#fermischool
Schedule for Week 1 and Week 2
Week 1
| Tues, May 28 | Wed, May 29 | Thurs, May 30 | Fri, May 31 | Sat, June 1 | |
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| 8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcome / Introduction to Gamma-ray Astro - Liz Hays | Intro to Fermi LAT - Regina Caputo | Gamma-ray Binaries - Jamie Holder | GRB-GW Science - Adam | Fermi LAT continued - Regina Caputo |
| 10:00 | Intro to the Fermi Mission and Sky - Julie McEnery | Intro to Fermi GBM - Adam Goldstein | Dark Matter - Regina | AGN - Manel | Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves - Leo Singer |
| 11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break (Photo!) | Break |
| 11:30 | Gamma rays from Pulsar Wind Nebula and SNRs - Mattia Di Mauro | Quicklook at the Data - Joe Eggen | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Tutorial - Manel on population studies/catalog |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Tour of Fermi Resources Getting Started with Maximum Likelihood Analysis - Mattia Di Mauro Getting Started with Fermi: Students choose a source for analysis. | Getting started with Likelihood Analysis in LAT - Jeremy Perkins Quiz tool link: kahoot.com
| Advanced Likelihood/fermiPy (data.tgz) PDG Statistics review pdf (deltaLL values in Table 38.2 on page 29) | Conda Tutorial - Joe Asercion Likelihood Examples/Advanced Topics Student Projects | Advanced Topics: Upper Limits
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 ~ 7 PM (20$ to Julie) (tutorial) |
Week 2
| Mon, June 3 | Tues, June 4 | Wed, June 5 | Thurs, June 6 | Fri, June 7 | |
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| 8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Particle Acceleration - Andrew Taylor | PKS 1255 AGN Source Study - Andrew | NGC 253 (Starburst Galaxies) - Andrew | Judy | Final Wrap-up! Project Results and Feedback (All) |
| 10:00 | HAWC - Henrike | IACTs - Manel | TeV Galactic - Henrike | BurstCube - Jacob Smith | Workshop Close Out |
| 11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| 11:30 | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Neutrino Astrophysics - Erik Blaufuss | Workshop Close Out | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Particle Accel Questions - Andrew Student Projects | Free Afternoon | naima tutoria Advanced Topics:
Student Projects | Neutrino track tutorial - Erik Advanced Topics: Student Projects | |
| 4:45 | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | ||
| Virden-hosted BBQ on patio at 6:30 | Sunset Boat Cruise |
Student Talks and 1 Slide Schedule
Thursday, May 30
- Jordan Eagle - "Identifying and characterizing Fermi 2FHL extreme Galactic accelerators"
- Greg Foote - "Following CHIME Fast Radio Bursts with VERITAS"
- Jacqueline Beechert - "COSI: A Compton Telescope to Probe the ‘MeV’ Gap"
Friday, May 31
- Alberto Rosales - "Modeling high energy emissions from blazars"
- Ruo Yu Shang - "A background method for extended source analyses in gamma ray astronomy"
- Alyson Joens - "BurstCube: a Cubesat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts"
- Ramiro Torres
Monday, June 3
- Max Harvey - "Hunting for Low Redshift Radio Galaxies with Fermi"
- Lentè Dreyer - "Monte Carlo Simulations of Compton Polarization of Astrophysical Sources"
- Alessandra Berretta
- Jamie Davies
Tuesday, June 4
- Samayra Straal - "Probing high energy physics with Pulsar Wind Nebulae"
- Kaori Nakashima - "Gamma-ray background modeling for IACTs"
- Lea Heckmann
- Vasundhara Shaw
Wednesday, June 5
- Edison Murairi - "The Cosmic Ray Acceleration of Supernova Remnant Kes 17"
- Nagisa Hiroshima - "Modeling evolution of dark matter substructure and annihilation boost"
- Isabella Brewer
- Rachel Dunwoody
Supporting Material
Interesting repositories for Fermi analysis
- https://github.com/fermi-lat/FermiBottle/wiki - a fully-functional, self-contained analysis environment used in the Summer School
- https://github.com/FermiSummerSchool/fermi-summer-school - repository for iPython notebooks used during the Summer School
- https://github.com/fermiPy/ and documentation at http://fermipy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- https://github.com/rsnemmen - includes some Jupyter notebooks on statistics and LAT analysis
- https://github.com/gammapy - gammapy repository
- http://gammalib.sourceforge.net/admin/release_history/index.html - gammaLib repository
Stay up-to-date with the gamma-ray sky
- https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/ - Catalogs and lightcurve products in addition to links to data archives
- Public List of LAT-Detected Gamma-Ray Pulsars - Updated list of confirmed gamma-ray pulsars. Timing models can be found at the FSSC data access website (previous link)
- https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/library/pubs/ - Find Fermi publications
- https://www-glast.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/pubpub - Fermi-LAT publications page
- https://www-glast.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/pub_rapid - List of rapid communications from the LAT team
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/fermi/fermigbrst.html - Table of Fermi GBM gamma-ray bursts
- https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/fermi_grbs.html - Fermi Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN) notices
Things to Do in Lewes:
Take the ferry to Cape May https://www.cmlf.com/
Hire kayaks https://www.questkayak.com/ (Don't forget sun screen!)
If the weather's good, go to the beach! Lewes Beach is fine, or there's a beach on the oceanside in Cape Henlopen State Park. (Don't forget sun screen!)
Visit Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/prime_hook/ (Don't forget bug repellent)
Visit the Zwaanendael Museum: https://history.delaware.gov/museums/zm/zm_main.shtml
Visit the US Lightship Overfalls (located just off of Pilottown Rd): http://www.overfalls.org/
Lewes-Rehoboth Bike Path
