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GAMMA-RAY BURSTS IN THE AFTERGLOW ERA n. 1
20 April 1998
Workshop on
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| GAMMA-RAY BURSTS IN THE AFTERGLOW ERA |
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3-6 November 1998
Rome - C.N.R. Headquarters
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FIRST CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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These are fascinating times in the field of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB)
astrophysics. Each new burst brings fresh insight, continously
re-shaping our understanding of these mysterious objects. There is
a perception that now, more than ever, we have the important pieces
of the puzzle needed to vigourously debate the solution to this
mystery.
A new era in Gamma-Ray Burst astronomy was opened in 1997 by the
BeppoSAX satellite. To celebrate this we feel the need to promote
discussion on the GRB Afterglow astronomy and astrophysics.
We decided therefore to organize a workshop on the theme "Gamma-Ray
Burst in the Afterglow Era" on November 3-6 1998 in Rome, Italy.
The meeting will have the character of a workshop, lasting 4 days to
allow everybody engaged in this theme to report efforts and discuss
different experiences with collegues.
The workshop is organized by Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale - CNR
(IAS, Rome) and Istituto Tecnologie e Studio Radiazioni Extraterrestri -
CNR (ITeSRE, Bologna), the institutes of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale
delle Ricerche (CNR) most involved in the discovery of the Gamma-Ray Burst
Afterglow Science and is therefore hosted in CNR Headquarters.
This first circular calls for contributed oral and poster papers, on the
scientific topics specified below, to be presented at the workshop.
A WWW page containing workshop information is available at the sites:
http://www.tesre.bo.cnr.it/rome98
http://www.ias.rm.cnr.it/rome98
containing the workshop information, registration and abstract submission
form.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 July 1998.
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Scientific Programme
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RESULTS: Gamma-ray bursts, Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows, multiwavelength
observations. Gamma-Ray Bursts hosts.
THEORY AND INTERPRETATION: Models and their predictions on Gamma-Ray Bursts
and afterglow properties.
OBSERVATIONAL PERSPECTIVES: Roundtable discussion on observational
strategies and communications. On-going experiments. Future experiments.
It is intended to cover these themes with invited talks, oral contributions
and poster presentations.
The final program will be made available in September 1998 through e-mail
distribution and the WWW page.
Who should participate
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While this workshop calls for participation of all the experts in the
Gamma-Ray Bursts field, the developments achieved in the last two years
have demonstrated that the contribution from astronomers of fields not
traditionally related to Gamma-Ray Bursts can significantly improve the
understanding of the GRB mystery. Also, the latest developments have
opened new areas of investigation that require efforts by a wider
scientific community.
For this reason the workshop will include talks aimed to review the
main topics in GRB astronomy. This is intended to provide people from
other fields with the background needed to contribute to this new GRB era.
In this sense we strongly encourage *new* GRB scientists to participate
in the workshop.
Scientific Advisory Committee
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E. Costa (co-Chair) IAS/CNR, Rome, Italy
G. Fishman MSFC/NASA, Huntsville, AL, USA
D. Frail NRAO/VLA, Socorro, NM, USA
F. Frontera (co-Chair) ITESRE/CNR, Bologna, Italy
J. Heise SRON, Utrecht, The Netherlands
K. Hurley Univ. California, Berkeley, CA, USA
S. Kulkarni CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USA
M. Matsuoka RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
P. Meszaros Pennsylvania State Univ., PA, USA
H. Pedersen Copenhagen University, Denmark
L. Piro (co-Chair) IAS/CNR, Rome, Italy
M. Rees Inst. of Astronomy, Cambridge, United Kingdom
G. Ricker MIT, Boston, MA, USA
M. Ruderman Columbia Univ., New York, USA
L. Scarsi IFCAI/CNR, Palermo, Italy
M. Tavani IFCTR/CNR, Milan, Italy
J. van Paradijs Astr.Inst. 'A. Pennakoek', Amsterdam, The Netherlands
G. Vedrenne CESR, Toulouse, France
M. Vietri Univ. Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Workshop Organisers
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E. Costa IAS/CNR, Rome, Italy
F. Frontera ITESRE/CNR, Bologna, Italy
L. Piro IAS/CNR, Rome, Italy
Local Organizing Committee
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L. Amati IAS/CNR, Rome, Italy
L. Barbanera IAS/CNR, Rome, Italy
M. Feroci (Chair) IAS/CNR, Rome, Italy
M. Orlandini ITESRE/CNR, Bologna, Italy
General Information
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The workshop "Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era" will take place at
the C.N.R. Headquarters buildings located in Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5,
close to the center of Rome.
