EPIC 1

The first edition of EPIC will focus on introducing techniques for data analysis using python as the main tool.

At the end of this workshop, students will be able to perform basic data analysis of unprocessed raw data to extract important information about physical systems.

Date: 18 - 22 October 2021

Format: Online (Zoom)

Duration: 5 days including 1 preparatory session, and 10 tutorial sessions

Certificate:

The issuance of a certificate will depend on the delivery of a code at the end of the School.

Requirements and registration:

• Write a letter of motivation (maximum 200 words) and add it to the registration form.

• Registration deadline: 30 September 2021

Recommended prerequisites:

• Basic programming experience.

• Basic knowledge of the English language.

• Applications deadline: 30 de septiembre de 2021 - Process concluded

• Notification to selected candidates: 4 de octubre de 2021 - Process concluded

All applicants should have received an email from:

ciencia.latitud0@gmail.com

Please check your SPAM folder and add our email address to your contact book. Our email contains details on the resuls of your application.

• For those students selected as participant, please confirm your participation via email to (ciencia.latitud0@gmail.com) until 7 October 2021- Process concluded

• EPIC 1: 18 - 22 October 2021

• Selena Barragán, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Kevin Cárdenas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Jennifer Chacón, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Jorge Chacón, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Luis Andrés Chicaiza, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Shirley Cuzco, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo

• Angie Carolina Dávila Porras, Yachay Tech University

• Daniel Gonzalez, Yachay Tech University

• David Herrería, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Marlon Stalin Martínez López, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo

• Fernando Moncada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• Melany Monroy, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

• Elvyn Ojeda, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo

• Rubén Ortiz, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Joseth Pachacama, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo

• Jack Rojas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Andy Rubio, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Valeria Sánchez, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• María Subía, Escuela Politécnica Nacional

• Daniel Villarruel, Yachay Tech University

Preparatory activities:

• Initial activities done by the students (instructions under construction).

• Preparatory session with a tutor (optional attendance).

Day 1 (18.10.2021):

Session 1) Introduction to GIT

Tutor: Luis Manzanillas, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany

• • What is GIT?

  • How to use?

  • What can I do with GIT?

  • Usage examples

Session 2) Data Analysis with python I

Tutor: Lupe Villegas López, Instituto de Óptica IO_CSIC, España

• • Read and write data tables

  • Work with data tables:

    • • Basic statistics

    • Plots with matplotlib

    • Regressions and curve fitting

  • Examples

Day 2 (19.10.2021):

Session 3) Data Analysis with python II

Tutor: Wladimir Banda-Barragán, Hamburg University, Germany

• • Introduction to HDF5, VTK, and Binary Data Formats

  • Reading and handling data from numerical simulations

  • Array manipulation, and use of conditionals and loops

  • Application to the analysis of 2D simulations of fluid dynamics:

    • Computation of integrated quantities

    • Clump finding techniques

    • Visualisation and interpretation of the results

Day 3 (20.10.2021):

Parallel sessions on advanced topics:

Session 4) Image processing:

Tutor: Andrés Morales Navarrete, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Germany

• Explanation about bioimages (i.e. fluorescence microscopy)

• Bioimage analysis example: quantifying cell morphology from 2D fluorescence micrographs

• Importing images and plotting images

• Logical operators (pixel-wise operations)

• Intensity Transformation

• Filters and Fourier transformations

• Segmentation

• Extracting data from segmented images (e.g. cell area, elongation)

Session 5) Astrophysics (session in English):

Tutora: Helga Dénes, Astron, The Netherlands

• Brief explanation on astrophysics behind galaxies and their neutral hydrogen (HI content).

• Reading in fits data cubes (3D spectral line data - HI data of a galaxy)

• Plotting slices of the 3D data cube and making moment maps

• Downloading astronomical images from a database (for the same galaxy as the HI data)

• Making an overlay of the HI data onto an optical image

• Calculating some basic statistics for the spectra

• Averaging the spectra for the galaxy

  • Calculating the HI mass of a galaxy

• Fitting a Gaussian to spectra

Day 4 (21.10.2021):

Parallel sessions on advanced topics.

Session 6) Materials science I:

Tutor: Leonardo Basile, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador

• Introducción a "tight binding models" en materiales.

Session 7) Materials science II:

Tutor: María José Benítez, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador

• Magnetismo

• Microscopía de electrones in materiales magnéticos

• Simulaciones magnéticas

Session 8) Particle physics:

Tutor: Alejandro Gómez Espinosa, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Brief intro to data analysis for high energy physics

• The exercise requires basic knowledge of LHC physics data.

• How to handle it, how to process it and what to look up to.

• This exercise uses real data from one of the LHC experiments.

• Filter the data, make relevant plots and statistically analyze the results.

Day 5 (22.10.2021):

Student presentations (12 minutes + 3 minutes for questions)

• Melany Monroy, Data visualization in regards of particle physics

• Elvyn Ojeda, Caracterización Comparativa De La Fluencia De Secundarios Producto del flujo De Rayos Cósmicos en el Sector de la laguna Cóndor Cocha a 5100 Msnm, y la Laguna Quilotoa A 3914 Msnm, para determinar el tipo adecuado de detectores de astropartículas

• María Subía, Quantitative analysis and simulation of liquid crystal organization model in human liver tissue

• Jack Rojas, Simulation of Elastic Scattering Processes of 1 keV to 10keV electrons in dielectric materials

Final assignment:

Code sent to the assigned tutors.

Statistics on applicants:

• 47 applicants en total, 19 female applicants, 28 male applicants.

• Applicants from 9 universities (18 EPN, 15 ESPOCH, 5 Yachay, 4 USFQ, 1 U. E. de Bolivar, 1 ESPOL, 1 U. Central, 1 UNAM de México, 1 U.T. de Manabí).

• ~27 applicants interested in biophysics and/or materials sciences, ~20 applicants interested in particle physics and/or astrophysics.

Statistics on selected applicants:

• 20 selected participants, 9 female participants, 11 male participants.

• Participants from 7 universities (9 EPN, 4 ESPOCH, 3 Yachay, 1 USFQ, 1 U. E. de Bolivar, 1 ESPOL, 1 UNAM de México)

• ~12 participants for biophysics/materials sciences, ~8 for particle physics/astrophysics.

With the aim of getting undergraduate science students involved in mini-research projects, which require programming, we have decided to organise a series of workshops that we call "Programming Schools for Scientific Research (or EPIC for its Spanish translation)".

The EPIC series offers participating students the opportunity to strengthen their profiles as researchers by applying modern computational methods for solving real problems, mainly in physics and its related areas.

The format and topics covered will depend on the edition.