Final Programme

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Monday, 2009 August 3rd

11:00 - 11:08 Opening.

Quasi-periodic Oscillations from mHz to kHz. X-ray bursts and superbursts

11:08 - 11:33 Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (M. Méndez, Invited)
11:33 - 11:58 Recent developments in the study of accreting millisecond
X-ray pulsars (R. Wijnands, Invited)
11:58 - 12:18 Accretion states of neutron stars: luminosity, variability and spectra (M. Linares)
12:18 - 12:30 Review on kHz QPO and spin relations of LMXBs (C.M. Zhang)

X-ray bursts and superbursts. Millisecond X-ray pulsars

14:00 - 14:25 γ-ray emission from pulsar/massive-star binaries (G. Romero, Invited)
14:25 - 14:45 X-ray burst ignition and proﬁles (R. Cooper, Solicited)
14:45 - 14:57 Boundary layer emission in luminous LMXBs (M. Gilfanov)
14:57 - 15:09 Discovery of a relativistically broadened iron line in the spectrum
of the millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 (Di Salvo)
15:09 - 15:21 Timing of the 2008 Outburst of SAX J1808.4-3658 with XMM-Newton:
A Stable Orbital Period Derivative over Ten Years (L. Burderi)
15:21 - 15:33 Nearly aligned magnetic fields and wandering emission regions in millisecond pulsars (S. Boutloukos)

AXP/SGR and magnetars, very-high energy emission

16:00 16:25 Magnetar Observations in the Fermi Era (C. Kouveliotou, Invited)
16:25 16:45 Timing Nearby, Thermally Emitting, Isolated Neutron
Stars (D. Kaplan, Solicited)
16:45 17:03 Poster presentations
17:03 17:30 General discussion

Tuesday, 2009 August 4th

Magnetars, isolated neutron stars

11:00 - 11:25 Probing Fundamental Physics with Radio Pulsars (D. Lorimer, Invited)
11:25 - 11:45 PSR J0737-3039A/B: Six Years of Seeing Double (R. Breton, Solicited)
11:45 - 12:05 Pulsar results with the Fermi Large-Area Telescope (P. Ray, Solicited)
12:05 - 12:17 Intermittent pulsars: new results and implications for pulsar
spin down (M. Kramer)
12:17 - 12:29 Magnetic equilibria and their evolution in isolated neutron
stars (A. Reisenegger)

Wednesday, 2009 August 5th

Various

11:00 - 11:12 Magnetic explosions: magnetars, solar flares and
magnetospheric substorms (D.B. Melrose)
11:12 - 11:24 Fast X-ray/Optical cross correlations for X-ray binaries: trends
between objects and epochs (M. Durant)
11:24 - 12:36 Magnetar QPO's (M. van Hoven)
11:36 - 11:48 The prediction of Type-I X-ray bursts as a method to constrain
the equation of state of neutron stars (D. Altamirano)
11:48 - 12:00 A Radio Pulsar/X-ray Binary Missing Link (J. van Leeuwen)
12:00 - 12:30 General discussion

Gravitational waves. Various

14:00 - 14:25 Gravitational waves (N. Andersson, Invited)
14:25 - 14:37 Gravitational-wave detection using pulsar timing
arrays (R. van Haasteren)
14:37 - 14:49 Constraining pulsar gap models with the lightcurve and flux properties
of the gamma-ray pulsar population (I. Grenier)
14:49 - 15:01 Long-term timing of rotating radio transient J1819-1458 (A. Esamdin)
15:01 - 15:13 Resonant Compton Upscattering in High Field Pulsars and
Magnetars (P.L. Gonthier)
15:13 - 15:25 Galactic Neutron Star Populations (K. Belczynski)

Future instrumentation for timing

16:00 - 16:20 The Advanced X-ray Timing Array (AXTAR)(P. Ray, Solicited)
16:20 - 16:40 ASTROSAT as a timing instrument (D. Bhattacharya, Solicited)
16:40 - 17:00 The High Time Resolution Spectrometer on the Internation X-ray
Observatory (D. Barret, Solicited)
17:00 - 17:30 General Discussion

