Public lecture on gamma-ray bursts, from their Cold War discovery by nuclear-test-monitoring satellites through the afterglow and supernova breakthroughs to Swift's first short bursts.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 7 pm, in Foothill College's Smithwick Theater, in the lecture series co-sponsored by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, NASA Ames and the SETI Institute. He flew back from the PAIRITEL workshop in Cambridge the same day.