| Sunday - September 13th |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration & Welcome Cocktail |
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| Monday - September 14th |
| 07:45 - 08:45 | Registration |
| Chairman | M. Feroci |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | G. Chincarini | Welcome |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | M. Lyutikov | GRB: observational progress and theoretical problems |
| 09:35 - 09:50 | I. Steele | Optical polarization measurements of GRB060418 and GRB090102 |
| 09:50 - 10:05 | C. Guidorzi | The controversial link between prompt optical and gammarays: temporal study of GRB 080319B |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | S. Barthelmy | GRB Prompt Emission and Swift-BAT |
| 10:55 - 11:20 | S. Kobayashi | Magnetized Fireballs and Early Afterglows |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | A. Pe'er | Observations, theory and implications of thermal emission from gamma-ray bursts |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | L. Amati | Spectrum-energy correlation in GRB: status and perspectives |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | J. Racusin | Jet Breaks and Energetics of Swift GRB X-ray Afterglows |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | D. Burrows | Chandra Searches for Jet Breaks |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | P. Evans | Confronting GRB afterglow models with a complete set of XRT light curves and hardness ratios |
| 13.00 - 14.20 | Lunch |
| Chairman | S. Barthelmy |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | A. MacFadyen | GRB Afterglow Lightcurves from Multi-Dimensional Simulations |
| 14:45 - 15:10 | R. Margutti | GRB temporal structure: flares and short term variability |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | R. Yamazaki | Prior Emission Model for the Plateau Phase in the X-ray Afterglow |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | E. Del Monte | The observation of Gamma Ray Bursts with AGILE |
| 15:55 - 16:10 | R. Klebesadel | The Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 16:10 - 16:35 | Coffee Break |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | F. Daigne | The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts in the internal shock model |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | S. Sugita | Timing and spectral analysis of Short GRB and Multi-spiked Long GRB |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | E. Liang | Single Power-Law Decaying XRT lightcurves and Implications for the Unified Origin of the X-rays |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | P. Roming | A Large Homogenous Sample of Optical GRB Afterglow Light Curves |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | M. De Pasquale | Chromatic evolution in GRB afterglows |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | S. Covino | Optical observations of GRB afterglows |
| 18:20 - 18:35 | J. Nousek | Status of the Swift Mission |
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| Tuesday - September 15th |
| Chairman | P. Michelson |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | N. Omodei | Gamma-Ray Burst at HighEnergy: the Fermi LAT first observation of the shocking Universe |
| 09:25 - 09:45 | N. Kawai | Pulse structures of GRB 080916C observed with Fermi LAT/GBM |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | S. Guiriec | GRB 090510, a short and hard burst detected by Fermi |
| 10:05 - 10:25 | F. De Palma | GRB 090902B, a long GRB with High Energy emission detected with Fermi
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| 10:25 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | E. Bissaldi | GRB 090323 and GRB 090328: two ksec long high-energy GammaRay Bursts detected with Fermi |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | B. Paciesas | Fermi GBM results |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | M. Briggs | Spectral Evolution of Three Short GRBs on Fine Timescales |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | V. Connaughton | High-Energy Spectral signatures of LAT-detected short gamma-ray bursts |
| 12:30 - 12:55 | J. Granot | Some Implications of Fermi High-Energy GRB Observations |
| 12.55 - 14.20 | Lunch |
| Chairman | R. Bellazzini |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | K. Asano | Theoretical Interpretation for Fermi LAT-detected Gamma-ray Bursts |
| 14:45 - 15:10 | C. Dermer | Evidence for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Acceleration from Fermi Observations of GRBs |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | P. Michelson | Fermi LAT results |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | B. Atwood | Fermi-LAT Analysis to Maximize GRB Science |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | D. Kocevski | LAT Upper Limits to GRBs |
| 16:50 - 17:05 | T. Aune | Constraints on GeV-TeV Emission from the "nakedeye" GRB 080319B |
| 17:05 - 17:30 | Y. Fan | Interpretation and implication of the non-detection of GeV spectrum excess by Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope in most GRBs |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | A. Melandri | The Rise and Fall of GRBs - Lorentz Factors and Fireball Shock Physics |
| 17:45 - 18:10 | R. Barniol-Duran | High energy photons from Fermi GRBs: Who would have thought that they were produced in the external shock? |
| 19:15 | Visit at the S. Marco Basilica |
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| Wednesday - September 16th |
