The First GLAST Symposium

FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM -- SECOND BULLETIN

5-8 February 2007, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA

I. WEB PAGE

Please visit the updated conference web pages at
http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/symposium/2007/ for information about the meeting. In particular, please see the First Bulletin for background information and the links for registration, hotels, and abstract submission.

II. REGISTRATION

The Symposium registration fee is $375 until 31 December. After that time, the registration fee will be $450. PLEASE REGISTER soon.

III. ABSTRACTS

Abstracts for proposed scientific contributions to the Symposium are welcome. The default mode of contributions will be posters, which will be displayed throughout the first two days of the meeting. A subset of the abstracts will be selected by the organizers for inclusion in either the parallel oral sessions or the contributed talk portions of the plenary sessions. In addition to GLAST science, poster and parallel oral contributions on relevant analysis techniques and the status of related facilities (current and future) are welcome. The link for abstract submission will be available on the conference web site starting on 22 November. The abstract submission deadline is 15 December.

IV. PROGRAM UPDATES

A more detailed program, including the list of invited talks, will be posted on the web site soon. In addition to talks about GLAST and the opportunities for Guest Investigators, topics include AGN, Microquasars, EBL studies; Pulsars, Supernova Remnants, Cosmic Rays; Spatially Extended Sources and Diffuse Emissions; Surveys and Population Studies, New Point Source Classes; GRBs and Solar Flares; and Dark Matter and New Physics Search Windows.

V. POSTER

The meeting poster is linked to the web page.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Information about the GLAST mission can be found at:
http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

Information about the LAT instrument and international collaboration can be found at:
http://www-glast.stanford.edu.

Information about the GBM instrument and international collaboration can be found at:
http://gammaray.nsstc.nasa.gov/gbm.

Information about the GLAST Science Support Center, Guest Investigator Program, and GLAST Fellows Program, can be found at:
http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/.