  This meeting covered the range of cosmic explosions from solar flares to
gamma-ray bursts. A common theme is the role of rotation and magnetic fields. A
rigorous examination is underway to characterize systematic effects that might
alter the Type Ia supernova results suggesting an accelerating Universe. The
discovery of the central point of X-ray emission in Cas A by CXO should give
new insight into the core collapse problem in general and the nature of the
still undetected compact remnant in SN 1987A in particular. Jets were described
from protostars to microquasars to blazars to gamma-ray bursts. Polarization
studies of core-collapse supernovae lead to the conclusion that core collapse
is not merely asymmetric, but strongly bi-polar. To account for normal
core-collapse supernovae, the explosion must be jet-like in routine
circumstances, that is, in the formation of neutron stars, not only for black
holes. Given the observed asymmetries, estimates of explosion energies based on
spherically-symmetric models must be regarded with caution. The strong
possibility that at least some gamma-ray bursts arise from massive stars means
that it is no longer possible to decouple models of the gamma-ray burst and
afterglow from considerations of the "machine." The implied correlation of
gamma-ray bursts with star formation and massive stars and evidence for jets
does not distinguish a black hole collapsar model from models based on the
birth of a magnetar. Calorimetry of at least one afterglow suggests that
gamma-ray bursts cannot involve highly inefficient internal shock models.
Essentally all gamma-ray burst models involve the "Blandford Anxiety," the
origin of nearly equipartition magnetic fields in the associated relativistic
shocks.
