Workshop on Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Workshop on
SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS:
Observations and Physics

Ringberg Castle at Lake Tegernsee,
March 26 - 30, 2007

The aim of the workshop, which will be held at the scenic Ringberg castle, is supposed to bring together astrophysicists, physicists, and astronomers from different fields in order to discuss recent observational and theoretical discoveries and developments on short gamma-ray bursts.
In particular, we plan to address the following topics

recent short GRB observations
environments and host galaxies of short GRBs
is there a 3rd class of GRBs?
modeling GRB engines and jet outflows
rate and redshift predictions for short GRBs
the fireball model and short GRBs
gravitational-wave signals from short GRBs
neutrino signals from short GRBs
microphysics needed for modeling short GRBs and their engines

For details about the meeting place, and how to get there, please refer to the web-pages of the Ringberg castle.
Further Information:

First Circular (ASCII, PDF) and Reply Form (ASCII, PDF)
Second Circular (ASCII, PDF) and Reply Form (ASCII, PDF)
Third Circular (ASCII, PDF)
Fourth Circular (ASCII, PDF)
Fifth Circular (ASCII, PDF)
Final Circular (ASCII, PDF)
List of Participants and Talks (PDF)
Accommodation List for Ringberg Castle
Accommodation List for Hotel Leykauf (Tegernsee)
Workshop Program
Pictures from the Workshop

Scientific Organizing Committee and LOC:

H.-Thomas Janka (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching),

Miguel Aloy (University of Valencia),

Jochen Greiner (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics),

Sandra Savaglio (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics),

Shri Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)

This conference is supported in part by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through Sonderforschungsbereich-Transregio 7 Gravitational Wave Astronomy
For more information please contact Hans-Thomas Janka

Please send the filled reply forms for the second circular to "grb07@mpa-garching.mpg.de" until January 31, 2007. Last modified: Thu Apr 26 14:04:59 CEST 2007