18–22 Mar 2019
MPI for Nuclear Physics
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  1. Prof. Jim Hinton (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
    18/03/2019, 14:00
    Talk
  2. Roberta Zanin (MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
    18/03/2019, 14:10
    Talk

    Context, goals, overview, logistics for PyGamma19

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  3. Jeremy Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
    18/03/2019, 14:40
    Talk
  4. Matthias Füssling (CTAO)
    18/03/2019, 15:20
    Talk
  5. Thomas Robitaille (Aperio Software Ltd.)
    18/03/2019, 16:30
    Talk

    The [Astropy Project][1] is a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Python astronomy packages. In this talk I will give an introduction to the project, including an overview of progress so far, and I will outline our current plans for the future. I will also describe the Astropy coordinated and affiliated package...

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  6. Federico Montesino Pouzols (European Southern Observatory)
    18/03/2019, 17:15
    Talk

    CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications, is a package for radio astronomical telescopes that is developed by an international consortium of institutions from America, Asia, Australia and Europe. It is used to manipulate and process both interferometric and single dish data, and is the primary data processing software for the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) as well as the Atacama...

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  7. francois-xavier pineau (Université de Strasbourg)
    19/03/2019, 09:30
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    After a brief presentation of HEALPix, I will discuss the specificities of the CDS implementation.
    This implementation has been natively coded in both Java and Rust. Wrappers make the Rust library accessible in Javascript/WebAssembly and Python.
    Particular emphasis will be placed on the exact solution of cone/polygon coverage queries and on MOCs in which each cell contains a boolean flag.

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  8. Mr Matthieu Baumann (CDS (Centre de Données de Strasbourg))
    19/03/2019, 10:00
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    I will give a brief presentation about the new Rust system programming langage:
    - the compiler rules enabling memory safety
    - how one can interface Rust code with Python

    Then, regarding to what has been currently done in cdshealpix I will talk about the CI pipeline I used for generating and deploying binary wheels for different platforms.

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  9. Mr Thomas Boch (CDS - Observatoire de Strasbourg)
    19/03/2019, 10:30
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    I will present MOC (Multi Order Coverage maps), a Virtual Observatory standard allowing one to describe and compare spatial coverage of astronomical datasets.

    After presenting the MOC format (based on HEALPix tessellation), I will show some practical applications of MOC usage, using the MOCPy library developed at CDS.

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  10. Cosimo Nigro
    19/03/2019, 11:30
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    Analysis and combination of data from different gamma-ray instruments involves the use of collaboration proprietary software and case-by-case methods.
    By defining a common open format for high-level gamma-ray data (containing event lists and instrument response functions, using the FITS standard) we allow multi-instrument analysis within the context of open-source software.
    This project aims...

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  11. Dr Atreyee SINHA (APC, IN2P3/CNRS)
    19/03/2019, 12:00
    Talk

    In several branches of astrophysics, high-level data format consists of event lists - containing the reconstructed energy, direction and arrival time (and some other informations, eg: event type) of each event. For analysis and visualisation, maps are made by astronomers with a pixelisation and binning chosen to suit the use case. FITS maps, using either a WCS or a HEALPix format, are commonly...

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  12. 19/03/2019, 12:30
    Talk
    • Andrea Tramacere - ASTErIsM (poster)
    • Felix Kunzweiler - Rapid Fermi-GBM GRB localization with BALROG (poster)
    • Björn Biltzinger - Physically Motivated Background Model for GBM (poster)
    • Jeremy Perkins - BurstCube
    • Thomas Robitaille - Data visualization with glue
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  13. Dr Eric Charles (SLAC)
    19/03/2019, 14:30
    Talk

    I will summarize two software suites used for analysis of Fermi-LAT data: the fermitools (formerly ScienceTools), and the fermipy python-based software package.

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  14. Prof. Toby Burnett (University of Washington)
    19/03/2019, 15:00
    Talk

    The Fermi-LAT instrument differs in a fundamental way from its predecessors, particularly EGRET, in having a much larger field of view and energy range. With also having a much larger effective area, the data volume is also substantially larger. The design of pointlike took these factors into account in contrast to the more standard software tools based on the EGRET experience. I will explain...

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  15. Dr Daniel Kocevski (NASA MSFC)
    19/03/2019, 15:30
    Talk

    The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), with its broad energy range and instantaneous coverage of 2/3 of the sky, observes a wide variety of flaring or transient phenomena. These capabilities make it ideally suited for the search of transient events and to contribute to the new era of multi-messenger astrophysics. The GBM team has recently released the GSPEC analysis package, a modern...

