40 Years of Pulsars

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Conference Program

A PDF version of the conference program is available here.
A list of posters is available here.

Talk types:	(R)	review talk	30+5 mins
	(I)	invited talk	20+5 mins
	(C)	contributed talk	12+3 mins

Talk titles below link to PDF files of individual abstracts.

Please note that the opening reception on Sunday evening and the scientific sessions held from Monday to Friday are in different locations. The opening reception will be held in the Rutherford Physics Building. The scientific sessions will be held in the Leacock Building, room 132. These locations are marked on this map.

Sunday August 12th

5.00 - 7.00 pm

Opening wine and cheese reception in the Rutherford Physics Building. Registration will be available. For those interested, we will offer tours of the Department of Physics Rutherford Museum.

Monday August 13th: Pulsar emission and magnetospheres

Morning session (Chairs: Weisberg/Eilek)

8.00 - 8.50	Registration
8.50 - 9.00	Welcome
9.00 - 9.15	A. Hewish	Conference opening: 40 Years of Pulsars
9.15 - 9.50	M. Kramer (R)	Observations of Pulsed Emission from Pulsars
9.50 - 10.15	A. Spitkovsky (I)	Pulsar Magnetospheres

10.15 - 10.55	Coffee break and poster viewing

10.55 - 11.30	Y. Lyubarsky (R)	Pulsar Emission Mechanisms
11.30 - 11.45	P. Weltevrede (C)	The Subpulse Modulation Properties of Pulsars and its Frequency Dependence
11.45 - 12.00	J. Rankin (C)	Many Recent Insights into the Problem of Pulsar Radio Emission
12.00 - 12.20	Discussion led by J. Weisberg

12.20 - 2.05	Lunch

Afternoon session (Chairs: Ray/Hermsen)

2.05 - 2.20	T. Hankins (C)	Radio Emission Signatures in the Crab Pulsar
2.20 - 2.35	D. Melrose (C)	How are Orthogonally-Polarized Modes Generated?
2.35 - 2.50	A. Lommen (C)	Observed X-ray/Radio Correlation in the Vela Pulsar

2.50 - 3.30	Coffee break and poster viewing

3.30 - 3.55	D. Thompson (I)	Gamma-Ray Pulsar Studies with GLAST
3.55 - 4.10	L. Kuiper (C)	The Discovery of 4 Soft Gamma-Ray Pulsars with INTEGRAL and RXTE
4.10 - 4.25	N. Rea (C)	Discovery of X-ray Pulsations and Spectral Features from RRAT J1819-1458
4.25 - 4.40	S. Bogdanov (C)	An X-ray view of Radio Millisecond Pulsars
4.40 - 5.00	Discussion led by J. Rankin

5.00 - 6.00	Poster session with refreshments provided

Tuesday August 14th

Morning Session: Pulsar Wind Nebulae (Chairs: Safi-Harb/Stappers)

9.00 - 9.25	G. Pavlov (I)	Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Chandra Era
9.25 - 9.40	Y. Gallant (C)	VHE Gamma-Ray Emitting Pulsar Wind Nebulae Discovered by H.E.S.S. [PDF]
9.40 - 9.55	O. Kargaltsev (C)	X-ray Observations of Pulsar Tails

9.55 - 10.35	Coffee break and poster viewing

10.35 - 11.10	N. Bucciantini (R)	The Theory of Pulsar Wind Nebulae
11.10 - 11.25	J. Arons (C)	Beam Filamentation Instability of Interacting Current Sheets in Striped Relativistic Winds: The Origin of Low Sigma?
11.25 - 11.40	A. Deshpande (C)	Evidence for Collimated Particle Beams from Pulsars and Precession
11.40 - 12.00	Discussion led by F. Pacini

12.00 - 1.45	Lunch

Afternoon Session: Magnetars (Chairs: Mereghetti/Ibrahim)

1.45 - 2.10	P. Woods (I)	Observations of Magnetars [PDF]
2.10 - 2.35	C. Thompson (I)	Magnetars [PDF]
2.35 - 2.50	F. Gavriil (C)	Recent Activity in the Magnetar Candidate 4U 0142+61: Emission Lines During Bursts [PDF]
2.50 - 3.05	R. Dib (C)	Glitches in Anomalous X-ray Pulsars [PDF]

3.05 - 3.45	Coffee break and poster viewing

3.45 - 4.00	P. den Hartog (C)	Extreme AXPs in the Hard X-ray Regime: Detailed Spectral and Temporal Characteristics
4.00 - 4.15	G. Israel (C)	Transient Phenomena in Anomalous X-ray Pulsars
4.15 - 4.30	D. Lai (C)	The Surface and Magnetospheres of Pulsars and Magnetars
4.30 - 4.45	A. Beloborodov (C)	Plasma around Magnetars
4.45 - 5.00	F. Ozel (C)	Physical Spectral Modeling Sheds Light on the Nature of AXPs
5.00 - 5.05	S. Ransom	1E 1547.0-5408: A 2-second Radio Magnetar in a Supernova Remnant
5.05 - 5.25	Discussion led by J. Arons

5.25 - 6.45	Poster session with refreshments provided

6.45	Public lecture by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Wednesday August 15th: Isolated Neutron Stars

Morning session (Chairs: Mignani/Alpar)

