Tues, May 26 | Wed, May 27 | Thurs, May 28 | Fri, May 29 | Sat, May 30 | |
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8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
9:00 | The Fermi Mission - Julie McEnery | Particle Acceleration - Markos | Dark Matter Searches in the LAT - Andrea | Gamma-ray Generation - Markos | Gamma-ray Detective Work - Reshmi |
10:00 | Radiation Processes - Markos Georganopoulos | The Fermi Large Area Telescope - Andrea Albert | History and Techniques of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes - Jamie Holder | The Fermi LAT Catalogs - Seth Digel | Astroparticle Physics at the South Pole - Detecting high-energy neutrinos with IceCube - Naoko Neilson |
11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
11:30 | Pulsars - Tyrel Johnson | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Blazars - the Observational Perspective - Reshmi Mukherjee | ||
12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:30 | The Likelihood Method - Liz Hays (UPDATE content) Instructions for installing the Fermi Virtual Machine Science Tools Intro and Data Exploration (includes VM shared folder setup Update 2015 VM specifics) - Elizabeth Ferrara Students choose a source for analysis. | Likelihood Tutorial – Jeremy Perkins Poll students for use of scripted analysis. | LAT XML Models - Elizabeth Ferrara Advanced Likelihood (cover convergence, 3 basic scripting tools, minor update) Code to Install (keep this?): Data: | IRF Tutorial (Tyrel) Update from EC presentation in 2013 Line Analysis with the LAT - Andrea Code
| 1 Slide Summaries (cont) Advanced Tutorials (high energy analysis, summed likelihood - update from last year, start from existing data files!) |
Crab Feast TBD |
Week 2
Mon, June 1 | Tues, June 2 | Wed, June 3 | Thurs, June 4 | Fri, June 5 | |
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8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
9:00 | Cosmic Background Radiation - Yoshi Inoue | Cosmic Gamma-ray Background - Yoshi | Cosmic Infrared/Optical background - Yoshi | Future MeV - TBD | Final Wrap-up |
10:00 | Diffuse Emission - Seth | Data Analysis with IACTs - Jamie | Overview of HAWC Science - Ignacio Taboada | GRB Theory and Analysis - J. Michael | Project Results and Feedback |
11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
11:30 | Fundamental Physics from High Energy Observations - Julie | Trip to Wallops | GRB Theory and Analysis - J. Michael Burgess | Data Analysis with HAWC - Ignacio | Workshop Close Out |
12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:30 | Advanced Topics
Split into working groups?
| Trip to Wallops | GRB tutorial - J. Michael Advanced Topics | HAWC sensitivity tutorial - Ignacio Advanced Topics | |
BBQ TBD |
Wed., May 27
Studying the gamma-ray variability of the blazar 1ES 1215+303 - Floriana Zefi
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Fornax A - Jeff Magill
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The SpeedsterEXD A New EventTriggered Hybrid CMOS Xray Detector - Christopher Griffith
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Indirect dark matter search in dwarf spheroidal galaxies - Niki Klop
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Thurs., May 28
The GCT’s camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Andrea De Franco
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TeV pulsed emission from the Crab detected by MAGIC - Daniel Galindo
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X-ray and gamma-ray studies of the supernova remnant (SNR) CTB 37B hosting a young magnetar - Harsha Kumar
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Matthew Meehan
Andriy Petrashyk
Mike Testa
Sat., May 30
Searches for High-Energy Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Julia Schmid
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Bryce Carpenter
Pheneas Nkundabakura
Mark Wells
Alisha Chromey
Mon., June 1
Wed., June 3
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory - Kelly Malone
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Muon Production Depth Studies - Hershal Pandya
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Photospheric Emission from GRBs - Zeynep Acuner
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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]
These are places we've gone in the past for food:
Some useful shops:
Things to do. Ask for details.