Travel Information
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By plane:
The nearest airport is the "Leonardo da Vinci" (Rome Fiumicino).
A secondary airport is the Ciampino airport. Daily connections exist
with basically any European and intercontinental airport.
Train connection is available from the Fiumicino airport with
the Termini Railway and Metro Station (A and B line) and with the
Tiburtina Railway and Metro Station (B line). The timetable and fares of
this public transportation service AS OF APRIL 1998 is given below.
An UPDATED timetable will be available on the workshop web page.
Train departures from Fiumicino Airport to Termini Station
(fare: 15.000 lire, transit time: 30'):
07:38,08:08,09:08,10:08,11:08,12:08,13:08.14:08,15:08,16:08,16:38,17:08,
18:08,18:38,19:08,20:08,20:38,21:08,22:08
Train departures from Termini Station to Fiumicino Airport:
06:54,07:22,08:22,09:22,10:22,11:22,12:22,13:22,14:22,15:22,15:54,16:22,
17:22,17:54,18:22,19:22,19:54,20:22,21:22
Train departures from Fiumicino Airport to Tiburtina Station
(fare: 7.000 lire, transit time: 40'):
06:28,06:58,07:28,07:58,08:28,08:58,09:28,09:58,10:28,10:58,11:28,11:58,
12:28,12:58,13:28,13:58,14:28,14:58,15:28,15:58,16:28,16:58,16:58,17:28,
17:58,18:28,18:58,19:28,19:58,20:58,21:58,22:58,22:58,23:28
Train departures from Tiburtina Station to Fiumicino Airport:
05:06,06:06,06:36,07:06,07:36,08:06,08:36,09:06,09:36,10:06,10:36,11:06,
11:36,12:06,12:36,13:06,13:36,14:06,14:36,15:06,15:36,16:06,16:36,17:06,
17:36,18:06,18:36,19:06,19:36,20:06,20:36,21:36,22:36
Intermediate stops in the Tiburtina-Fiumicino line are:
Roma Tuscolana, Roma Ostiense, Roma Trastevere, Villa Bonelli, Magliana,
Muratella, Ponte Galeria
By train:
Daily intercity train connections exist between Rome and the main Italian
and European cities.
By car:
Rome is 574 km from Milan, 539 km from Venice, 380 km from Bologna,
277 km from Florence, 217 km from Naples.
Social Events
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A conference dinner, excursions and a visit to the BeppoSAX Operation Center
will be organized.
Further information will be provided in the second circular.
The workshop fee for registered participants includes these social events.
Additional tickets for dinner can be obtained for accompanying persons.
This must be indicated on the registration form.
Registration
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Registration forms must be filled in from the WWW site.
Participants are requested to complete the registration form no later
than 01 July 1998.
The workshop fee is 400.000 Italian Lire (LIT) (approx. 220 US$).
The fee includes the excursions and workshop dinner.
The fee for late registration (after 01 July 1998) will be
500.000 Italian Lire (LIT) (approx. 280 US$).
The workshop fee should be paid in Italian Lire (LIT) preferably by bank
transfer to the workshop bank account (see WWW page for details).
*Before* the early registration dead-line (01 July 1998) the
registration fee can be paid also sending an US Bank Check to the
Local Organizing Committee using an express courier for the
shipping (Fed-Ex, UPS, DHL or similar). Please do *not* send any
check using the standard mail service. A registration with US check
must be notified in the Registration Form, specifying the US Bank used.
At the workshop the fee can only be paid by cash or by check from an
Italian Bank. No credit card or foreign checks can be accepted.
Please specify the method and date of payment on your registration form.
A refund of the workshop registration fee is possible with a
deduction of 10% and under the condition that the cancellation
has been received in writing by the Local Organising Committee
no later than 23 October 1998. No refunds are possible for
cancellations received after that date.
