#fermischool
Week 1
Tues, May 29 | Wed, May 30 | Thurs, May 31 | Fri, June 1 | Sat, June 2 | |
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8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
9:00 | Welcome and Introduction (ppt) - Liz | Intro to Fermi LAT - Regina Caputo | Detectors for LAT - Regina | GRB Science - Judy Racusin | Cosmic Rays and Shocks - Pierre Cristofari |
10:00 | Intro to the Fermi Mission and Sky - Julie McEnery | Intro to Fermi GBM - Michelle Hui | IACTs - Marcos Santander | Transients with HAWC - Michelle | Shock accel and expansion of SNRs - Pierre |
11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break (Photo!) | Break |
11:30 | Air Showers - Pat Harding | HAWC Science - Pat | The Basics of AGN & their High-Energy Emission - Eileen Meyer | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Calculating and using Upper Limits - Eileen |
12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:30 | Getting Started with Fermi: Tools and Resources Getting Started with Maximum Likelihood Analysis - Pat Harding Students choose a source for analysis. | Getting started with Likelihood Analysis in LAT - Jeremy Perkins Quiz tool link: kahoot.it
| Generating LAT XML Models - Elizabeth Ferrara instructions for using make3FGLxml.py script Advanced Likelihood/fermiPy (data.tgz) PDG Statistics review pdf (deltaLL values in Table 38.2 on page 29) | Likelihood Examples/Advanced Topics
Student Projects | Advanced Topics: Upper Limits? Getting started with Burst Analysis Michelle/Judy (Or in 2nd week)
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 |
Crab Feast |
Week 2
Mon, June 4 | Tues, June 5 | Wed, June 6 | Thurs, June 7 | Fri, June 8 | |
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8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
9:00 | Intro to Gravitational Waves - Peter Shawhan | GW science - Peter | Jamie Holder | Pulsar Timing Array - Elizabeth Ferrara | Summary |
10:00 | GBM transients and mulitmessenger - Michelle | Neutrinos and Gamma Rays - Marcos | Blazars and Variability - Eileen | BurstCube - Jeremy | Project Results and Feedback |
11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
11:30 | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Looking for point sources - Marcos | Future Gamma - Judy | Workshop Close Out | |
12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:30 | Time Series and Matched Filtering - Peter
Student Projects | Free afternoon (may swap with Monday or Wednesday) | Advanced Topics: Systematics Student Projects | Advanced Topics: Student Projects | |
4:45 | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | ||
Student Talks and 1 Slide Schedule
Friday, June 1
Monday, June 4
Tuesday, June 5
Supporting Material
Interesting repositories for Fermi analysis
- https://github.com/fermiPy/ and documentation at http://fermipy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- https://github.com/rsnemmen