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 # Research for summer intern student
 
+Goals: 
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 - [ ] Reproduce the results of a machine learning paper to find gravitational wave events (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13442 Gravitational wave signal recognition of O1 data by deep learning, He Want et al.)
 - [ ] compute the p value/ false alarm rate for machine learning algorithm 
 - [ ] extend the above paper to O2/O3a