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Science Working Group & Burst Workshop
September 12-13, 2002
Huntsville, AL
AGENDA
September 12, 2002 - Burst Workshop:
| 9:00 | Welcome & Introduction | Chip Meegan |
| 9:10 | Current status of GRB observations | Jerry Fishman |
| 9:40 | Afterglows and Follow-up Network | Chryssa Kouveliotou |
| 10:00 | Detector Triggers and Burst Populations | David Band |
| 10:20 | Break | |
| 10:40 | Summary of EGRET results | Brenda Dingus |
| 11:10 | Observations and Implications of Spectral Lags | Jay Norris |
| 11:30 | Jets | Jay Salmonson |
| 11:50 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | TeV gamma ray observations | Julie McEnery |
| 1:20 | Summary of current theoretical issues | Dieter Hartmann |
| 1:50 | The Fireworks Model | Guido Barbiellini |
| 2:05 | Swift Capabilities Relative to GLAST | Neil Gehrels |
| 2:25 | Break | |
| 3:00 | Burst capabilities of the LAT |
Peter Michelson Steve Ritz presented |
| 3:15 | Burst capabilities of the GBM | Giselher Lichti |
| 3:30 | What can be learned from GRB spectra | Rob Preece |
| 4:00 | Theoretical models for high-energy radiation from GRBs | Chuck Dermer |
| 4:30 | Theoretical issues to be addressed by GLAST | Peter Meszaros |
| 5:00 | Adjourn | |
| 7:30 | Dinner at Landry's Seafood House of Huntsville |
September 13, 2002 - Science Working Group
| 8:30 |
Welcome and Opening Comments Introductions, Review of Agenda |
J. F. Ormes |
| 8:40 |
Comments from NASA and DoE Headquarters Joint Operations Working Group and Project Status Agreements, budget status, issues and concerns, etc. |
P. Hertz K. Turner |
| 9:00 | Comments by and/or Questions from non-US participants | |
| 9:15 | Education initiatives | L. Cominsky |
| 9:45 | Public Relations | N. Gehrels |
| 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:15 |
Project Overviews Data downlink rate and contact frequency, planned spacecraft trade studies, impact of special autonomous repointing operations, schedule, etc |
L. Citrin Al Vernacchio presented |
| 10:30 | Spacecraft overview |
Spectrum Astro Tim Morse presented |
| 11:30 |
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) LAT Issues and concerns |
Steve Ritz |
| 12:00 |
The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) GBM Issues and concerns |
C. Meegan |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Preparation of GLAST Science Plan | N. Gehrels |
| 1:45 |
Report of the Working Group on burst studies GBM-LAT interface, realtime on-board repointing decisions and constraints, operations planning and modes update. |
C. Meegan |
| 2:15 | Break | |
| 2:30 | Report of the LAT-GRB science team |
J. Norris M. Kippen |
| 2:45 |
SSC Status and Report of the SSC Software review and plans |
D. Band |
| 3:15 |
Review of the Actions from last meeting Definition of transient SRD revisions |
J. Ormes |
| 3:30 | Other issues arising, discussion and New Actions review | J. Ormes |
| 4:00 | Adjourn |
