IceCube Bootcamp: Summer 2016

11 Jun 2016, 09:00 → 17 Jun 2016, 17:00 US/Central

Supernova (WIPAC, Madison)

Carlos Arguelles (o=mit,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kyle Jero (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

IceCube bootcamp on basic software and analysis techniques. Pre-bootcamp: June 11-12. Beginner bootcamp: June 13-14. Advanced bootcamp: June 15-17

Saturday 11 June

09:00 → 12:00 Computing basics: Introduction to bash and python, pretty plotting

terminal, command lines, simple python modules and plottings

Conveners: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Dr Carlos Arguelles (o=mit,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Dr Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Elim Cheung (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), James Bourbeau (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Kyle Jero (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

09:00 introduction to python and shell

Speaker: James Bourbeau (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 1 Part 1 Day 1 Part 2

Slides http://icecube.wisc.edu/~jbourbeau/bootcamp/Python_Introduction.html http://icecube.wisc.edu/~jbourbeau/bootcamp/Shell_Introduction.html

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 17:00 Introduction to numpy, scipy, and condor

Numpy, scipy, basic plotting with matplotlib and ipython notebook, submitting jobs on npx4

Conveners: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Dr Carlos Arguelles (o=mit,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Dr Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Elim Cheung (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Kyle Jero (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:00 numpy, scipy, condor

Speaker: Kyle Jero (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 1 Part 3 Day 1 Part 4

Slides http://icecube.wisc.edu/~dschultz/docs/slides/condor.html#1 http://icecube.wisc.edu/~kjero/Bootcamp/2015/Notebooks/Python_Introduction.html

Sunday 12 June

09:00 → 12:00 Computing basics

Exercise on terminal, command lines, submitting jobs on a cluster, writing simple python modules and making pretty figures

Conveners: Dr Carlos Arguelles (o=mit,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Dr Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Elim Cheung (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

09:00 Pretty plotting

Speaker: Elim Cheung (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 2 Part 1

Slides

• cheat_sheet.pdf
• histograms.pdf
• introduction.pdf
• plot_distributions_template.py

11:00 Exercises:plotting, submitting jobs to condor..

Speaker: Austin Schneider (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 17:00 Flasher data analysis

Conveners: Prof. Dawn Williams (University of Alabama), Suruj Seunarine (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:00 Flasher analysis

Speaker: Prof. Dawn Williams (University of Alabama)

Recordings Day 2 Part 2

Slides bootcamp16_flashers_williams.pdf bootcamp16_flashers_williams.pptx

15:35 Coffee break

15:55 Simulating flashers

Speaker: Suruj Seunarine (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides flasher_simulations.pdf

Monday 13 June

09:00 → 11:00 Introduction to WIPAC / IceCube

09:00 Welcome to WIPAC

Speaker: Dr Kael Hanson (University of Wisconsin)

Recordings Day 3 Part 1

09:30 Particle Astrophysics and Neutrinos

IceCube science

Speaker: Markus Ahlers (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 3 Part 1

Slides Ahlers_Bootcamp2016.pdf

10:15 The IceCube Detector

Speaker: Dr Kael Hanson (University of Wisconsin)

Paper HS_-_Madison_Bootcamp_2016.pdf

Recordings Day 3 Part 1

Slides HANSON_-_Bootcamp_2016_Madison_-_IceCube_Introduction_rev_2.pptx Hitspool_Explorer_Notebook_HOWTO.pptx

11:00 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:00 Computer setup: VM

Conveners: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), David Schultz (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Nils Irland (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

12:00 → 12:45 Visualizing IceCube Events: i3 files, dataio-pyshovel, steamshovel, etc

i3 files, dataio-pyshovel, steamshovel

Convener: Zachary Griffith (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

12:00 Visualizing IceCube Events: i3 files, dataio-pyshovel, steamshovel, etc

Recordings Day 3 Part 2

Slides viewing_i3_files.pdf

12:45 → 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 → 16:00 IceCube software

SVN, docs, install, trac, etc

Conveners: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), David Schultz (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:15 SVN, docs

Speaker: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 3 Part 3

Slides IceCube_Software.pdf

16:00 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 17:00 Exercises

17:00 → 19:00 Welcome Party - Madison Hostel - address below: https://www.hiusa.org/hostels/wisconsin/madison/madison

Tentative location: the hostel where most participants stay.

