The 25th KAGRA face-to-face meeting

April 17 (Fri)- 19(Sun) 2020

ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), Univ. Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Outline of the meeting

• LOC: Hideyuki Tagoshi, Kyohei Kawaguchi, .......,
• LOC secretaries: Rie Kikuchi, Naomi Kudo, Akiko Sakai
• We welcome contribution talks and poster presentations (with short talk). We will give "Poster Award" for two students by vote (to be confirmed).

  Registration page -- The deadline is April 10 (Wed) 23:59 JST. 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; x,xxx JPY for a staff/postdoc, x,xxx JPY for a student.
• We will have a banquet in the evening of April 17(Fri) at the cafeteria of Kashiwa campus. x,xxx JPY for a staff, x,xxx JPY for a postdoc/student.

• 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 2019 are supposed to make thesis presentations (either oral or poster) in this meeting.

• This is a closed meeting of the KAGRA collaboration.
• The members of KAGRA, LIGO, LSC and Virgo collaborations can attend this meeting.
• If you are a member of the KAGRA collaboration and have recently moved to a new affiliation: 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: please read this page, and follow this document. You are supposed to make a presentation at the meeting.

Registration

Registration is not open yet.

• Registration page -- Deadline is April 10 (Wed), 23:59 JST.

• 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; xxx JPY for a staff/postdoc, xxx JPY for a student.
  • We will have a banquet in the evening of April 17(Fri) at the cafeteria of ICRR. xxxx JPY for a staff, xxxx JPY for a postdoc/student.

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 xxxx , 2020 (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

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.

Poster Award

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

Venue

6th floor of Kashiwa Research Complex at Kashiwa Campus of the University of Tokyo

Building No. 15 in this map https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400020147.pdf

Kashiwa Research Complex is in the same building of ICRR, located on the east side of ICRR.

Access

For general access information can be found at

ICRR page: http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/beta/access_e.html

From Kashiwanoha Campus station to ICRR (10 minutes by bus)

From Kashiwanoha Campus station of the Tsukuba express line, there is a shuttle bus operated by the university. The shuttle departs in front of Mitsui Garden Hotel (near Tully's Coffee). It is free for visitors. The departure time in the morning is

8:00, 8:10, 8:20, 8:30, 8:40, 8:50, (every 10 minutes until 10:40, and once an hour later).

Shuttle bus time table: O

You can also take a bus operated by Tobu bus company. When you exit from the station gate, go to left, and it is the west side of the station. You can see a big shopping mall (LaLaPort Kashiwanoha) in front of the station. From the bus stop number 1 (in front of MacDonald), take a bus Number 03(to "Nagareyama Ootaka no Mori"), or 04(to "Edogawadai"), and get off at "Kokuritsu Gan Kenkyu Center" (National Cancer Research Center). Or from the same bus stop number 1, take a bus Number 10 (to "Edogawadai"), and get off at "Todai mae" (in front of University of Tokyo).

Time table of Tobu bus in Japanese: O

National Cancer Research Center is located in front of the University of Tokyo. It is about 4 minutes walk to ICRR. Please see the map above.

From JR Kashiwa station to ICRR (30 minutes by bus)

From the bus stop Number 2 of West side of Kashiwa station, take a bus Number 01 or 44(to "Kokuritsu Gan Kenkyu Center"), and get off at the final stop, "Kokuritsu Gan Kenkyu Center" (National Cancer Research Center).

Departure time in the morning is

7:00, 7:08, 7:18, 7:25, 7:30, 7:42, 7:48, 7:54, 8:00, 8:10, 8:19, 8:30, 8:35, 8:42, 8:50, 9:00, 9:10, ...

Time table in Japanese: O

Accommodation

We recommend to stay at one of the hotels at Kashiwanoha Campus station (Tsukuba Express line), Kashiwa station (JR line), Nagareyama-Otakanomori station (Tsukuba Express), or Kashiwa-Tanaka Station (Tsukuba Express).

Kashiwa Guest House

We blocked 10 single rooms (April 18 --22) at Kashiwa Guest House which is located in front of ICRR. The accommodation fee is 2,500 JPY per night. pdf (Please note that there is no dining service in the guest house)

If you would like to stay there, please contact to

• Rie Kikuchi rkikuchi_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp & Naomi Kudo nkudo_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

with the following information: Your Name, Your Affiliation, Your Position, Date of check-in, and Date of check-out.

Hotels around Kashiwanoha Campus station (Tsukuba express)

• Mitsui Garden Hotel Kashiwanoha

• Hotel Sunoak Kashiwanoha

A Hotel at Nagareyama-Otakanomori station (Tsukuba express, one station from Kashiwanoha Campus station)

• Hotel Lumiere Grande Nagareyama-Otakanomori (A new hotel opened on January 27, 2019)

  • Booking.com

Hotels around Kashiwa station (JR)

• Toyoko Inn Kashiwa-eki Nishi-guchi

• Kashiwa Plaza Hotel

• Kashiwa Plaza Hotel Annex

• The Crest Hotel Kashiwa

• Sotetsu Fresa Inn Chiba-Kashiwa

A hotel at Kashiwa-Tanaka Station (Tsukuba express, one station from Kashiwanoha Campus station)

• Sakura Sky Hotel Kashiwa (A new hotel opened on August 15, 2018)

Dining

Nearby Shops and Restaurants (Google Map)

It is better for you to bring your lunch on April 18(Sat) and 19(Sun).

Within the campus

Campus map

Shops

• Food shop: Coop Shop and Cafe (No. 23 of Campus map): 10:00-19:00 (April 19), Closed on April 20 and 21.
• Book store (No.22 of Campus map): 10:00 - 17:00 (April 19), Closed on Saturday and Sunday.

Restaurants and Cafeterias

• Cafeteria (No. 10 of Campus map), Plaza Ikoi (No.19 of Campus map), Sushi and fish restaurant Hama (1F of No.26, very small)

April 17 (Fri)

Lunch

• Cafeteria: 11:30-14:00, Plaza Ikoi: 11:30-14:00, Sushi and fish restaurant Hama: 11:30-15:00

Dinner

• Cafeteria: 17:00-20:00, Plaza Ikoi: 17:00-20:00, Sushi and fish restaurant Hama: 17:00-21:00

April 18 (Sat)

Lunch

• Plaza Ikoi (buffet only): 11:30-14:00, Sushi and fish restaurant Hama: 11:30-14:00

Dinner

• Sushi restaurant Hama: 19:00-22:00

April 19 (Sun)

• All shops and restaurant within the campus are closed.

Outside the campus

Nearby Shops and Restaurants (Google Map)

• Convenience Store (Family Mart, 24 hours): 3 minutes walk from the venue, 50 m east of National Cancer Center bus stop
• Supermarket (York Mart, 9:00-22:00): 10 minutes walk from the venue, on the west side of the campus
• There are several restaurants near the supermarket, Udon noodle restaurant, Sushi restaurant (Kura sushi), Pasta restaurant (Goemon).
  • They are open for lunch and dinner.

Wireless Internet connection

• Eduroam is available at the venue.
• If you can not use eduroam, we provide guest accounts.

Other information

List of Registered Persons