The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope is holding its second collaboration symposium in Washington DC this week. The symposium began Monday morning (see our post about the announcement of some new pulsars) and stretches until noon on Thursday.
The symposium features talks by both Fermi collaboration members and outside scientists who are using Fermi data, on subjects including pulsars, dark matter, supernova remnants, active galactic nuclei, gamma ray bursts, magnetars, blazars and many more.
The Fermi telescope's main instrument, the Large Area Telescope, was assembled at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and launched by NASA in June 2008. The Fermi collaboration consists of scientists from all over the world, and the Fermi data is made publicly available, so non-collaboration members can analyze it, as well.
