Invited talk at NOAO's 50th-anniversary symposium on time-domain astronomy, arguing that gamma-ray bursts stay central to the coming decade's priorities: probes of reionization and the first stars, tracers of dust and hidden star formation through ‘dark’ bursts, and electromagnetic partners to gravitational-wave detections.
An invited talk opening the Thursday-afternoon session “Things That Can Be Seen Really, Really Far Away” (1:30pm, March 18) at NOAO's symposium on the time-variable universe, one of two held for the observatory's 50th anniversary. The abstract survives on the archived meeting site.