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First Announcement:

       "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More"

				August 12-17, 2007

		    McGill University, Montreal, Canada

   			     http://www.ns2007.org/

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Dear colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to a conference entitled "40 Years of
Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More" to be held at
McGill University in Montreal, Canada, from August 12th to 17th 2007.

This conference is to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of
radio pulsars in the summer of 1967. We will highlight the important
discoveries of the last 40 years and address the most interesting and
topical areas of neutron star astrophysics today.

Keynote speakers:
	Anthony Hewish (Cambridge)
	Joseph Taylor (Princeton)

Public lecture:
	Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford), evening of August 14th

Scientific topics: Pulsar searches and timing; accretion and
	recycling; millisecond pulsars in the field and in globular
	clusters; young neutron stars, including magnetars,
	traditional Crab-like pulsars, and isolated neutron stars;
	glitches, precession, and nulling; binary pulsars, including
	the double pulsar; constraints on mass, radius, and the
	equation of state; new and future instrumentation.

The meeting will also include brief anecdotal talks from eminent
pulsar researchers, giving their personal recollections of important
moments in pulsar history.

Information about accommodations, registration, and a call for
abstracts will follow in a future announcement, and on our website
http://www.ns2007.org/.

Please forward this announcement to anyone you think might be
interested.

We hope to see you in Montreal next August,

Scientific Organizing Committee (contact: soc@ns2007.org)
Andrew Cumming (Co-chair, McGill), Vicky Kaspi (Co-chair, McGill),
Matthew Bailes (Swinburne), Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT), Monica Colpi
(Universita' Milano-Bicocca), Jeremy Heyl (UBC), Vicky Kalogera
(Northwestern), Michael Kramer (Manchester), Dong Lai (Cornell),
George Pavlov (Penn State), Fred Rasio (Northwestern), Ingrid Stairs
(UBC), Luigi Stella (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), Chris
Thompson (CITA), Marten van Kerkwijk (Toronto), Frank Verbunt
(Utrecht)

Local Organizing Committee
Cees Bassa (Utrecht/McGill), David Champion (McGill), Andrew Cumming
(McGill), Vicky Kaspi (McGill), Robert Rutledge (McGill), Zhongxiang
Wang (McGill)