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  16. Mr Tamas Gal (KM3NeT/ECAP)
    20/03/2019, 09:30
    Talk

    This talk focuses on three frameworks developed by the KM3NeT collaboration: KM3Pipe, aanet and OrcaNet.
    KM3Pipe is a Python-based pipeline framework which is used to modularise different kinds of processes and workflows like data analysis, detector monitoring and ML training in the KM3NeT neutrino telescope experiment. Although it contains many implementations of project specific data formats...

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  17. Karl Kosack (CEA Saclay)
    20/03/2019, 10:15
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    I will present the history, general design considerations and challenges related to the prototype data processing framework ctapipe. The purpose of creating ctapipe was to provide an API and standard algorithms for creating low-level (reconstruction level) data processing pipelines for Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes---specifically for CTA, but also supporting other existing instruments. ...

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  18. Lars Mohrmann (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
    20/03/2019, 11:30
    Talk

    An overview of past and current efforts to establish high-level data analysis with open-source tools (i.e. Gammapy or ctools) for the H.E.S.S. experiment will be presented. A focus will be given to ongoing work about the validation of these tools on public H.E.S.S. data (see https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/pages/dl3-dr1), as well as to the exploration of a 3D likelihood analysis...

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  19. Lea Jouvin (IFAE, Barcelona)
    20/03/2019, 12:00
    Talk

    MAGIC is one of the current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) located at the Roque of los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, one of the Canary Islands. It started to operate in 2003 and is still currently running. Since 2009, MAGIC operates in a stereoscopic mode with two telescopes. A Major hardware upgrade was performed in 2012 for both camera. I will present the status on the...

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  20. Gernot Maier
    20/03/2019, 12:30
    Talk

    Two independent analysis chains have been classically used for the analysis of VERITAS data. These two branches start from independent low-level calibration and reach all the way to high-level science products such as spectra, skymaps, etc. With the objective of joining the effort of producing a joint multi-instrument Crab spectrum, VERITAS started exporting its high-level data products to the...

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  21. Josh Cardenzana
    20/03/2019, 14:30
    Talk

    ctools is an open source data analysis package targeted towards the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array. The tools employ both a three-dimensional likelihood analysis similar to that used in the Fermi Science Tools, and a standard On/Off analysis typical of current generation atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Built on top of the GammaLib software, ctools is designed to be easily adapted for...

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  22. Axel Donath (MPIK)
    20/03/2019, 15:15
    Talk

    Gammapy is a community-developed, open-source Python package for gamma-ray astronomy and prototype software for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) science tools. It is built on Numpy, Scipy and Astropy as core dependencies and uses open, FITS based data formats. The development of Gammapy started ~5 years ago as a loose collection of Python library code, used for the analysis of H.E.S.S....

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  23. Dr J. Michael Burgess (MPE)
    20/03/2019, 16:30
    Talk

    As the multi-messenger era is now fully active, it is crucial that the community has a framework within which to analyze data from multiple messengers, wavelengths, and instruments in a statistically robust, common way. 3ML (https://threeml.readthedocs.io) provides an abstract, plugin-based data interface for instruments to combine analysis through each instrument's own unique likelihood. As a...

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  24. 20/03/2019, 17:15

    Plenary discussion on gamma-ray data, IRFs and science tools

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  25. Catherine Boisson (Observatoire de Paris)
    21/03/2019, 09:30
    Talk

    In the context of Cherenkov astronomy, the data processing stages imply both assumptions and comparison to dedicated simulation. Those data can be misleading if not documented. This has implications on the format specification for the data that will be exposed to be used in relation with other frequencies for modeling.

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  26. Mathieu Servillat (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)
    21/03/2019, 09:45
    Talk

    Provenance information in astronomy is important to enable scientists to trace back the origin of a dataset, a document or a device, learn about the people and organizations involved in a project and assess the quality as well as the usefulness of the dataset, document or device for their scientific work. Current efforts to model the Provenance information in Astronomy led to the development...

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  27. Michele Doro (University of Padua and INFN Padua)
    21/03/2019, 10:15
    Talk

    Since the begin of its operation in 2003, the MAGIC telescopes collected data from more than 60 TeV emitters. The collaboration distributes public FITS files with high-level data such as spectral energy distributions, light curves and skymaps for every published result. Here we report on the efforts to complement this products with more ample information (data quality, fit models, etc) and...

