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Gamma ray bursts
Astrophysics seminar Fall 2004
Organizers:
Phil Armitage and
Mitch Begelman
Note: a university IP address is needed to download most of these papers.
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  The aim of the astrophysics seminar is discuss recent developments in a
forefront area of astronomy. For this semester, in part with an eye to the
upcoming launch of SWIFT,
the topic is Gamma-Ray bursts. Each week one or two people will pick papers from
the list below, read them, and lead a discussion in class. Animated discussion
rather than a first-class colloquium is the goal, so although a
video projector and overhead projector will be provided for the presenters we'll
ruthlessly cut-off presentations that threaten to consume the entire class!
  In addition to the discussion leaders, everyone else is expected to expected
to read the papers too, and come up with a handful of questions which the
discussion leaders and everyone else will try to resolve. Since it's almost
impossible to answer a really intelligent question intelligently `cold', questions
emailed to me the day before each meeting will be posted here so that we
can all think about them in advance.
  A formal course syllabus explains the rules of the
game in a bit more detail.
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