December 5th, 2013

Since 2012 May, the Y arm tunnel of KAGRA was excavated from Mozumi area and Atotsu area. In Dec/5/2013, this Y arm tunnel finally became one tunnel.

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November 25th, 2013

Prof. Somiya’s article has been selected by the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG) to be one of the journal’s Highlights of 2012-2013.
http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/29/12/124007

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October 17th, 2013

MOU between KAGRA and Dept. of Phys. Hanoi Nat. Univ. of Education
was signed on Oct. 11, 2013. You can find the MOU at;

http://gwdoc.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/DocDB/0019/P1301917/001/MOU%20final%20signed%20131011.pdf

People from Dept. of Phys. Hanoi Nat. Univ. of Education would join KAGRA in the near future.

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July 23rd, 2013

The KAGRA talk event is being held in Inotani-sekisho museum in front of the JR inotani station. The lecturer are S.Miyoki, T.Uchiyama, M.Ohashi, S.Kawamura and O.Miyakawa. Especially, in September 8th, two talks about KAGRA will be presented in a festival “Inotani-sekisyo friendly festival “.

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July 9th, 2013

Yoshiki high school students visited CLIO and SK in July 9th. This event was also reported in a local newspaper.

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June 10th, 2013

The 4th Korea-Japan Workshop was held in Osaka Univ. The web site is here

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May 13th, 2013

The doctor thesis of Dr.Izumi who use to be a doctorial student of NAOJ got Braccini Prize 2012 (https://wwwcascina.virgo.infn.it/StefanoBPrize2012.html ).
The award ceremony and lecture will be presented in May 24th 2013 in the
Pisa university.

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April 22nd, 2013

April 19th 2013, an Italy-Japan Workshop about gravitational wave physics has been held in the Embassy of Italy. This is one of events related with Italy year 2013 in Japan for their cultural communication.

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April 9th, 2013

Pro. Takahashi was awarded a prize for encouragement of Yamanashi Academy as a promising young researcher in the field of research, education and technology in Yamanashi prefecture.

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January 30th, 2013

In Jan/30/2013, the project titled “The construction of Gravitational Wave Astronomy” was selected as one of Core to Core program of JSPS. The leader is Pro.Kawamura.

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January 18th, 2013

KAGRA Data analysis school wiil be held in NAOJ during Fev 20th ~ 22th.
You can find application form and information in this page.
http://www.gw.hep.osaka-cu.ac.jp/daschool/

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