1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of U
  1. Michigan State University
    1. Tyce DeYoung
    2. nderstanding (MOU)
    3. Scope of Work
    4. Faculty:
    5. Scientists and Post Docs:
    6. Ph.D. Students:
    7. Computing Resources:

13-Apr-2015

 

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IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of U

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Michigan State University


Tyce DeYoung

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 5 (2 3 2 )


nderstanding (MOU)


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
Grand Total
 
         
Program Management
Detector Maintenance & Operations Computing & Data Management Triggering & Filtering Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools    
KE DeYOUNG, TYCE
Education & Outreach
Education & Outreach Base Grants
0.05
       
0.05
 
   
Administration
Deputy Spokesperson Inst. In-Kind
0.25
       
0.25
 
  DeYOUNG, TYCE Total
 
 
0.30
       
0.30
 
  MAHN, KENDALL
Simulation Programs
Integration of GENIE for low energy systematics Inst. In-Kind        
0.10
0.10
 
  MAHN, KENDALL Total
 
         
0.10
0.10
 
PO HIGNIGHT, JOSHUA
Simulation Production
Simulation Production Inst. In-Kind    
0.08
   
0.08
 
   
Simulation Programs
Integration of GENIE for low energy systematics Inst. In-Kind        
0.20
0.20
 
   
Computing Resources
Simulation production site manager at MSU NSF M&O Core    
0.25
   
0.25
 
  HIGNIGHT, JOSHUA Total
 
     
0.33
 
0.25
0.53
 
  JOAO PEDRO DE ANDRÉ
Simulation Production
Simulation Production, IceSim vetting for LowEn Base Grants    
0.08
   
0.08
 
   
Detector Monitoring
Monitoring Shifts Base Grants  
0.03
     
0.03
 
   
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
Low energy reconstruction techniques for DeepCore Base Grants        
0.15
0.15
 
DE ANDRÉ, JOAO PEDRO Total
 
0.03
0.08
 
0.15
0.26
 
GR NEER, GARRETT
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
Evaluate Pegleg for standard oscillation processing in DeepCore.
Development of noise cleaning for vuvuzela noise. 		Base Grants        
0.20
0.20
 
   
Detector Monitoring
Monitoring Shifts Base Grants  
0.03
     
0.03
 
  NEER, GARRETT Total      
0.03
   
0.20
0.23
MSU Total      
0.30
0.06
0.41
0.00
0.70
1.42
 

 


 

 

 

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

New PO TBH –  Feasibility studies of air Cherenkov surface veto (0.25), 75% IceCube (25% HAWC)

 Analysis topics: joint IceCube-HAWC source search


Ph.D. Students:

Garrett Neer     (new)
Reco/analysis tools: evaluate Pegleg for standard oscillation processing in DeepCore. Development of noise cleaning for vuvuzela noise.

 Detector monitoring: shift

 Thesis/Analysis topics:

Devyn Rysewyck (will start on June 1st, 2015)
Detector monitoring: shift

 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, 2014.  

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