Chandra/CIAO Workshop. UMass Lowell, 19-23 May 2025
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Members of the Chandra X-ray Center, CfA and MIT, will join the staff at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for a week long workshop focused on Chandra data analysis. The workshop will include presentations, science talks, and ample time for hands-on learning.
Please share this exciting, unique opportunity with this flyer.
UMass Lowell is located in historic mill city of Lowell, Mass., 45-minutes north of Boston, at the intersections of Routes 495, 93 and 3.
Registration
Registration must be complete by 25 April 2025. Registration is limited to 30 participants. The workshop is open to everyone; however, priority will be given to U. Mass. Lowell students. Registrants will be notified by 30 April 2025 if they have been accepted into the program.
Accommodations
Final arrangements are in progress, but we anticipate that accommodations and meals will be provided at little to no cost for all participants.
Topics
The final program will be tailored to the interests of the attendees. Topics may include:
- Introduction to Chandra and CIAO
- Spectral analysis
- Low resolution CCD spectra
- High resolution grating spectra
- Spatial analysis
- Source Detection
- Extended sources
- Timing analysis
- Sherpa
- CIAO in Python
- Calibration topics
- Statistics
- Using SAOImageDS9
- Using the Chandra Source Catalog and TGCat
- Topics in AI/ML
