GLAST
collaboration meeting Foto R.Ryan

2006 Stockholm - Sweden

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Sponsored by:




The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
through its Nobel Institute for Physics

Gamma-ray burst mini-symposium
Scientific Organising Committee:



Magnus Axelsson, Stockholm

Jay Norris, GSFC

Nicola Omodei, INFN-Pisa

Felix Ryde (chair), Stockholm


Friday, September 1, 2006

Programme


The presentations are planned for 15+5 minutes.


9:00- 9:10 Opening
9:10-9:50 Peter Mészáros, Penn State University

Theory of high energy emission (pdf)


9:50-10:10 Abe Falcone, Penn State University

X-ray afterglows observed by the Swift mission (ppt)


10:10-10:30 Nicola Omodei, INFN-Pisa

GLAST simulations (ppt)


10:30-10:50 Francesco Longo, INFN-Trieste

Agile (ppt)


10:50-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 Felix Ryde, Stockholm University

Photospheric emission (ppt)


11:40-12:00 Asaf Pe'er, Amsterdam University

The observable effect of a photospheric component on GRB's prompt emission spectrum (ppt)


12:00-12:20 Mark Dieckmann, LiTH

Wakefield acceleration in ultrarelativistic plasma flows: Electron acceleration to cosmic ray energies (ppt)


12:20-12:40 Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Merate

Cosmology with GRBs (ppt)


 
12:40-14:20 Lunch


14:20-15:00 Neil Gehrels, GSFC

GLAST-Swift GRB interactions


15:00-15:20 Denis Bastieri, Padova

Prompt VHE observations of GRBs by MAGIC (pdf)


15:20-15:40 Anatoly Iyudin, Moscow State University

GRB redshifts from prompt emission SED (pdf)


15:40-16:10 Break
16:10-16:30 Melvyn Davies, Lund University

GRB progenitors (pdf)


16:30-16:50 Shiho Kobayashi, Liverpool

GRB progenitors and Gravitational Waves (pdf)


16:50-17:10 Malcom Fairbairn, Stockholm University

Quantum gravity (pdf)


17:10-17:30 Jay Norris, GSFC

Quantum-Gravity Based Photon Dispersion in GRBs: The Detection Problem (ppt)


17:30 END