GWPAW2015

The Osaka City University and Osaka Prefectural University merged to form the Osaka Metropolitan University in 2022. Here we record some of the web resources at the old sites that were hosted by our laboratory at Osaka City University.

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW) 2015, 17-20 June, 2015, Osaka, Japan

Schedule

Jan. 2015    1st circular and web page open
 2nd March   Registration and abstract submission start
End of April Abstract deadline
 8th May     Early registration deadline
29th May     Late registration limit

16th June    Optional tour for KAGRA site at Kamioka
             The reception will be held in the evening, at Osaka.
17th June    1st day of the workshop
18th June    2nd day, banquet in the evening
19th June    3rd day
20th June    Final day. The workshop will finish by lunchtime.

1st circular

GWPAW2015_1stCircular (31KB)

Reception, banquet, and lunch

reception_banquet_lunch-v0615_text (38.8KB)

Route

GWPAW2015_Access (119.2KB)

Presentations:

all_presentations_GWPAW2015_v0618 (41.3KB)

Program

GWPAW2015Program_v0618 (63.2KB)

Student Poster Awards

Undergraduate/graduate student poster contributors are considered for the student poster awards. Three award winners are asked to give oral talks on the final day of the workshop.
The winners are :
1st: Kenji Ono
"New estimation method for mass of an isolated neutron star using gravitational waves"
2nd: Philip Steven Cowperthwaite
"A Comprehensive Study of Detectability and Contamination in Deep Rapid Optical Searches for Gravitational Wave Counterparts"
3rd: Shasvath Jagat Kapadia
"Event classification for a gravitational-wave inspiral search with a sine-Gaussian glitch veto"
3rd: Jing Ming
"Optimal choice of CW point targets and the associated set-ups"

Optional tour


Check KAGRA tour options as "Apply" in the online registration.
Wait at Toyama station or Toyama airport at the 16th morning.
You have to go to Toyama on the 15th or arrive in the early morning of the 16th at Toyama airport.
A charter bus will pick you up and go to the KAGRA site.
After site tour, the charter bus will bring you to Osaka to attend the reception of GWPAW2015.

Scientific Organizing Committee

M.Alessandra Papa (AEI-Golm and -Hannover)
Bruce Allen (AEI-Hannover)
Edo Berger (Harvard)
Sukanta Bose (IUCAA)
Laura Cadonati (Georgia Institute of Technology & U. of Massachusetts Amherst)
Gianluca M Guidi (INFN Firenze - Urbino U.)
Martin Hewitson (AEI-Hannover)
Nobuyuki Kanda (Osaka City U.)
Erik Katsavounidis (MIT)
Nobuyuki Kawai (Titech)
S.R. Kulkarni (Caltech)
Richard N. (Dick) Manchester (CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Sydney, Australia)
Peter Meszaros (Penn U.)
Benoit Mours (LAPP)
Takashi Nakamura (Kyoto U., chair)
B.S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff U.)
Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto U.)

Local Organizing Committee

Kazuhiro Hayama (Osaka City U.)
Yousuke Itoh (RESCEU, U. of Tokyo)
Nobuyuki Kanda (Osaka City U., chair)
Masato Kaneyama (Osaka City U.)
Mieko Katsumura (Osaka City U., Secretary)
Osamu Miyakawa (ICRR, U. of Tokyo)
Tatsuya Narikawa (Osaka City U.)
Ken-ichi Oohara (Niigata U.)
Hideyuki Tagoshi (Osaka U.)
Hirotaka Takahashi (Nagaoka U. of Technology)
Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto U.)
Kou Ueno (Osaka City U.)
Kiyoe Yokota (Kyoto U., Secretary)
Takaaki Yokozawa (Osaka City U.)

Supports/Sponsors:

MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "New Developments in Astrophysics Through Multi-

Messenger Observations of Gravitational Wave Sources" (Grant Number 24103001)

KAGRA project

Osaka City University

The Kyoto University Foundation ( 京都大学教育研究振興財団 )