The talks are in the same order as the Program Schedule.
Julie McEnery (NASA/GSFC)
The upcoming GLAST mission represents a major step forward in gamma-ray astronomy, with dramatic improvements in sensitivity, angular resolution and energy range beyond those achieved by the highly-successful EGRET instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. The enormous field of view will cover 200f the sky at any instant, and full sky coverage will be obtained every few hours. With these capabilities will come new opportunities for observers across the electromagnetic spectrum. High energy gamma-ray sources are inherently nonthermal, multiwavelength objects, best understood within the context of their behaviour at all wavelengths. In this talk I will describe the GLAST mission and instrument capabilities and discuss the role and importance of joint X-ray and high energy gamma-ray observations for a wide range of astrophysical objects.