June 2002 Science Tools Workshop

Meeting information

The plenary sessions on Wednesday and Thursday will take place in the Redwood C&D rooms in the new Research Office Building at SLAC. On Friday the plenary session will take place in the Panofsky Auditorium. Plenary sessions will be broadcast via VRVS in the Mars room.

Currently-planned topics for the breakout sessions on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning are listed below. Each session will include reviews of requirements, the provisional schedule for designing, implementing, and testing, and FTE requirements, all for reporting back in plenary session on Friday afternoon.

The fee for the workshop will be $25. It will be payable in cash at the start of the meeting. Refreshments will be outside Redwood C&D on Wednesday and Thursday, and outside the Orange Room on Friday. Lunches are your responsibility. The SLAC cafeteria is open for lunch from 11:30-13:30.

A ttendees

Speakers are requested to send talks in advance of the meeting for linking to this page. Any common format will do; a PowerPoint template is available if you want one.

Late-breaking updates (12 June)

What to do in your breakout session

Max's restaurant

Photos from the workshop

Agenda

Wednesday, June 12 - Plenary session, Redwood C&D, 08:30-16:00

08:30	Coffee
09:00	Introduction	Michelson	PDF
09:15	GLAST Science Support Center	Band	PDF
09:45	Processing flow & Level 1 pipeline	Dubois	PDF
10:15	EGRET analysis system	Nolan/Reimer	PDF
10:45	Break
11:00	EGRET analysis demo	Nolan/Reimer
11:30	High-level analysis and use cases	Digel	PDF
12:30	Lunch break
13:30	Summaries of science tools requirements	Band/Digel	PDF
14:15	Management of science tools development	Digel/Norris	PDF
15:00	Break
15:15	Science tools development infrastructure	Burnett	PPT

AM Thursday, June 13 - Plenary session, Redwood C&D, 08:30-12:30

08:30	Coffee
09:00	Level 1 database	Schaefer	PDF
09:30	Other high-level databases	Digel	PDF
10:00	Exposure calculation for the LAT	Digel	PDF
10:45	Break
11:00	Instrument response functions in CALDB	Davis	PDF
11:45	Analysis environments for other high-energy missions	Chiang	PDF
12:30	Lunch break*

* At 12:30 pm in the Orange Room, Tsunefumi Mizuno (Hiroshima) will be giving a SLAC Experimental Seminar titled "Analysis of GLAST Balloon Experiment Data and Cosmic-Ray Flux GLAST Expects in Orbit"

PM Thursday, June 13 - Breakout sessions, 13:30-17:00

Topic	Room	Conveners	Contributions
Databases and related utilities, Level 1, Pointing/livetime, other high-level databases, mirroring	Redwood C	Young, Schaefer report	Hansl-Kozanecka Schaefer (L1 db req summary, Beowulf db, draft L1 db req v1.3) Nolan
Other utilities, data access, exposure calculation, map generation, image & plot display	Redwood D	Kelly, Hirayama report
Interstellar emission model, update of working group, status	GLAST II conf. rm. Bldg 28	Grenier	Moskalenko-Strong

AM Friday, June 14 - Breakout sessions, 09:00-12:30 (Coffee 08:30)

Topic	Room	Conveners	Contributions
Analysis tools, e.g., source detection, unbinned vs. binned likelihood analysis, extended sources	Orange Room	Digel, Band report	Mayer-Hasselwander Band
Observation simulation	Green Room	Burnett
GRB simulation splinter* breakout group*	Group A conf. rm, Central Lab Annex	Norris sim. requirements & work plan	Norris
User environment, command line & graphical (Web?), plotting & image display, inheriting/learning from other missions	GLAST II conf. rm. Bldg 28	Kelly, Schlessinger, Chiang report	Schaefer