28-Sep-2015
Last updated: October 15, 2011
IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of U
Michigan State University
Tyce DeYoung
Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 5 (2 3 2)
nderstanding (MOU)
Scope of Work
Labor Cat.
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Names
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WBS L3
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Tasks
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Funds Source
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WBS 2.1
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WBS 2.2
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WBS 2.3
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WBS 2.4
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WBS 2.5
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Grand Total
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Program Management |
Detector Maintenance & Operations | Computing & Data Management | Triggering & Filtering | Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools | |||||||
| KE | DeYOUNG, TYCE |
Education & Outreach |
Education & Outreach | Inst. In-Kind | 0.05
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0.05
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Administration |
Deputy Spokesperson | Inst. In-Kind | 0.25
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0.25
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| DeYOUNG, TYCE Total |
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0.30
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0.30
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| MAHN, KENDALL |
Simulation Programs |
Integration of GENIE for low energy systematics | Inst. In-Kind | 0.10
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0.10
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| MAHN, KENDALL Total |
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0.10
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0.10
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| PO | HIGNIGHT, JOSHUA |
Simulation Production |
Simulation Production | Inst. In-Kind | 0.08
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0.08
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Simulation Programs |
Integration of GENIE for low energy systematics | Inst. In-Kind | 0.20
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0.20
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Computing Resources |
Simulation production site manager at MSU | NSF M&O Core | 0.25
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0.25
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| HIGNIGHT, JOSHUA Total |
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0.33
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0.20
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0.53
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| JOAO PEDRO DE ANDRÉ |
Simulation Production |
Simulation Production, IceSim vetting for LowEn | Inst. In-Kind | 0.08
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0.08
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Reconstruction/ Analysis tools |
Low energy reconstruction techniques for DeepCore | Inst. In-Kind | 0.15
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0.15
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DE ANDRÉ, JOAO PEDRO Total |
0.08
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0.15
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0.23
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| LENNARZ, DIRK |
Detector Monitoring |
Monitoring Shifts | Inst. In-Kind | 0.03
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0.03
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LENNARZ, DIRK Total |
0.03
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0.03
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| GR | NEER, GARRETT |
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools |
Development of noise cleaning for vuvuzela noise. | Inst. In-Kind | 0.20
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0.20
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Detector Monitoring |
Monitoring Shifts | Inst. In-Kind | 0.03
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0.03
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| NEER, GARRETT Total | 0.03
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0.20
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0.23
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| GR | RYSEWYK, DEVYN |
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools |
Work on improved modeling of hadronic showers in reconstruction | Inst. In-Kind | 0.30
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0.30
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| RYSEWYK, DEVYN Total | 0.30
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0.30
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| MSU Total | 0.30
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0.06
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0.41
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0.00
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0.95
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1.72
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Michigan State contributions to the maintenance and operations of IceCube include:
Faculty:
Tyce DeYoung – Deputy Spokesperson, outreach, 90% IceCube (10% HAWC)
Kendall Mahn – low energy systematics/GENIE, outreach, 15% IceCube (85% GENIE and T2K)
Scientists and Post Docs:
Joshua Hignight– simprod, distributed computing, DeepCore systematics studies, monitoring, 75% IceCube (25% GENIE development)
Analysis topics: Improvements to muon neutrino disappearance analysis, joint analysis of muon disappearance and tau appearance
João Pedro A. M. de André (from Nov. 1) –
Simprod, distributed computing, Low-En triggering and filtering, Low-En reconstruction methods, 100% IceCube
Reconstruction modules: MultiNest
Analysis topics: Tau neutrino appearance
Dirk Lennarz Monitoring shift, 70% IceCube (30% HAWC)
Analysis topics: joint IceCube-HAWC source search
Ph.D. Students:
Garrett Neer Reco/analysis tools: evaluate Pegleg for standard oscillation processing in DeepCore. Development of noise cleaning for vuvuzela noise.
Detector monitoring: shift
Thesis/Analysis topics: solar dark matter search (low energy)
Devyn Rysewyck Reco/analysis tools: improved modeling of hadronic showers in reconstruction.
Thesis/Analysis topics:
Computing Resources:
The Michigan State IceCube group has access to several large computing clusters maintained and administered by the Michigan State High Performance Computing group and the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, comprising a total of approximately 8,000 computing cores, including 80 Tesla K20c GPU cards.
Note: The activities and staffing levels in this MoU are appropriate for the one-year period beginning October 1, 2015.
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