Posters

E. Abdikamalov - The Plasma Magnetosphere of Oscillating Neutron Stars in General Relativity
B. Ahmedov - Plasma Magnetosphere Formation Around Oscillating Magnetized Neutron Stars
T. Akgün - Stability of Magnetic Fields
M.A. Albarracin - Combustion of hadronic matter into quark matter inside neutron stars
M. Bagchi - Effect of stellar interactions on orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars in globular clusters
P. Bakala - Mass and angular momentum estimates based on twin peak QPO models
S. Balman - The Broad-band Noise Characteristics of Selected Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters
S. Balman - Frequency Resolved Spectroscopy of Selected Dipping Low-Mass X-ray Binaries
Yu.V. Barkin - Possible mechanism of inversion cyclic activity and glitches of pulsars
R. Baruah - Rapid neutron capture process in high entropy environment in explosion o supernova type II and formation of neutron stars
C.G. Bernal - Submergence and rediffusion of Bfield in NS surfaces
F. Bernardini - From outburst to quiescence: the decay of the transient AXP XTE J1810-197
G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan - Activity of the non-equilibrium layer in a neutron star crust
V. Bobylev - Open cluster ASC21 as probable birth place of neutron star Geminga
S. Bogdanov - Constraining Neutron Star Structure with X-ray Timing of Radio Millisecond Pulsars
S.J. Buchner - Vela Glitch Monitoring using the XDM
A. Carramiñana - Mapping the high energy environment of neutron stars with HAWC
H.-K. Chang - The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) project
A. E. Chukwude - 20 Years of Rotational History of the Pulsar B0959-54
J.G. Coelho - Quark Matter in compact stars using NJL model with vector couplings
G. Ding - Spectral Evolution along the Tracks on the Hardness-Intensity Diagrams in 3-220 keV in XTE J1701-462
K. Duorah - Production of Gamma-ray bursts in Magnetized Neutron stars
M. Durant - An accretion disc temperature profile: phase-resolved ULTRASPEC observations of the pulsar 4U 1822-371
N. Falcon - Heat Waves and Cooling Theory of Neutron Stars
C. Germanà - Fast X-ray temporal variability and tidal fields around compact objects
U.R.M.E. Geppert - Hall Drift in Neutron Star Crust - Implications for the Pulsar Inner Accelerator
J.A. Gil - Partially Screened Gap Model in Pulsars
A. Karastergiou - Radio polarization measurements from the Rotating Radio Transient (RRAT) J1819-1458
V. Kauts - Dark matter halo around a neutron star
J. Kijak - Maximum energy above 1 GHz in pulsar spectra and radio spectra of AXP sources
A. Kotrlová - Quasiperiodic oscillations in a strong gravitational field around neutron stars testing braneworld models
T.I. Larchenkova - The precise timing of millisecond pulsars as a possible method of the study of globular clusters and Galaxy structures
J. van Leeuwen - Radio pulsars with LOFAR
C.H. Lenzi - Determination of the neutron star mass-radii relation using narrow-band gravitational wave detector
X. Liu - On the formation of the eccentric binary and millisecond pulsar PSR J1903+03273
D.R. Lorimer - Pulsar Parallaxes and the Lutz-Kelker Bias
Q. Luo - Radiation in the closed field line regions of pulsar magnetospheres
Y.-Q. Lou - Origin of Intensely Magnetized Neutron Stars
A. Lutovinov - Recent results of timing analysis of X-ray pulsars in hard X-rays
M. Malheiro - Color Superconductivity and Confinement in the Chromodielectric Model
V. Malofeev - Radio emission from two AXPs at low frequencies
S. Martins de Carvalho - Compressibility of two nuclear scenarios
M.V. McSwain - The Gamma-ray Binaries LS 5039 and LS I+61 303 in the Fermi Era
E. Meheut - kHz QPO in neutron star binaries: a new aproach
G.I. Melikidze - Pulsars and Magnetars: Are They so Different?
D.P. Menezes - The NJL model description of quark matter under strong magnetic fields
O. Miranda - Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars
V. Morozova - Effect of Gravitomagnetic Charge on Pulsar Magnetospheric Structure and Particle Acceleration in a Polar Cap
Q. Peng - Origin of Magnetars and their activity
S. Petrova - Physics of the radio - high-energy connection in pulsars
S. Petrova - Radio emission pattern of the Crab pulsar
S. Petrova - Physics of pulsar radio emission beyond the low-frequency turnover
C. Petrovich - Rotochemical heating with Cooper pairing
J. Poutanen - Receding disc causing pulse profile variations and timing noise in accreting millisecond pulsars
M.S.E. Roberts - A Multi-Wavelength View of Some of the New Gamma-Ray Pulsars
B.P. Sarmah - Gravitational wave production from r-mode instability of neutron stars in presence of magnetic field and differential rotation
P. Savolainen - Long-term INTEGRAL observations of bright and persistent neutron star Low-Mass X-ray Binaries
R. Sood - The Physical Environment of 2S 0114+650
W. Tian - Distances to Two Pairs of PSR/SNR/TeV Source Systems
G. Török - Relations between the two kHz QPOs in atoll and Z sources
C.O. Vasquez Flores - Radial oscillations of color superconducting strange stars
R. Walter - Exceptional flaring activity of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408
J. Wang - Neutron star magnetic field and accretion crust structure
W. Wang - A peculiar hard X-ray burst in high mass X-ray binary 4U 2206+54
W. Wang - Evidence for a strongly magnetized neutron star in 4U 2206+54 with INTEGRAL/IBIS observations
H. Yin - Neutron star magnetic field and accretion screen
C.M. Zhang - On the 3:2 ratio of twin QPOs from neutron star to black holes
J. Ziolkowski - How massive could the progenitors of magnetars be?