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
Join the Live Virtual Tours of KAGRA and Super-Kamiokande!
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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 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) .
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
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.
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 “.
Yoshiki high school students visited CLIO and SK in July 9th. This event was also reported in a local newspaper.
The 4th Korea-Japan Workshop was held in Osaka Univ. The web site is here
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.
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/
3rd Korea-Japan Workshop was held in Dec 21~22 2012.
The program was here.
ET-KAGRA thermal noise workshop was held in Jena University, Germany.
The workshop report is in here
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.
In 8th July, a workshop about KAGRA with the department of physics and engineer of Toyama University was held in the Toyama University.
In June 17th, Uchiyama-kun who is ICRR member gave a lecture on KAGRA in the GSA seminar promoted by Hida academy.
Members of the House of Councilors, who belong to committee on education, visited in Kamioka Observatory, Super Kamiokande, XMASS and CLIO.
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).
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.
LCGT new name decision was suspended till June 2011.
Nikoniko-douga net broadcasting from CLIO site was suspended till June 2011.
*LCGT symposium will be held in the Japan Phisics Society Meeting 2011 Spring at Kanagawa Institute of Technology.
*LCGT symposium will be held in the Applied Phisics Society Meeting 2011 Spring at Tsukuba University.
*LCGT symposium will be held in the Astronomical Society Meeting 2011 Spring at Tsukuba University.