Ioffe Workshop on GRBs and other transient sources: 25 Years of Konus-Wind Experiment
September 9–13, 2019, St.Petersburg, Russia

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Monday, September 9

8:40-9:10Registration
Session 1Overviews and highlights (chair: Jochen Greiner)
9:15–9:30Rafail Aptekar & Andrei Bykov
Ioffe Institute
Welcome
9:30–9:55Dmitry Frederiks
Ioffe Institute
25 years of the Konus-Wind experiment
9:55–10:20Amy Lien
NASA GSFC
Observing the transient sky with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
10:20–10:45Michael Briggs
UAH
Fermi GBM observations on short GRBs and multi-messenger astronomy
10:45-11:10Coffee Break
Session 2Prompt emission 1 (chair: J. Michael Burgess)
11:10–11:40Gor Oganesyan
INAF
Overview of GRB prompt emission
11:40–12:00Razmik Mirzoyan
MPP
GRB observations in TeV range
12:00–12:20Shaolin Xiong
IHEP CAS
GRB polarization observations
12:20-14:00Lunch
Session 3Prompt emission 2 (chair: Amy Lien)
14:00–14:20J. Michael Burgess
MPE
Explaining the prompt GRB emission with a synchrotron model
14:20–14:40Maria Ravasio
INAF
GRB prompt emission spectra: the synchrotron revenge
14:40–15:00Gor Oganesyan
INAF
Clues to the nature of GRB prompt emission from the broad-band observations
15:00-15:20Coffee Break
Session 4Prompt emission 3 (chair: Gor Oganesyan)
15:20–15:40Hirotaka Ito
RIKEN
The photospheric origin of the Yonetoku relation in gamma-ray bursts
15:40–16:00Fabio De Colle
UNAM
Thermal and non-thermal emission from the cocoon of long gamma-ray bursts
16:00–16:20Shota Kisaka
Tohoku University
Scattered short gamma-ray bursts as electromagnetic counterparts to Gravitational Waves

Tuesday, September 10

Session 5Prompt emission 4 (chair: Alexey Pozanenko)
09:00–09:20Bruce Gendre
University of Western Australia
The properties of ultra-long GRBs
09:20–09:40Dmitry Svinkin
Ioffe Institute
Konus-Wind observations of ultra-long GRBs
09:40–10:00Alessandro Ursi
INAF
AGILE GRB observations
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
Session 6Prompt emission 5 (chair: Shaolin Xiong)
10:30–10:50Jochen Greiner
MPE
Fermi/GBM localizations of GRBs
10:50–11:10Andreas von Kienlin
MPE
Fermi GBM GRBs with characteristics similar to GRB 170817A
11:10–11:30Alexey Pozanenko
IKI RAS
Strange short burst(s) associated with LIGO/Virgo Gravitational wave events
11:30–11:50Sergey Grebenev
IKI RAS
Known and unknown GRBs registered by IBIS/ISGRI of INTEGRAL
11:50-13:30Lunch
Session 7Afterglows (chair: D. Alexander Kann)
13:30–14:00Antonio de Ugarte Postigo
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
Overview of GRB afterglow observations
14:00–14:20Tanmoy Laskar
University of Bath
ALMA detection of a linearly polarized reverse shock in GRB 190114C
14:20–14:40Elena Mazaeva
IKI RAS
Inhomogeneities in GRB afterglow light curves and their models
14:40-15:10Coffee Break
Session 8GRB physics and radiation processes (chair: Richard Willingale)
15:10–15:40Andrei Bykov
Ioffe Institute
Shocks and nonthermal particles in relativistic supernovae and GRBs
15:40–16:10Tsvi Piran
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
GRBs's Rosseta stone - The sub-TeV emission from GRB190114C
Session 9Current GRB related missons (chair: Andrei Bykov)
16:10–16:40Alexander Lutovinov
IKI RAS
Spektr-RG space observatory
16:40–17:00Dmitry Golovin
IKI RAS
HEND (Mars-Odyssey) and BTN-M1 (ISS) GRB observations
17:00–17:20Alexander Kozyrev
IKI RAS
Studying cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts by Russian Mercury Gamma-ray and Neutron Spectrometer onboard ESA BepiColombo mission

