HEAD Mini-Newsletter
February 1, 2001

1.  Results of HEAD Election
2.  Announcement of 2001 Rossi Prize
3.  Aspen Summer Workshop on GRB's

1.  The following candidates were elected to two year terms on the HEAD Executive Committee:  Nancy Brickhouse, Greg Madejski, and John Nousek.  http://www.aas.org/head/officers.html

2.  The 2001 Rossi Prize is awarded to Andrew Fabian and Yasuo Tanaka for their discovery, with the ASCA satellite, of broad iron K-lines in active galactic nuclei, which demonstrate the effects of the strong gravitational field characteristic of black holes.  http://www.aas.org/head/rossi/pressrelease01.html

3.  Gamma-Ray Bursts In The Afterglow Era
Aspen Center for Physics Summer Workshop
June 10-July 1

The application deadline for the GRB workshop in Aspen next summer is 1 February 2001.  Applications can be submitted on-line via the Aspen Center for Physics website, http://andy.bu.edu/aspen/.

GRBs have taken center stage in high-energy astrophysics by virtue of
the spectacular discoveries of the past 10 years.  They are now
regarded as "the most energetic explosions in the universe," beacons
of light in the darkness of the very high-z universe, tracers of early
star formation, the outcome of matter subjected to extreme conditions,
and the greatest success story of multi-wavelength astronomy.  Summer
2001 will be an opportune time to assess the meanings of the large
BATSE catalog, to discuss the multiwavelength observations resulting
from BeppoSAX, the IPN and HETE 2, and the implications of these
observations for our understanding of GRBs themselves and for what they
say about the early Universe.