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Announcement
We are happy to announce the organization of the program on "GRB
Physics" in the summer of 2009 at Kavli Institute for Astronomy and
Astrophysics (KIAA) in Peking University, Beijing, China. The program
will cover the physics of GRB progenitors (collapsar vs. merger),
central engines, shock waves, radiation processes, etc.
The motivation of the program is to gather experts in this active field, review the rapid progress made in recent years, and excite the research interest on GRBs at KIAA. With the successful launch and operation of the Fermi satellite, we expect that one of the hot topics in 2009 would be the new advance of our understanding GRB physics (especially in the high-energy aspect) led by the new Fermi data. This program will also partially cover the developments in this direction.
The program will be held in Beijing in May 4 - June 19, 2009. It will be sponsored by KIAA, with financial support from Peking University, National Astronomical Observatories--Chinses Academy of Sciences (NAOC), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC). The program will take form of lecturing in morning, supervising students and collaborating with postdocs and scientists in afternoon. A mini-conference on GRB Physics will be held in the last week.
The program has no registration fee. Interested participants
please send an email to Li-Xin Li (
lxl@pku.edu.cn) to confirm their attendance before April 1, 2009.
For the location of KIAA and a map of PKU, please visit: http://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/Visit_Info/visit_info.html
Program
May 4-8 (Lectures and discussion):
Session I, Chair: Bing Zhang
8:50-9:00: Doug Lin, Welcome
9:00-10:00: Kunihito Ioka, Cosmic-Ray Positrons from Astrophysical Sources: GRBs, Pulsars and SNRs
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-11:30: Yizhong Fan, Interpretation and implication of the non-detection of GeV spectrum excess
by Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in most GRBs
12:00-14:00: Lunch
Session II, Chair: Rob Preece
14:00-15:00 Xiang-Yu Wang, High-energy emission from gamma-ray bursts
15:00-15:20 Xiao-Hong Cui, Pulsar Kick and GRB
15:20-16:00: Break
16:00-17:30 Discussion
Session I, Chair: Stephen Justham
9:00-10:00: Rob Preece, GRB Observations with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Mikhail Medvedev, A double-talk on `a GRB' and `the GRB' -- a Gamma-Ray Burst and the
(cosmic) Gamma-Ray Background
12:00-14:00: Lunch
Session II, Chair: Mikhail Medvedev
14:00-14:20: Xiaohong Zhao, On X-ray flares
14:20-14:50: Francisco Virgili, Constraints on Type I (short) Gamma-ray bursts from Monte Carlo simulations
14:50-15:10: Fuwen Zhang, Broadband light curve characteristics of two prototypical LL-GRBs, 980425 and 060218
15:10-16:00: Break
16:00-17:30: Discussion
Session I, Chair: Xiang-Yu Wang
9:00-10:00: Stephen Justham, Investigating & producing the progenitors of GRBs (Movie file: GRB_combined_export_med.mov)
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Renxin Xu, GRB: A Signature related to quark matter?
12:00-14:00: Lunch
Session II, Chair: Zhuo Li
14:00-14:20: Houjun Lv, Single power-law decaying XRT LC and implications for the unified origin of the X-rays
14:20-14:50: Yuan Qiang, Yangbajing cosmic ray observatory and high energy GRB search
14:50-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00 Discussion
Session I, Chair: Kunihito Ioka
9:00-10:00: Paul O'Brien, Review of GRB results from Swift
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-11:30 Ryo Yamazaki, On the plateau phase of the X-ray afterglow
12:00-14:00: Lunch
Session II, Chair: Paul O'Brien
14:00-14:40: Lin Lin, GRB 080307 as a Long-Lag-Wide-Pulse GRB with Bright Prompt X-ray Emission
14:40-15:20: Shufu Qin, Simulation analysis on the evolution of long GRBs rate and luminosity funtion
15:30-16:30: KIAA Colloqium
Session I, Chair: Ryo Yamazaki
9:00-10:00: Jian-Yan Wei, SVOM
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-11:30: Ye Lu, Black hole preying on a star probably responsible for a weird long GRB
12:00-14:00: Lunch
Session II, Chair: Li-Xin Li
14:00-14:20: Haoning He, High energy gamma-ray afterglows from low luminosity GRBs & Early high energy gamma-ray afterglows from short GRBs
14:20-14:30: Xiaowei Liu, Closing remark
Name |
Institution |
| Annalisa Celotti | SISSA, Italy |
| K. S. Cheng | U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Roger A. Chevalier | U. Verginia, USA |
| Yi-Zhong Fan | Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark |
| Derek Fox | Penn State U., USA |
| Yong-Feng Huang | Nanjing U., China |
| Kunihito Ioka | KEK, Japan |
| Stephen Justham | KIAA, China |
| Shiho Kobayashi | Liverpool John Moores U., UK |
| Hyun Kyu Lee | Hanyang U., Korea |
| Zhuo Li | Peking U., China |
| Ye Lu | NAOC, China |
| Paolo Mazzali | MPA, Germany |
| Mikhail Medvedev | U. of Kansas, USA |
| Shigehiro Nagataki | Kyoto U., Japan |
| Ken-Ichi Nishikawa | NSSTC, USA |
| Paul O'Brien | U. Leicester, UK |
| Asaf Pe'er | STSCI, USA |
| Elena Pian | INAF, Italy |
| Rob Preece | NSSTC, USA |
| Pete Roming | Penn State U., USA |
| Xiang-Yu Wang | Nanjing U., China |
| Jian-Yan Wei | NAOC, China |
| Xuefeng Wu | Penn State U., USA |
| Ren-Xin Xu | Peking U., China |
| Ryo Yamazaki | Hiroshima U., Japan |
| Bing Zhang | UNLV, USA |
Other Participants
Name |
Institution |
| Li Chen | Beijing Normal U. |
| Xiaohong Cui (Student) | PKU |
| Jinsong Deng | NAOC |
| He Gao (Student) | NAOC |
| Yiqing Guo (Student) | IHEP |
| Alok Gupta | ARIES, India |
| Haoning He (Student) | Nanjing U. |
| Weihua Lei | Huazhong U. of Sci. & Tech. |
| Ye Li (Student) | IHEP |
| Hung-Miao Lin (Student) | National Central U. (Taiwan) |
| Lin Lin (Student) | Tsinghua U. |
| Jianwei Liu (Student) | PMO |
| Tong Liu (Postdoc) | Nanjing U. |
| Gujing Lv (Student) | PMO |
| Houjun Lv (Student) | Guangxi U. |
| Lei Qian (Student) | PKU |
| Shufu Qin (Student) | Guangxi U. |
| Michael Stamatikos (Postdoc) | Ohio State U., USA |
| Francisco Virgili (Student) | UVLA, USA |
| Ding-Xiong Wang | Huazhong U. of Sci. & Tech. |
| Yu Wang (Student) | PMO |
| Fu-Guo Xie (Postdoc) | SHAO |
| Liping Xin (Student) | NAOC |
| Benda Xu (Student) | Tsinghua U. |
| Qiang Yuan (Student) | IHEP |
| Bo Zhang (Student) | Nanjing U. |
| Fu-Wen Zhang | Guilin U. |
| Shuo Zhang (Student) | Tsinghua U. |
| You-Hong Zhang | Tsinghua U. |
| Xiao-Hong Zhao (Postdoc) | Nanjing U. |
| Weikang Zheng (Student) | NAOC |
| Fengrong Zhu (Postdoc) | IHEP |
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