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All of the talks are in Hennings 201. The
posters
are Hennings 302 and 304.
Tuesday 9 August 2005
Arrival in Vancouver
Wednesday 10 August 2005
8:50am - 9am
Opening Remarks
9am - 10am
Hans-Thomas Janka
Supernova Simulations and Neutron Star Formation
(40)
[PDF]
Lilia Ferrario
Implications of the birth period - magnetic field relationship in the for the origin of magnetic fields in pulsars.
(20)
[PDF]
10am - 10:30am
Morning Break
10:30am - 11:40am
Dany Page
Strange Stars: where are they?
(30)
Vladimir Usov
Thermal emission from hot bare strange stars and their observational appearance
(20)
Jes Madsen
Probing quark matter in compact stars with cosmic rays
(20)
[PDF]
11:40am - 12:10pm
Open Discussion
12:10pm - 1:40pm
Lunch Break
1:40pm - 3:10pm
Charles J Horowitz
Neutron Rich Matter at Subnuclear Densities in Neutron Stars and Supernovae
(30)
[PDF]
Jorge Piekarewicz
Neutron-rich nuclei in Heaven and Earth
(20)
[PDF]
Edward Brown
The cooling of quasi-persistent neutron star transients
(20)
[PDF]
James M. Lattimer
Neutron Star Structure and Neutron-Rich Matter
(20)
[PDF]
3:10pm - 3:40pm
Afternoon Break
3:40pm - 5pm
Anthony L Piro
Burst Oscillations and Non-Radial Oscillations of Neutron Stars
(20)
[PDF]
Feryal Ozel
Constraining Neutron Star Masses and Radii Using High Resolution Spectra
(20)
Andrew Cumming
Constraints on Neutron Star Interior Physics from Long Type I X-ray Bursts
(20)
[PDF]
Agnieszka Majczyna
Mass, radius, surface gravity and gravitational redshift determination for the neutron star in the X-ray burst source MXB 1728-34
(20)
[PDF]
5pm - 5:30pm
Open Discussion
8:37pm
Sunset
Thursday 11 August 2005
9am - 10:30am
Krishna Rajagopal
A Hot Water Bottle for Aging Neutron Stars?
(40)
[PDF]
Sanjay K Reddy
Fermion Superfluidity in Compact Stars
(30)
[PDF]
Andreas Schmitt
Pulsar kicks via spin-1 color superconductivity
(20)
[PDF]
10:30am - 11am
Morning Break
11am - 12 noon
Deborah N. Aguilera
Color-spin locking phase in two-flavor quark matter for compact star phenomenology
(20)
[PDF]
Igor A Shovkovy
Phase diagram of dense QCD with and without neutrino trapping
(20)
[PDF]
Ariel Zhitnitsky
Quantum Anomalies and Topological Currents in Dense Matter
(20)
[PDF]
12 noon - 12:30pm
Open Discussion
12:30pm - 2pm
Lunch Break
2pm - 3:30pm
Vicky Kaspi
Observational Properties of Magnetars
(40)
Peter R. den Hartog
Hard X-ray Characteristics of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Results from RXTE and INTEGRAL
(20)
Silvia Zane
XMM-Newton observations of the two Anomalous X-ray pulsars 1E 1048.1-5937 and 1RXS J170849.0-400910
(20)
[PDF]
Frederick M Walter
On the Parallax of Geminga
(10)
[PDF]
3:30pm - 4pm
Afternoon Break
4pm - 5:10pm
Zhongxiang Wang
Detection of a Debris Disk around an AXP with Spitzer
(20)
David Eichler
Understanding Magnetars with Conservative Physics
(20)
[PDF]
Andrei M Beloborodov
Magnetospheres of Magnetars
(30)
5:10pm - 6:40pm
Poster Session
Hennings 302 and 304
7pm -
Banquet
8:36pm
Sunset
Friday 12 August 2005
9am - 10:30am
Marten H van Kerkwijk
Absorption lines in the spectra of nearby neutron stars
(30)
[PDF]
Christian Motch
Optical Properties and origin of Radio-Quiet X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars
(20)
[PDF]
Jacco Vink
Constraints on the formation of magnetars from associated supernova remnants
(20)
[PDF]
Frank Haberl
Nearby radio-quiet isolated neutron stars with strong magnetic fields
(20)
[PDF]
10:30am - 11am
Morning Break
11am - 12:20pm
David L Kaplan
Constraining the Properties of Isolated Neutron Stars Through Astrometry and
(20)
Herman L Marshall
Searches for Absorption Lines in Neutron Star Atmospheres
(20)
[PDF]
Kaya Mori
A Unique Neutron Star: Detailed Spectral and Theoretical Analysis of 1E1207.4-5209
(20)
Maxim Lyutikov
Resonant Cyclotron Scattering and Comptonization in Neutron Star Magnetospheres
(20)
12:20pm - 12:50pm
Open Discussion
12:50pm - 1:50pm
Lunch Break
1:50pm - 3:10pm
Roberto Turolla
XMM-Newton Observations of SGR 1806-20 in the Pre-Giant Flare Epoch
(20)
Alaa I. Ibrahim
Burst Observations from the Two Neighboring Magnetars SGR 1806-20 and XTE J1810-197
(20)
Nanda Rea
Evidence for a magnetospheric untwisting in the post-Giant Flare X-ray emission of SGR 1806-20
(20)
Anna L Watts
Rapid X-ray oscillations in magnetar giant flares
(20)
[PDF]
3:10pm -
Free Afternoon
8:34pm
Sunset
Saturday 13 August 2005
9am - 10:20am
George Pavlov
Central Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants
(30)
Patrick Slane
Cooling Limits from the Youngest Neutron Stars
(20)
[PDF]
Bennett Link
Neutrino Pulsars
(30)
[PDF]
10:20am - 10:50am
Morning Break
10:50am - 12:20pm
Andreas Reisenegger
Internal dissipation through beta processes and thermal emission from old neutron stars ``rotochemical heating'' constraints on a time-variation of Newton's ``constant'' of gravity
(30)
[PDF]
Andrew Melatos
Global, time-dependent flow of a neutron star superfluid
(20)
David Nice
Highlights of Recent Binary Pulsar Observations at Arecibo
(30)
[PDF]
Ingrid Stairs
Timing the Double-pulsar System
(10)
[PDF]
12:20pm - 12:50pm
Open Discussion
12:50pm - 2:20pm
Lunch Break
2:20pm - 3:50pm
Robert E Rutledge
Neutron Star Radii: At the Crossroads
(30)
[PDF]
Peter G Jonker
The extremely faint quiescent NS SXT 1H 1905+00: constrainst on the NS EoS
(20)
[PDF]
Philip Chang
Atomic Transition Lines During Type I X-Ray Bursts
(20)
Divas Sanwal
Neutron Stars at X-ray Wavelengths: NASA's Constellation-X Mission
(20)
[PDF]
3:50pm - 4:20pm
Afternoon Break
4:20pm - 5:10pm
Andrey Timokhin
Signatures of neutron star oscillations in post-glitch emission of radiopulsars
(20)
[PDF]
Anatoly Spitkovsky
Magnetospheres of neutron stars
(30)
5:10pm - 5:40pm
Open Discussion and Closing Remarks
8:32pm
Sunset
Sunday 14 August 2005
Depart Vancouver