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INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Gamma Ray Bursts and their Afterglows
March 15-19, 1999
Coordinators: Shri Kulkarni, Peter Meszaros and Eli Waxman
Schedule
All sessions in ITP Main Seminar Room, Kohn Hall, unless otherwise indicated.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 8:00 am | Registration | ITP Lobby, Kohn Hall |
| 8:45 | David Gross, ITP Director Peter Meszaros, Coordinator |
Welcome to ITP Welcome to Conference[Audio] |
| 9:00 | Martin Rees | Intro. theor. Overview of GRB & Afterglows[Audio] |
| 9:50 | Kevin Hurley | Intro. Obs. Overview of Afterglows[Audio] |
| 10:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 11:10 | Tsvi Piran | GRB hydro & radiation physics [Audio] |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 2:00 | Jay Norris | GRB & SGR Gamma Obs: time histories, correlations [Audio] |
| 2:50 | Chris Thompson | SGR physics and possible relation to classical GRB [Audio] |
| 3:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 4:10 | Chair: Ed Fenimore | Panel Discussion: GRB physics & observations |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Peter Meszaros | Afterglow models of X, O, R radiation [Audio] |
| 9:50 | Enrico Costa | Afterglow Obs. X [Audio] |
| 10:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 11:10 | Shri Kulkarni | Optical afterglows and hosts [Audio] |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 1:40 | Dale Frail | Afterglows & Scintill. models [Audio] |
| 2:20 | George Djorgovski | GRB host galaxies [Audio] |
| 3:00 | Roger Chevalier | SNR models and GRB Analogies (X/O/R) [Audio] |
| 3:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 4:00 | Chair: Jonathan Katz | Panel Discussion: Afterglow X/O/R interpretation |
| 4:50 | Poster Session | ITP Commons Room |
| 5:30 | Special Event: Reception | ITP Courtyard |
| 6:30 | Special Event: Buffet Dinner | ITP Main Seminar Room |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Bohdan Paczynski | Progenitors: what and where are they? [Audio] |
| 9:50 | Stan Woosley | Stellar progenitors /central engines [Audio] |
| 10:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 11:10 | Avi Loeb | Environment of GRB, effect on afterflows |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 2:00 | Afternoon free | |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Charles Dermer | MeV to TeV photons in GRB: models [Audio] |
| 9:50 | Eli Waxman | CRs and nu's in GRB models [Audio] |
| 10:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 11:10 | Ralph Wijers | Cosmology with GRB: theory & experiment [Audio] |
| 11:35 | Roger Blandford | Electromagnetic energy extraction from rotating black holes [Audio] |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 1:40 | Trevor Weekes | GeV-TeV experiments: Glast, Whipple & GRB [Audio] |
| 2:20 | Paul Sommers | UHE CR experiments and prospects & GRB [Audio] |
| 3:00 | Francis Halzen | UHE Neutrino experiments & prospects & GRB [Audio] |
| 3:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 4:00 | Chair: Eli Waxman | Panel Discussion: high energy, phot. CR/nu, GW |
| 5:30 | Poster Session | ITP Commons Room |
| 6:00 | Special Event: Reception | ITP Courtyard |
| 7:00 | Special Event: Closing Dinner | ITP Main Seminar Room |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Ralph Wijers | Multi-wavelength follow-ups of Afterglows [Audio] |
| 9:50 | Carl Akerlof | ROTSE: The robotic optical transient search experiment [Audio] |
| Paul Vreeswijk | Spectral Energy Distributions and Light Curves of GRB 990123 and its Afterglow [Audio] | |
| Re'em Sari | GRB 990123 & late-breaking news [Audio] | |
| Joshua Bloom | GRB 990123 & late-breaking news [Audio] | |
| 10:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 11:10 | George Ricker | HETE 2 [Audio] |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | ITP Front Patio |
| 2:00 | Scott Barthelmy | Swift: A future Gamma Ray Burst Mid Ex (35 min) [Audio] |
| Tim Sasseen | The XMM optical monitor (and Swift) (5 min) [Audio] | |
| Fiona Harrison | Next Generation GRB exp. approaches (20 min) [Audio] | |
| 3:00 | Org. Comm. | Concluding discussion, summary |
| 4:00 | Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
| Poster | J. Brainerd | Power Law E_p Distribution |
| Poster | T. Cline et al. | The Interplanetary GRB Network Incorporating the NEAR Spaceprobe |
| Poster | D. Eichler & A. Levinson | Shading and Smothering of GRBs |
| Poster | R. Moderski | On beaming effects in Afterglow light curves |
| Poster | S. Mohanty L. Finn & J. Romano | Using LIGO to study gravitational waves from GRBs |
| Poster | T. Nakamura | A model for non-high-energy GRBs and sources of UHE Cosmic Rays |
| Poster | G. Pugliese H. Falcke & P. Biermann | A jet-disk symbiosis model for GRB: Is SS433 next? |
last modified 3/17/99