First there was Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917).
Then came Arthur Compton (the “MetLab”).
Followed by Subramanya Chandrasekhar (Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics).

And now, Enrico Fermi.

Invitation to SLAC Summer Institute 2008

Dear Colleague,
We are writing to you about the 36th SLAC Summer Institute to be held Aug 4-15 this year on “Cosmic Accelerators”. This school was planned largely in anticipation of the GLAST mission, a highly successful collaboration involving astronomers and physicists from all around the world. (The proposal of its primary instrument, the Large Area Telescope or LAT, came from an international team led by Stanford, LAT integration and initial testing took place at SLAC, and LAT data are received at the Instrument Science Operation Center at SLAC for processing.) As you may have heard, GLAST was launched on June 11 and has been operating very well. It is planned to release the first-light information while the Institute is in session, and we anticipate the first important new science results over the next year, so this year’s Institute is very well timed. With its large leap in capabilities, GLAST will make breakthrough observations of many classes of high-energy cosmic sources and has a very large discovery window for signals of new phenomena, including indirect detection of dark matter.

As two of the co-Directors of the Institute we believe that this will be an unusually timely opportunity for students, postdocs and seasoned researchers who wish to expand their research area (no background in astrophysics is required) and learn about the exciting science of GLAST as well as recent advances in X-ray and TeV astronomy and cosmic-ray physics. Accordingly we have extended the deadline for early registration till July 31.

Please pass on information about the Institute, which can be found at
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssi/2008/default.asp
Sincerely,
Roger Blandford
Tune Kamae

http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/GLAST

and intends to post status reports and related information on it.

• [astro-ph:0709.4598]
  Upper Limits from Hess Observations of AGN in 2005-2007 by Benbow and Buehler
• [physics.data-an:0709.3662] provides physical insights toward some families of probability distributions
  Econophysics, Statistical Mechanics Approach to by V.M.Yakovenko
• [astro-ph:0709.4488] could motivate developing machine learning algorithms.
  Determining the Type, Redshift, and Age of a Supernova Spectrum by S. Blondin and J.L. Tonry
• [astro-ph:0709.4531]
  A Problem with the Clustering of Recent Measures of the Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud by B. E. Schaefer
• [astro-ph:0709.4601]
  Multiple stellar populations in Globular Clusters: collection of information from the Horizontal Branch by F. D’Antona and V. Caloi
• [astro-ph:0710.0370]
  MegaPipe: the MegaCam image stacking pipeline at the Canadian Astronomical Data Centre by S. D. J. Gwyn
• [astro-ph:0710.0373]
  To Bin or Not To Bin: Decorrelating the Cosmic Equation of State by R. de Putter and E. V. Linder
• [astro-ph:0710.0619] About EGRET and GLAST
  Unresolved Unidentified Source Contribution to the Gamma-ray Background by V. Pavlidou et. al.
• [astro-ph:0710.0757] About SOHO(MDI) and RHESSI
  The Cause of Photospheric and Helioseismic Responses to Solar Flares: High-Energy Electrons or Protons? by A. G. Kosovichev
• [astro-ph:0710.0774]
  NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. III. Recent Star Formation and Stellar Clustering Properties in the Bright HII Region N 66 by E. Hennekemper et.al
• [astro-ph:0710.0874] discusses GLAST as well.
  Constraints on Galactic populations of gamma-ray emitters from the unidentified EGRET sources by J. M. Siegal-Gaskins et.al.
• [astro-ph:0710.0875]
  Evidence of Cosmic Evolution of the Stellar Initial Mass Function by P. van Dokkum