Demographic landscape of the KAGRA collaboration

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

doi:10.1063/5.0036998

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 language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference
Editors	Teck-Yong Tou, Jun'ichi Yokoyama, Roslan Abdul Shukor, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hyoung Joon Choi, Ryoji Matsumoto, Oi-Hoong Chin, Jia Hou Chin, Kuru Ratnavelu
Publisher	American Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9780735440630
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0036998
State	Published - 5 Feb 2021
Event	14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, APPC 2019 - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Duration: 17 Nov 2019 → 22 Nov 2019

Publication series

Name	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	2319
ISSN (Print)	0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)	1551-7616

Conference

Conference	14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, APPC 2019
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Kuching, Sarawak
Period	17/11/19 → 22/11/19

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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.

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Kokeyama, K., Kim, C., Fedrow, J. M., & Shoda, A. (2021). Demographic landscape of the KAGRA collaboration. In T.-Y. Tou, J. Yokoyama, R. A. Shukor, K. Tanaka, H. J. Choi, R. Matsumoto, O.-H. Chin, J. H. Chin, & K. Ratnavelu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference Article 150001 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 2319). American Institute of Physics Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0036998

Kokeyama, Keiko ; Kim, Chunglee ; Fedrow, Joseph M. et al. / Demographic landscape of the KAGRA collaboration. Proceedings of the 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference. editor / Teck-Yong Tou ; Jun'ichi Yokoyama ; Roslan Abdul Shukor ; Kazuhiro Tanaka ; Hyoung Joon Choi ; Ryoji Matsumoto ; Oi-Hoong Chin ; Jia Hou Chin ; Kuru Ratnavelu. American Institute of Physics Inc., 2021. (AIP Conference Proceedings).

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Kokeyama, K, Kim, C, Fedrow, JM & Shoda, A 2021, Demographic landscape of the KAGRA collaboration. in T-Y Tou, J Yokoyama, RA Shukor, K Tanaka, HJ Choi, R Matsumoto, O-H Chin, JH Chin & K Ratnavelu (eds), Proceedings of the 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference., 150001, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 2319, American Institute of Physics Inc., 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, APPC 2019, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 17/11/19. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0036998

Demographic landscape of the KAGRA collaboration. / Kokeyama, Keiko; Kim, Chunglee; Fedrow, Joseph M. et al.
Proceedings of the 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference. ed. / Teck-Yong Tou; Jun'ichi Yokoyama; Roslan Abdul Shukor; Kazuhiro Tanaka; Hyoung Joon Choi; Ryoji Matsumoto; Oi-Hoong Chin; Jia Hou Chin; Kuru Ratnavelu. American Institute of Physics Inc., 2021. 150001 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 2319).

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