Week 5: February 9, 2021

Week 5 Guest Speaker: Manuel Silva

Manuel Silva

Manuel Silva is a 5th year PhD student working on the IceCube experiment. Before joining IceCube, he worked on the ATLAS experiment at CERN working on searches for new physics. Since then, Manuel now focuses on measurements of astrophysical phenomena and searches for sources of high energy neutrinos. He is currently using machine learning techniques and applications to help with this research.
Email: manuel.silva@icecube.wisc.edu

Mr. Silva's presentation to IceCube Afterschool:

IceCubeAfterSchool_February9_ManuelSilva.mp4

WeeK 4 AGENDA:

Guest Speaker Manuel Silva (he/him/his) (20 minutes + 10 min Q&A)
Wrap up Loops, start Conditionals (Dr. Shirey's slides)

Break (5 minutes)
Design Challenge discussion and peer feedback/breakout groups

Assignment #5: Conditionals learning module
1. Complete the Week 5 knowledge check by Sunday, February 14 (to give Dr. Shirey time to process your answers and steer next steps.)
2. Opportunity to work ahead and or get started on your project.

Office hours by appointment (30 minutes)

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