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LAT Collaboration Meeting: Advancing Understanding of Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

The LAT Collaboration Meeting aims to advance our understanding of the capabilities of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (LAT) through discussions on instrument analysis, LAT development status, science group reports, multiwavelength observing needs, and software tool development.

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LAT Collaboration Meeting: Advancing Understanding of Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

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  1. Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope • LAT Collaboration Meeting, August 29 - Sept 1, 2005 P. F. Michelson

  2. Goals of Collaboration Meeting • Advance our understanding of the capabilities of the LAT • instrument analysis workshop held yesterday • Status report on LAT development today • discussion of beam test plans • Continue collaboration’s preparations to extract science from LAT data • science groups meet and report to collaboration • assess multiwavelength observing needs • continue development of software tools- tutorial at this meeting • plans for Data Challenge 2

  3. Agenda - 1 Monday, August 29 Instrument Analysis Workshop organized by E. do Couto e Silva and the Instrument Analysis Group Tuesday, August 30 9:00 AM Welcome: Agenda and Meeting Goals P. Michelson 9:15 AM GLAST Mission Status S. Ritz 9:30 AM Overview of LAT Development Status L. Klaisner 10:00 AM Overview of Science Groups P. Michelson 10:30 AM Break 11:00 AM Year 1 Data Release Plan P. Michelson 11:20 AM Data Challenge 2 Planning J. McEnery 11:45 AM Report on Instrument Analysis Workshop E. do Couto e Silva noon Lunch

  4. Agenda - 2 Tuesday, August 30 1:00 PM - 3:45 PM Discussion of Catalog Source Identification process location: Redwood C& D GRB Group Redwood A Solar Group Redwood B Calibration & Analysis Methods Group Orange Room Dark Matter & New Physics GLAST B 3:45 PM Break 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM Various Contributions Panofsky Auditorium 4:15 Remarks by SLAC Director J. Dorfan 4:25 Tracker Construction & Test in Italy M. Pepe 4:40 A walk through the LAT Tracker tower alignment N. Omodei 4:55 Pulsar source modeling & Simulation M. Razzano 5:10 Galactic Diffuse Radiation & "Dark Clouds“ I. Grenier 5:30 Discussion about LAT Beam Test 6:15 Adjourn 6:45 Collaboration dinner

  5. Agenda - 3 Wednesday, August 31 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM Pulsar Group location: Orange Room Blazar Group Redwood B UnID Sources Group Redood A Catalog & Diffuse Groups Redwood C & D 10:30 AM break 11:00 AM Science Tools Tutorial Redwood Rooms 11:00 AM Overview of science tools checkout S. Digel 11:10 AM Review of documentation S. Digel 11:15 AM Review of data set and data access J. McEnery 11:30 AM Installing the science tools - Windows & Linux J. McEnery 11:40 AM Observation Simulation J. Chiang noon Lunch break

  6. Agenda - 4 1:00 PM Science Tools Tutorial - cont'd 1:00 PM Source Characterization J. Chiang 1:20 PM Pulsar tools M. Razzano 1:40 PM GRB tools J. Cohen-Tanugi 2:00 PM Looking ahead to DC2 S. Digel 2:10 PM break 2:30 PM Reports from Science Groups 4:30 PM Break 4:45 PM Update on Multiwavelength Needs D. Thompson 5:15 PM Science Groups: Issues Arising P. Michelson 5:45 PM AOB 6:00 PM Adjourn Thursday, September 1 All day LAT-SWG Joint Symposium on the Galactic Center Region

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