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The 44th Symposium on Engineering in Astronomy
| Day1 April 16, 2025 | |||
| 9:00-9:05 | Opening Remark | Yoshinori Uzawa | Director of Engineering, NAOJ |
| Special Workshop “On-site Perspectives on the Harsh Reality and Future of Open Use” | |||
| 9:05-9:10 | Introduction | Tatsuhiro Sato | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ |
| 9:10-9:35 | Open Use Programs of NAOJ | Mamoru Doi | Director General of NAOJ |
| 9:35-10:00 | Operations of Telescopes and Instruments at the Joint ALMA Observatory: Status and Challenges | Takeshi Okuda | Associate Professor, ALMA Project |
| 10:00-10:25 | Current status and future prospects of Subaru Telescope operation and maintenance from a technical perspective | Yutaka Hayano | Dupty Director of the Subaru Telescope |
| 10:25-10:50 | Activities on Nobeyama Radio Observatory | Atsushi Nishimura | Director of the Nobeyama Observatory, NAOJ |
| 10:50-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00-11:25 | Current status of NAOJ Mizusawa VLBI Observatory and prospects for engineers | Mareki Honma | Director of the Mizusawa VLBI Observatory |
| 11:25-11:50 | ADC open-use operations | Hisanori Furusawa | Director of the Astronomy Data Center |
| 11:50-12:15 | CfCA: Present and Future | Eiichiro Kokubo | Director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics |
| 12:15-12:30 | Establishment of ATC Maintenance group, etc. | Yoshinori Uzawa | Director of Engineering, NAOJ |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | ||
| Special Lecture Chair : Shinji Oka (Subaru Telescope, NAOJ) | |||
| Special Lecture The history of on-site innovation in NEC space business | Hiroaki Miyoshi | NEC Fellow | |
| 14:30-14:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 14:40-15:20 | Lightning Talk Series | Koichi Sawatari | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ |
| Yuji Ueno | Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ | ||
| Masumi Yamada | Nobeyama Observatory, NAOJ | ||
| Ryutaro Takahashi | Gravitational Wave Science Project, NAOJ | ||
| Yuki Moritani | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ | ||
| 15:20-17:30 | Group Discussion（On-site participation only) | ||
| 17:30-17:35 | Closing Remark of the Special Workshop | ||
| 18:00 | Banquet | ||
| Day2 April 17, 2025 | |||
| General Talks | |||
| Session 1 Chair : Takeshi Nakazato (ALMA Project, NAOJ) | |||
| 8:30-8:46 | Hardware maintenance of ALMA/ASTE | Seiichi Sakamoto | ALMA Project, NAOJ |
| 8:46-9:02 | Development of Total Power GPU Spectrometer (TPGS) for ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU) | Takashi Nakamoto | ALMA Project, NAOJ |
| 9:02-9:18 | Data processing design and implementation technique of ACA Spectrometer Modules | Makoto Shizugami | ALMA Project, NAOJ |
| 9:18-9:34 | Zampar, a high data rate network packet capture tool | Isaac Goicovich | ALMA Project, NAOJ |
| 9:34-9:50 | Software Verification and Release Management at a global scale – The IRM Team at ALMA | Camilo Saldias | ALMA Project, NAOJ |
| 9:50-10:06 | Network connection and data transfer of ALMA data archive between Japan and Chile using commercial cloud service | Eisuke Morita, Hiroaki Tagawa | ALMA Project, NAOJ |
| 10:06-10:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 2 Chair : Yuki Moritani (Subaru Telescope, NAOJ) | |||
| 10:20-10:36 | Commissioning Gemini Planet Imager 2.0 at the Gemini North Observatory | Garima Singh | Gemini Observatory, NSF NOIRLab |
| 10:36-10:52 | SCExAO: the challenges of being an Open-Use instrument and an experimental platform for TMT and HWO | Julien Lozi | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ |
| 10:52-11:08 | Reducing the Low Wind Effect at Subaru Telescope: Mitigation Strategies | Sebastien Vievard | Univ. of Hawaii, Subaru Telescope |
| 11:08-11:24 | Elgodic Property of Rb Oscillators to improve the stability by aggregation | Noriyuki Kawaguchi | NAOJ |
| 11:24-11:40 | Implementation (Application Layer) of ADC’s Science Platform | Michitaro Koike | Astronomy Data Center, NAOJ |
| 11:40-11:56 | Implementation (Infra Layer) of HSC-ADC Science Platform | Takahiro Morishima | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ |
| 11:56-12:12 | Building and performance evaluation of new Multi-wavelength Data Analysis System of ADC/NAOJ | Mizuki Isogai | Astronomy Data Center, NAOJ |
| 12:12-13:20 | Lunch Break | ||
| Session 3 Chair : Takafumi Kamizuka (IoA, The University of Tokyo) | |||
| 13:20-13:36 | Development of a water immersion sensor system and a small UPS circuit using supercapacitors | Ken Takahashi | Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ |
| 13:36-13:52 | Subaru Telescope Large Vacuum Chamber Renovation | Hirofumi Okita | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ |
| 13:52-14:08 | For Aging Systems of Subaru Telescope: Current status of efforts and future plan based on refurbishment | Ken Hirano | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ |
| 14:08-14:24 | Regarding aging of control systems and countermeasures | Wataru Shibano | SHIBANOENG |
| 14:24-14:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 4 Chair : Seiichi Tazawa (TMT Project, NAOJ) | |||
| 14:40-14:56 | Trends and Measures Based on Accidents and Near Misses at the Hawaii Observatory | Shinji Oka | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ |
| 14:56-15:12 | Operation of Nayuta 2m telescope | Yoichi Itoh | University of Hyogo |
| 15:12-15:28 | Report on the Development of a Digital Archive for Historical Photographic Plates Owned by the NAOJ | Kenshi Yanagisawa | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ |
| 15:28-15:44 | Introduction to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory Solar Eclipse Observation Team Archive | Osamu Ohgoe | NAOJ |
| 15:44-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 5 Chair : Kiwamu Izumi (ISAS, JAXA) | |||
| 16:00-16:16 | Development of a cryogenic minimum deviation angle measurement system for mid-infrared refractive index determination | Umi Enokidani | SOKENDAI, ISAS/JAXA |
| 16:16-16:32 | Optimization for the detector system of NINJA | Kensho Tanaka | The University of Tokyo |
| 16:32-16:48 | Modeling of optical scattering from topographic surface measurements of high-quality mirrors for the KAGRA interferometer | Tomotada Akutsu | Gravitational Wave Science Project, NAOJ |
| 16:48-17:04 | Lightweighting of large-scale finite element structural models | Risa Shimizu | Advanced Technology Center, NAOJ |
| 17:04-17:20 | Fourier domain vibration analysis for TMT/NFIRAOS/IRIS system (2) | Ryuji Suzuki | TMT Project, NAOJ |
| 17:20-17:36 | Application of Invar Alloy IC-DX to Astronomical Instruments | Hidenori Takahashi | IoA, The University of Tokyo |
| 17:36-17:55 | General Discussion | Organizing Committee | |
| 17:55-18:00 | Closing Remark | Yasunori Fujii | Engineering Promotion Office |