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Monday February 4
08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome speech by the UNLV President D. Ashley
09:10 Swift mission status Gehrels
09:25 NASA Senior Review Harnden
09:40 Swift Planning for Senior Review
 Gehrels
09:55 GRB-SN connection (SR)
Progress to date
Future prospects
Soderberg
Della Valle
10:35 Break
10:55 High-z GRBs / Cosmology (SR)
Progress to date
Future prospects
High-z indicators

Berger
Cusumano
Ukwatta
11:50 Afterglow understanding / Fireball Physics (SR)
Data
Theories

O'Brien
Meszaros

12:30 Lunch
01:30 Short GRBs, progress to date (SR) Nakar
02:00 Non-GRB science (SR)
HX survey
Transient monitoring
AGN - Seyferts
AGN - blazars
CVs & Novae
Supernova
Stellar Flare and other opportunities
Tueller
Krimm
Grupe
Sambruna
Osborne
Immler
Osten

04:30 Break
04:45 GLAST and other observatory opportunities (SR)
Joint observations with GLAST
Joint observations with TeV telescopes
Band
Falcone
05:30 Discussion of the science case All
06:00 Adjourn
06:30-8:00 Dinner in Tam Alumni Center Grand Hall
Tuesday February 5
09:00 Senior review presentation Hartmann, Gehrels
09:30 Technical status of observatory (SR)
Status
Long view
Nousek
Wells
10:15 GI program and future plans (SR) Boyd
10:40 Break
10:55 XRT spectral studies
 Margutti
11:10 BAT slew survey Grindlay
11:30 Ground system (SR)
Comm system & Data processing
(Malindi ground station
Archive Angelini
Marshall
Salotti)
Angelini
12:10 EPO Cominsky
12:30 Lunch
01:30 Discussion of the technical case All
02:00 XRT status & science
Burrows
02:20 UVOT status & science Roming
02:40 BAT status & science Barthelmy
03:00 New operations initiatives Barthelmy
03:20 Break
03:40 BAT observations of 3C454 Caraveo
04:00 Improved XRT positions using UVOT aspect corrections
Evans
04:20 X-ray lightcurve correlations Boer
04:30 Publications & talks (SR) Gehrels
04:45 Upcoming meetings
Gehrels
Zhang
Chincarini
05:00 Adjourn
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