Name: IceCube Bootcamp: Summer 2012
Start: 2012-06-11T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2012-06-20T19:00:00-05:00
Location: IceCube Research Center

Monday, 11 June
- 09:00 → 12:30
  Morning Session
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome to IceCube 30m
    
    Slides
  - 09:30
    
    Introduction to Cosmic Rays, IceCube and Neutrinos 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Stefan Westerhoff (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
    
    Slides
    
    Video
  - 11:00
    
    Get connected 1h 30m
    
    LDAP accounts, connecting to pub, connecting to the wiki, i3live, ... also: start compiling IceTray on the cobalt nodes (over lunch)
    
    Slides
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  Introduction to Unix and the IceCube cluster
  
  slides
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee Break & "Meet your Mentor" 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  Introduction to Unix and the IceCube cluster (II)
- 18:15 → 20:00
  
  Beer at the Terrace 1h 45m
Tuesday, 12 June
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  (optional) pre-session
- 09:00 → 12:30
  Morning Session
  - 09:00
    
    From the particle to the PMT at the South Pole: Overview 1h
    
    Speaker: Mr Mark Krasberg (university of wisconsin)
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Particle Physics: from the neutrino to Cherenkov light 1h
    
    neutrino interactions, cross sections, muons in water, Cherenkov light, ...
    
    Speaker: Dmitry Chirkin (UW Madison)
    
    Slides
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  python basics, plotting with matplotlib and more
  
  slides
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee Break & "Meet your Mentor" 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  even more python and plotting
- 18:15 → 19:00
  
  good night! 45m
Wednesday, 13 June
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  (optional) pre-session
- 09:00 → 12:30
  Morning Session
  - 09:00
    DOMs, DAQ, triggers and filters 2h
    
    what do these things mean: "ATWD", "FADC", "Filter", "TFT board", "pDAQ", "SMT8", "PnF", "muon filter", "cascade filter", "EHE filter" why would I need a filter? what data gets sent North?
    
    Speaker: Mr John Kelley (UW-Madison)
    
    Slides
    
    Bootcamp-DAQ-PnF-Jun2012.key
    
    Bootcamp-DAQ-PnF-Jun2012.pdf
    
    Bootcamp-DOMs-Jun2012.key
    
    Bootcamp-DOMs-Jun2012.pdf
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BIsDvyzuAw
  - 11:00
    
    Physics: CR acceleration, sources, ... 1h 30m
    
    should cover fermi acceleration, source types, ...
    
    Speaker: Markus Ahlers (University of Oxford)
    
    Slides
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  Statistics, Limits, Confidence Intervals, ...
  
  slides
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee Break & "Meet your Mentor" 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  looking at i3 files
  
  looking at I3Files, general IceTray overview, frame types (GCD QP), SubEventStreams, I3FrameHeader, splitting basics, ...
  
  using glshovel
  
  slides
- 18:15 → 19:00
  
  good night! 45m
Thursday, 14 June
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  (optional) pre-session
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Morning Session
  - 09:00
    
    Simulation 1h 30m
    
    what are "nugen", "GENIE", "CORSIKA"? why do we need "MMC"? what do "PPC" and "photonics" do?
    
    Speaker: Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
    
    Slides
- 10:30 → 12:30
  
  Attend the Analysis Call
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  Using IceTray modules, writing IceTray scripts
  
  tasks like "remove DeepCore, redo linefit, compare"..
  
  slides
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee Break & "Meet your Mentor" 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  Write a reconstruction! (linefit)
- 18:15 → 19:00
  
  good night! 45m
Friday, 15 June
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  (optional) pre-session
- 09:00 → 12:30
  Morning Session
  - 09:00
    
    Analysis methods: Diffuse & Oscillations 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Gary Hill (UW Madison)
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Analysis methods: Point Sources 1h
    
    Speaker: Jacob Feintzeig (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    using npx3/npx2: Condor, DAGMAN, ... 1h
    
    Speaker: Mr Heath Skarlupka (UW Madison IceCube)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 14:45
  
  using npx3/npx2: Condor, DAGMAN, ... (cont'd)
- 14:45 → 16:00
  
  processing levels and .i3 file contents
  
  what is "L2", "L3" processing?
  
  using an existing i3 file:
  what's in there? explain "SPE", "MPE", "ToI", "LF", "improved LF", "Millipede", "MuE", "MuEx", ...
  
  slides
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee Break & "Meet your Mentor" 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  extracting information from data and simulation
  
  making hdf5 files from i3 files and plotting things (time residuals, cos(zenith), ...)
- 18:15 → 19:00
  
  Feierabend! 45m
Sunday, 17 June
- 10:00 → 18:00
  
  social 8h
Monday, 18 June
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  (optional) pre-session
- 09:00 → 12:30
  Morning Session
  - 09:00
    
    Analysis methods: Cosmic Rays 1h
    
    Speaker: Marcos Santander (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Physics/analysis: supernovae 1h
    
    Speaker: Benedikt Riedel (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
  - 11:00
    
    Monitoring / I3Live 1h 30m
    
    a short tutorial on monitoring on a live run by the Madison monitoring shifter
    
    Speaker: Benedikt Riedel (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  Effective areas, effective volumes and other basic quantities
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee Break & "Meet your Mentor" 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  In-depth IceTray
- 18:15 → 19:00
  
  good night! 45m
Tuesday, 19 June
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  (optional) pre-session
- 09:00 → 12:30
  Morning Session
  - 09:00
    
    Ice Models 1h
  - 10:00
    
    WIPAC Research: ARA 45m
    
    Speaker: Albrecht Karle (UW Madison)
  - 10:45
    
    WIPAC Research: HAWC 45m
    
    Speaker: Mr Zigfried Hampel-Arias (UW Madison)
  - 11:30
    
    WIPAC Research: DM-Ice 45m
    
    Speaker: Antonia Hubbard (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  Anatomy of a C++ module
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee Break & "Meet your Mentor" 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  afternoon session II
- 18:15 → 19:00
  
  good night! 45m
Wednesday, 20 June
- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  (optional) pre-session
- 09:00 → 12:30
  
  Morning Session
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  Trivia contest / exam
  
  yes, it will be on the test
  
  slides
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee Break & "Meet your Mentor" 30m
- 18:15 → 19:00
  
  good night! 45m