Fermi Summer School 2011 - Schedule

Tuesday, May 31

• Fermi Mission Overview - Julie McEnery
• Fermi-LAT Sources - Elizabeth Ferrara
• High Energy Astronomy Overview - Chuck Dermer

• Exploring LAT Data - Elizabeth Ferrara

Wednesday, June 1

• AGN in the LAT - Benoit Lott
• AGN Physics in the Age of Fermi - Chuck Dermer
• Detectors I: Fermi-LAT Overview - Eric Charles

• Introduction to Likelihood Analysis - Benoit Lott

Thursday, June 2

• Gamma Rays from SNR and PWN - Pat Slane
• Cosmic Rays and Supernova Remnants with Fermi - Chuck Dermer
• Detectors II: Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes: An Introduction into Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy - Gernot Maier

• Python Analysis - Jeremy Perkins

Friday, June 3

• LAT Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts - Julie McEnery
• GRBs with the Fermi LAT and GBM - Chuck Dermer
• Detectors III: The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor - Valerie Connaughton

• LAT Instrument Response Functions - Eric Charles

Saturday, June 4

• GeV/TeV Connections - Jeremy Perkins
• EBL/IGMF - Chuck Dermer

Monday, June 6

• Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of (Rotation-Powered) Pulsars / Using Tempo 2 with LAT Data - Paul Ray
• Detectors IV: TeV Astrophysics with Water Cherenkov Ground Arrays - Part 1: Scientific Motivation - John Pretz

Tuesday, June 7

• Gamma-ray Binaries - Jamie Holder
• Massive Binaries - Stan Owocki
• TeV Astrophysics with Water Cherenkov Ground Arrays - Part 2: Details and Sensitivity - John Pretz

• Likelihood 2 - Benoit Lott

Wednesday, June 8

• LAT Event Reconstruction - Eric Charles
• Why Search for Dark Matter with Fermi? - Savvas Koushiappas
• Gamma-ray Pulsars - Theory and Modeling - Alice Harding

Thursday, June 9

• GeV Flares and Particle Acceleration in the Galaxy - Liz Hays
• A Little History, but ... in Astronomy it's Resolution, Resolution, Resolution - Bill Atwood