Quantum teleportation experiment at ANU has started with Dr. Aritomi from Univ of Tokyo and Dr. Page from NAOJ. They will work with Ryo at Science Tokyo and Terry at ANU to demonstrate the quantum-teleportation-based frequency dependent squeezing generation.
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.
Jackie and Diana from Swinburne Univ came to Japan and attended the KAGRA face-to-face meeting. On the second day, we had a chance to visit KAGRA site. It is now being stopped for replacing the laser, but the sensitivity has been improved lately. We hope to see a gravitational wave soon.
Yuri Levin, a former OzGrav researcher currently in Columbia Univ, visited me at ANU. We had a very fruitful discussion about thermal noise.
I invited him to Japan about 10 years ago and he still remembers the stay as a good memory, especially his visits to Sumo wrestling and to a tea ceremony.
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 couple of my students and I attended the annual ASPIRE meeting of the Quantum Division at the JST HQ in Tokyo. I missed it last year for a conference, so it was my first time to see other ASPIRE PIs. It was interesting that I found a number of names of my former colleagues in their presentations. What a small world!
A year ago, we had GW Advanced Detector Workshop (GWADW) in Hamilton Island. This year the workshop was held in Florida, at Cocoa Beach. It was quite far from Japan, even further from Canberra, but it was worth the 24-hour flight. About 100 people attended and discussed various GW techniques including Optics, Quantum, Suspensions, etc. A new session about Lunar detectors (GW detection on the Moon) was interesting. We can propose some ASPIRE related technology.
On the second day of the workshop, there was a launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Workshop attendants went to the private beach of Hilton, the workshop venue, at 11pm and enjoyed the magnificent event. Some of us went to a nearby spot but it was still 25km away and the blast sound reached us 1 min later.
On the third day, we went to an excursion to KSC. We saw Saturn 5 and Space Shuttle Atlantis. I learned afterwards that the Saturn 5 is not a replica but a real composite. In 2009 we had GWADW in Florida, at Fort Lauderdale, and I happened to see a Space Shuttle launch. All the Shuttle records were displayed at KSC and I learned it was Atlantis. It is amazing that I met her again after 16 years.
The kHz GW workshop was held at Hongo this week and two researchers from Australia, Lilli Sun (ANU) and Paul Lasky (Monash) gave talks on the on-going gravitational-wave observation and the kHz detector discussions.
The workshop was co-hosted by another ASPIRE program by Prof Hatsuda (RIKEN). The Program Officer of ASPIRE’s Quantum division also attended the first joint ASPIRE event with a few managers from JST.