Purpose of the meeting
The GLAST launch at the end of this year will
usher in a new era of high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics by
providing observations over an order of magnitude greater
sensitivity relative to previous missions in this energy
range. In addition to more detailed study of sources known to be
gamma-ray emitters we expect to discover new classes of
gamma-ray sources. This means that gamma-ray observations are
about to become relevant to a much larger fraction of the
astrophysics community, and the leap in sensitivity opens up new
opportunities for discovery in a wide range of science topics,
including active galaxies, the optical-UV extragalactic
background light, pulsars, gamma- ray bursts, and searches for
new phenomena such as signatures of particle dark matter.
To encourage participation in the GLAST Guest
Investigator program and to facilitate discussion of the
scientific potential of GLAST amongst scientists from different
institutions, a series of GLAST workshops are being
organised. UCLA is hosting the workshop for scientists in the
Southern California area. We encourage participants to give
contributed talks (5-10 mins) on GLAST science topics, but
anyone interested in GLAST is welcome to attend. Agenda topics
will include:
- GLAST overview
- Multiwavelength connections
- Galactic sources and the cosmic-ray connection with GLAST
- Extragalactic sources and cosmology with GLAST
- New Physics discovery windows with GLAST
- GLAST guest investigator opportunities
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