Session 54 Cosmology Runs Through It

Oral, Thursday, May 29, 2003, 10:00-11:30am, 103/104

54.01 GRBs from HETE: Recent Results and Future Prospects

G.R. Ricker, N.R. Butler (MIT), and the HETE Team

54.02 Gamma-ray burst early optical afterglow: implications for the initial Lorentz factor and the central engine

B. Zhang, S. Kobayashi, P. Meszaros (Pennsylvania State University)

54.03 A New High-Redshift SN Ia Dataset that Addresses Extinction Questions in Cosmology Measurements

R. Knop (Vanderbilt University), Supernova Cosmology Project Collaboration

54.04 Probing the epoch of reinization with HST and JWST

M. Stiavelli (STScI, Baltimore)

54.05 New Results from the Cosmic Background Imager

B. S. Mason (NRAO), CBI Collaboration

54.06 What's the Matter with Antimatter?

A. Katragada, M. Scheetz, O. Manuel (University of Missouri-Rolla)

54.07 Charged Particle Creation out of the Vacuum

F. C. Michel (Rice Univ.)