Hotel Accommodation
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A list of hotels with a range of special prices will be made
available on the WWW pages.
Please note that Rome is popular place for tourism and hotels are
usually busy at any time of the year. We strongly recommend early
reservations.
Abstracts
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Abstracts must be submitted using the form available on the WWW page.
Authors are required to specify on the registration form whether they
prefer their talk to be oral or poster.
Please note that abstract submission by fax is not possible.
Authors will be notified on the receipt of their papers.
The time allocation will be 15 minutes (including 3 minutes discussion)
for contributed talks, and 30 minutes (including 5 minutes discussion)
for invited talks.
The abstracts of the accepted papers will be printed in an abstract book
which will be distributed to all participants at the workshop. All accepted
abstracts and the scientific programme information will be made available
on the WWW.
Posters
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Poster boards will be available and the display area is strictly
limited to 0.9 m x 1.2 m per poster.
Posters must be displayed by the author(s), and it is essential, that at
least one of the authors will be available for discussion at scheduled times.
It is the intention (depending on the total number of posters accepted) to
display all posters for the entire duration of the workshop.
Posters will be summarized by selected rapporteurs.
Authors of posters should prepare one figure in PostScript format and
few lines of comments in order to be presented by the relevant rapporteur.
Further information will be provided in the next circulars.
Workshop Proceedings
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All contributions (invited and contributed papers and posters) will
be published on a special volume of Astronomy and Astrophysics
(Supplement Series), following a standard refereeing process.
Authors are expected to provide a camera-ready manuscript together with
an electronic LaTeX version no later than 15 December 1998.
Due to a tight publication processing schedule any manuscript received
after that date will not be published.
The Workshop organizers and the A&ASS Editor have agreed to publication
by the end of 1999. One of the authors must be present at the
conference.
Further information and instructions to authors for the preparation of
papers will be provided in the second circular.
Press release
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We plan to provide support for a press-release on the outstanding
results presented at this workshop.
Calendar of Events
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20 April 1998 First circular and call for papers
01 June 1998 Second circular with invited talks specified
01 July 1998 Abstract due date and deadline for early registration
15 September 1998 Third circular with Final Scientific Program
3-6 November 1998 Workshop
15 December 1998 Manuscript due date
September 1999 Tentative date for publication of the proceedings
Contact Addresses
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Official Workshop address for any correspondance:
romagrb@saxserver1.ias.rm.cnr.it
Workshop WWW page:
http://www.tesre.bo.cnr.it/rome98
http://www.ias.rm.cnr.it/rome98
Workshop Organizing Secretariat:
Lidia Barbanera
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale
C.N.R. - Area di Ricerca di Roma - Tor Vergata
Via Fosso del Cavaliere, Roma, I-00133 ITALY
Phone: +39-6-4993-4100
Fax : +39-6-2066-0188
E-mail: lidia@saturn.ias.rm.cnr.it
Workshop Organizers:
Enrico Costa
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale
C.N.R. - Area di Ricerca di Roma - Tor Vergata
Via Fosso del Cavaliere, Roma, I-00133 ITALY
Phone: +39-6-4993-4004
Fax : +39-6-2066-0188
E-mail: costa@saturn.ias.rm.cnr.it
Filippo Frontera
Istituto Tecnologie e Studio delle Radiazioni Extraterrestri
C.N.R. - Area di Ricerca di Bologna
Via P. Gobetti, 101 - 40129 BOLOGNA
Phone: +39-51-6398-666
Fax: +39-51-6398-723
E-mail: filippo@tesre.bo.cnr.it
Luigi Piro
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale
C.N.R. - Area di Ricerca di Roma - Tor Vergata
Via Fosso del Cavaliere, Roma, I-00133 ITALY
Phone: +39-6-4993-4007
Fax : +39-6-2066-0188
E-mail: piro@alpha1.ias.rm.cnr.it
Local Organizing Committee:
Marco Feroci
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale
C.N.R. - Area di Ricerca di Roma - Tor Vergata
Via Fosso del Cavaliere, Roma, I-00133 ITALY
Phone: +39-6-4993-4099
Fax : +39-6-2066-0188
E-mail: feroci@saturn.ias.rm.cnr.it
