IceCube Bootcamp: Summer 2012

US/Central
IceCube Research Center

IceCube Research Center

222 W Washington 53705 Madison WI 5th Floor
Participants
  • Aleks Cianciara
  • Ali Kheirandish
  • Benedikt Riedel
  • Chris Weaver
  • Claudio Kopper
  • Emily Dvorak
  • Erin Middlemas
  • Gary Hill
  • Hans Niederhausen
  • Jacob Feintzeig
  • Jakob van Santen
  • James Bellinger
  • James Kenyon
  • James Pepper
  • Jan Auffenberg
  • Jean DeMerit
  • John Kelley
  • Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez
  • Katelyn Kufahl
  • Laura Gladstone
  • Lauren Wielgus
  • Mahdi Sadegh
  • Marcos Santander
  • Mark Aartsen
  • Mark Krasberg
  • Mark Wellons
  • Markus Ahlers
  • Matt Kauer
  • Samantha Oswald
  • Sarah Nowicki
  • Zigfried Hampel-Arias
    • 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
    • 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
    • 08:30 09:00
      (optional) pre-session
    • 09:00 12:30
      Morning Session
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 10:00 18:00
      social 8h
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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