SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

with links to abstracts and presentations (in PDF and/or PPT format)

Monday
June 15
Pulsars across the P-Pdot diagram
  MORNING
9:00 0:30 A diversity of first pulsar discoveries (I) Jocelyn Bell Burnell    
9:30 0:45 Diversity across the P-Pdot Diagram (I) Richard N. Manchester PDF PPT
10:15 0:30 Conal and Core Emission Phenomena and the Physics of Pulsar Emission (I) Joanna M. Rankin PDF PPT
10:45 0:30 Coffee-break
11:15 0:30 Physics of pulsar glitches (I) Andrew Melatos    
11:45 0:30 Rotating radio transients (I) Michael Kramer PDF  
12:15 0:30 Central Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants (I) Patrick Slane    
12:45 0:15 LOFAR and the hunt for increased diversity (C) Ben Stappers    
13:00 0:15 A Radio Pulsar/X-Ray Binary Missing Link (C) Joeri van Leeuwen    
13:15 2:15 Lunch
  AFTERNOON
15:30 0:30 Thermally Emitting Isolated Neutron Stars (I) Roberto Turolla PDF PPT
16:00 0:30 Recent results on Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (I) Sandro Mereghetti PDF  
16:30 0:30 Coffee-break
17:00 0:30 Magnetar theory (I) Silvia Zane PDF PPT
17:30 0:15 Pulsars and magnetars: not so different! (C) George Melikidze PDF  
17:45 0:15 Topology of magnetars external field (C) Lucia Pavan
(presented by L. Nobili)
PDF  
18:00   End of Conference day
 
Tuesday
June 16
High energies
  MORNING
9:00 0:30 Pulsars in optical (I) Andrew Shearer PDF  
9:30 0:30 Pulsars in X-rays (I) Werner Becker PDF  
10:00 0:45 Early Pulsar Results from the Fermi LAT (I) Roger Romani    
10:45 0:30 Coffee-break
11:15 0:20 The AGILE Gamma-ray Pulsars Zoo (I) Alberto Pellizzoni    
11:35 0:20 Observation of Gamma-ray pulsars with the MAGIC telescope (I) Marcos Lopez Moya    
11:55 0:20 Characteristics of non-thermal emission from rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars revealed by INTEGRAL and RXTE (I) Wim Hermsen PDF PPT
12:15 0:15 The latest (hopefully not the last) HST observations of pulsars (C) Roberto Mignani PDF  
12:30 0:15 Understanding Geminga-like sources: towards a new paradigm for Neutron Stars (C) Patrizia Caraveo PDF  
12:45 0:15 Probing Millisecond Pulsar Emission Geometry Using Fermi Light Curves (C) Christo Venter PDF  
13:00 0:15 Discovery of gamma-ray pulsation from the very young and powered pulsar PSR J1833-1034 by Fermi-LAT Space Telescope (C) Giuseppe Caliandro    
13:15 2:15 Lunch
  AFTERNOON
15:30 0:45 Pulsar populations 6 people round table
Convenor:
Giovanni Bignami
   
16:15 0:30 Coffee-break
16:45 0:30 Poynting Flux Dominated Flows (I) Roger Blandford PDF PPT
17:15   End of Conference day
 
Wednesday
June 17
Magnetospheres
  MORNING
9:00 0:45 The Force-Free Pulsar Magnetosphere (I) Anatoly Spitkovsky PDF  
9:45 0:45 Pulsar emission models (I) Alice K. Harding PDF PPT
10:30 0:30 Coffee-break
11:00 0:30 Coherent emission mechanisms (I) Roger Blandford PDF PPT
11:30 0:30 The Double Pulsar System J0737-3039A/B Marta Burgay PDF  
12:00 0:30 The double pulsar: tomography of magnetosphere, wind probe and a new GR test (I) Maxim Lyutikov PDF  
12:30 0:15 Self consistent modeling of electron-positron cascade in the polar cap of pulsar (C) Andrey Timokhin    
12:45 0:15 On the nature of Coherent pulsar radio emission (C) Dipanjan Mitra PDF PPT
13:00   End of Conference day
 
Thursday
June 18
Pulsar Wind Nebulae
  MORNING
9:00 0:30 H.E.S.S. Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (I) Stefan Funk    
9:30 0:30 Chandra observations of Pulsar-Wind Nebulae (I) Oleg Kargaltsev PDF  
10:00 0:20 XMM-Newton observations of pulsar wind nebulae (I) Fabrizio Bocchino PDF  
10:20 0:20 Spitzer Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (I) Stephen P. Reynolds PDF  
10:40 0:30 Coffee-break
11:10 0:30 Theory of pulsar winds and nebulae (I) John G. Kirk PDF  
11:40 0:25 MHD modeling of young PWNe (I) Luca Del Zanna PDF  
12:05 0:25 MHD modeling of evolved PWNe (I) Niccolò Bucciantini PDF  
12:30 0:30 Observations of Bow-Shock Pulsar Wind Nebulae (I) Patrick Slane    
13:00 2:30 Lunch
  AFTERNOON
15:30 0:15 High Energy Emission from Pulsar Winds and a Possible Origin of Low Wind Sigma (C) Jonathan Arons PDF  
15:45 0:15 Mapping the Magnetic Field Structure of PWNe (C) Stephen Ng PDF PPT
16:00 0:15 Modeling the Dynamical and Spectral Evolution of a Pulsar Wind Nebula (C) Joseph Gelfand    
16:15 0:30 Coffee-break
16:45 0:15 Near-Infrared Study of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in G21.5-0.9 (C) Anna Zajczyk PDF  
17:00 0:15 Gamma-ray non-thermal emission from Pulsar Wind Nebulae (C) Delia Volpi PDF Movie
17:15 0:15 Concluding remarks Jonathan Arons PDF  
17:30   End of Conference

 

 

POSTERS
Towards mass determination of thermal emitting neutron stars by gravitational lensing Thomas Eisenbeiss PDF  
Binary radio pulsars in globular clusters:
their interaction with other stars and orbital eccentricities
Alak Ray PDF