KAGRA Scientific Congress Newsletter No. 6 is now online.

Contents
p-1: KAGRA joined International GW Network
p-2: LVK-MoA and Our required actions
p-3: New KSC board started
p-4: KSC organization chart (as of November 2019)
p-4: New EO members, SEO set Run Coordinator
p-5: Count down for the start of joint observation
p-5: Operator shift & Collaborator shift from December 17
p-6: Brief Guide to Mozumi, KAGRA office
p-8: Mass of media propagate KAGRA’s completion, Cafe KAGRA returns, Science Cafe in Gifu City
p-9: Face-to-Face 23 at Univ. Toyama, August 22-24
p-9: Face-to-Face 24 at RESCEU, December 4-5
p-10: Probing Our Universe with Quantum Technologies
p-10: Six topics in the Frontiers of Science symposium
p-11: Poster Award Winners at F2F23
p-12: Poster Prize at TAUP2019, Poster Prize at GWPAW2019
p-13: Jun’ichi Yokoyama was elected to the president of AAPPS
p-13: Keiko Kokeyama in Malaysia
p-14: Student Presentation Award of the PSJ, September
p-15: Proposals of KAGRA as a dark matter detector
p-16: Masafumi Kurachi, research administrator of ICRR Kamioka
p-17: We hear that….
p-18: New collaborators

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KAGRA’s promotion video English version is now online!

(c) 2019 ICRR, The Universiti of Tokyo / Iwanami Audio-Visual Media Inc.

https://youtu.be/x7LHXTtGei00

KAGRA celebrated the completion of its work to build the underground detector on Oct. 4, 2019, a milestone in an international effort to advance gravitational-wave astronomy and significantly deepen our understanding of the universe. Later in the day, the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MoA) on a research collaboration between KAGRA, LIGO and Virgo were held at the city of Toyama.

Read The University of Tokyo’s news for the details.

The fifth issue of KAGRA Scientific Congress Newsletter is now online.

Contents of this issue:

p-1: O3 started
p-2: Directions: On our very near future
p-4: Outreach Activities
p-6: Next Face-to-Face, Previous Face-to-Face
p-7: Previous KIW at Wuhan, China
p-8: Poster Awards
p-9: Newly Joined: National Chiao Tung University
p-10: Newly Joined: National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
p-11: Life in Cambridge and Boston
p-12: Awarded: Hyung Mok Lee, Takaaki Kajita, Yutaro Enomoto
p-13: Links: How much are you ready for O3?
p-14: We found that, published
p-15: New Collaborators
p-16: We hear that …

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The 6th KAGRA International Workshop was held in Wuhan, China on 21 – 23 June, 2019.

http://kiw6.csp.escience.cn/

On May 29, approximately 120 students from Taichung Municipal Taichung First Senior High School in Taiwan visited Kashiwa Campus of the University of Tokyo and listened to the lectures by KAGRA members.

Students of Taichung First Senior High School listening Bin-Hua Hsieh’s lecture

The students arrived at Kashiwa campus early morning on 29th. KAGRA Observatory’s PhD student Bin-Hua Hsieh, who graduated Taichung First Senior High School, took them to the Media Hall in UToko’s Kashiwa Library after touring around buildings of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. In the Media Hall, Bin-Hua told the students about the life in the University of Tokyo as a introduction and Assistant Professor Takafumi Ushiba explained about KAGRA’s observation of gravitational waves. Then, Professor Hideyuki Tagoshi lectured on Astrophysics especially about black holes and gravitational waves. In the Q&A session, students asked so keen questions that surprises the lecturers.

The students will visit a high-school in Tokyo to communicate with Japanese students and visit lake Kawaguchi to see beautiful scene of Mt. Fuji after this visit of Kashiwa Campus.