16th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

November 29 - December 2, 2005
Washington, DC


 FINAL  PROGRAMME


Monday, November 28

 6-8 pm Registration Opens

Tuesday, November 29


 7:00
Registration Opens and Continental Breakfast available
  8:30 Session #1:  Welcome and Global Properties of GRBs -- Chair: Steve Holt 

  • Welcome
  • Virginia Trimble:  Historical Introduction  (Invited)
  • Neil Gehrels:  The Swift Era (Invited)
  • Luigi Piro:  Global Properites of GRBs (Invited)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session #2:  Short GRBs and SGRs -- Chair: David Palmer

  • Kevin Hurley:  Observations of Short Duration GRBs:  Prompt Emission (Invited)
  • Edo Berger:  Observations of Short GRBs  (Invited)
  • Taka Sakamoto:  Are Short GRBs Really Hard?
  • Andrew MacFadyen:  X-ray Flares Following Short GRBs from Shock Heating of Binary Stellar Companions
  • Stefano Covino:  Short GRBs and Their Parent Population
  1:10 Lunch
  2:10 Session #3:  Prompt Emission and Early Afterglow #1 -- Chair: Jerry Fishman

  • Dave Burrows:  Observations of Early X-Ray Afterglow (Invited)
  • Tsvi Piran:  Luminosity & Redshift Distribution of Short Bursts
  • W. T. Vestrand:  The Physical Implications of Deep Optical Detections during the Critical First Minutes
  • Alberto J. Castro-Tirado:  051022 & 051028:  The Dark Side of the Last Two HETE-2 Bursts
  • Patricia Schady:  The Early Time Optical, UV and X-ray Evolution GRB 05081 and GRB 05082 as Observed with Swift
 4:00  Tea
  4:30 Session #4:  Prompt Emission and Early Afterglow  #2 -- Chair: Keith Mason

  • George Ricker:  HETE Observations of Prompt GRB Emission (invited)
  • Pete Roming:  Observations of Early Optical Afterglow (Invited)
  • Peter Meszaros:  Theories of Early Afterglows (Invited)
  • Paul O'Brien:  The Swift Prompt Sample
  • Charles Dermer:  Can an External Shock Model Explain the Swift X-ray Observations of GRBs
  6:30 Poster Session  with refreshments (until 10:00 pm)
 
Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday
Friday


Wednesday, November 30

  7:30
Registration Opens and Continental Breakfast available
  8:30
Session #5:  Late Afterglow & GRB/SN Connection #1 -- Chair: Guido Chincarini

  • Dale Frail:  Observations of Late Afterglow (Invited)
  • Massimo della Valle:  The Supernova Connection (Invited)
  • Alicia Soderberg:  A Broadband Perspective on the GRB-SN Connection
  • Julian Osborne:  A Simultaneous Swift BAT & XRT Observations of the Flare in GRB050820A
  • Guido Barbiellini:  Stochastic Wake Field Particle Acceleration in GRB
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session #6:  Late Afterglow & GRB/SN Connection #2 -- Chair: Nobu Kawai

  • Mike Goad:  Observations of X-Ray Afterglow Phases (Invited)
  • Derek Fox:  Long-Lived Afterglows of Short GRBs (Invited)
  • Andrew Fruchter:  The Locations of LGRBs and SNe
  • Abe Falcone:  Late-time X-ray Flares during GRB Afterglows
  • Bing Zhang:  Physical Origin of X-ray Flares
  1:00
Lunch
  2:00
Session #7:  Progenitors for GRBs #1 -- Chair: Jonathan Granot

  • Stan Woosley:  The Supernova GRB Connection (Invited)
  • Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz:  Triggering Short GRBs (Invited)
  • Gianpiero Tagliaferri:  The Early Afterglow Spectral Energy Distribution
  • Goro Sato:  Epeak-Eiso-Egamma (Amati/Ghirlanda) Relations with Swift GRBs
  • Sergio Campana:  Evidence for Intrinsic Absorption in X-ray Afterglows
  4:00
Tea
  4:30
Session #8:  Progenitors for GRBs #2 -- Chair: John Nousek

