GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: THE FIRST THREE HOURS
SANTORINI SUMMER SCHOOL ON GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 2, 2005


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MONDAY, August 29: Central Engine Physics (core collapse and Poynting flux models)

Collapsars: Stan Woosley

Magnetic Poynting Flux: Jonathan Granot for Roger Blandford

HST observations of GRB hosts: Andy Fruchter


Broad Band (Optical-100GeV) Spectra of the Prompt GRB Emission in the "Supercritical Pile" GRB model: Demos Kazanas

Mergers: Stephan Rosswog

The first hour emission from GRBs using Swift BAT+XRT data: Paul O’Brien

Evolution of rotating massive single and binary stars towards GRBs: Sung-Chul Yoon

Measuring Fast Spectral Variability of GRB Early Afterglows with the AEOS Burst Camera: Heather Swan

Constraining Lorentz violation with GRBs: Maria Rodriguez Martinez

TUESDAY, August 30:  Supernovae and GRBs

Progenitors for SNe and GRBs: Philip Podsiadlowski

GRB/SNe Observations: Jesper Sollerman

GRB/SNe models: Paolo Mazzali

The effect of neutrinos on the initial fireballs in gamma-ray bursts: Hylke Koers

Bumps in the optical afterglow of GRB030329: evidence for a baryonic ejecta and internal shocks: Franck Genet

Spectral modeling of the Type Ic Supernova 1994I: Daniel Sauer

UHECR and Neutrino Production in Gamma-Ray Bursts: K. Asano

Rapid luminosity changes due to gravitational lensing: U. Kostic

GRB follow-up optical observations by MASTER robotic-telescope: E. Gorbovskoy

Probing for Leptonic Signatures from Gamma-Ray Bursts with Antarctic Neutrino Telescopes: Michael Stamatikos (14MB)

WEDNESDAY, August 31:  Afterglow physics (fireballs and jets)

Physics of the Prompt emission: Asaf Pe’er

Physics of the Afterglow: Ralph A.M.J. Wijers

Physics of Jets: Jonathan Granot

The role of kink instability in magnetically driven jets: Dimitrios Giannios

The analytic solutions of the equations of motion of GRB afterglow and the analytic expressions
of the beaming angle-arrival time relation: Carlo Luciano Bianco


Particle acceleration, magnetic field generation, and emission in relativistic jets: Ken Nishikawa
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Gamma-Ray Bursts, Collisionless Shocks, and Synthetic Spectra: C. Hededal

The Amati and Ghirlanda relations and the difference between them: Jonathan Granot for David Eichler


THURSDAY, September 1:  Multi-wavelength spectral properties of GRBs

Theory: Pawan Kumar

Observations: Elena Pian

Swift era results and challenges: Neil Gehrels (25MB)

Early Results from the Swift X-ray Telescope: David Burrows

GRB Afterglows in the Swift Era: Pawan Kumar

Early phases of afterglow in Swift GRB 050401 and 050712: Massimiliano de Pasquale

A catalog of X-ray afterglows observed by BeppoSAX, XMM-Newton and Chandra: B. Gendre

GRB 030328: Optical afterglow study: Elisabetta Maiorano

Early Afterglow Observations with the ROTSE-III Telescope Network: Sarah Yost (23MB)

Study and modelling of 021004 and 050408: Antonio de Ugarte Postigo

FRIDAY, September 2: Host environments and properties

GRB Hosts: Stephanie Courty

Galaxy Morphology and properties: Nial Tanvir

UV absorption and line systems along GRB sightlines: Paul Vreeswijk

To the connection of short duration GRB with Soft Gamma-Repeaters: A. Pozanenko

First look at GRB hosts with Spitzer: José María Castro Cerón

Absorption towards a sample of GRBs through IR to X-ray SED fitting: R. Starling

XRF 030528: redshift and host galaxy properties: Arne Rau


A Search for Untriggered GRB Afterglows with ROTSE-III: Eli Rykoff

ANDICAM Observations of GRBs: B. Cobb

GROND - a multi-filter imager for GRB follow-up observations: Jochen Greiner

Observations of the GRB030329 afterglow with the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope: L. Resmi



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