Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 23 APRIL 2002

14:30 Y2.001 Gamma Ray Burst Progenitors: the collapsar model

Andrew MacFadyen (Caltech)

15:06 Y2.002 Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors: Merger Model

Maximilian Ruffert (University of Edinburgh)

15:42 Y2.003 Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows: Probing the Burst Energetics and Environment

Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology)

16:18 Y2.004 GRBs, their Hosts and High-Redshift Galaxies

Andrew Fruchter (Space Telescope Science Institute)

14:30 Y6.001 Beyond Cosmological Parameters

Max Tegmark (University of Pennsylvania)

14:42 Y6.002 A Rejuvenated Universe Without Initial Singularity

Eric Gawiser (Physics Dept., U.C. San Diego)

14:54 Y6.003 Neutron Diffusion and Nucleosynthesis in an Inhomogeneous Big Bang Model

Juan Lara (Center for Relativity, University of Texas at Austin)

15:06 Y6.004 LSST as a precision probe of dark energy

Tony Tyson, David Wittman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Joe Hennawi, David Spergel (Princeton University), The LSST Collaboration

15:18 Y6.005 Collapse of Lyman Alpha Clouds to Galaxies with Flat Rotation Curves

Nathan Currier, Stirling Colgate (LANL), Michael Warren (Lanl)

15:30 Y6.006 Status of the U.S. cold dark matter axion search

Stephen J. Asztalos, L. J Rosenberg, D. B Yu (MIT), C. Hagmnann, D. Kinion, W. Stoeffl, K. van Bibber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner (University of Florida, Gainesville), D. M. Moltz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,)

15:42 Y6.007 Accessibility of supersymmetric models to CDMS and other direct search experiments

Vuk Mandic (UC Berkeley), CDMS Collaboration

15:54 Y6.008 Results from the CDMS 2001/2002 run at the Stanford Underground Facility

Tarek Saab (Stanford University), CDMS Collaboration

16:06 Y6.009 Background issues for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

Laura Baudis (Stanford University), CDMS Collaboration

Y6.010 Fundamental Dynamics of Black Hole Physics

Nassim Haramein (Anodos Foundation)