Demographic landscape of the KAGRA collaboration

Keiko Kokeyama, Chunglee Kim, Joseph M. Fedrow, Ayaka Shoda

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Abstract

The KAGRA collaboration is a scientific organization for the gravitational-wave (GW) detections and GW astrophysics. It consists of more than 360 members from 14 different countries as of June 2019. Regardless the host institutions are the university of Tokyo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and KEK which are all in Japan, and regardless the experimental site is in Japan, there are many international members. However, in the collaboration, women and non-Japanese collaborators are still minorities. To accelerate the scientific efficiency, making a comfortable work environment for any members is a key. As a first step, we conducted an online demographic survey. In this article, the result of the survey and our efforts to make better collaboration will be shown.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference
EditorsTeck-Yong Tou, Jun'ichi Yokoyama, Roslan Abdul Shukor, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hyoung Joon Choi, Ryoji Matsumoto, Oi-Hoong Chin, Jia Hou Chin, Kuru Ratnavelu
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780735440630
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Feb 2021
Event14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, APPC 2019 - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Duration: 17 Nov 201922 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume2319
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, APPC 2019
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuching, Sarawak
Period17/11/1922/11/19

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
KAGRA is a large-scale experimental project in physics and astronomy, to build a Gravitational-wave (GW) Telescope and to start GW astrophysics. The project started in 2010, funded by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. Whereas the funding is from Japan, it is a large international collaboration with 110 institutions, from more than 10 countries, with more than 360 members, as of June 2019. In Japan, there is the unbalance of the gender in the physics field, in which the ratio of female is typically 10%. In addition, since the project and funding are originated in Japan, there are large varieties of the collaborators.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by MEXT, JSPS Leading-edge Research Infrastructure Program, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research 26000005, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas 2905: 17H06358, 17H06361 and 17H06364, JSPS Core-to-Core Program A. Advanced Research Networks, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) 17H06133, the joint research program of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, National Research Foundation (NRF) and Computing Infrastructure Project of KISTI-GSDC in Korea, the LIGO project, and the Virgo project.

Publisher Copyright:
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