Program
Monday, May 21
8:00 - 9:00 AM : Registration (pick up badges, program)
A: The Past
Monday AM 1 : ALL SOC 2min - Chryssa Kouveliotou Chair
| Ellen Williams | Welcoming Remarks | (10 min) | |
| Isabelle Grenier | Neil Gehrels and the EGRET Unidentified Sources | (10 min) | |
| Pietro Ubertini | International Contribution to European Progams/Neil's contribution to INTEGRAL | (20 min) | |
| John Cannizzo | Remembering 3 projects I worked on with Neil | (20 min) | |
| Gottfried Kanbach | How GRB070610 turned into a magnetar candidate, Swift J1955+26 | (10 min) | |
| Josh Grindlay | From EXIST and BATSS to future HEA-TDA Prospects | (20 min) |
Monday AM 2 (11:00 - 12:30) : Fiona Harrison Chair
| Jerry Fishman | The Early History of Gamma-ray Astronomy and the later contributions of Neil Gehrels | (10 min) | |
| Nick White | The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory | (10 min) | |
| Josh Bloom | 50 Years of Gamma-Ray Bursts | (20min) | |
| Terri Brandt | SuperTiger | (10 min) | |
| Hiromitsu Takahashi | Japanese hard X-ray activities supported by Neil | (20 min) | |
| Joan Centrella | Neil Gehrels: Collaboration and Transformation | (10 min) | |
| Kevin Grady | Reflections | (10 min) |
12:30 - 1:30 : Lunch @ NAS
B: The Present
Monday PM 1 (1:30 - 3:00) : Brad Cenko Chair
| John Nousek | Building and Flying Swift | (10 min) | |
| Dave Burrows | The Swift X-ray Telescope: surprises in time-domain X-ray astronomy | (20 min) | |
| Paul O'Brien | How Swift Transformed our views of Short GRBs | (20 min) | |
| Peter Meszaros | Short GRBs, Multi-Messenger Sources and Neil Gehrels' Pioneering Role | (20 min) | |
| Eleonora Troja | GW170817 | (20 min) |
Monday PM 2 (3:30 - 5:00) : David Spergel Chair
| Vicky Kalogera | Neil's connection to GW170817 X-ray observations and expectations for more gravitational-wave detections | (20 min) | |
| Gianpiero Tagliaferri | High Redshift GRBs | (10 min) | |
| Reshmi Mukherjee | Observing the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky with VERITAS | (20 min) | |
| Taka Sakamoto | Neil as Mentor: Swift and GRT | (10 min) | |
| Fiona Harrison | NuSTAR, and Its View of the High Energy Universe | (20 min) | |
| Paul Hertz | Some Tales about the origins of Swift and Fermi | (10 min) |
5:30 PM : Cocktails @ NAS
6:15 PM : Banquet Dinner @ NAS
Tuesday, May 22
8:00 - 9:00 AM : Registration (pick up badges, program)
Tuesday AM 1 (9:00 - 10:30) : Pietro Ubertini Chair
| Dieter Hartmann | On nuFnu and Time Domain Astronomy with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory | (20 min) | |
| Liz Hays | Neil and the Fermi Mission | (20 min) | |
| David Morris | Astrophysics at the University of the Virgin Islands - An Enduring Tribute to Neil Gehrels' Commitment to Diversity and Inclusiveness | (10 min) | |
| Judy Racusin | Fermi LAT GRBs | (20 min) | |
| Ken Sembach | Neil Gehrels, A Thoughtful Man | (10 min) | |
| Video presentations | B. Zhang, S. Nissanke, P. Caraveo? | (10 min) |
Tuesday AM 2 (11:00 - 12:30) : Dieter Hartmann Chair
| Wen-fai Fong | Short GRBs in the Swift Era | (20 min) | |
| Nobu Kawai | MAXI-Swift Collaboration | (10 min) | |
| Richard Mushotzky | The BAT Survey | (20 min) | |
| Rick Edelson | The Swift AGN Accretion Disk Reverberation Mapping Survey | (20 min) | |
| Dave Schuman | Character and Science in Mountaineering | (10 min) | |
| Rachid Sunyaev | Spectrum-X/eRosita | (10 min) |
12:30 - 1:30 : Lunch @ NAS
C: The Future
Tuesday PM 1 (1:30 - 3:00) : Julie McEnery Chair
| Julie McEnery | Neil's legacy | (10 min) | |
| Leo Singer | The Zwicky Transient Facility | (20 min) | |
| Tsvi Piran | GW and GRBs | (20 min) | |
| Sylvain Guiriec | Past, Present, and Future Gamma-ray Missions for GRBs | (10 min) | |
| Jeremy Perkins | Future Gamma-ray Missions of Various Shapes and Sizes</td> | (20 min) | |
| Ralph Wijers | A sky full of high-energy transients: From gamma to radio | (10 min) |
Tuesday PM 2 (3:30 - 5:00) : Chryssa Kouveliotou Chair
| Adam Burrows | Planets in Reflection | (20 min) | |
| Padi Boyd | The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite | (20 min) | |
| John Tomsick | Following Balloons, Questioning Gravitational Waves, and Small Number Statistics | (10 min) | |
| Derek Fox | Neil Gehrels, Swift, and the Dawn of High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy | (10 min) | |
| David Spergel | WFIRST: Cosmology | (10 min) | |
| James Rhoads | WFIRST: Cosmic Dawn | (10 min) | |
| John Mather | The Crystal Ball: What Discoveries are in Store? | (10 min) |
