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Second Announcement and Call for Abstracts

       "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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IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Abstract submission             May 1st

Early registration deadline     June 15th

Accommodation deadlines     June 30th - July 12th 
(depending on the hotel - see the conference website for details)


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The deadline for submitting an abstract for a contributed talk or
poster is May 1st. Abstracts should be submitted using the web form on
the conference website
 http://www.ns2007.org/index.php?page=3


REGISTRATION

Registration is now open at
 http://www.ns2007.org/index.php?page=4

The registration fee is $350 CAD before the early registration
deadline of June 15th, $400 CAD after June 15th. A reduced
registration fee of $250 CAD ($300 CAD after June 15th) applies for
students.

The registration fee includes a copy of the conference proceedings and
one banquet ticket. Additional banquet tickets are available for $70
CAD each - please indicate how many you require when you register.


ACCOMMODATION

We have reserved blocks of rooms in four hotels in downtown Montreal,
each of which is about 5-10 minutes walk from the McGill University
campus. Further details can be found on the conference website
http://www.ns2007.org/. Please make sure to quote the reservation code
given on the website when making your reservation. The reservation
deadline for each hotel is given on the conference website (the
deadlines range from June 30th to July 12th).


PROGRAM

The scientific sessions will take place from Monday morning, August
13th, to Friday afternoon, August 17th. In addition, we announce the
following special events:

Opening reception: Sunday evening, August 12th
Public lecture from Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Tuesday evening August 14th
Free afternoon: Wednesday, August 15th
Conference banquet: Thursday evening, August 16th
Lunch provided by Schwartz's Deli: Friday August 17th

We will be organizing a number of excursions and activities for
Wednesday afternoon. Further details will be given on the conference
website as they become available.


CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

Niccolo Bucciantini (UC Berkeley), Jim Cordes (Cornell), Christopher
Deloye (Northwestern), Duncan Galloway (Melbourne), Natasha Ivanova
(CITA), Peter Jonker (SRON/Utrecht), Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern),
David Kaplan (MIT), Chunglee Kim (Cornell), Michael Kramer (Jodrell
Bank/Manchester), Andrea de Luca (INAF/IASF), Dick Manchester (ATNF),
David Nice (Bryn Mawr), Scott Ransom (NRAO), Anatoly Spitkovsky
(Princeton), Henk Spruit (MPA), Ingrid Stairs (UBC), Chris Thompson
(CITA/Toronto), Dave Thompson (NASA/GSFC), Peter Woods
(Dynetics/USRA/NSSTC), Dima Yakovlev (Ioffe Institute)

with reflections on important moments in pulsar history from
Jon Arons (UC Berkeley), Ed van den Heuvel (Amsterdam), Dick
Manchester (ATNF), Franco Pacini (Arcetri Observatory, Florence), Mal
Ruderman (Columbia)

and opening and closing keynote speakers
Anthony Hewish (Cambridge) and Joseph Taylor (Princeton)


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of the conference will be published by the American
Institute of Physics. The conference website will be updated with
further details as they become available.

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Scientific Organizing Committee (contact: soc@ns2007.org)
Andrew Cumming (Co-chair, McGill), Vicky Kaspi (Co-chair, McGill),
Matthew Bailes (Swinburne), Dipankar Bhattacharya (RRI), 
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 (McGill), David Champion (McGill), Andrew Cumming
(McGill), Vicky Kaspi (McGill), Robert Rutledge (McGill), Zhongxiang
Wang (McGill)