Wednesday, September 11

Session 10Hosts and progenitors (chair: Jean-Luc Atteia)
09:00–09:30John Graham
KIAA-PKU
The hosts of LGRBs: metallicities and a surprising lack of metallicity evolution
09:30–09:50Christina Thöne
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
GRB hosts at high resolution and what we can learn about the progenitor
09:50–10:10Michał J. Michałowski
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
What we can learn from gas in host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
10:10–10:30Gustavo Romero
Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía
Between the first collapsars: gamma-ray binaries in the early Universe
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
Session 11GRBs as cosmological probes (chair: Lorenzo Amati)
11:00–11:30Vahé Petrosian
Stanford University
Cosmological evolution of GRBs (Efron-Petrosian methods)
11:30–11:50Maria G. Dainotti
Stanford University
Correlation of rest-frame prompt and afterglow parameters
11:50–12:10Anastasia Tsvetkova
Ioffe Institute
Konus-Wind GRBs with known redshifts
12:10–12:30Jean-Luc Atteia
IRAP
The maximum isotropic luminosity of GRBs
12:30–12:50Pavel Minaev
IKI RAS
Ep,i - Eiso correlation and the new criterion for the blind classification of short and long GRBs
12:50-14:30Lunch
Session 12History of GRB research (chair: Dmitry Frederiks)
14:30–14:50Rafail Aptekar
Ioffe Institute
History of GRB research at Ioffe Institute
14:50–15:10Thomas Cline
NASA GSFC
The history of the cosmic gamma-ray burst mystery
15:10–15:30Filippo Frontera
University of Ferrara
Historical overview of GRBs and SGRs
17:00-22:00Tour + Conference dinner

Thursday, September 12

Session 13New missions (chair: Amy Lien)
09:20–09:40Richard Willingale
University of Leicester
Finding X-ray Transients in the Post KONUS-WIND et al. Era
09:40–10:00Lorenzo Amati
INAF
THESEUS (Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor)
10:00–10:20Michael Briggs
UAH
Glowbug project
10:20–10:40Shaolin Xiong
IHEP CAS
GECAM: an all-time all-sky X-ray/Gamma-ray monitor in multi-messenger and multi-wavelength era
10:40–11:00Jean-Luc Atteia
IRAP
The ECLAIRs GRB detector and imager for the SVOM mission
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
Session 14GRB-SN connection and afterglows (chair: Andrei Bykov)
11:30–11:50D. Alexander Kann
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
Highly luminous supernovae associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts: News on the GRB-SN connection
11:50–12:10Alina Volnova
IKI RAS
Observations and modelling SNs associated with GRBs
12:10–12:40Vladimir Lipunov
SAI MSU
Central Engine from Early Multimessanger GRB observations
12:40–13:00Yuji Urata
National Central University, Taiwan
GRB afterglow polarimetry
13:00-14:30Lunch
Session 15Solar flares 1 (chair: Marina Battaglia)
14:30–15:00Gregory Fleishman
NJIT
Frontiers in Solar Flares
15:00–15:30Melissa Pesce-Rollins
INFN
High energy gamma-ray Solar flares: The first ten years of observations with Fermi-LAT
15:30–16:00Vahé Petrosian
Stanford University
Fermi Observations of solar flare gamma-rays connecting flare and CME-shock particle acceleration processes
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
Session 16Solar flares 2 (chair: Gregory Fleishman)
16:30–17:00Marina Battaglia
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
X-ray view on solar flare accelerated electrons
17:00–17:20Sergey Anfinogentov
Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Bayesian analysis of Konus-Wind solar flare data
17:20–17:40Alexandra Lysenko
Ioffe Institute
Probing solar accelerated particles with Konus-Wind data
17:40–18:00Yuri Charikov
Ioffe Institute
Hard X-rays of solar flares, acceleration and electron transport in magnetoactive plasma

Friday, September 13

Session 17SGRs and FRBs (chair: Konstantin Postnov)
09:00–9:30Kelly Gourdji
UvA API
Fast radio bursts and their potential links to GRBs
09:30–10:00Sergey Popov
SAI MSU
FRBs: extreme pulsars, bursting magnetars or what?
10:00–10:20Anatoly Iyudin
SINP MSU
SGR 1935+2154 activity in 2016 detected by Lomonosov satellite
10:20–10:40Anna Kozlova
Ioffe Institute
SGR observations with Konus-Wind
10:40–11:00Ilya Kondratyev
IKI RAS
Anisotropic heat transfer simulation in outer layers of magnetized neutron stars
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
Session 18GRBs and multi-messenger astronomy (chair: Dmitry Svinkin)
11:30–12:00Jordan Palamos
University of Oregon
Search for gravitational wave signals form GRBs
12:00–12:20Konstantin Postnov
SAI MSU
GRBs from NS+BH coalescences: expected rates and properties
12:20–12:40Gennady Bisnovatyi-Kogan
IKI RAS
Gravitational waves and core-collapse supernovae
12:40-13:00Coffee Break
13:00–13:30Eleonora Troja
NASA GSFC
Overview of two year long GW170817/GRB170817A observations
13:30–14:00Ramandeep Gill
Open University of Israel
Constraints on the binary NS merger remnant and outflow structure from EM counterparts of GW170817
General discussion (chair: Vahé Petrosian)