my candidacy paper 

updated April 10 2017

Go to link: 

https://osu.box.com/s/5pg7cwdwp3jnamjpgxdv0r6axndgsh9p

Revised twice so far, both revisions attached here

Attached is what was submitted to arxiv for the first time

This paper has descriptions and results from three complementary analyses, Analysis A, B and C

Analysis C is the OSU binned analysis, and this is the first time that this new analysis is being published (other than theses) 

Here is my senior thesis so far. If you have time, please read through it and let me know if you have any comments!

IceCube candidacy paper from summer 2018.

Draft (Jan 21, 2017)

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

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.

Attached is the note that Ben Strutt sent me.
It contains the derivation of equation 8.3 in his dissertation.

In particular, note that the elevation angle  corresponds to the  !

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

See attached.

see attached.

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

Hello!  See the attached report relating the compressibility of firn, the density profile, and the resulting index of refraction profile.  The gradient of the index of refraction profile determines the curvature of classically refracted rays.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.04975v4

Hello!  These are notes and information regarding the SSI proposal, which is due in early September.  To access the proposal, see my github @ 918particle.  I've attached my work as a pdf, but keep in mind we have a long way to go on this document.

By Brian, Carl, Jude, and Hannah

Attached is an updated copy of the guide for installing ROOT, Boost, FFTW, Sqlite, CMake, and GSL.

Feel free to edit this post as the need arises.

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

Brian Dailey's thesis

Brian Dailey's Ph. D. dissertation for ANITA-2. Defended on Decemeber 22, 2016.

Brian Dailey's Candidacy from March 2012. It deals with Neutrino flavors, mostly with oscillations/mixing, interactions, and detection.

Brian Dailey's PhD Thesis.

Here is a link to my candidacy talk
pdf: https://osu.box.com/s/biopkz0gewliadwgm4j4k1tlyaeubj8v

ppt: https://osu.box.com/s/eq90mzffh0iy4kvg0pvf0dhjbm4qj0xl

The paper is attached, including the source tex.

ARA solar flare paper submitted to the journal.

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

Quick summary of the units of the Fourier Transform.

Brian's thesis

http://inspirehep.net/record/1188209/files/MatthewMottramThesis.pdf

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.

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.

This is a writeup I worked on last Fall, arguing that even if we have phase center offsets between H and V, our L and R maps should still show a good reconstruction.

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).

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.

Jorge's dissertation can be found here:

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=osu1626947923539686

updated link: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/etd/r/1501/10?p10_accession_num=osu1626947923539686&clear=10

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

Just submitted the TUFF paper to NIM!!!  -- Sept 15 2017