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 Tues, May 26Wed, May 27Thurs, May 28Fri, May 29Sat, May 30
8:15BreakfastBreakfastBreakfastBreakfastBreakfast
9:00  The Fermi Mission - Julie McEneryParticle Acceleration - MarkosDark Matter Searches in the LAT - Andrea pdf

Gamma-ray Generation - Markos

Markos' SSC Code

SSC Model Parameter Notes

Gamma-ray Detective Work - Reshmi
10:00Radiation Processes - Markos GeorganopoulosThe Fermi Large Area Telescope - Andrea Albert pdfHistory and Techniques of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes - Jamie Holder pdfThe Fermi LAT Catalogs - Seth Digel

Astroparticle Physics at the South Pole - Detecting high-energy neutrinos with IceCube - Naoko Neilson

11:00BreakBreakBreakBreakBreak
11:30Pulsars - Tyrel Johnson

Student Talks

Student Talks / 1 Slide SummariesBlazars - the Observational Perspective - Reshmi Mukherjee

Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries

12:30LunchLunchLunchLunchLunch
1:30

The Likelihood Method - Liz Hays

Steve's sample code:
- errors_poisson.py
- lima.py
- conf_lima_1d.py
- ul_lima_1d.py
- ul_bayes_lima_1d.py

Instructions for installing the Fermi Virtual Machine

Science Tools Intro and Data Exploration (includes VM shared folder setup ) - Elizabeth Ferrara

Students choose a source for analysis.

Likelihood in the LAT

Likelihood Tutorial – Jeremy Perkins

Poll students for use of scripted analysis.

Generating LAT XML Models - Elizabeth Ferrara

instructions for using make3FGLxml.py script

Testing for sources

Advanced Likelihood (cover convergence, 3 basic scripting tools, minor update)

Data:
- Advanced_Likelihood.tgz

PDG Statistics review

pdf (deltaLL values in Table 38.2 on page 29)

Binned Analysis Example

IRFs Tutorial (Tyrel) 

Useful scripts:

 --customIRFplotter.py

 --plotIRFs.py

Line Analysis with the LAT - Andrea
FermiSummerSchool_LineTutorial.pdf 
FT1_to_ROOT.py 
FitVela.py 

 

 

1 Slide Summaries (cont)

Advanced Topic: Summed likelihood tutorial, summed likelihood analysis files summedLikeFiles.tgz

 

Pulsar analysis

Updated pulsar ephemerides

    Crab Feast TBD
 
 

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Glossary of Fermi and related jargon

Example ipython notebook from Eric Charles' lecture for statistics in astronomy grad course: Guest Lecture of Applications in Astro Statistics id 17506

Things to do and Eat

These are places we've gone in the past for food:

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