Just in case anyone wants to read my thesis.  :)  I pointed Brian D. to it today to read about how to set limits.  The limits included systematic uncertainties too, which is standard in particle physics but we don't do that yet (but we should).

Some of the misconceptions we could find in our field. Useful for neophytes in our group.

When things that produce calibration signals are pulsers with an e.  Pulsars are astronomical objects.

For us the plural of antenna is antennas.  Antennae is used for insects and aliens!  

Feel free to add other misconceptions, the .tex file is included.

Candidacy paper. Summer 2017.

Dissertation of Dawn Williams.  She completed her PhD with David Saltzberg when I was starting my postdoc at UCLA.  She worked on GLUE and SalSA.

IceCube candidacy paper from summer 2018.

Put the text through grammarly and make fixes.  Currently, you can't put a pdf into grammarly and it is not integrated with overleaft.  Instead, you can open a pdf in Word, save it as a word document, and then read that in grammarly.

Check for the following:

The first sentence of every paragraph summarizes the entire paragraph, every later sentence in the paragraph supports that first sentence.

Every paragraph should contain more than one sentence, and see above.

Learn when to use which and that, and about the comma before which.

Learn rules of hyphenation.  When two words together form an adjective, hyphenate them.  For example, "One should not write a one-sentence paragraph."

Avoid extreme words like always, never, and instead quantify the rarity of exceptions where it makes sense.

Do not use the word "likelihood" in replace of the word "probability."  A likelihood is a specific thing.

Avoid the word random and instead be more specific.  So for example, instead of "I chose random directions" it would be "I chose directions uniformly distributed in cos(theta_z) between -1 and 1."

When you include a numbered equation, the text around it should be worded so that the equation is part of a sentence.  Often that involves using a colon before an equation.  Check that in the line that follows, there is not an indent created by having an extra line in Latex.

Be sure to refer to and describe every figure and table in the text.  Refer to them in the first sentence of a paragraph wherever possible and make it the topic of a paragraph.

Use Fig., Tab., Sec., Eq.

For the right spacing between a number an units, do 100\,MHz.

Don't italicize units.

Don't start a sentence with a variable.

Do not italicize subscripts or superscripts that are a word or part of a word, such as, do x_{\rm{meas}}, not x_{meas}.

If you are including any figure that you did not make yourself, cite it, or acknowledge the person that made it.

If you are presenting work that you collaborated with someone else on, acknowledge what work was done by others and state your role.

Avoid adverbs.  Remove it or quantify instead.

This is one place where you can put all of the details of what you did, down to where future students can find your code and the names of the functions.   Make ample use of appendices.

You can lift material from a published paper that you wrote or co-wrote as long as you explain that is what it is.  See Chapter 2 of Brian Clark's thesis for example.

My candidacy paper and presentation from July 2024. The topic was "Strategies and Prospects for High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Detection."

Draft (Jan 21, 2017)

J.C. Hanson - I'm adding this paper reference so we have something to shoot for in our own analyses searching for down-coming events: arXiv:1612.04473

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8930310/pdf/HansonThesis.pdf

See attached.

I had a glaciology day and did my own derivation of rho(z) using the compressibility of packed snow.  The conclusions are a bit different from what Jordan found, although similar and greater depths, so I'll be interested to hear what he thinks, or anyone else!

Attached are my writeup, and an interesting paper reporting measurements of compressibility of packed ice.

Information and status on including the ARIANNA antenna model into AraSim. Draft.

Here is Eugene Hong's Ph.D. dissertation from 2014.

It concentrates on the ARA Testbed including a diffuse search using 2 years of Testbed data.

Title: Searching for Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos with Data from a Prototype Station of the Askaryan Radio Array

ARA solar flare paper submitted to the journal.

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03335