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Monday

9:00-9:05 Welcome and Announcements  
9:05-9:35 Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope: Launch + 509
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Roger Blandford
9:35-10:05 Fermi Mission: Status and Overview
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Julie McEnery
10:05-10:35 The Fermi LAT First Catalog
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Jean Ballet
10:35-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Pulsars: What We Have Seen
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Lucas Guillemot
11:30-12:00 Pulsars: Open Questions and Looking Forward>
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Anatoly Spitkovsky
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-1:45 Precise Pulsar Timing and Radio Follow-Up of Pulsars Discovered in LAT Blind Periodicity Searches
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Paul Ray
1:45-2:00 Searching for Radio Pulsars in Unidentified Fermi LAT Bright Sources
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Scott Ransom
2:00-2:15 Suzaku X-ray Observations of New Gamma-ray Pulsars Discovered by Fermi LAT
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Nobuyuki Kawai
2:15-2:45 Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Fermi Era
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Pat Slane
2:45-3:00 Fermi LAT Observations of Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds Takaaki Tanaka
3:00-3:15 Fermi-LAT Observations of Young Supernova Remnants
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Stefan Funk
3:15-3:45 Break
3:45-4:15 Fermi and the Origin of Cosmic Rays
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Jonathan Ormes
4:15-4:45 Galactic Diffuse Emissions
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Troy Porter
4:45-5:00 The Fermi-LAT Measurement of the Primary Cosmic Ray Electron Spectrum Between 5 GeV and 1 TeV
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Luca Latronico
5:00-5:15 Observations of the Microquasar Cygnus-X3 by Fermi LAT Stephane Corbel
8:00 ... Cosmic Reflections Concert Kennedy Center

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Tuesday

9:00-9:30 Galactic Binary Systems
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Jamie Holder
Hot Topic New Blazar Discoveries by VERITAS and the Impact of Fermi
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Jamie Holder
9:30-10:00 AGN: What We Have Seen
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Benoit Lott
10:00-10:30 Fermi AGN: Open Questions and Looking Forward
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Lukasz Stawarz
10:30-10:45 Fermi Large Area Telescope Detection of Steep Spectrum Radio Sources
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Elizabetta Cavazzuti
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:15 The Blazar Population in the First Year of the Fermi-LAT Sky Survey
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Marco Ajello
11:15-11:30 The First-Year Multi-Band Observations from Radio to Gamma-Ray of 3C 279 in the Fermi Era Masaaki Hayashida
11:30-11:45 Fermi LAT Discovery of Gamma-rays from the Giant Radio Lobes of Centaurus A Teddy Cheung
11:45-12:00 Probing the Inner Jet of the Quasar PKS 1510-089 with Multi-waveband Monitoring
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Alan Marscher
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-1:45 The MOJAVE Program: Investigating the Parsec-Scale Jet Properties of Gamma-Ray Blazars
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Matt Lister
1:45-2:00 Multifrequency Scalings and Lags in Blazar Flares
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Stefan Wagner
2:00-2:15 David Band Session - Introduction
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Josh Grindley
2:15-2:45 GRB: What We Have Seen
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Nicola Omodei
2:45-3:15 GRB: Open Questions and Looking Forward
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Ehud Nakar
3:15-3:45 Break
3:45-4:15 Magnetar Observations in the Fermi Era
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Chryssa Kouveliotou
4:15-4:30 The Origin of the Prompt GRB Spectrum
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Frédéric Daigne
4:30-4:45 The Collimation and Energetics of Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Stephen Cenko
4:45-5:00 Fermi GBM Observations of Three Intense Short GRBs
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Sylvain Guiriec
5:00-5:15 High Energy Emission from Short GRBs
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Alessandra Corsi
5:15-5:30 The Epeak-Fluence Bimodality: A Fundamental Discriminator Between Long and Short GRBs
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Adam Goldstein
5:30-5:45 Constraining Lorentz-Invariance Violation with Fermi
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Vlasios Vasileiou

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Wednesday

9:00-9:15 Extragalactic Diffuse
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Markus Ackermann
9:15-9:45 Latest Results on Dark Matter Searches with Fermi
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Simona Murgia
9:45-10:00 Gamma Ray Probes of the Star Forming Universe and Cosmic-Ray History
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Brian Fields
10:00-10:15 The Cosmological Evolution of Blazars and the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background in the Fermi Era
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Inoue Yoshiyuki
10:15-10:30 Cosmic-Ray Signals of New Dark Forces
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Neal Weiner
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:15 Fermi LAT Detection of Gamma-ray Emission from Starburst Galaxies M82 and NGC 253
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Keith Bechtol
11:15-11:30 VERITAS Detection of Starburst Galaxy M 82
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Niklas Karlsson
11:30-11:45 Blazars as Beamlights to Probe the EBL
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Massimo Persic
11:45-12:00 Observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud with Fermi
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Jürgen Knödlseder
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Parallel Session: Facilities and Multi-wavelength Observations in Valley Forge
1:30-3:30 Parallel Session: Galactic Sources I in Ticonderoga
1:30-3:30 Parallel Session: Gamma-ray Bursts and Magnetars in Yorktown
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-6:00 Parallel Session: Dark Matter, New Physics and Cosmic Rays in Valley Forge
4:00-6:00 Parallel Session: Galactic Sources II in Ticonderoga
4:00-6:00 Parallel Session: Extragalactic Sources in Yorktown
6:30 ... Reception Ballroom Poster Area

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Thursday

9:00-9:15 A Survey of Fermi Galactic Source Catalog
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Andrew Smith
9:15-9:30 Fermi LAT Observations of Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission in the Galactic Center
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Seth Digel
9:30-9:45 Fermi-LAT Observations of Gamma-ray Transients Near the Galactic Plane
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Elizabeth Hays
9:45-10:00 First Results of Monitoring X-ray Transients with MAXI GSC Onboard ISS
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Mutsumi Sugizaki
10:00-10:20 Galactic Gamma Ray Sources: Microquasars and New Transients
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Marco Tavani
10:20-10:35 All-Sky Earth Occultation Observations with the Fermi Gamma Ray Burst Monitor
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Colleen Wilson-Hodge
10:35-11:05 Break
11:05-11:25 Fermi-GBM Observations of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Michael Briggs
11:25-11:55 Meeting Summary Peter Michelson

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