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Events
2001
September 15
KEK Annual Open House was visited by over 2000 people.
October 1
Public Relations Office headed by Mr. Yuichi TAKAYANAGI started with 9 members.
Mr. TAKAYANAGI was a well-known TV commentator on science at Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK).
October 6, 7
KEK participated annual Tsukuba Science Fair for which over 5000 children and parents came.
November 20-22
The 5th Topical conference titled as "Frontiers in Flavor Physics" was held at KEK. Participants were 56 from overseas and 82 from Japan, totaling 138. (http://kektc5.kek.jp/).
November 22
The 15th annual Fuigo (forge) Festival was hosted by KEK Machine shop. Traditional forging of an iron tool was demonstrated by a machine shop member.
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December 10-12
Int'l Workshop on Nuclear and particle Physics at 50-GeV PS (NP01) was held at KEK. More than 100 participants discussed about the realistic experimental programs and facility layout of the 50-GeV PS.
December 13-16
The 1st Int'l Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the few GeV Region (NuInt01) was held at KEK. (65 participants) There were lively discussions on neutrino experiments and on the possible future experiments for precise measurement of ν-N interactions.
December 16
Commemoration lectures titled as "40 years of Accelerator Science" were hosted by KEK at University of Tokyo.
2002
January 4
A fully optical computer network, Super-SINET, constructed by MEXT (ex-Monbusho) and NII (National Institute of Informatics) started service for High Energy Physics, Space/Astronomy, Genetics, Nano-technology and GRIDs boosting the network capability by ~100times.
January 7
KEK Director general, Hirotaka Sugawara, gave a new years resolution in English emphasizing that KEK is an international organization. (full text on page 1)
Notable visitors:
Nov.13 Minister of Education, Nov.15 Minister of Policy on Science and Technology.
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Announcement:
PMTs ( inner detector) and 8" PMTs (outer detector) so that the K2K run, originally scheduled to resume in January 2002, had to be deferred. As the spokesperson of the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, Professor Totsuka, announced immediately after the accident, Super-Kamiokande detector will be rebuilt as quickly as possible. For now, the K2K experiment will restart within a year or so with half the original PMT density. ( http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp) The half PMT density will not cause any serious deterioration in detector performance for the GeV neutrinos from KEK. The K2K Collaboration fully supports the recovery work of Super-Kamiokande. ( http://neutrino.kek.jp)
(K. Nakamura)
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