	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Miyo	Koseki	ICRR	No	Yes	No	No
  MIYOKI	Shinji	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Moriwaki	Yoshiki	U. Toyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Nakamura	Kouji	NAOJ	Yes	Yes		No
  Nishizawa	Atsushi	RESCEU, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Ogaki	Wataru	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Okutomi	Koki	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Oohara	Kenichi	Niigata University	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Oshino	Shoichi	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Pan	Sheau-shi	CMS(ITRI)Taiwan	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Pena Arellano	Fabian	ICRR, University of Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Saito	Yoshio	ICRR, U. Yokyo	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Sakai	Kazuki	National Institute of Technology, Nagaoka College	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Sato	Takashi	Niigata College of Technology	No	Yes	No	No
  Sekiguchi	Yuichiro	Toho Univ.	Yes	No	No	Yes
  Shinkai	Hisaaki	Osaka Inst. Tech.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  SHODA	Ayaka	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Sotani	Hajime	RIKEN	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Tagoshi	Hideyuki	ICRR, The University of Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Takahashi	Ryutaro	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Takeda	Mei	Niigata U.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Tanaka	Kenta	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Tanaka	Hiroki	ICRR, U.Tokyo	Yes	Yes	No	No
  Tanaka	Taiki	ICRR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Tanioka	Satoshi	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Uehara	Tomyouki	National Defense Academy	No	Yes	No	No
  Ushiba	Takafumi	ICRR	No	Yes
  Washimi	Tatsuki	NAOJ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
  Yamada	Tomohiro	ICRR, U.Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Yamamoto	Kazuhiro	Faculty of Science, University of Toyama	Yes	No	No	No
  Yamamoto	Takahiro	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  YUZURIHARA	Hirotaka	ICRR, U. Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes