Gstlal F2F – September 4th-10th

Registration:

Please register by filling out the form here if you would like to attend remotely or in person. The form is editable, so if there are any changes, please update your response.

Please contact Shio (sks6461@psu.edu) if you have questions.

Site Information:

  • Location: Research center for the early universe (RESCEU), School of Science Bldg. No.4, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
  • Phone number: +81-3-5841-4169
  • Map: link
  • For those attending in person, please wear masks indoors and take infectious disease controls.

Travel Info:

  • Please check this out before visiting Tokyo/Toyama/Japan.

Guest Housing:

Please note that UTokyo guest housings are full.

Sanjo Conference Hall Tatsuokamon Annex: (山上会館龍岡門別館)

  • Location: 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Sanjo Conference Hall Tatsuokamon Annex
  • Phone number: +81-3-5841-2403
  • Website: link
  • Map: link
  • Laundry: washing machines and drying machines are available. You will need Japanese cash (100 yen coins) to use the machines.
  • Breakfast: Please purchase at convenience stores/grocery stores in the area.
  • For those of you staying elsewhere till Sep. 6th morning, you can store your luggages in the locker room of the Sanjo Conference Hall Tatsuokamon Annex. Large luggages that do not fit in the locker room can be kept at the front desk between 9:00 am and 9 pm (closed between noon to 1 pm). They will be able to keep your luggages during the day until you check in on Sep. 6th afternoon. Please note that valuables (money, passport, etc.) cannot be left with the front desk. You can also bring your luggage to the UTokyo campus, and leave it in the seminar room we will be using that day.
  • Electicity and water (this includes elevators, bathrooms, fridge etc.) will be out on Sun. Sep 10 from 8 am (or potentially earlier) to noon. Please plan accordingly. Please bring your suitcases down to the 1st floor (locker room) by the night of Sat. Sep 9th. The suitcases can be kept there after the checkout time, but please pick them up other than noon to 1pm when the office is closed for lunch hour.

Mukougaoka Faculty House: (向ヶ岡ファカルティハウス)

  • Location: The University of Tokyo, Yayoi campus, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032
  • Phone number: +81-3-5840-8495
  • Website: link
  • Map: link
  • Laundry: washing machines and drying machines are available. You will need Japanese cash (100 yen coins) to use the machines.
  • Breakfast: Please purchase at convenience stores/grocery stores in the area.
  • Please print out the reservation form and bring it with you when you check in.
  • For those of you staying elsewhere till Sep. 6th morning, you can bring your luggages to the front desk of the Mukougaoka Faculty House between 9:30 am and 6 pm. They will be able to keep your luggages during the day until you check in on Sep. 6th afternoon. Please note that valuables (money, passport, etc.) cannot be left with the front desk. You can also bring your luggage to the UTokyo campus, and leave it in the seminar room we will be using that day.

Hotel Kizankan (機山館)

  • Location: 4-37-20, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 113-0033
  • Phone number: +81-3-3812-1211
  • Website: link
  • Map: link
  • Breakfast: Please check your reservation to see if breakfast is included. You can also purchase breakfast tickets at the counter. It is approx. $7 (1000 yen) (Japanese & Western style buffet. They have Japanese-style menus and salads, so hopefully it can cover most dietary needs. There are multiple convenience stores and a few grocery stores nearby in case you want to get food on your own.)
  • Payment: Please pay individually when you check in if you haven’t already.
  • Cancelation fees: 20% of the accommodation fee if you cancel 1 day prior to your check in. 80% of the accommodation fee if you cancel 1 day prior to your check in.
  • Other: It is a 12 min. walk from UTokyo RESCUE, where the F2F will be held. It is a 2 min. walk from Hongo-Sanchome station. Coin laundry available. 100 yen for washing and 200 yen for drying. Vending machine available.

Hotel

  • There are many affordable hotel options.
  • Check distance and access to UTokyo RESCEU (Research Center for the Early Universe).

Airbnb

  • There are many Airbnb options.
  • Check distance and access to UTokyo RESCEU (Research Center for the Early Universe).

