September 2003
From DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos hosts press event at Gamma-Ray Burst meeting LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Sept. 10, 2003 -- News media are invited to attend a press event Thursday, Sept. 11 at the Los Alamos-sponsored Gamma-Ray Burst 2003 conference at the Santa Fe Hilton hotel, 100 Sandoval St. Participation may be in person or by teleconference. The scientist panel and conference call will begin at 3:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight time in the Hilton Ortiz II conference room. The local telephone number for the teleconference is (505) 665-5452. The toll-free number is (888) 637-3783, and the lines will be activated beginning at 3:15 p.m.Among the panelists will be George Ricker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discussing fundamental new data from the High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE-2) satellite; Shri Kulkarni and Alicia Soderberg of the California Institute of Technology commenting on follow-up observations of the X-ray flash "020903" event; Joshua Bloom of Harvard University talking on potential host galaxies of X-ray flashes and Don Lamb, University of Chicago, discussing the "uniform jet picture" of X-ray flashes and gamma-ray bursts. Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission. Los Alamos develops and applies science and technology to ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent; reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction, proliferation and terrorism; and solve national problems in defense, energy, environment and infrastructure. For more Los Alamos news releases, visit www.lanl.gov. | |