On Sunday, November 22, KAGRA’s scientist Professor Hideyuki Tagoshi give a public lecture on “At the frontline of the gravitational waves observations” via Internet (さらに…)
Events
November 16th, 2020
October 29th, 2020
Join the Live Virtual Tours of KAGRA and Super-Kamiokande!
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November 20th, 2018
The 5th KAGRA International Workshop will be held in Perugia the 14th and 15th of February followed by a connected workshop on KAGRA, Virgo and 3G Detectors the 16th of February. (さらに…)
May 25th, 2018
May 25, 2018
The 4th KAGRA International Workshop will be held in Ewha Woman’s University, located in Seoul, Korea in June 29-30, 2018.
The main theme of the KAGRA International Workshop (KIW) centers on the KAGRA project, but also encompasses all related fields such as other gravitational wave experiments, gravitational wave sciences, and multi- messenger astronomy. Everybody interested in contributing to the KAGRA project and gravitational wave science in general is welcome to join the meeting.
A public lecture by Prof. Takaaki Kajita, the PI of KAGRA Project on the topic of “Gravitational wave astronomy with KAGRA” is also held during the workshop.
Visit workshop website http://yangjs.inje.ac.kr/Symposium/kiw for the details and registration (deadline: June 15) .
February 12th, 2016
Feb. 12th, 2016
Message from KAGRA on the discovery of Gravitational Wave signal by LIGO-Virgo collaborations
We, the KAGRA collaboration, congratulate the LIGO and Virgo collaborations for the discovery of the gravitational wave signal. It is a historic discovery where the whole field of gravitational waves and general relativity have been waited for.
It is really exciting news, because it is now clear that the studies of gravitational waves and massive compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, can be made by the present generation gravitational wave detectors including KAGRA.
KAGRA would like to complete the construction, achieve the high sensitivity and join the international gravitational wave network as soon as possible so that KAGRA can contribute to the new field of gravitational wave astronomy. Because KAGRA is located underground and going to use cryogenic mirrors, KAGRA is particularly suited to study gravitational wave signals below about 100 Hz, where many signals of mergers of black hole binaries are expected, as observed by LIGO.
In addition to the merger of black hole binaries, there are many astronomical objects to be studied with gravitational waves. For example, KAGRA wants to detect a birth of a black hole created by a coalescence of binary neutron stars and resolve the mystery of short gamma ray bursts with the other gravitational wave detectors and with the partners of multi-messenger astronomy.
Takaaki Kajita,
for the KAGRA collaboration
March 5th, 2014
GWADW2014 in which we discuss about the future technique for GW detection will be held in Takayama-city, Gifu-prefecture, Japan from 25th May to 31st May.
The web page is here.
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
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.
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/
December 23rd, 2012
3rd Korea-Japan Workshop was held in Dec 21~22 2012.
The program was here.
August 31st, 2012
ET-KAGRA thermal noise workshop was held in Jena University, Germany.
The workshop report is in here
August 17th, 2012
KAGRA Advisory Board Meeting was held in ICRR Kashiwa Campus. KAGRA EO members were evaluated about the progress of KAGRA, management, and got many suggestions from the Advisory Board members.
July 8th, 2012
In 8th July, a workshop about KAGRA with the department of physics and engineer of Toyama University was held in the Toyama University.
June 27th, 2012
In June 17th, Uchiyama-kun who is ICRR member gave a lecture on KAGRA in the GSA seminar promoted by Hida academy.
February 18th, 2012
Members of the House of Councilors, who belong to committee on education, visited in Kamioka Observatory, Super Kamiokande, XMASS and CLIO.
January 21st, 2012
LCGT ground breaking ceremony was held in Mozumi, Kamioka-cho, Hida-city, Gifu prefecture.
Some photos about ceremony are shown in this page.
LCGT ground breaking ceremony was written up in several newspaper.
(web page on Gifu newspaper).
January 14th, 2012
Korea-Japan Workshop was held in Korea University to promote LCGT project. Collaborations in laser development, vibration isolation, quantum measurement and so on were discussed.
April 1st, 2011
LCGT new name decision was suspended till June 2011.
April 1st, 2011
Nikoniko-douga net broadcasting from CLIO site was suspended till June 2011.
February 23rd, 2011
*LCGT symposium will be held in the Japan Phisics Society Meeting 2011 Spring at Kanagawa Institute of Technology.
February 23rd, 2011
*LCGT symposium will be held in the Applied Phisics Society Meeting 2011 Spring at Tsukuba University.
February 23rd, 2011
*LCGT symposium will be held in the Astronomical Society Meeting 2011 Spring at Tsukuba University.
