KAGRA visit with OzGrav colleagues

Our OzGrav colleagues, Ju Li, Chiara, Mitchell, Alex, Koh, and Avanish, visited the KAGRA site with Dr. Takano and Prof. Somiya. We took a local train on a country road from Toyama to Kamioka, which is an experience like no other.

First ASPIRE GW workshop took place

Over 40 people including 9 researchers from Australia enjoyed the workshop at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo. Ms. Pitt and Ms. Tsukamoto, the counselor and the senior manager in the education and research division of the Embassy, also attended the event. See here for more detail.

Public lecture and a KAGRA visit

Somiya gave a public lecture on gravitational waves at Geo Space Adventure (GSA) 2024 event on Jul 14 and visited KAGRA on Jul 16 with some Tokyo Tech members and our overseas guests.

James Gardner in Japan

James Gardner, a PhD student at ANU who is currently doing research at Caltech with Yanbei Chen, is visiting us from July 3 through July 12. He gave a presentation at Tokyo Tech and U Tokyo on his work to detect stochastic GW with a single detector, and also had discussions on intracavity schemes.

Announcement of ASPIRE workshop 2024

We would like to host a workshop at Australian Embassy in Tokyo on Aug 19 (Mon) in the afternoon. There will be lab tours to Tokyo Tech and Univ of Tokyo on Aug 20, and the OzGrav colleagues can join the KAGRA Face-to-face meeting in Aug 21-23 at Tokyo City University. The registration page is now open. No registration fee.

Dr. Takano joined the team

Mr. Satoru Takano joined the ASPIRE GW team in April 2024. He obtained PhD today and now he is an ASPIRE postdoc. Congratulations, Dr.Takano!

Seminar for young researchers

We invited Prof. Danzmann and Dr. Kawazoe from Max-Planck Institute in Hannover and had a seminar named “Space-based GW Telescope -LISA and Researcher’s life in Germany.”

GWADW2024

Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector Workshop (GWADW) was held at Hamilton Island and 27 researchers participated from Japan.