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Getting Involved with GLAST

A workshop on Thursday, 21st June 2007, starting at 10am in Science Center A at Harvard University

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Preliminary agenda, please check back for updates

09:00-10:00 Coffee    
10:00-12:30 Welcome, GLAST Overview and Multiwavelength Opportunities
10:00 am Welcome, purpose logistics etc J. Grindlay/R. Brissenden
10:15 am Overview of the GLAST mission and Opportunities S. Ritz
10:45 am GLAST GRB operations and sensitivites, and MW opportunities J. McEnery
11:15 am GLAST and multiwaveband monitoring as probes of bright blazars A. Marscher
11:45 am An argument for moving the blazar emission site outside the broad line region M. Georganopoulos
11:55 am GLAST AGN and X-ray Follow-ups P. Coppi
12:05 pm Radio-loud Quasars A. Siemiginowska
12:15 pm Testing ADAF/hot inner flow models for low/hard state X-ra binaries using GLAST. C. Done
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 Extragalactic sources
1:30 pm Resolving shocks around galaxy clusters with GLAST  A. Loeb
2:00 pm Diffuse gamma-rays from star forming galaxies T. Paglione
2:10 pm Quantifiying the unexpected with enhanced imaging multiscale methods for diffuse emission/model fitting A. Connors
2:20 pm GLAST and Dark Matter D. Finkbeiner
2:40 pm Specific signatures of WIMP annihilation in GLAST N. Afshordi
2:50 pm Coffee    
3:10 pm GLAST and Low Frequency Radio Observations M. Morales
3:35 pm Ground-based Optical/IR observations of GLAST sources C. Bailyn
3:50 - 6:30 Galactic Sources, GI Opportunities
3:50 pm SNR and GLAST  P. Slane
4:20 pm Unid sources and GLAST Y. Butt
4:50 pm Observations of Galactic sources and GeV and TeV energies T. Ergin
5:00 pm High energy observations of LS I +61 303 J. Holder
5:10 pm GLAST and Swift D. Band
5:20 pm Additional discussion
5:30 pm Data releases, software  C. Shrader
5:45 pm GI Opportunities, deadlines, what/how to propose D. Band
6:15 pm Discussion, Q&A    
6:30 pm Adjourn    

Contact: glast_boston_workshop@bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov