Registration

Beaming and Jets in Gamma Ray Bursts

Copenhagen, August 12-30, 2002

Program

The program consists of a two week period (August 12-24) dedicated to interactive work, in the spirit of the workshops at ITP/UCSB and the Newton Institute, followed by a topical conference the last week (August 26-30).

Format

We expect 15-20 external participants at any one time during the workshop period, with partial or full per diem and housing support. Offices, (equipped with workstations, PCs, and DHCP connections for laptops), discussion rooms, and a lecture hall will be available for use by the participants. The number of seminars / lectures will be limited to about two per day, to leave ample time for interactive work and collaborations. We expect about 40-60 participants during the conference week (August, 26-29). In addition to review talks and contributions by conference participants there should be room for presentations and discussion of results and ideas from the workshop period.

Topics

Among topics to be covered:

GRBs:

  1. The importance of relativistic beaming in GRBs, and consequences for observations and models.
  2. Observational signatures of non-sphericity, beaming, jets, and inhomogeneities.
  3. Polarization, scintillation.
  4. Internal and external shocks.
  5. Accretion models of GRBs.
  6. Magnetic field generation and particle acceleration in ultrarelativistic shocks.

JETs:

  1. Properties of relativistic jets.
  2. Black Holes and relativistic jets.
  3. Electromagnetically powered jets.
  4. Ultra-relativistic jets inside stars.
  5. Interaction of jets and blast waves with the external medium.
  6. Magnetic fields and particle acceleration in ultrarelativistic jets.