Highlights of the Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era

Abstract

I review some of the highlights of the Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts, and discuss some of the questions these results pose about the nature and origin of gamma-ray bursts.

8 pages, Proceedings of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Nov. 1998, Rome, F. Frontera & L. Piro eds., A&A Suppl. Ser., in press

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