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.
December 5th, 2013
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
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.
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 “.
July 9th, 2013
Yoshiki high school students visited CLIO and SK in July 9th. This event was also reported in a local newspaper.
June 10th, 2013
The 4th Korea-Japan Workshop was held in Osaka Univ. The web site is here
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