Airports:

NRT (Narita Airport)

  • Many international flights land in Narita Airport.
  • Tips to get to RESCUE from Narita Airport:
    • Use Google maps. It will give you information about which trains/buses to take, which stop you need to get off at, and which train station exit you should to use.
    • Bus/taxi drivers do not necessarily speak English, and the location of RESCEU is not included in the taxi navigation system. If you do want to take a taxi from the stations to RESCEU or your hotel, please be preapred. If you know where RESCEU is and you want to get there by a taxi, you can ask the driver to drop you off at ‘Todai Byoin’ and then navigate the driver from there in Japanese.
  • Some ways to get to RESCUE from Narita Airport:
    • Option 1 (via Ueno station): Take a Keisei-line （京成線） train from Narita Airport （成田空港）　to Keisei-Ueno　（京成上野） station. From Keisei-Ueno （京成上野）　station (note that Keisei-Ueno and Ueno station is a 4 min walk) go to the Ueno-Koen-Yamashita (Ueno Park) bus stop and take the “上01” bus that is a loop route between Ueno station and UTokyo campus. Get off at Todai-Konai (The Univ. of Tokyo) bus stop if you are coming to campus. The bus will drop you off inside the campus.
    • Option 2 (via Akihabara station): Take a Keisei-line （京成線） train from Narita Airport （成田空港）　to Nippori　（日暮里） station. From Nippori （日暮里）　station take the JR Keihin-Tohoku line （京浜東北線）　to Akihabara （秋葉原） station. From Akihabara Station bus stop take the “茶51” bus that runs north along Hongo Dori （本郷通り） and get off at Todai-Seimon (The Univ. of Tokyo) bus stop if you are coming to campus. The bus will drop you off in front of the campus.
    • Option 3 (via Ochanomizu station): Take a Keisei-line （京成線） train from Narita Airport （成田空港）　to Nippori　（日暮里） station. From Nippori （日暮里）　station take the JR Keihin-Tohoku line （京浜東北線）　to Akihabara （秋葉原） station. From Akiabara （秋葉原） station take the JR Chuo/Sobu line （中央・総武線） to Ochanomizu （御茶ノ水) station. From Ochanomizu Station bus stop take the “茶07” bus that is a loop route between Ochanomizu station and UTokyo campus. Get off at Todai-Konai (The Univ. of Tokyo) if you are coming to campus. The bus will drop you off inside the campus.
    • Option 4 (via Tokyo station): Take the JR Narita Express from Narita Airport （成田空港）　to Tokyo　（東京） station. Take the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi line （丸ノ内線） to Hongo-Sanchome station (本郷三丁目). The campus is a 7 min. walk from Hongo-Sanchome station (本郷三丁目). Instead of going to Hongo-Sanchome station (本郷三丁目), from Tokyo station, one can also take the “東43” bus from Tokyo Sta. Marunouchi-Kitaguchi (Marunouchi North Exit) that travels north long Hongo Dori （本郷通り）. Get off at Todai-Seimon (The Univ. of Tokyo) bus stop. The bus will drop you off in front of the campus. In addition, from Tokyo station, one can also take the JR Chuo line （中央線） to Ochanomizu （御茶ノ水) station and take the “茶07” bus explained in Option 3 if you want to be dropped off inside campus.
    • Option 5: One can also take long-distance buses from Narita Airport to major stations in Tokyo, then take trains and local buses from the major stations. You can purchase the long-distance bus tickets at the airport once you arrive. For example, you can take a long-distance bus from Narita Airport (成田空港) to Tokyo (東京) station (link). You’ll need to take a train from Tokyo station.

HND (Haneda Airport/Tokyo International Airport)

  • Some international flights land in Haneda Airport. Haneda Airport is closer to UTokyo than Narita Airport.
  • Tips to get to RESCUE from Haneda Airport:
    • Use Google maps. It will give you information about which trains/buses to take, which stop you need to get off at, and which train station exit you should to use.
    • Bus/taxi drivers do not necessarily speak English, and the location of RESCEU is not included in the taxi navigation system. If you do want to take a taxi from the stations to RESCEU or your hotel, please be preapred. If you know where RESCEU is and you want to get there by a taxi, you can ask the driver to drop you off at ‘Todai Byoin’ and then navigate the driver from there in Japanese.
  • Some ways to get to RESCUE from Haneda Airport:
    • Option 1 (via Tokyo station): Take the Keikyu Airpoty line （京急空港線)　from Haneda Airport (羽田空港) to Shinagawa (品川) station. Take the JR Yamanote line （山手線) to Tokyo (東京) station. One can also take the Tokyo Monorail Airport line （東京モノレール空港線) from Haneda Airport (羽田空港) to Tokyo (東京) station. For routes to get from Tokyo (東京) station to campus, refer to option 4 above.
    • Option 2: One can also take long-distance buses from Haneda Airport to major stations in Tokyo, then take trains and local buses from the major stations. You can purchase the long-distance bus tickets at the airport once you arrive. For example, you can take a long-distance bus from Haneda Airport (羽田空港) to Tokyo Skytree Town/Kinshicho Station (link). Get off at Tokyo Skytree Town, and take local trains or buses to get to RESCEU. (The fastest option will depend on the bus schedules. Google map helps.)

