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Welcome!

Welcome to the UMN SuperCDMS group! This is meant to be a one-stop page to get you started with everything.

People

Prof. Prisca Cushman Faculty SuperCDMS Spokesperson, CDMS UMN PI
Prof. Vuk Mandic Faculty CDMS UMN co-PI, Also on LIGO
Dr. Matt Fritts Senior researcher K100 lab operations, analysis, safety, etc
Jack Nelson Graduate student Bkgd Simulations, CPD detector and CUTE, IMPACT
Derek Sincavage Graduate student HVeV, source mover, NEXUS, DMC Simulations.
Zach Williams Graduate student HVeV, MIDAS and new DCRC
Pramod Acharya USD graduate student USD detector ionization test, GeHV gain and noise analysis
Michael Gardner Graduate student HVeV/NEXUS, ML and FAIR, source mover data
Scott Cray pre-graduate student source mover development, K100 improvements
Richard Shi pre-graduate student thermal neutron calibration project: NaI and HPGe
Gabe Holum REU student thermal neutron calibration project: NaI and HPGe
Giulia Bulugean UMN undergrad fellowship

Accounts and stuff you may need

Why you may need it How to get it
UMN internet account and ID card needed for lots of stuff below: email list, room access, wiki access, Slack access if you didn't get one automatically, ask Matt or Prisca
UMN SuperCDMS wiki access Group meeting agendas, lots of organizing, K100 lab info, analysis info ask Matt
UMN CSE Linux account To use our cluster of computers (analysis, simulation) and to access K100 lab data ask Matt or Prisca
SuperCDMS Slack workspace account (and UMN channel) Messaging with our group and with greater SuperCDMS collaboration any of us can invite you
SLAC computer account To use internal Confluence site (see below) and to use collaboration computers (for e.g. non-K100 data analysis, simulation)
SuperCDMS Confluence account Main site for SuperCDMS collaboration organization, communicating ongoing work
UMN lab safety training (online) To work in our labs, PAN S34 (K100) and/or PAN 434 ask Matt
PAN key card access Access to PAN building, labs, offices Link to request form, ask any of us for details

Matt's onboarding page for details about some of these items.

SuperCDMS links

confluence, slack, supercdms webpage, tutorials - git & jupyter, ops workshop, “useful papers” page that Nick created