Research lecture for physics undergraduates in the student-run Compass Project's series: gamma-ray burst phenomenology, afterglows and progenitors, and the bursts’ uses as probes of dust, reionization and the first stars and as partners to gravitational-wave searches.
The first lecture of the Compass Project's fall 2010 series, 4–5pm in 325 LeConte Hall; the series is aimed at physics undergraduates and open to all.