Schedule:

  • Agenda/Minutes: link

Monday, September 4: (Half day) Path to GWTC-4 Part 1

Location: RESCEU seminar room (1st floor of School of Science Bldg. No.4) and 7th floor seminar room (Please split up into two rooms and connect using Zoom to reduce the number of people per room)

Morning:

  • Arrival

Afternoon (2:00 PM JST):

  • Online overview (Leo, Becca, Divya, Rachael, etc.):

    • Big-picture presentation
    • Summary slides for All-sky/EW/SSM
    • SCCB tickets/patches
    • What needs to be improved towards O4b
    • IMBH candidates

  • To-Do items

    • Code management/making releases etc.
    • Remaining issues/bugs

Tuesday, September 5: Long-term development + Hackathon

Location: RESCEU seminar room (1st floor of School of Science Bldg. No.4) and 7th floor seminar room (Please split up into two rooms and connect using Zoom to reduce the number of people per room)

Morning:

  • 9:00 AM JST: Presentation on injection structure (Victoria Niu)
  • 9:30 AM JST: Mu-bank (Jim Kennington)
  • 10:00 AM JST: Presentation on lensing (Alvin Li)
  • 10:30 AM JST: Presentation on how sub-threshold searches or time-coincident searches can enhance GW strong lensing detections (Hemantakumar Phurailatpam)
  • 11:00 AM JST: Presentation on bridging CBC and Detchar, Proposal of a new event validation tool (Andre Guimaraes/Zach Yarbrough)

Afternoon (1:00 PM JST):

  • Assign tasks/Hackathon for To-Do items discussed on Monday.
  • 16:00 JST (9:00 AM Stefano’s time): Chisq for precession (Stefano Schmidt)

Wednesday, September 6: Rapid PE + pastro

Location: RESCEU seminar room (1st floor of School of Science Bldg. No.4) and 7th floor seminar room (Please split up into two rooms and connect using Zoom to reduce the number of people per room)

Morning (9:00 AM JST):

  • 9:00 AM JST: Presentation: Updates on GstLAL O4a performance analytics (Amanda Baylor, Pratyusava Baral)
  • 9:30 AM JST: Presentation: O4 online/offline pastro (Anarya Ray)
  • 10:00 AM JST: Presentation: Rapid PE updates to GstLAL’s pastro (Caitlin Rose, Vinaya Valsan)

Afternoon (1:00 PM JST)

  • Discussions
  • Hackathon for To-Do items discussed on Monday and those that came up on Tuesday.

Thursday, September 7: Path to GWTC-4 Part 2

Location: Room 206 in the School of Science Bldg. No.1

Morning (9:00 AM JST):

  • Offline overview (Prathamesh, Divya, Leo):

    • Open box rota
    • Strategy to refilter data
    • Offline branch readiness

  • Feasible/Wishlist feature implementation for O4b + dev/tests to do

    • iDQ
    • Bank chisq
    • Bin-specific singles penalty
    • IMBH searches
    • SNR optimizer

  • Put together a list of To-Do items

Afternoon (1:00 PM JST):

  • 1:00 pm JST: Next-gen data delivery discussion (Patrick Godwin, Jameson Rollins, Chad Hanna, Kipp Cannon)
  • Assign tasks/ some hackathon for TODO items discussed so far

Friday, September 8: Code sprint

Location: Room 206 in the School of Science Bldg. No.1

Morning (9:00 AM JST):

  • Assign tasks, breakout into groups
  • itacac hackathon (Cody Messick, Chad Hanna)
  • Noise pdf plotting issue (Kipp, Chad, Leo, Prathamesh)

Afternoon:

  • Continue breakout groups
  • End of the day regroup updates

Night:

  • Social activities: Karaoke social

Saturday, September 9: Hackathon and Individual meetings

Location: RESCEU seminar room (1st floor of School of Science Bldg. No.4)

Morning (9:00 AM JST):

  • Hackathon and Individual meetings
    • Hackathon
    • Individual meetings

Afternoon (1:00 PM JST):

  • Hackathon and Individual meetings
    • Hackathon
    • Individual meetings

Sunday, September 10: Hackathon and Individual meetings

Location: RESCEU seminar room (1st floor of School of Science Bldg. No.4)

Morning (9:00 AM JST):

  • Hackathon and Individual meetings
    • Hackathon
    • Individual meetings

Afternoon (1:00 PM JST):

  • Hackathon and Individual meetings
    • Hackathon
    • Individual meetings