Fermi Summer School 2013

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	Tues May 28	Wed May 29	Thu May 30	Fri May 31	Sat June 1
9:00	The Fermi Mission Julie McEnery	Diffuse Emission and Map Making - Doug Finkbeiner	Radiative Processes in High-Energy Astrophysics - Lukasz Stawarz	Dark Matter in Fermi II (Part 1) - Savvas Koushiappas	Dark Matter in Fermi II (Part 2) - Savvas Koushiappas
10:00	Space-based Gamma-ray Astronomy (pptx with extra notes) Liz Hays	Fermi LAT overview Eric Charles	Dark Matter in Fermi I - Doug Finkbeiner	Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy - Deirdre Horan	Particle Acceleration in High-Energy Astrophysics - Lukasz Stawarz
Break
11:30	Gamma-ray Sources Elizabeth Ferrara	Student Talks	LAT Performance Eric Charles	Student Talks	Student Talks
Lunch
1:30pm	Maximum Likelihood Overview Sample code: - errors_poisson.py - lima.py - conf_lima_1d.py - ul_lima_1d.py - ul_bayes_lima_1d.py S. Fegan Science Tools Intro and Data Exploration J. Perkins	Likelihood in the LAT Animation: - map_z100_ss20noX.gif S. Fegan Installing Python Packages Likelihood Tutorial J. Perkins	LAT effective area Eric Charles LAT XML Models E. Ferrara Advanced Likelihood J. Perkins

	Mon June 3	Tues June 4	Wed June 5	Thurs June 6	Fri June 7
9:00	Particle Acceleration in High-Energy Astrophysics (continued) - Lukasz Stawarz	Galactic Cosmic Rays Probed with Fermi-LAT - Lukasz Stawarz	GRB Observations and Follow-up by Swift - Neil Gehrels	Extragalactic Cosmic Rays Probed with Fermi-LAT - Lukasz Stawarz	Final Wrap-up: Project Results and Feedback
10:00	Gamma-ray Pulsars - Tyrel Johnson	Intro to Blazars - Deirdre Horan	Fermi GBM and LAT GRB Highlights - Judy Racusin	Gamma Rays and Multimessengers - Valerie Connaughton	Final Wrap-up: Project Results and Feedback
Break
11:30	Student Talks	Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy II (compressed) - Petra Huentemeyer	The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor - Valerie Connaughton	Early Results from the HAWC Observatory - Petra Huentemeyer	Fermi and Beyond - Liz/Julie/Jamie
Lunch
1:30pm	Lightcurves and Variability (Steve) Pulsars and Off-pulse analysis (Tyrel)	Student Talks and One-Slide Summaries Observation modes - a closer look at sky survey and pointings (animated gif of a crab observation)(Julie) Allsky analysis	Student Talks and One-Slide Summaries GRB Analysis - Valerie Associated rmfit tutorial Extended source analysis	Student One-Slide Summaries Finishing touches LAT GRB

Wednesday May 29
Katie Auchettl - Fermi-LAT observations of Galactic supernova remnant Kesteven 79
Hao Zhou - Morphology and Energy Spectra of Geminga and Boomerang at TeV Energies
Hugo Ayala - Studying the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region with HAWC and Fermi

Friday May 31
Ryan Abrahams - Dark Gas in the Translucent Cloud MBM 12
Fabio Zandanel - Dark Matter and Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies

Saturday June 1
Naoya Hidaka - SiPM Characterization for CTA
Hao-Ning He - Diffuse PeV neutrino emission from Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Monday June 3
Karsten Barger - Low peaked and high peaked BL Lacertae objects (ppt)
Felicia Krauss - Multiwavelength observations of TANAMI sources
Victor Patiño - A Multiwavelength Photometric and Spectroscopic Cross-Correlation Variability Study of Fermi/LAT Blazars

Tuesday June 4
Zhengwei Li - Constraints on annihilating dark matter from Fermi observations of M31 (ppt)

Wednesday June 5
Rui-zhi Yang - Constraining the distribution of dark matter in the inner Galaxy: The case of the 130 GeV Line (keynote)

Thursday June 6
Xiang Li - A brief introduction to the DAMPE satellite

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