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  28. 21/03/2019, 10:45
    Talk
  29. Dr Andrea Tramacere (Université de Genève)
    21/03/2019, 11:30
    Talk

    JetSeT is an open source Python framework with a C numerical engine, to reproduce radiative and accelerative processes acting in relativistic jets, allowing to fit the numerical models to observed data([https://jetset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/][1] [https://github.com/andreatramacere/jetset][2])

    The main features of this framework are:

    1. handling observed data (rebinning, definition of...
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  30. Carlo Romoli (MPI-K)
    21/03/2019, 12:00
    Talk

    GAMERA is a toolbox developed at MPIK for the modelling of gamma-ray emission from fundamental processes in relativistic astrophysics. Beside the emission in steady states, it allows the possibility to compute the time evolution of particle distributions in different astrophysical environments and the consequent photon spectrum detectable from an observer.
    Written in C++ and wrapped in Python,...

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  31. 21/03/2019, 12:30
    Talk
    • Tamas Gal - Julia - feels like Python, runs like C
    • Toby Burnett - A framework to create Web documents from Python code
    • Jeremy Perkins - Future Gamma-ray Missions of Various Shapes (mostly square) and Sizes
    • Eric Charles - Clever tricks for fast Fermi likelihood
    • Francesco Berlato - Improved GBM GRB localizations with BALROG
    • Simon Steinmaßl - Fitting a Light Curve in 3ML with...
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  32. Dr Hans Peter Dembinski (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
    21/03/2019, 14:30
    Talk

    Python is now the dominant language in scientific computing. Especially astroparticle physics and astronomy experiments have embraced Python enthusiastically, for example, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. CERN experiments are also moving analysis steadily towards Python. ROOT is the foundational library in many HEP experiments, so I will give a brief summary on current developments in ROOT....

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  33. Dr Florian Gaté (LAPP - CNRS)
    21/03/2019, 15:00
    Talk

    I will present examples of python code optimization. First we will focus on wrapped C++ code to speed up significantly analysis. Secondly, I will talk about function minimization with PyTorch and how it can be used through two examples: likelihood minimization on GPU for ImPACT optimization and deep learning with the gamma-learn project.

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  34. Jason Watson (University of Oxford)
    21/03/2019, 15:30
    Talk

    An introduction to Numba, a Python package which compiles Python code on-the-fly to produce efficient machine code, potentially providing huge improvements in execution time.

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  35. 21/03/2019, 15:45

    What are good choices / pros and cons of the various high-performance computing options in Python for our codes?

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  36. Jing Luo
    21/03/2019, 16:30
    Talk

    https://github.com/nanograv/PINT

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  37. Erik Tollerud (STScI)
    21/03/2019, 17:00
    Talk
  38. Perry Greenfield (STScI)
    21/03/2019, 17:15
    Talk
  39. Aneta Siemiginowska (Chandra X-ray Center)
    21/03/2019, 17:30
    Talk

    Remote presentation

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  40. Omar Laurino (Chandra X-ray Center)
    21/03/2019, 17:45
    Talk
  41. Joseph Asercion (Fermi Science Support Center)
    22/03/2019, 09:30
    Talk

    The Fermi Science Tools are a software suite provided by the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC) to facilitate analysis of data gathered by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In the past the software was distributed via compiled binaries or compile-able source code downloads from the FSSC’s website. While this system was effective, it relied on a large amount of developer hours from the FSSC...

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  42. Mr Jose Enrique Ruiz (IAA - CSIC)
    22/03/2019, 10:15
    Talk

    Jupyter notebooks have arrived to stay as a means to document the scientific analysis protocol, as well as to provide executable recipes shared seamlessly among the community. This has triggered the rise of a plethora of complementary tools and services associated to them. This talk will cover different possibilities to use Jupyter notebooks and JupyterLab interface. We will start with the...

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  43. Christoph Deil (MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
    22/03/2019, 11:30
    Talk

    PyGamma19 summary and group discussion

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  44. Andrea Tramacere (Université de Genève)
    Poster

    ASTErIsM is a flexible python open-source framework for detection, morphometry and shape classification of astronomical sources, bases on clustering algorithm and machine learning. ASTErIsM works both on ccd images and photon list (e.g. Fermi). This framework is currently used as deblending algorithm for the Euclid pipeline. I will present the capabilities of the algorithm for:
    1)...

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  45. Björn Biltzinger, Mr Felix Kunzweiler (MPE)
    Poster

    We try to build a working physically motivated background model which can be fitted to the data of the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor. This would yield several interesting applications, like searching for ultra long GRBs and fitting the cosmic gamma ray background spectrum. This poster shows the progress we have made so far.

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  46. Francesco Berlato, Mr Felix Kunzweiler (MPE)
    Poster

    Through the use of the BALROG code's improved statistical treatment (https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07385 , https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01082), it is now possible to achieve superior localization performance for the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on-board the Fermi space telescope. The code is currently being used to rapidly...

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