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---+ Research Journal for Kayla
---+ August 5:
   * PRESENTATIONS
---+ August 4:
   * ran another 50 events from run 328867

   * finalized final presentation, made some final edits

   * got some clarification on dropped packets in camera images - the problem is in the data acquisition process
---+ August 3:
   * met with Massimo to discuss presentation edits

   * edited and redrafted presentation

   * reviewed some silicon photomultipliers readings in preparation for Wednesday
---+ July 31:
   * downloaded and looked through all 457 camera images from run 328555

   * ran the list of events from run 328867 with more than 5 splits - most of these events have a much lower baseline pixel brightness than events from run 328555
      * events 100001, 100018, and 100044 stand out - they have a much higher baseline pixel brightness than the rest of the events from run 328867, as well as a bright patch in two lower left modules

   * worked on draft of final status update/presentation
---+ July 30:
   * attended Kaitlyn Kratter summer colloquium

   * ran every tenth event in run 328555 - total of 457 camera images to look through
      * haven't encountered any new trends or phenomena than those in the first 100

   * resolved some issues with jupyter - switched from python 2 to python 3
---+ July 29:
   * started looking at ways to run multiple events at once in the SCT_camera_plot script

   * started drafting final presentation/status update

   * read article for journal club

---+ July 28:
   * attended Chris Tenzer summer colloquium

   * ran another 50 events through the camera image script, looked through all camera images
      * pretty much all images follow the same trends as the first 50

   * event 262378 has a pretty uniform background, with one very bright pixel ~360 photoelectrons
---+ July 27:
   * generated and looked through the first 50 camera images from Qi's list of events in run 328555

   * vast majority of these events seem to be noise

   * a couple of interesting things:
      * in two of the events, half of every module is dead - unsure what's going on there
      * one of the events is not noise - event 261831
---+ July 24:
   * got sct_camera_plot.py running

   * generated 12 camera images from the events Milutin looked at last week
      * most camera images look like noise events - will clarify in Monday meeting with Massimo
---+ July 22:
   * attended some VERITAS Collaboration meeting sessions

   * started working with analysis scripts from Brent's manual

---+ July 21:
   * attended some VERITAS Collaboration meeting sessions

   * attended Jodi Christiansen summer colloquium on the dusty universe

   * got Brent's test code snippet running
---+ July 20:
   * connected cobalt to Jupyter - was able to run some code on Jupyter

   * met with Massimo - resolved several problems with port numbers

   * confirmed that Brent's environment is functioning

   * now working on running Brent's code snippet from the installation manual
---+ July 15-16:
   * completed SVN checkout - somehow I ended up with the wrong username in a config file, once I corrected that, I was able to download the camera analysis software from CTA SVN

   * attended camera call

   * attended Fritz Paerels summer colloquium
---+ July 14:
   * attended some VERITAS Collaboration sessions

   * attended Massimo's summer colloquium

   * tried copying Colin's pSCT analysis software - having issues with creating a shortcut to log into cobalt
---+ July 13:
   * In contact with Cecile Barbier to figure out SVN access issues
      * Unable to connect to repository - unclear why

   * Getting a “permission denied” message in jupyter for some code that was working fine last week

   * Continuing work with time voltage plots
      * Restructuring my file system with csvs
      * Eliminates some awkward code
---+ July 9:
   * attended Naoko Kurahashi Neilson summer colloquium

   * talked with Massimo about SVN access issues - it seems that my SVN public key does not match the one that appears in my confirmation email
      * I need to contact Cécile Barbier for help with this

   * journal club on shock
---+ July 8:
   * anti-racism reading group

   * continued watching consortium meeting talks

   * still having issue with SVN checkout

---+ July 7:
   * attended Elisabetta Bissaldi summer colloquium

   * went to pSCT analysis meeting

   * used pSCT software installation manual to enable python 3

   * currently having issues with SVN checkout - unable to connect to repository
---+ July 6:
   * watched Brent's pSCT analysis CTA consortium meeting talk

   * got SVN access
      * resolved some issues installing Anaconda on the cobalt server

   * working on learning pandas
      * figuring out how to split a dataframe by column value
---+ July 2:
   * attended Daniel Kabat summer colloquium

   * met with Massimo to work on getting SVN access through CTA and plotting csvs

   * ran journal club
---+ July 1:
   * anti-racism journal club

   * extracted the csv files from Massimo's file of csvs and pngs

   * began watching CTAO talks
---+ June 30:
   * created person profile for Milutin on the VERITAS website

   * attended John Parsons summer colloquium

   * CTA account was confirmed, now waiting for SVN access (requested to change SVN key)

   * set up MobaXterm a second time, seems to be working now

---+ June 29:
   * began pSCT Data Analysis Installation Manual
      * need SVN access from CTA - I created a CTA account, waiting for account approval

   * continued background readings
---+ 
---+ June 25:
   * attended Marcos Santander Summer Colloquium

   * completed Massimo's tutorial - found waveform minimum and time of minimum

   * talked with Massimo to discuss next steps: select all traces for 001LED, plot all traces, then build a histogram of of minimum amplitude and time of minimum amplitude
---+ 
---+ June 24:
   * gave silicon photomultipliers presentation

   * attended APS webinar

   * continued background python readings

---+ June 23:
   * went to Zsuzsa Marka Summer Colloquium

   * continued readings from Jupyter tutorial

   * finalized silicon photomultipliers slides
---+ June 22:
   * explored Jupyter Notebook, began Scipy and Numpy tutorials

   * continued readings on silicon photomultipliers [[SiPM][<br />]]

---+ June 18:
   * went through tutorial in MobaXterm with Massimo - encountered an issue with the CygUtils plugin - Moba says I need it and don't have it (I've downloaded it repeatedly, I know it's in the right folder, I'm not quite sure what's going on)

   * started getting familiar with file navigation in Moba

---+ June 16-17:
   * reviewed silicon photomultipliers slides with Massimo - discussed presentation outline, dark events, avalanche photodiodes, photon detection efficiency, breakdown voltage, overvoltage

   * went to Reshmi's Summer Colloquium talk

   * continued readings

---+ June 15:
   * Finished silicon photomultipliers slides

   * <p>Continued thesis readings - Development of a NUV Camera for Cherenkov Telescope Applications (Massimo’s thesis)</p>

   * <p>Began sorting through readings and resources for Anti-racism Reading Group</p>

---+ June 10:
   * <p dir="ltr">9:00: read Introduction to silicon photomultipliers Structure and Operation</p>
   * <p dir="ltr">1:00-2:30: talked with Massimo about p/n junctions, photoelectric effect, GM-APGs</p>
      * <p dir="ltr">Started prep for silicon photomultipliers presentation</p>
   * <p dir="ltr">Continued thesis readings</p>
---+ June 9:
   * 9:00-10:00: continued Unix tutorial, started exploring GNU nano

   * Completed MobaXterm demo

   * 10:00-10:30: met with Mukherjee to discuss silicon photomultipliers [[SiPMs][<br />]]

   * 11:00-1:00, 1:45-3:00: read Miles Winter thesis

---+ June 8
   * <p dir="ltr">Continued Unix tutorial</p>
   * <p dir="ltr">Continued reading theses</p>
   * <p dir="ltr">Downloaded MobaXterm (free server - tabbed ssh terminal for Windows), explored the Demo</p>
---+ June 1-3:
   * <p dir="ltr">Read/reviewed Peter Cogan thesis: Nanosecond Sampling of Atmospheric Cherenkov Radiation Applied to TeV Gamma-ray Observations of Blazars with VERITAS</p>
   * <p dir="ltr">Began reading Miles Winter thesis: Characterizing the Charge Spectrum of the CTA pSCT</p>
   * <p dir="ltr">Completed Vim tutorial (https://www.openvim.com/)</p>
   * <p dir="ltr">Began working on Unix tutorial</p>

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