Research Journal for Kayla

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 SiPM presentation

• attended APS webinar

• continued background python readings

June 23:

• went to Zsuzsa Marka Summer Colloquium

• continued readings from Jupyter tutorial

• finalized SiPM slides

June 22:

• explored Jupyter Notebook, began Scipy and Numpy tutorials

• continued readings on SiPM

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 SiPM 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 SiPM slides

• Continued thesis readings - Development of a NUV Camera for Cherenkov Telescope Applications (Massimo’s thesis)

• Began sorting through readings and resources for Anti-racism Reading Group

June 10:

• 9:00: read Introduction to SiPM Structure and Operation

• 1:00-2:30: talked with Massimo about p/n junctions, photoelectric effect, GM-APGs

  • Started prep for SiPM presentation

• Continued thesis readings

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 SiPMs

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

June 8

• Continued Unix tutorial

• Continued reading theses

• Downloaded MobaXterm (free server - tabbed ssh terminal for Windows), explored the Demo

June 1-3:

• Read/reviewed Peter Cogan thesis: Nanosecond Sampling of Atmospheric Cherenkov Radiation Applied to TeV Gamma-ray Observations of Blazars with VERITAS

• Began reading Miles Winter thesis: Characterizing the Charge Spectrum of the CTA pSCT

• Completed Vim tutorial (https://www.openvim.com/)

• Began working on Unix tutorial

-- Kayla Docher - 2020-06-08

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