| Chairman | P. Roming |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | E. Berger | The Host Galaxies of Short GRBs: Implications for the Progenitors and Comparison to Long GRB Hosts |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | F. Virgili | Are all short GRBs of compact star merger origin? |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | P. D'Avanzo | Optical spectroscopy of short GRB afterglows |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | W. Lee | The role of winds and tidal tails from post merger disks in the production of outflows and late time flares in SGRBs |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Poster competition |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | C. Fryer | Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from Long Duration GRBs |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | P. Vreeswijk | GRB optical afterglow spectroscopy and host galaxies: an unbiased approach |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | D. Perley | The Environments of Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 12:20 - 12:35 | A. De Ugarte Postigo | GRB 090313: X-shooter's first glimpse of a GRB |
| 12:35 - 13:15 | K. Hamaguchi | News on Eta-Carinae |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Free Afternoon - Social Trip to S. Francesco del Deserto island
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| Thursday - September 17th |
| Chairman | J. Osborne |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | S. Savaglio | Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies and the High Redshift Universe |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | A. Fruchter | Environments, Hosts, and their Implications for the Physics and Progenitors of GRBs |
| 09:50 - 10:05 | E. Levesque | Modeling the Host Galaxies of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | P. Schady | Dust Extinction Properties within GRB Host Galaxies |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | K. Svensson | The host galaxies of core-collapse supernovae and gamma ray bursts |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | A. Soderberg | A Holistic View of the GRB-SN Connection |
| 11:30 - 11:55 | M. Della Valle | GRB-SN Connection: observational outcomes |
| 11:55 - 12:15 | S. Nagataki | GRB-SN Connection: Central Engine of Long GRBs and Explosive Nucleosynthesis |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | A. Kamble | XRF080109/SN2008D : an investigation at radio frequencies |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | R. Shen | The late jet in GRBs and its interactions with a supernova ejecta and a cocoon |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | F. De Colle | Bipolar Supernova Explosions: Nucleosynthesis and the Role of Magnetic Fields |
| 13.00 - 14.30 | Lunch |
| Chairman | N. Kawai |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | P. Kumar | The Physics of GRB Prompt Emission |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | B. Zhang | GRB prompt emission models: from low sigma to high sigma |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | T. Piran | TBA |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | E. Nakar | Introduction for a debate |
| 16:45 - 17:20 | | Debate: where do we stand? |
| 17:20 - 17:35 | A. Levan | Illuminating the dark ages with GRB 090423 |
| 17:35 - 17:50 | R. Salvaterra | GRB 090423 reveals an exploding star at the epoch of reionization |
| 17:50 - 18:05 | D. Frail | Discovery of the Radio Afterglow from GRB 090423 |
| 18:05 - 18:20 | A. Cucchiara | GRB 090429B as the second "extreme redshift" gamma-ray burst |
| 18:20 - 18:45 | T. Totani | GRBs and High Redshift Universe: High Redshift Galaxies, Pop III Stars, and Reionization |
| 20:30 | Social Dinner |
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| Friday - September 18th |
| Chairman | K. Hurley |
| 08:45 - 09:10 | C. Kouveliotou | Magnetar Observations with Fermi/GBM |
| 09:10 - 09:25 | S. Dall'Osso | Magnetars at birth as strong sources of Gravitation Wave Radiation |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Y. Nakagawa | Suzaku Observations of Short Bursts from SGR 0501+4516 |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | E. Ramirez-Ruiz | Compact Objects in The Era of Celestial Cinematography |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | V. D'Elia | UVES-VLT High Resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows: host galaxies and intervening absorbers |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | S. Vergani | Statistics and characteristics of MgII absorbers along GRB lines of sight observed with VLT-UVES |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | S. Campana | Circumburst ambient surrounding GRBs in the X-ray band |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | C. Thoene | GRB 090426 - a new class or a strange environment? |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | I. Horvath | GRB groups observed by BATSE, BeppoSAX and Swift |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | D. Lopez-Camara | Quiescence and late time activity in collapsars due to critical angular momentum distributions |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | G. Beskin | Discovery of the "central engine" manifestation in the Naked-Eye Burst prompt optical emission |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| Chairman | D. Burrows |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | K. Yamaoka | Suzaku observations of GRB prompt emissions and X-ray afterglows |
| 14:25 - 14:55 | C. Bianco | The extended afterglow luminosity evolution over the equitemporal surfaces |
| 14:55 - 15:10 | F. Genet | Steep decay phase and prompt emission models |
| 15:10 - 15:25 | V. Mangano | Modeling the spectral evolution in the decaying tails of Swift GRBs |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | S. Inoue | Probing UV radiation fields and magnetic fields in the era of first star formation through GeV γ-rays from very high-z GRBs |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | P. Romano | Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: the Swift monitoring program |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | N. Gehrels | Concluding Remarks |