9.00 - 9.25	A. de Luca (I)	Central Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants
9.25 - 9.40	E. Gotthelf (C)	Compact Central Objects as Young, Weakly Magnetized Neutron Stars
9.40 - 10.05	D. Kaplan (I)	Nearby, Thermally-Emitting Neutron Stars [PDF]
10.05 - 10.20	W. Ho (C)	Modeling Phase-Resolved Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars

10.20 - 11.00	Coffee break and poster viewing

11.00 - 11.25	H.-T. Janka (I)	Supernova Explosions and Neutron Star Birth
11.25 - 11.50	H. Spruit (I)	The Origin and Evolution of Neutron Star Magnetic Fields
11.50 - 12.05	V. Petit (C)	A Fossil Origin for Neutron Star Magnetic Fields: Magnetic Properties of the Progenitor OB Stars
12.05 - 12.20	J. Hoyos (C)	Multi-Fluid Simulations of the Magnetic Field Evolution in Neutron Stars
12.20 - 12.40	Discussion led by M. Ruderman

12.40 - 2.40	Poster session with lunch provided by Schwartz's Deli

Wednesday afternoon free

Thursday August 16th: Binary Neutron Stars

Morning session (Chairs: van der Klis/Nelson)

9.00 - 9.25	V. Kalogera (I)	Neutron Stars Spun and Kicked: What Can Evolution and Population Studies Tell Us?
9.25 - 10.00	S. Ransom (R)	20 Years of Searching for (and Finding) Globular Cluster Pulsars

10.00 - 10.40	Coffee break and poster viewing

10.40 - 11.05	N. Ivanova (I)	Formation of Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters
11.05 - 11.20	D. Champion (C)	The Discovery of an Eccentric Millisecond Pulsar in the Galactic Plane
11.20 - 11.35	P. Freire (C)	Timing of PSR J1738+0333 and new limits on dipolar gravitational wave emission
11.35 - 12.00	Discussion led by E. van den Heuvel

12.00 - 1.44	Lunch

Afternoon session (Chairs: Leahy/Sigurdsson)

1.45 - 2.20	I. Stairs (R)	Double Neutron Star Binaries
2.20 - 2.35	B. Willems (C)	New Perspectives on the Formation of Double Neutron Stars
2.35 - 2.50	R. Breton (C)	Using the Double Pulsar Eclipses to Test Fundamental Physics
2.50 - 3.05	R. Ferdman (C)	Profile Shape and Polarization Studies of the Double Pulsar

3.05 - 3.45	Coffee break and poster viewing

3.45 - 4.10	C. Deloye (I)	The Connection Between Millisecond Pulsars and LMXBs [PDF]
4.10 - 4.25	J. Poutanen (C)	The Physics of Accretion-Powered Millisecond Pulsars [PDF]
4.25 - 4.40	J. Hartman (C)	Long-Term Timing of the Accreting Millisecond Pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
4.40 - 4.55	C. Heinke (C)	SAX J1808.4-3658 in Quiescence: a Keystone for Neutron Star Science [PFD]
4.55 - 5.00	M. van der Klis	A Newsflash on Persistent Accreting MSPs
5.00 - 5.20	Discussion led by A. Lyne

6.45 - 9.00	Conference Banquet at Altitude 737 Restaurant, Place Ville-Marie

Friday August 17th

Morning Session: The Neutron Star Equation of State (Chairs: Brown/Rutledge)

9.00 - 9.35	D. Yakovlev (R)	Theory of Cooling Neutron Stars Versus Observations [PDF]
9.35 - 10.00	P. Jonker (I)	The Quiescent Luminosity of Neutron Star Transients: Implications for the Equation of State
10.00 - 10.15	S. Reddy (C)	Neutrino Rates in Dense Superfluids [PDF]

10.15 - 10.55	Coffee break and poster viewing

10.55 - 11.20	D. Nice (I)	Neutron Star Mass Measurements [PDF]
11.20 - 11.45	D. Galloway (I)	Accreting Neutron Star Spins and the Equation of State [PDF]
11.45 - 12.05	Discussion led by M. Colpi

12.05 - 2.00	Lunch

Afternoon Session: Surveys and the Pulsar Population (Chairs: Rasio/Bell Burnell)

2.00 - 2.25	A. Lyne (I)	Parkes Pulsar HI Multibeam Surveys
2.25 - 2.50	J. Cordes (I)	Pulsar searches with ALFA
2.50 - 3.15	C. Kim (I)	The Galactic Pulsar Population: Current Understanding and Future Prospects

3.15 - 3.55	Coffee break and poster viewing

3.55 - 4.20	R. Manchester (I)	The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project
4.20 - 4.35	D. Helfand (C)	Young Supernova Remnants, PWN, and Pulsars in the MAGPIS Survey
4.35 - 4.50	B. Stappers (C)	Low Frequency Observations of MSPs and More
4.50 - 5.05	B. Owen (C)	How LIGO and Pulsar Astronomy Can Complement Each Other Right Now
5.05 - 5.15	C. Schisler
5.15 - 5.30	Discussion led by R. Manchester

5.30 - 5.50	J. Taylor	Conference summary

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