We invited Jackie and Diana to Science Tokyo and had a 2-hour seminar on Australian education and outreach. Their outreaching target is not only high school kids but younger kids. They use VR and LEGO. They have so-called Outreach Ambassadors who are early-career researchers (ECRs) helping outreach activities for 6 months or so to obtain certificate.
Let me introduce an event with University Research Administrators from Swinburne University of Technology. Please find the detail from the link below.
https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/news/ncks06ybnfpc
We have four visitors from UWA working on data analysis. They visited different places; University of Tokyo, Science Tokyo, and KAGRA. This week, all of them came to ST. We had a farewell party of Alistair on Tuesday and a BBQ on Friday. The weather was pretty good, right after the ending of rainy season. All the lab members joined and there were twenty people including a couple of former students.
Alistair who visited us at Science Tokyo for 2 months is leaving on Jul 3, so we had a farewell party at Yoro-no-Taki in Oh-okayama. The other picture is the one at Hama-sushi the other day.
A new ASPIRE Research Assistant Professor Haoyu Wang joined the team from Oct 1. Haoyu is an expert of the modal model simulation. His recent study is the analysis of influence of non-uniform birefringence in KAGRA’s sapphire mirrors.
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.
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.
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.”
