2005
August 19
"KEK Communication Plaza" opened. To respond to increasing number of visitors, a hall in Kenkyu Honkan Building was totally refurbished so that self-guided tour is more visitor-friendly. KEK Public Relations Office has been working hard to further improve the exhibition hall for visitors.
September 20
Meeting of ILC Asia Region took place in KEK
October 9
Concert to commemorate International Year of Physics. KEK hosted an afternoon of lecture and concert. Nobel laureate Professor Koshiba gave a lecture and a violin/piano concert followed. Nova Hall at the center of Tsukuba City was filled with near 1000 audiences.
October 13
Deputy Minister of MEXT visited KEK and toured through various facilities.
October 17-21
The 10th Neutron School for young researchers. Lectures and hand-on experience on KEK Pulsed Neutron Source and JRR -3M Neutron source were given to 21 participants.
November 3
To improve the quality of bread in Tsukuba, Bread Tasters of Tsukuba (BRETT) group started rating breads from various bakeries in Tsukuba. Not only this made a positive impact to bakeries, but resulted a bakery to start delivering decent quality baguettes to KEK Grocery Store. Most of the BRETT members are KEK related.
November 8-9
Visitors from CEA Saclay Center. Researchers headed by Professor J. Zinn-Justin of CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) Sacrey Center visited KEK.
Novemver 17
Installation of magnets in J-PARC 50 GeV ring started.
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November 21-22
The third HEP Data Grid Workshop. KEK Computing Research Center hosted the 3rd workshop for GRID computing during November 21st and 22nd, 2005 at KEK. This workshop series have been held once a year since the year 2003 to promote Grid in Accelerator Science Field in Japan. This time, they focus on the deployment and operation experience for Data GRID middle ware, such as LCG. The detail of the workshop will be on the web page, https://www-conf.kek.jp/hepdg/
November 24
Bell accumulated 500 inverse fempt barn data.
December 12-15
Harvesting thatches. Japanese houses used to have thatched roofs surprisingly similar to that of Europe. Some 1000 bundles of stalks grown around the KEKB ring area were harvested by over 30 people who have been working to preserve the thatched roofs of old Farm houses.
December 19-22
KEK Winter School 2005. This school is for students in graduate schools (masters degree course). Lectureres were Hikaru Kawai of Kyoto University, Takeo MOROI of Tohoku University, Mihoko NOJIRI of Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (Kyoto Univeristy), Makoto Kobayashi of KEK and so forth. 40 students were participating.
December 20-21
B-Lab Program participated by High School students in KEK. Belle experiment data have been open to public and the challenge of the participants is to analyze the data hoping to find a new particle. This educational program offers high school students to experience the real thrill of being a physicist. Since the start of this program in 2004, over 200 participants enjoyed the experience.
December 28
Operation of the 12 GeV PS was terminated. The 12 GeV PS ring had been the workhorse since 1972. It offered meson beam for meson experiment as well as for cancer treatments, neutrons for materials structure science and primary proton beam for all sorts of (by then) high energy physics researches and beam tests. Its major contribution in recent years was the neutrino beam for K2K experiment.
2006
February 24
J-PARC 50 GeV synchrotron construction completed the circle of tunnel.
KEK Concerts Series offer mostly-classic music for KEK employees, visitors and people in neighboring communities. Recent concerts were: Ryoko Fukazawa Piano Recital (July 15), Oboe/Fagot/Piano Trio (Sept.30), Japanese Harp (KOTO) and Guitar Duo (November 16), Violin and Piano Duo (March 10). The KEK Concert series are getting good attentions.
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