#fermisummerschool
Week 1
| 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 | HAWC Instrument and Science - Jordan Goodman | Fermi Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts and Gravitational Wave Counterparts - Judy Racusin | Fermi GBM & LAT GRB Data Analysis - Judy | Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter - Fiorenza |
| 10:00 | Radiation processes and Air Showers - Jordan Goodman | Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes: From ADC counts to gamma-ray images and spectra - Stefan Ohm | Gamma-ray emission from star-forming systems - Stefan
| Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter - Fiorenza Donato | Multivariate analysis techniques and machine-learning algorithms - Stefan |
| 11:00 | Break | Break | Break (photo!) | Break | Break |
| 11:30 | The High-Energy Gamma-ray Sky - Liz Hays | Intro to the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Jeremy Perkins | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Compton Telescopes - Eric Grove |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Basics of Maximum Likelihood - Science Tools Intro and Data Exploration - Elizabeth Ferrara Students choose a source for analysis. | Likelihood Analysis in LAT - Jeremy Perkins Quiz tool link: kahoot.it
| 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) | Advanced Likelihood/ fermiPy Student Projects | Advanced Topics: Pulsar Analysis; Galactic source techniques; Lightcurve analysis 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 |
NICER launch 5:55 PM Crab Feast |
Week 2
| Mon, June 6 | Tues, June 7 | Wed, June 8 | Thurs, June 9 | Fri, June 10 | |
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| 8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Particle Acceleration Mechanisms I - Yajie Yuan | Particle Acceleration Mechanisms II - Yajie | AGN and Blazars in the gamma-ray sky - Betta | Theory and Modeling of Pulsar Wind Nebulae - Yajie | Wrap-up |
| 10:00 | Fermi LAT Catalogs - Elisabetta Cavazzuti | Magnetars - George Younes | Fermi GBM as a Transient Monitor - Colleen Wilson-Hodge | Analyzing GBM Continuous data - Colleen | Project Results and Feedback |
| 11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| 11:30 | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | AMEGO - Regina Caputo | Workshop Close Out | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Advanced Topics: Working groups on special topics Student Projects | Free afternoon | Advanced Topics Student Projects | Advanced Topics: Student Projects | |
| 4:45 | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | |
| Virden BBQ @ 6:00 |
Student Talks and 1 Slide Schedule
Thursday, June 1
Donggeun Tak - Thermal and non-thermal emission study in GRB160709A
Divya Palaniswamy - Fast Radio Bursts
Tang Qingwen
- Orel Gueta
- Tejaswita Sharma
- Israel Martinez
Friday, June 2
Suttiwat Madlee - Earth’s gamma-ray emission in geographical coordinates with Fermi-LAT data
Carlo van Rensburg - Spatially-Dependent Modelling of Pulsar Wind Nebula G0.9+0.1
- Tyler Williamson
- Laila Vleeschower
- Sheridan Lloyd
Monday, June 5
Janeth Valverde - B2 1215+30 Long Term Gamma-ray Study with Fermi-LAT & VERITAS
Marcin Marculewicz - Weak emission-line quasars (WLQ)
Fabio Carfado
- Monica Breed
- Hannes Thiersen
- Isabella Mereu
Wednesday, June 7
Brent Limyansky - Analyzing Pulsar “Glitches” Using the Fermi LAT
Tiffany Lewis - A First-Principles Radiative Transport Model for Steady-State Blazar Spectra
- Hester Schutte
- Cori Fletcher
- Tiaan Bezuidenhout
- Sambid Wasti
Supporting Material
Really useful usage notes page for likelihood tools! [Likelihood Usage Notes]
Liz's favorite page on livetime and exposure: [http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/documentation/Cicerone/Cicerone_Likelihood/Exposure.html]
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