Public lecture and a KAGRA visit
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.
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.
Announcement of ASPIRE workshop 2024
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.
Dr. Takano joined the team
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!
Seminar for young researchers
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.”
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.
Call of two ASPIRE positions
We only advertised the positions in Japanese but we will accept applications from overseas researchers currently working in Japan. (1) Research Associate Professor or Assistant Professor who works 50% in KAGRA and 50% in Tokyo Tech (2) Research Assistant Professor or Lecturer who works 50% in Australia and 50% in Tokyo Tech. The application deadline is May 31.
Starting ASPIRE GW
Our ASPIRE GW project has been approved by JST and it starts today! It is the bilateral program between Australia and Japan and the title of the project is “Quantum Control Technology for Pioneering Gravitational Wave Astronomy.” See the pamphlet