Tuesday 14 June

09:00 → 10:00 Triggering, Filtering, and Transmission

triggering system, synchronization, online filtering and data transmission

Convener: John Kelley (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

09:00 Triggering, Filtering, and Transmission

Speaker: John Kelley (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 4 Part 1

Slides Bootcamp-DOMnDAQ-2016.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Modeling the South Pole ice

Convener: Dmitry Chirkin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

10:00 Modeling the South Pole ice

Speaker: Dmitry Chirkin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 4 Part 1

Slides ice.pdf

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 11:15 Atmospheric neutrinos and muons

Convener: Logan Wille (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

10:45 Atmospheric neutrinos and muons

Speaker: Logan Wille (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 4 Part 2

Slides AtmoNeu.pdf

11:15 → 12:30 IceTray framework

Frames, data I/O, table writing, hdf manipulation

Conveners: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), David Schultz (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

11:15 IceTray

Speaker: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 4 Part 2

Slides

• IceTray-free_I3File_Access.pdf
• Intro_to_OOP_in_Python_(Object_Oriented_Programming).pdf
• Modern_IceTray.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 IceTray framework

Frames, data I/O, table writing, hdf manipulation

Conveners: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), David Schultz (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:00 IceTray

Recordings Day 4 Part 3

15:30 → 15:45 Group Photo

15:45 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Exercise

writing i3 modules

Conveners: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), David Schultz (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

16:00 IceTray Exercise

Recordings Day 4 Part 4

17:00 → 18:00 Computing Resources Tour

Getting to know your clusters (NPX4, cobalts, etc) in person.

Convener: Nils Irland (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Wednesday 15 June

09:00 → 10:45 Simulation and Weighting

IceCube simulation chain, simprod scripts, ERROR BARS after weighting

Conveners: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

09:00 Simprod

Speakers: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 5 Part 1

Slides Simulation_in_IceCube_2016.pdf

10:00 MC Weighting

Speaker: Kevin Ghorbani (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 5 Part 1

Slides Weighting_v2.html

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Distributed computing

condor, dagman, data storage, etc

Convener: Gonzalo Merino (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

11:00 Distributed computing

Speaker: Gonzalo Merino (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 5 Part 1 Day 5 Part 2

Slides 20160615_Bootcamp_Grid.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 16:00 Event Reconstructions

First guess algorithms, tracks, cascades, double cascades

Convener: Dr Delia Tosi (UW Madison)

14:30 Event Reconstructions

Speaker: Dr Delia Tosi (UW Madison)

notebook http://icecube.wisc.edu/~kjero/Bootcamp/2015/Notebooks/Reconstruction_Introduction.html http://icecube.wisc.edu/~kjero/Bootcamp/2015/Notebooks/Specific%20IceCube%20Reconstructions.html

Recordings Day 5 Part 3

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Exercises

submitting jobs, running simprod scripts, etc

Thursday 16 June

09:00 → 10:40 Introduction to physics analyses in IceCube

analysis chain, event selection/cuts, veto techniques

Conveners: Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Donglian Xu (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Moriah Tobin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

09:00 Introduction to physics analyses in IceCube

Speaker: Dr Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Recordings Day 6 Part 1

Slides Intro_IceCube_analyses.key Intro_IceCube_analyses.pdf

09:35 Introduction to physics analyses in IceCube-DeepCore

Speaker: Moriah Tobin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 6 Part 1

Slides DeepCoreAnalyses-Bootcamp2016.pdf

10:00 Veto Techniques

Speaker: Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 6 Part 1

Slides selecting_events_and_diffuse_analysis.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Statistics basics

maximium likelihood method, confidence interval, Wilk's theroem, error propagations, etc

Convener: Dmitry Chirkin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

11:00 Statistics basics

Speaker: Dmitry Chirkin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Recordings Day 6 Part 1

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 17:30 Guided projects continued

Conveners: Mr Carlos Arguelles (o=mit,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), David Schultz (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Donglian Xu (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Kyle Jero (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:30 Steamshovel artists

Speaker: David Schultz (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:50 Graduate student essentials

MC variables, weighting, simprod scripting, ..

Speaker: Kyle Jero (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

15:10 Event Reconstruction

Speaker: Dr Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides Event_Reconstruction.pdf

15:30 Advanced Statistics

Ensemble construction, limit setting, frequentist/bayesian, forward folding, unfolding, Brazilian plot, Asimov test, etc

Speaker: Dr Carlos Arguelles (o=mit,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides

• exA.zip
• exB.zip
• Frequentist_likelihood.html
• statistics_projects_bootcamp.pdf

15:50 HESE veto

Speaker: Kevin Ghorbani (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

16:10 Simulations

Speakers: Dr Alex Olivas (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Friday 17 June

09:00 → 12:30 Guided projects continued

Conveners: Dr Carlos Arguelles (o=mit,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), David Schultz (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Dr Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu), Kyle Jero (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:30 Surviving IceCube

Introduction to IceCube policies by Early Career Scientists representative Dr. Delia Tosi

Convener: Dr Delia Tosi (UW Madison)

14:00 Surviving IceCube

Speaker: Dr Delia Tosi (UW Madison)

Recordings Day 7 Part 1

Slides Bootcamp_2016_SurvivingIceCube.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Presentations

14:30 Event Reconstruction

Slides event_reconstruction.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Presentations & Closing ceremony