LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
collaboration meeting @ Toyama


September 11-15, 2023



Main sessions of the 2023 September LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA meeting will be held from Monday, September 11 to Thursday, September 14, 2023 at Toyama International Conference Center, with the Coatings Workshop and KAGRA f2f meeting on September 15. The September 2023 LVK meeting is organized by the LVK meeting organizing committee consisting of ICRR, The University of Tokyo, Toyama University, and RESCEU, The University of Tokyo.

Registration:

Fees in JPY

By June 29

By July 30

By August 20

Late

Networking Event

Regular

38000

42000

46000

56000

12000

UPMI

38000

39000

40000

40000

12000

LMIC

37000

38000

39000

39000

12000

Student

33000

37000

38000

44000

6000

Regular Remote

0

3500

3500

3500

-

Student Remote

0

0

0

0

-

Fees are payable by credit cards at the time of online registration. Please contact us if your name does not show up in the list within one week after you have registered. Due to the credit card company's system, the registration fee applicable on the date of payment will be collected, instead of the one at the time of registration.
Banquet fee for an accompanying person is 15000 Yen.
The UPMI and LMIC rates apply for those who have an affiliation in upper middle income countries and lower middle income countries determined by the World Bank and are directly coming from such regions for this meeting, respectively. See here for classification.

    Cancellation policy:

    Cancellation requests received by August 20 will be refunded by bank transfer with a 20% handling charge. Cancellations after August 20 will not be honored.

      For people who need visa to visit Japan:

      If you need a supporting document issued by us to obtain a visa to enter Japan, please fill out the following document and send it to the e-mail address shown in the form by July 25, 2023.

      For people who need invitation letters:

      If you need an invitation letter, please send an email to LVK2023toyama@resceu.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp by August 10, 2023.

      Local Organizing Committee:

      Jun'ichi Yokoyama (co-chair), Masatake Ohashi (co-chair), Takashi Uchiyama, Hideyuki Tagoshi, Takafumi Ushiba, Soichiro Morisaki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Narikawa, Nami Uchikata, Kentaro Komori, Koh Ueno, Jun'ya Kume, Sayuri Nagano, Chiyo Ueda, Kyouichi Takayama, Masafumi Kurachi, Daichi Kato, Rie Kikuchi, Mihoko Okinaka, Eri Sakamoto, Midori Nojiri

      Call for contributed posters:

      We invite contributed posters. If you wish to present a poster, please indicate so in the registration form by 20 August 2023 and also register your poster in this dedicated form by 27 August 2023.

      WARNING!!!

      This meeting is not engaged with any travel agency, nor will disclose any information of the participants to outside. Any individual or company that contacts the registrants have nothing to do with the organizers of this meeting. Should there be any suspicious emails or phone calls, please ignore them.

      Disclaimer:


      The attendance of meeting is at own risk. In no event shall the organizers be liable for death, injury, or any loss suffered by participants and accompanying persons. The participants are advised to buy appropriate travel insurance beforehand. While the organizers will make every effort to conduct this conference according to the schedule announced, unlikely, unforeseen circumstances may result in change of the schedule or cancellation of the conference.  These changes will be posted at the conference website.  No liability is assumed for inaccuracy, misdescription, delay, damage, and loss.


      Contact:

      For inquiry please write to LVK2023toyama@resceu.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

      Supported by:


      Toyama prefecture & Toyama city

      JSPS Kakenhi Grant (S) 20H05639 "Comprehensive study of gravitational-wave astrophysics" (PI J. Yokoyama)