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Fermi Summer School 2013

School Schedule
Week 1 Presentations
Week 2 Presentations
Student Talks

Week 1 Presentations

Tues, May 28

9:00 AM	The Fermi Mission (PowerPoint)	Julie McEnery
10:00 AM	Space-based Gamma-ray Astronomy (PowerPoint with extra notes)	Liz Hays
Break
11:30 AM	Gamma-ray Sources	Elizabeth Ferrara
Lunch
1:30 PM	Maximum Likelihood Overview errors_poisson.py lima.py conf_lima_1d.py ul_lima_1d.py ul_bayes_lima_1d.py	S. Fegan
	Science Tools Intro and Data Exploration	J. Perkins

Wed, May 29

9:00 AM	Diffuse Emission and Map Making	Doug Finkbeiner
10:00 AM	Fermi LAT Overview	Eric Charles
Break
11:30 AM	Student Talks
Lunch
1:30 PM	Likelihood in the LAT Animation: map_z100_ss20noX.gif	S. Fegan
	Installing Python Packages Likelihood Tutorial	J. Perkins

Thu, May 30

9:00 AM	Radiative Processes in High-Energy Astrophysics	Lukasz Stawarz
9:00 AM	Dark Matter in Fermi I	Doug Finkbeiner
Break
11:30 AM	LAT Performance	Eric Charles
Lunch
1:30 PM	LAT Effective Area	Eric Charles
	LAT XML Models	E. Ferrara
	Advanced Likelihood	J. Perkins

Fri, May 31

9:00 AM	Dark Matter in Fermi II (Part 1)	Savvas Koushiappas
9:00 AM	Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy	Deirdre Horan
Break
11:30 AM	Student Talks
Lunch
1:30 PM

Sat, Jun 1

9:00 AM	Dark Matter in Fermi II (Part 2)	Savvas Koushiappas
9:00 AM	Particle Acceleration in High-Energy Astrophysics	Lukasz Stawarz
Break
11:30 AM	Student Talks
Lunch
1:30 PM

Week 2 Presentations

Mon, Jun 3

9:00 AM	Particle Acceleration in High-Energy Astrophysics (continued)	Lukasz Stawarz
9:00 AM	Gamma-ray Pulsars	Tyrel Johnson
Break
11:30 AM	Student Talks
Lunch
1:30 PM	Lightcurves and Variability	S. Fegan
	Pulsars and Off-pulse Analysis	Tyrel Johnson

Tue, Jun 4

9:00 AM	Galactic Cosmic Rays Probed with Fermi-LAT	Lukasz Stawarz
9:00 AM	Intro to Blazars	Deirdre Horan
Break
11:30 AM	Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy II (compressed)	Petra Huentemeyer
Lunch
1:30 PM	Student Talks
	Observation modes - a closer look at sky survey and pointings (animated gif of a crab observation)	Julie McEnery
	Allsky Analysis

Wed, Jun 5

9:00 AM	GRB Observations and Follow-up by Swift	Neil Gehrels
9:00 AM	Fermi GBM and LAT GRB Highlights (PowerPoint)	Judy Racusin
Break
11:30 AM	The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor	Valerie Connaughton
Lunch
1:30 PM	Student Talks
	GRB Analysis Associated rmfit Tutorial	Valerie Connaughton
	Extended Source Analysis

Thu, Jun 6

9:00 AM	Extragalactic Cosmic Rays Probed with Fermi-LAT	Lukasz Stawarz
9:00 AM	Gamma Rays and Multimessengers	Valerie Connaughton
Break
11:30 AM	Early Results from the HAWC Observatory	Petra Huentemeyer
Lunch
1:30 PM	Student Talks
	Finishing Touches
	LAT GRB

Fri, Jun 7

9:00 AM	Final Wrap-up: Project Results and Feedback
9:00 AM	Final Wrap-up: Project Results and Feedback
Break
11:30 AM	Fermi and Beyond	Liz/Julie/Jamie
Lunch
1:30 PM

Student Talks

Wed, May 29

Katie Auchettl - Fermi-LAT observations of Galactic supernova remnant Kesteven 79
Hao Zhou - Morphology and Energy Spectra of Geminga and Boomerang at TeV Energies
Hugo Ayala - Studying the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region with HAWC and Fermi

Fri, May 31

Ryan Abrahams - Dark Gas in the Translucent Cloud MBM 12
Fabio Zandanel - Dark Matter and Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies

Sat, Jun 1

Naoya Hidaka - SiPM Characterization for CTA
Hao-Ning He - Diffuse PeV neutrino emission from Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Mon, Jun 3

Karsten Barger - Low peaked and high peaked BL Lacertae objects (pptx)
Felicia Krauss - Multiwavelength observations of TANAMI sources
Victor Patiño - A Multiwavelength Photometric and Spectroscopic Cross-Correlation Variability Study of Fermi/LAT Blazars

Tue, Jun 4

Zhengwei Li - Constraints on annihilating dark matter from Fermi observations of M31 (pptx)

Wed, Jun 5

Rui-zhi Yang - Constraining the distribution of dark matter in the inner Galaxy: The case of the 130 GeV Line (keynote)

Thu, Jun 6

Xiang Li - A brief introduction to the DAMPE satellite

One Slide Summaries (Tues/Wed/Thurs)