Program

Program

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 - 9amOpening Remarks 
9am - 10am Hans-Thomas Janka Supernova Simulations and Neutron Star Formation (40)
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Lilia Ferrario Implications of the birth period - magnetic field relationship in the for the origin of magnetic fields in pulsars. (20)
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10am - 10:30amMorning 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)
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11:40am - 12:10pmOpen Discussion 
12:10pm - 1:40pmLunch Break 
1:40pm - 3:10pm Charles J Horowitz Neutron Rich Matter at Subnuclear Densities in Neutron Stars and Supernovae (30)
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Jorge Piekarewicz Neutron-rich nuclei in Heaven and Earth (20)
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Edward Brown The cooling of quasi-persistent neutron star transients (20)
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James M. Lattimer Neutron Star Structure and Neutron-Rich Matter (20)
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3:10pm - 3:40pmAfternoon Break 
3:40pm - 5pm Anthony L Piro Burst Oscillations and Non-Radial Oscillations of Neutron Stars (20)
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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)
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Agnieszka Majczyna Mass, radius, surface gravity and gravitational redshift determination for the neutron star in the X-ray burst source MXB 1728-34 (20)
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5pm - 5:30pmOpen Discussion 
8:37pmSunset 

Thursday 11 August 2005

9am - 10:30am Krishna Rajagopal A Hot Water Bottle for Aging Neutron Stars? (40)
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Sanjay K Reddy Fermion Superfluidity in Compact Stars (30)
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Andreas Schmitt Pulsar kicks via spin-1 color superconductivity (20)
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10:30am - 11amMorning Break 
11am - 12 noon Deborah N. Aguilera Color-spin locking phase in two-flavor quark matter for compact star phenomenology (20)
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Igor A Shovkovy Phase diagram of dense QCD with and without neutrino trapping (20)
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Ariel Zhitnitsky Quantum Anomalies and Topological Currents in Dense Matter (20)
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12 noon - 12:30pmOpen Discussion 
12:30pm - 2pmLunch 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)
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Frederick M Walter On the Parallax of Geminga (10)
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3:30pm - 4pmAfternoon 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)
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Andrei M Beloborodov Magnetospheres of Magnetars (30)
5:10pm - 6:40pmPoster SessionHennings 302 and 304
7pm - Banquet 
8:36pmSunset 

Friday 12 August 2005

9am - 10:30am Marten H van Kerkwijk Absorption lines in the spectra of nearby neutron stars (30)
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Christian Motch Optical Properties and origin of Radio-Quiet X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars (20)
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Jacco Vink Constraints on the formation of magnetars from associated supernova remnants (20)
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Frank Haberl Nearby radio-quiet isolated neutron stars with strong magnetic fields (20)
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10:30am - 11amMorning 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)
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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 - 12:50pmOpen Discussion 
12:50pm - 1:50pmLunch 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)
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3:10pm - Free Afternoon 
8:34pmSunset 

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)
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Bennett Link Neutrino Pulsars (30)
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10:20am - 10:50amMorning 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)
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Andrew Melatos Global, time-dependent flow of a neutron star superfluid (20)
David Nice Highlights of Recent Binary Pulsar Observations at Arecibo (30)
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Ingrid Stairs Timing the Double-pulsar System (10)
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12:20pm - 12:50pmOpen Discussion 
12:50pm - 2:20pmLunch Break 
2:20pm - 3:50pm Robert E Rutledge Neutron Star Radii: At the Crossroads (30)
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Peter G Jonker The extremely faint quiescent NS SXT 1H 1905+00: constrainst on the NS EoS (20)
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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)
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3:50pm - 4:20pmAfternoon Break 
4:20pm - 5:10pm Andrey Timokhin Signatures of neutron star oscillations in post-glitch emission of radiopulsars (20)
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Anatoly Spitkovsky Magnetospheres of neutron stars (30)
5:10pm - 5:40pmOpen Discussion and Closing Remarks 
8:32pmSunset 

Sunday 14 August 2005

Depart Vancouver