Toward the Origin of Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Biggest Bangs in the Universe

Lecture
Event Everhart Lecture Series, Caltech Location Pasadena, CA Date Mar 2002

Summary

Everhart Lecture for a general Caltech audience on the thirty-year gamma-ray burst mystery: how afterglows settled the distance debate, the case for massive stars over merging neutron stars, and what bursts could teach about cosmology and gravitational waves.

Friday, March 15, 2002, 4 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium. The Everhart Lecture Series is Caltech's competitively selected lecture series for graduate students; his adviser introduced him, per the series’ custom.