  • Maxim Lyutikov:  Magnetic Fields in GRBs (Invited)
  • Avi Loeb:  GRB Cosmology (Invited)
  • Aybuke Yoldas:  A Search for Variability in GRB Spectra
  • Nathaniel Butler:  Afterglow X-ray Line Emission in Spectra from Chandra and Swift
  • Arne Rau:  Constraining the GRB Collimation with a Survey for Orphan Afterglows First
  7:00
Conference Banquet at the Italian Embassy  ($30.00)
  
Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday
Friday


Thursday, December 1


  7:30
Registration Opens and Continental Breakfast available
  8:30
Session #9:  Host Galaxies, Cosmology and X-Ray Flashes #1 -- Chair: Chryssa Kouveliotou

  • Nial Tanvir:  Host Properties (Invited)
  • Joshua Bloom:  Gamma-Ray Bursts & their Hosts (Invited)
  • Emeric Le Floc'h:  On the Probe of the Star Formation History Using GRBs
  • Hsioa-Wen Chen:  GRB Afterglows as a New Probe of the ISM and IGM at High Redshift
  • Sandra Savaglio:  GRB Host Studies (GHostS)
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session #10:  Host Galaxies, Cosmology and X-Ray Flashes #2 -- Chair: Julian Osborne

  • Davide Lazzati:  GRBs as Standard Candles (Invited)
  • Don Lamb:  X-Ray Flashes (Invited)
  • Frederic Daigne:  The Redshift Distribution of GRBs
  • Patricia Schady:  Swift-UVOT Observations of the X-ray Flash 050406
  • Ann Parsons:  Early Afterglow Evolution of X-ray Flashes Observed by Swift
  • Jason Prochaska:  The Host Galaxies of Short-Hard GRBs
  1:10
Lunch
  2:10
Session #11:  Non-photonic and High Energy Emission from GRBs -- Chair: Julie McEnery

  • Eli Waxman:  Non-photonic Emissions (Invited)
  • Brenda Dingus:  Highest Energy Gamma-Rays from GRBs (Invited)
  • Michael Stamatikos:  A Search Paradigm for Correlated Neutrino Emission from GRBs using Antartic Cherenkov Telescopes in the Swift Era
  • Szabolcs Marka:  LIGO Science Collaboration - GRBs
  • Remo Ruffini:  GRB 050315 as the Probe of Theoretical Models of GRBs
  4:00
Tea
  4:30
Session #12:  Future Missions -- Chair: Nick White

  • Josh Grindlay:  Gamma-ray Burst Science & Capabilities Directed to EXIST (Invited)
  • Nicola Omodei:  GLAST, LAT and GRB
  • M. L. McConnell:  Prospects for GRB Polarimetry with GRAPE
  • Francesco Longo:  AGILE and GRBs
  • Timothy Donaghy:  The Importance of Off-Jet Relativistic Kinematics in GRB Jet Models

Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday
Friday


Friday, December 2

 
  7:30
Registration Opens and Continental Breakfast available
  8:30
Session #13:  Hot New Results #1 -- Chair: Ed Fenimore

  • Melissa Nysewander:  Discovery and Identification of the Very High Redshift Afterglow of GRB 050904
  • Pall Jakobsson:  GRB 050814 at z=5.3 and a Mean Redshift of 2.8 for Swift GRBs
  • Bruce Gendre:  The True Redshift Distribution of Pre-Swift Bursts
  • Michel Boer:  Prompt and Early Afterglow Observations of GRB 050904
  • Giancarlo Cusumano:  GRB 050904 the Oldest Cosmic Explosion After the Big Bang
  • Jay Cummings:  Prompt Emission Properties of the High Redshift GRB 050904
  • K.-I. Nishikawa:  Simulation Studies of Early Afterglows Observed with Swift
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session #14:  Rapporteur -- Chair:  Lee Mundy

  • Ed Fenimore
 

 



 

 





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