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| Tues, May 31 | Wed, June 1 | Thurs, June 2 | Fri, June 3 | Sat, June 4 | |
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| 8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Fermi Mission Overview - Julie McEnery (pptx) | The Fermi LAT Catalog - Benoit Lott (pdf, pptx) | Gamma-ray Astrophysics Theory and Modeling - Giovanni Morlino | Active Galactic Nuclei in the LAT - Benoit Lott (pdf , pptx) | Gamma-ray Astrophysics Theory and Modeling II - Giovanni Morlino |
| 10:00 | The Physics of Particle Detectors - Justin Vandenbroucke (pptx, pdf) | MW/ MM Astrophysics: Rationale and Resources - Dave Thompson | IceCube and connections between neutrino and gamma astronomy - Justin Vandenbroucke (pptx, pdf) | Gamma-ray Bursts and Transients in the LAT - Giacomo Vianello | |
| 11:00 | Break | Break | Break (photo!) | Break | Break |
| 11:30 | The Fermi Large Area Telescope - Julie McEnery (pptx) | The Cherenkov Telescope Array - Justin Vandenbroucke (pdf) | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Fermi analysis for everyone, cosmax - Benoit Lott |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Basics of Maximum Likelihood - Giacomo Vianello (pdf) (github repository) (web non-interactive version of notebook)
Instructions for installing the Fermi Virtual Machine (Additional notes: 1) You may need to find a version of VirtualBox appropriate for your operating system, e.g. linux. 2) If when you try to start the VM, you are getting errors from VirtualBox about VT-x, see this link) Science Tools Intro and Data Exploration (includes VM shared folder setup ) - Elizabeth Ferrara Students choose a source for analysis. | Likelihood Tutorial – Jeremy Perkins Jeremy's Quiz tool: kahoot.it The gtburst gui interface to the Science Tools - Giacomo Vianello
| Generating LAT XML Models - Elizabeth Ferrara instructions for using make3FGLxml.py script Testing for sources Advanced Likelihood (convergence and basic scripting tools) Data: PDG Statistics review pdf (deltaLL values in Table 38.2 on page 29) | Adaptive Binning Tutorial - Benoit Lott Advanced Likelihood Student Projects | Summed likelihood tutorial, summed likelihood analysis files: summedLikeFiles.tgz Student Projects
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| 4:45 | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup |
| Virden Hosted BBQ @ 6:00 |
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