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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

 

 

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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

 

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