Conference Program
Each talk follows by a 5-10 min discussion
February 6, Saturday
Arrival
19:00 Welcome Dinner
February 7, Sunday, morning
7:45 Breakfast
8:45 Opening Remarks
Juri Poutanen and Tommy Hagström
Chair: Ed Fenimore
9:00
0) INTRODUCTION
Tsvi Piran (40min)
I) TEMPORAL STUDIES
9:50
Unifying the GRB Diversity: a Search for the Underlying Stochastic Process
Boris Stern (40min)
10:40
Fourier Analysis of GRBs and Physical Implications
Andrei Beloborodov (30min)
February 7, Sunday, evening
Chair: Vladimir Usov
II) THE GRB SCENARIO,
MHD outflows and instabilities.
16:45
Constraints on the GRB Models from the Time Variability
Ed Fenimore (40min)
17:35
Confronting Internal Shock Models with Observations
Re'em Sari (40min)
18:25 Break
18:45
Hydrodynamics of a fireball: the Internal Shocks
Shiho Kobayashi (30min)
19:25
Blandford-Znajek mechanism as a GRB central engine
Hyun Kyu Lee (20min)
20:00 Dinner
February 8, Monday, morning
7:45 Breakfast
Chair: William Paciesas
III) SPECTRA - OBSERVATIONS: Observational constraints on theoretical models.
Spectral lines. Spectral classes. Spectral evolution.
8:45
Constraints on Emission Models from BATSE GRB Spectroscopy
Robert Preece (40min)
9:35
Spectral Features in the BATSE Data
Michael Briggs (40min)
10:25
Spectral Evolution of GRBs Observed with BATSE
Felix Ryde (30min)
February 8, Monday, evening
Chair: Roland Svensson
IV) GAMMA-RAY EMISSION - THEORY:
Optically thin vs optically thick emission. Low compactness, high Lorentz
factor (100 - 300) vs high compactness, low Lorentz factor (20 - 50).
16:45
Simulations of Merging Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Max Ruffert (30min)
17:25
Radiation from Strongly Magnetized Relativistic Outflows: Spectrum and
Temporal Structure
Vladimir Usov (40min)
18:15 Break
18:45
The Synchrotron Interpretation of the GRB Emission has Problems
Annalisa Celotti (20min)
19:10
Quasi-Thermal Comptonization and GRBs
Gabriele Ghisellini (20min)
19:35
Non-Thermal Pair Models
Boris Stern (20min)
20:00 Dinner
February 9, Tuesday, morning
7:45 Breakfast
Chair: Vahe' Petrosian
V) log N - log P distribution. Spatial distribution.
Luminosity function.
8:45
Constraints on the Spatial Distribution and Luminosity Function of GRBs
Tomek Bulik (40min)
9:35
Non-triggered GRBs: Extended and Revised log N - log P Distribution
Boris Stern (30min)
10:15
On the Intensity Distribution of NHE Bursts
Jerry Bonnell (30min)
February 9, Tuesday, afternoon
Free time
February 10, Wednesday, morning
7:45 Breakfast
Chair: Kevin Hurley
VI) COSMOLOGICAL EFFECTS: "duration - brightness",
"hardness - brightness" correlations.
8:45
Distributions and Correlations of Spectral and Temporal Characteristics
of GRBs and Cosmological Signatures
Vahe' Petrosian (40min)
9:35
Redshift and Brightness Corrected Measurements of Time Dilation in GRBs
Jerry Bonnell (30min)
10:15
Populational Synthesis of the GRB Progenitors and their Brightness and
Redshift Distribution
Ivan Panchenko (20min)
February 10, Wednesday, evening
Chair: Jerry Bonnell
VII) AFTERGLOWS: the FIRST THREE MINUTES (the case of GRB 990123)
16:45
A few 10min presentations.
VIII) FUTURE MISSIONS
17:35
LOTIS, HETE-II, and SWIFT: Gamma Ray Bursts in the First 3 Seconds
Kevin Hurley (20min)
18:00 break
18:20
Capabilities of FiberGLAST for Detection of GRBs at High Energies
William Paciesas (20min)
18:45
Ballerina Project and the GRBs' Afterglows
Niels Lund (20min)
19:10
IX) SUMMARY
Ralph Wijers (50min)
20:00 Banquet Dinner
POSTERS
Simulated GRB Observations with GLAST
Jay Norris and the GLAST collaboration
Ballerina Project and the GRBs' Afterglows
Niels Lund
Are Single Pulse GRBs Associated With SNe?
Jerry Bonnell
Back to
GRB Workshop home page