http://grb.physics.unlv.edu Wed, 17 Sep 0000 19:21:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ms. Nicola Lyons is a graduate student in University of Leicester. http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=32 Binbin Zhang received a President's Graduate Fellowship http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=31 Tesla Birnbaum Received NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Grant http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=30 Mr. Yosuke Mizuno come to vist our group http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=34 Outstanding Thesis The 2008 recipient for the Outstanding Thesis Award in the College of Sciences is Francisco Javier Virgili. His thesis, entitled, "Monte Carlo Analysis of the Luminosity Function of Gamma Ray Bursts," applies the Monte Carlo simulation technique to constrain gamma-ray burst (GRB) luminosity function (number of GRBs as ... http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=29 http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=27 Article Title: Physical processes shaping gamma-ray burst X-ray afterglow light curves: Theoretical implications from the Swift X-ray telescope observations Authors: Zhang, B; Fan, YZ; Dyks, J; Kobayashi, S; Meszaros, P; Burrows, DN ;Nousek, JA; Gehrels, N Journal: ASTROPHYS J Volume: ... http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=23 "Astronomy is something that you cannot apply directly to our daily life, but just to satisfy this human curiosity of thousands of years, of how planets were formed, how the stars form and die. GRBs are actually the great link to understanding all these things." Read the FULL STORY ... http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=20 News and Views Nature 444, 1010-1011 (21 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/4441010a; Published online 21 December 2006 Abstract Gigantic cosmological -ray bursts have fallen into a dichotomy of long and short bursts, each with a very different origin. The discovery of an oddball burst calls for a rethink of that classification. ........... FULL TEXT  http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=19 Coming soon.... http://grb.physics.unlv.edu/?p=17