1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
  2. Dawn Williams
  3. Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 3 (2 1 1)
  4. Scope of Work
  5. Faculty:
  6. Marcos Santander – Multimessenger searches for neutrino sources
  7. Postdoc:
  8.          Sandro Kopper – tau neutrino analysis, BSM double pulse analysis
  9. Ph.D. Students:
  10. UA General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:
  11. Computing Resources

Last updated: May 1, 2018


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

 

University of Alabama

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Dawn Williams

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Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 3 (2 1 1)

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Scope of Work

 

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
Funds Source
WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
WBS 2.3
WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
WBS 2.6
Grand Total
         
Program Coordination
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Data Processing & Simulation
Software
Calibration
 
KE

 

Williams, Dawn Administration Analysis coordinator, ICC member ex officio
NSF M&O Core
0.30
 
 

 

 

 
     
0.30
    Ice Properties Supporting flasher runs and flasher analysis
Inst. In-Kind
         
0.10
0.10
    Detector Calibration Baseline and charge harvesting
Inst. In-Kind
         
0.10
0.10
  Williams, Dawn Total    
0.30
       
0.20
0.50
 

 

Santander, Marcos Education and Outreach IceCube Outreach
Inst. In-Kind
.05
         
0.05
    Online Filter Online DST transmission and analysis
Inst. In-Kind
 
0.1
 
 
       
0.1
    Detector Monitoring Online Moon shadow analysis (monitoring)
 
Inst. In-Kind
 
0.1
       
0.1
    Reconstruction Reconstruction validation - PSF studies
Inst. In-Kind
     
0.1
 
0.1
Santander, Marcos Total    
0.05
0.20
 
0.1
 
0.35
PO Kopper, Sandro Simulation Software Simulation Software: low energy double pulse
NSF Base Grant
     
0.15
 
0.15
    Reconstruction Reconstruction of tau neutrino events and BSM double pulse events
NSF Base Grant
     
0.15
 
0.15
    Distributed Computing Resources Connecting Alabama GPUs to the cluster
NSF Base Grant
   
0.05
     
0.05
Kopper, Sandro Total      
0.05
0.30
 
0.35
GR Nakarmi,
Prabandha
Detector Calibration
 
Domcal run vetting
NSF Base Grant
         
0.20
0.20
 
    Ice Properties Low brightness flasher run analysis
NSF Base Grant
         
0.25
0.25
Nakarmi, Prabandha Total              
0.45
0.45
UA Total      
0.35
0.20
0.05
0.40
0.65
1.65
 

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Faculty:

Dawn Williams – Institutional Lead, Analysis Coordinator

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Marcos Santander – Multimessenger searches for neutrino sources
 
 
 

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Postdoc:

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          Sandro Kopper – tau neutrino analysis, BSM double pulse analysis

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Ph.D. Students:

Prabandha Nakarmi – vetting monthly domcal runs

    Analysis of low energy flasher data

      Analysis of IceACT Skycam data

 Thesis /Analysis topics: TBD (still taking classes)

 

 

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UA General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:
The Alabama Group’s major responsibilities and contributions towards maintenance and operations of the IceCube experiment include:
·   Primary institutional responsibility for analysis coordination
·   Major responsibility for the following calibration group activities: flasher data collection and flasher analysis support, baseline and charge calibration
·   Major responsibility for tau neutrino analysis

Analysis: The main analysis focus at the University of Alabama is searching for tau neutrinos and multimessenger searches for neutrino sources.

 

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Computing Resources
 

2017
2018
  CPU Cores GPU Cards CPU Cores GPU Cards
Pledged resources in the IceCube common cluster   6 (Tesla K20m)   6 (Tesla K20m)  

Now that a postdoc is resident at UA, we are working with Gonzalo Merino and UA OIT to try and connect these machines to the cluster. In the meanwhile, these GPUs are being used locally for flasher data ice model fitting and targeted muon simulation.

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