Felix visited us at KAGRA
Felix Wojcik at University of Western Australia visited the KAGRA site. Haoyu gave a tour with Sakamoto-san at ICRR. Felix said he spent good time!
Gravitational Waves
Visiting OIST
Somiya visited OIST to see Prof Jason Twamley, a former professor at Macquarie University in Australia. We discussed Jason’s recent publication about his experiment of diamagnetic levitation and many more quantum information related topics. The weather was so good in Okinawa!
White Paper Writing Workshop at Hiroshima
Some of the ASPIRE folks gathered at U Hiroshima to update the KAGRA+ white paper. We kept writing and discussing the contents late into the night, over dinner and even after dinner.
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.
Dan Brown’s seminar at KAGRA F2F meeting
Dr. Daniel Brown (Univ of Adelaide) gave a special seminar about the LIGO commissioning and the latest modal model simulation development at the KAGRA face-to-face meeting at Tokyo City University.
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.
Post-workshop visits
Several researchers from Japan visited UWA and ANU after GWADW2024. They enjoyed BBQ and experiments!
GWADW2024
Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector Workshop (GWADW) was held at Hamilton Island and 27 researchers participated from Japan.
Kerr amplification paper published
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.