Shalika visited UWA
Shalika visited UWA for two weeks after the LVK meeting. She worked with Alex on birefringence measurements of sapphire at 2 um wavelength. She also learnt how to use and align a CO2 laser with Koh at Gingin facility.
Gravitational Waves
Team Quantum at ANU
A number of people leave ANU at the same time this year. Jonas already left, taking a postdoc position at Denmark, Dan finished his PhD and is leaving ANU in the end April. James is about to finish his PhD and is going to Chicago. But Today, we are all here at ANU, and here is the group photo of the team quantum (we do miss Kar Meng, Ryo, etc. though).
Haoyu and Kenji visited U Adelaide
Haoyu and Kenji (Nagoya University) visited University of Adelaide after the LVK meeting. They worked on KAGRA Finesse simulations with Dr. Daniel Brown.
Takano and Diego visited ANU
Takano-kun and Diego, with some other students in U Tokyo visited ANU after the LVK meeting. Takano-kun and his colleagues had discussions and lab tours mainly with the TORPEDO team lead by Prof. Slagmolen. Diego discussed his work on Continuous Wave analysis with Dr. Sun.
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA meeting in Melbourne
A biannual meeting for the LVK collaboration was held at Melbourne and many of our ASPIRE colleagues attended. After the conference dinner, the venue transformed into a karaoke party, and Japanese colleagues performed YOASOBI.
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.
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.