Gamma Ray Bursts
Nov. 5-9, 2007
Santa Fe, NM

GRB 2007 Program (now it's ready!!)

The conference opening reception will be on Monday November 5th at 5pm, so travelers from the United States can plan to travel on Monday, and overseas travelers can plan to travel on Sunday and recover from jet lag on Monday.

You can view the current draft of the full conference program book. This has all information about the schedule, talks, posters, participants, lots of cross-indexing... You do not need to print this because many things will change and we will give you a printed copy when you show up in Santa Fe.

The preliminary conference calendar is now ready (although there will be some changes). You can view the calendar at the links below. Note that by default you are taken to the "agenda view", but you can also see the week and month views of the calendar. Also: in the Google agenda and calendar views you can click on the various talks and it will expand to show some detail.

An "ICS" calendar file. You can open this with a calendar program that supports the iCalendar format.
A Google calendar. You can view this anonymously or (if you have a Google account) you will get more options.
Other views of the calendar in html and pdf.
We also embed the Google calendar at the bottom of this page -- you will probably want to choose the "Agenda" mode.
Subscribe to a syndicated () version of the calendar, which will also get you updates.

The program includes review talks, solicited talks, contributed talks and posters. There will be no parallel sessions.

There will be a poster competition. Posters will be reviewed by a jury and three posters will be selected to give contributed talks on the final day.

We will have "gong" sessions for the posters. You can select not to participate. Each poster will be summarized to one powerpoint slide that can be presented in one minute. These slides will be collated into one powerpoint presentation and timed to change every 60.00 seconds. At the change, powerpoint will sound a loud "gong" and the speaker is expected to stop in mid-sentence and allow the next speaker to start.

A note from American culture: in the golden age of television before reality TV and "Idol" shows, we actually had other, rather bad television concepts. One was the "Gong" show. Average people would sing or dance before a jury. They could perform until someone on the jury got so fed up, that they hit a large gong, disqualifying the participant. The participant lasting the longest would be the winner. Our "gong" session will allocate 60 seconds no matter what the speaker does.