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.
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.
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!
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.”
Several researchers from Japan visited UWA and ANU after GWADW2024. They enjoyed BBQ and experiments!
Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector Workshop (GWADW) was held at Hamilton Island and 27 researchers participated from Japan.
Our paper on intracavity Kerr amplification has been published from PRL. It was press-released from Tokyo Tech and JST, and is featured in Physics. This is an important milestone for the development of a HF GW detection technique using an intracavity quantum filter.
We only advertised the positions in Japanese but we will accept applications from overseas researchers currently working in Japan. (1) Research Associate Professor or Assistant Professor who works 50% in KAGRA and 50% in Tokyo Tech (2) Research Assistant Professor or Lecturer who works 50% in Australia and 50% in Tokyo Tech. The application deadline is May 31.
Our ASPIRE GW project has been approved by JST and it starts today! It is the bilateral program between Australia and Japan and the title of the project is “Quantum Control Technology for Pioneering Gravitational Wave Astronomy.” See the pamphlet