Session 96. Early Results from Swift: The Gamma Ray Burst Bonanza

Special Session, Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 2:00-3:30pm, Maryland

96.01 Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries by the Swift Mission

N. Gehrels (NASA-GSFC), Swift Team

96.02 Discovery and Identification of the Very High Redshift Afterglow of GRB 050908 and Prospects for the Future

D. E. Reichart (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Follow-Up Network for Gamma-Ray Bursts (FUN GRB) Collaboration

96.03 Compact binary mergers as central engines of short GRBs

S. Rosswog (International University Bremen)

96.04 Early X-ray Afterglows of GRBs

D. N. Burrows (Penn State), Swift XRT Team

96.05 Engines and Ejecta of Gamma-ray Bursts

S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech)