Advancing a Universal Analysis Framework for High-Energy Spectro-Polarimetry

from Monday 10 February 2025 (08:00) to Friday 14 February 2025 (20:00)
Geneva & Ayent

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Feb 2025
11 Feb 2025
12 Feb 2025
13 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025
AM
08:00
Reception -Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) (until 09:00)
09:00
Presentations and Workshop Kickoff -Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) (until 12:00)
09:00 Welcome and Overview of workshop Goals and Objectives - Hancheng Li Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
09:30 How to fix the broken field of Gamma-Ray Polarimetry - Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
09:45 Latest Advances in GRB Prompt Emission and Polarimetry - Ramandeep Gill (CITA)  
10:00 Analytical simulations of GRB Prompt Polarizations - Tyler Parsotan (NASA Goddard)  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 Multi-Wavelength Polarization of GRB Jets - Gal Birenbaum (The Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy)  
11:00 POLAR GRB Data Analysis - Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Nicolas De Angelis (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
11:15 ThreeML Framework for High-Energy Astronomy - Niccolo' Di Lalla  
11:30 COSI Mission and Cosipy Library Development - Israel Martinez (NASA Goddard)  
11:45 Standard Data Format, Coordinate Transformation and Polpy Interface - Hancheng Li Sujay Mate (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))  
09:00
Group work -Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Hancheng Li Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Dr Ramandeep Gill Dr Sujay Mate (until 13:00)
09:00 Group I: Gamma-ray polarimeters  
09:00 Group II: X-ray polarimeters  
09:00 Group III: Theoretical modelling  
09:00 Group IV: Software development  
09:00
Group work - Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Hancheng Li Ramandeep Gill (CITA) Dr Sujay Mate (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) (until 13:00)
09:00 Group I: Gamma-ray polarimeters  
09:00 Group II: X-ray polarimeters  
09:00 Group III: Theoretical modelling  
09:00 Group IV: Software development  
09:00
Integration Testing (until 13:00)
09:00 Joint Integration Testing  
09:00
Final review and documentation - Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Hancheng Li Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Ramandeep Gill (CITA) (until 13:00)
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Moving -Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) (until 16:00)
16:00 --- Check-in ---
17:00 --- Dinner ---
18:00
Presentations and Workshop Kickoff - Hancheng Li (until 22:40)
18:00 Integrating POLAR and AstroSat-CZTI GRB Data with 3ML - Dr Sujay Mate (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) Utkarsh Pathak (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)  
18:15 Stokes Analysis Techniques in Gamma-Ray Polarimetry (TBD) - Merlin Kole (University of New Hampshire (US)) Jimmy Zaid (UNH)  
18:30 X-ray Polarimetry with IXPE - Fabio Muleri (INAF)  
18:45 The Gamma-ray Data Tools (GDT) - Dr Suman Bala  
19:00 --- Coffee break ---
19:30 The Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters (CATCH) Mission - Lian Tao (Institute of High Energy Physics)  
19:45 The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) Mission - Minyu Ge (Institute of High Energy Physics)  
20:00 POLAR-2 supplemental: Broadband Spectroscopy Detector (BSD) - Jianchao Sun (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
20:15 POLAR-2 supplemental: Low-energy Polarization Detector (LPD) - Fei Xie (Guangxi University)  
20:30 --- Coffee break ---
21:00 Group Discussion and Planning for Days 2-5 - Ramandeep Gill Hancheng Li Merlin Kole (University of New Hampshire (US)) Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Group work - Hancheng Li Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Dr Sujay Mate (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) Ramandeep Gill (CITA) Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) (until 18:00)
14:00 Group I: Gamma-ray polarimeters  
14:00 Group II: X-ray polarimeters  
14:00 Group III: Theoretical modelling  
14:00 Group IV: Software development  
17:00 Progress Check and Cross-Group Collaboration  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Integration Testing (until 18:00)
14:00 Collaborative Integration Testing  
17:00 Refinement of Integration and Documentation Preparation  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Application to Use Cases (until 18:00)
14:00 Development of Use Cases and Standardized Pipelines - Ramandeep Gill (CITA) Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
17:00 Review and Refinement of Use Cases  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Moving (until 17:00)
17:00
Future planning (until 20:00)
17:00 Documentation and Memo Preperation  
19:00 Closing Remarks and Future Collaboration Planning - Dr Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Merlin Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH))