Graduate Student Seminar with Dawson Huth on Sources of Gamma Rays

It’s the season of everything spooky; skeletons, ghosts, midterms. But of all the chill inducing entities one reins above all. The infinite expanse of space itself! What could such a vast emptiness contain? Exploding stars! Dangerous radiation! Spacetime with infinite curvature poised to suck you in and turn you into spaghetti at any moment! A daring few scientists are unfazed at the challenge of exploring this terrifying frontier. A new telescope, the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope,  will attempt to stare directly into the void to scour for gamma ray sources in the hopes of constraining the baffling WIMP dark matter candidate (and do some cosmic ray science along the way). This talk will focus on my contribution towards efforts in localizing the sinister sources of gamma rays using a convolutional neural network algorithm to within 1 degree.