Select Talks at Conferences, Workshops or Meetings:

 

33. Highlights from Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts
invited talk at the ``April'' 2010 Meeting of the American Physical Society,
February 14, 2010, Washington, DC, USA

 

32. High-Energy Fermi GRBs, Long and Short
invited talk at the 215^th meeting of the American Astronomical Society,
January 4, 2010, Washington, DC, USA

 

31. Some Implications of Fermi High-Energy GRB Observations
invited talk at the meeting ``The Shocking Universe'',
September 15, 2009, San Servolo, Venic, Italy

 

30. High-Energy Emission from GRBs: First Year Highlights from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
invited talk at the program ``Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas'',
August 17, 2009, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

 

29. Similarities and Differences between Fermi GRB 080825C and AGILE GRB 080514B
invited talk at the 6^th Science AGILE Workshop, April 23, 2009, Milan, Italy

 

28. First Results from Fermi on GRBs
invited talk at the Symposium ``First Results from the Fermi
Gamma-ray Space Telescope'', March 7, 2009, Tokyo, Japan

 

27. GRB Theory in the Fermi Era
invited talk at the 44^th Rencontres de Moriond on
``Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe'',
Feb. 2, 2009, La Thuile, Italy

 

26. Gamma-Ray Bursts and High-Energy Astrophysics
invited talk at the STFC Introductory Summer School for new research
students in astronomy, University of Hertfordshire, UK, September 2, 2008

 

25. Theory of GRB Afterglows
invited review talk at the workshop ``Supernovae and GRBs at low z
and in the Era of Reionization'' May 28, 2008, Darjeeling, India

 

24. Opacity Build-up in Impulsive Relativistic Sources
contributed talk at the workshop "High Energy Phenomena
in Relativistic Outflows" Sptember 26, 2007, Dublin, Ireland

 

23. Critical Review of Basic Afterglow Concepts
invited review talk at the conference "070228: The Next Decade of
GRB Afterglows", March 21, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

22. How may GLAST Help Solve some GRB Mysteries Raised by Swift
contributed talk in the planary session of the First GLAST Symposium,
February 7, 2007, Stanford University, CA, USA

 

21. The Flat Decay Phase in the Early X-ray Afterglows of Swift GRBs
contributed talk at the 9^th meeting of the High Energy Division of the American
Astronomical Society, October 6, 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA

 

20. Theory of GRB Afterglows
invited talk at the conference "Circumstellar Media and Late Stages
of Massive Stellar Evolution", Sep. 7, 2006, Ensenada, Mexico

 

19. Structure and Dynamics of GRB Jets
invited talk at the conference "Challenges in Relativistic Jets",
June 27, 2006, Cracow, Poland

 

18. The Magnetar-GRB Connection and the Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20
invited talk at the workshop "The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects
and their Explosive Origins", June 13, 2006, Cefalu, Sicily, Italy

 

17. The Flat Decay Phase in the Early X-ray Afterglows of Swift GRBs
invited talk at the conference "Swift and GRBs:
Unveiling the Relativistic Universe", June 5, 2006, Venice, Italy

 

16. GRB Jet Propagation Outside the Progenitor
invited talk at the conference "Supernova and GRB Remnants",
Feb. 6, 2006, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

 

15. Probing the Magnetic Field Structure in GRBs through Polarization Measurements
invited talk at the mini-conferen was part of the 47^th Annual Meeting of the Division of
Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, October 25, 2005, Denver, CO, USA

 

14. Physics of GRB Jets
invited talk at the summer school "Gamma-Ray Bursts: The
First Three Hours", August 31, 2005, Santorini, Greece

 

13. Electromagnetic Models of Gamma-Ray Burts: A Tutorial
invited talk given on behalf of Prof. Roger Blandford at the summer school
"Gamma-Ray Bursts: The First Three Hours", August 29, 2005, Santorini, Greece

 

12. The Structure and Dynamics of Gamma-Ray Burst Jets
invited talk at the program "Physics of Astrophysical Outflows and Accretion Disks",
May 12, 2005, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

 

11. Jets in Gamma-Ray Bursts
invited talk at the conference "Triggering Relativistic Jets",
April 1, 2005, Cozumel, Mexico

 

10. Modeling the Radio Afterglow of the Giant Flare from GRB 1806-20
solicited talk at the conference "Triggering Relativistic Jets",
March 30, 2005, Cozumel, Mexico

 

9. Radio Flare Polarization and the Magnetic Field Structure in GRB Outflows
invited talk at the 22^nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics,
December 2004, Stanford University, CA, USA

 

8. Polarization in Gamma-Ray Bursts
solicited talk in the Workshop "Gamma Ray Bursts in the
Afterglow Era – 4^th Workshop", October 2004, Rome, Italy

 

7. Supernova 2001em: the Case for an Off-Axis Relativistic Jet
talk in the Workshop "The Supernova – Gamma Ray Burst Connection",
July 2004, INT, Seattle, WA, USA    pdf

 

6. X-ray and Gamma-Ray Polarization in Gamma-Ray Bursts
invited talk in the workshop "X-ray Polarimetry",
February 2004, SLAC, Stanford, CA, USA    pdf

 

5. Some Theoretical Implications of Recent GRB Observations
invited talk in the 10^th Marcel Grossmann meeting on general relativity,
July 2003, Rio de-Janeiro, Brazil    pdf

 

4. The Jet Angular Profile and the Afterglow Light Curves
contributed talk in "Gamma Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era",
September 2002, Rome, Italy    astro-ph

 

3. GRB Jets and Orphan Afterglows
invited talk in "Gamma Ray Bursts: the Brightest Explosions in the Universe",
the Second Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics,
May 2002, Cambridge, MA, USA    pdf    conference homepage

 

2. Light Curves from an Expanding Relativistic Jet
contributed talk in "Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era",
October 2000, Rome, Italy astro-ph

 

1. Images, Light Curves and Spectra of GRB Afterglows
contributed talk in "Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era",
October 1998, Rome, Italy

 

 

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