Carl Blair’s talk at TAMA300 Strategy meeting
Carl Blair gave a talk about Gingin 80m prototype highlight and plan with future TAMA collaboration at the TAMA300 Strategy meeting in NAOJ.
Gravitational Waves
Deeksha and Michael visited KAGRA
Deeksha Beniwal, just graduated from University of Adelaide, and Michael Millar visited the KAGRA site. They said it was the first time visiting gravitational wave detectors. Sakamoto-san helped to dive in the heavy snow and Haoyu gave the tour.
Michael is working on birefringence in NAOJ
Michael Millar is visiting NAOJ for a two-week project for measuring birefringence of sapphire mirrors. He is an student at University of Western Australia.
Carl is working on KAGRA commissioning
Dr. Carl Blair, an LIGO commissioning expert and an ASPIRE coordinator at UWA, is visiting KAGRA for 3 weeks. KAGRA is under his control!
Joint ASPIRE workshop on kHz GW
We will co-host a meeting “From Quarks to Neutron Stars: Insights from kHz gravitational waves” held at UT Hongo campus in April 23-24. Our OzGrav colleagues Paul Lasky and Lilli Sun will give invited talks.
https://indico2.riken.jp/event/5141/
This event is co-hosted by 2 ASPIRE projects; one by Hatsuda-san’s mathematical quantum science initiative and the other by our quantum control technology for GW astronomy.
Kentaro is back at ANU
It is summer here in Australia! Weather is great in Canberra now. People start to come back to work after a long vacation.
Kentaro will be staying at ANU until Feb 10 and will come back again on Mar 4.
FWG Open Meeting at Sci Tokyo
KAGRA Future Working Group Open Meeting was held at Science Tokyo and ca 40 people joined in person. Lily Sun at ANU gave a remote talk about a dark matter detection.
Attending OzGrav Retreat
Ryo, Haoyu, and Kentaro attended the OzGrav Retreat held in Brisbane. It was quite different from a usual conference, with a lot of games and activities. It was more like a party but at the same time people can learn a lot about GW, dark matter, fast radio pulsars, etc.
Bigfoot members visited UWA
After Adelaide, the Bigfoot members, without Iden-kun who flew back to Canberra, visited University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth.
On Wednesday, people visited the Gingin observatory and enjoyed Australian BBQ. In the weekend, people went to the Cottesloe Beach to play beach volleyball.
Bigfoot members visited Adelaide
Marc, Haoyu, Haba-kun, Iden-kun, Takeshita-kun, and Shalika, or so-called Bigfoot members who work on birefringence problem of GW optics, visited the University of Adelaide to discuss thermal compensation and birefringence of GW telescope test masses.
In the picture, you can find Dan and Mitchell, our colleagues who visited Japan last August.