Neil Gehrels, chief, Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, is principal investigator for the SWIFT gamma-ray burst MIDEX mission. The SWIFT Explorer is an astronomical satellite that is observing gamma-ray bursts, the birth cries of black holes. Come hear about new...

Andrea K. Dupree, senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts has studied stars like the Sun with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) and is past president of the American Astronomical Society. The IUE was the first experiment to explore...