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Sunday evening: |
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19:00 - 21:00
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Get together (with buffet) |
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Monday morning: Structure of Neutron Stars: |
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Chair: H. Lesch |
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9:00 - 9:05
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Welcome
W. Becker (MPE, Germany) |
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9:05 - 9:20
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Welcome by the Heraeus Foundation
Dr. E. Dreisigacker (Heraeus-Foundation, Hanau, Germany) |
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9:20 - 10:00
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10:00 - 10:40
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10:40 - 11:10
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coffee break
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11:10 - 11:50
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11:50 - 12:10
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Monday afternoon: Radio emission from rotation-powered pulsars
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Chair: A. Jessner |
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14:00 - 14:40
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A review of the radio emission properties of pulsars
A. Lyne (Univ. of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK) |
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14:40 - 15:00
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Pulsar surveys present and future: The Arecibo pulsar-ALFA survey and projected SKA survey
J. Deneva (Cornell University, USA) |
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15:00 - 15:20
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The extreme radio emission of PSR B0656+14
P. Weltevrede (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
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15:20 - 15:50
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coffee break |
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16:50 - 16:30
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The double-pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B: A unique lab for relativistic plasma and tests of general relativity
M. Kramer (Univ. of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK) |
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16:30 - 16:50
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Amazing properties of giant pulses and the nature of pulsar's radio emission
V. Soglasnov (Lebedev Physical Institute Moscow, Russia) |
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16:50 - 17:10
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Comparison of giant radio pulses in young pulsars and ms-Pulsars
A. Slowikowska (MPE, Germany) |
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17:10 - 17:30
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Detailed studies of giant pulses from the milisecond pulsar B1937+21
V. Kondratiev (Lebedev Physical Institute Moscow, Russia) |
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17:30 - 17:50
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How inclination angle affects the electrodynamics and statistics of radio pulsars
V. Beskin (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow) |
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19:00 -23:00
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Conference dinner on invitation by the Heraeus-Foundation |
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Tuesday morning: Particle Acceleration and Interactions |
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Chair: B. Rudak |
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9:00 - 9:40
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9:40 - 10:20
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10:20 - 10:40
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Particle accelerator in pulsar magnetospheres: A unification scheme of inner and outer gap models
K. Hirotani (TIARA, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) |
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10:40 - 11:00
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coffee break
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11:00 - 11:40
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11:40 - 12:20
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Tuesday afternoon: Pulsar Wind Nebulae and beyond - Observations & Theory |
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Chair: J. Gil |
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14:00 - 14:40
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Pulsar wind nebulae and beyond: Multi-wavelength observations and theory
O.C. de Jager (North-West Uni., Potchesfstroom, South Afrika) |
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14:40 - 15:20
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Theory of pulsar wind nebulae
J. Kirk (MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany) |
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15:20 - 15:40
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Polarisation of high-energy emission in a pulsar striped wind
J. Petrii (Max Planck Institut fü Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany) |
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15:40 - 16:10
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coffee break |
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16:10 - 16:40
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Poster summary / Theory
H. Lesch (Observatory of the Univeristy of Munich) |
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16:40 - 17:10
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Poster summary / Observations
A. Jessner (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany) |
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17:10 - 18:30
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Poster Session |
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Wednesday morning: Anomalous X-ray Pulsars & Soft Gamma-ray Repeater |
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Chair: J. Trümper |
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9:00 - 9:40
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Understanding the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars in the
SGR1806-20 post-hyperflare era
G.L. Israel (Osservatorio Astronomica de Roma, Italy) |
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9:40 - 10:20
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Soft Gamma-ray repeater
K. Hurley (Univ. Of California, Berkeley, USA) |
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10:20 - 10:50
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coffee break |
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10:50 - 11:10
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An alternative explanation of the Magnetars
W. Kundt (Astronomical Institut of the University of Bonn, Germany) |
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11:10 - 11:30
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Magnetars versus radio pulsars: MHD stability in newborn highly magnetized neutron stars
U. Geppert (MPE, Germany) |
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Wednesday afternoon: 13:00 EXCURSION to Loreley/Rüdesheim am Rhein |
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Thursday morning: High Energy Emission from rotation-powered Pulsars |
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Chair: F. Haberl |
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9:00 - 9:40
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X-ray studies of millisecond pulsars in Globular Clusters
J. Grindlay (CFA Harvard, USA) |
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9:40 - 10:00
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X-rays from radio millisecond pulsars: Comptonized thermal emission?
S. Bogdanov (CFA Harvard, USA) |
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10:00 - 10:40
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Hard non-thermal X-ray /soft gamma-ray emission from anomalous X-ray pulsars
W. Hermsen (SRON Netherlands) |
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10:40 - 11:10
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coffee break |
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11:10 - 11:30
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X-ray emission properties of old pulsars
W. Becker (MPE, Germany) |
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11:30 - 11:50
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The relationship between X-ray and radio emission in the Vela pulsar
A. Lommen (Franklin & Marshall College, USA) |
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11:50 - 12:10
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PSR J1119-6127 and the X-ray emission from high magnetic field radio pulsars
M. Gonzales (McGill University, Canada) |
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12:10 - 12:30
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Improved methods for modeling pulse shapes of accreting millisecond pulsars
D. Leahy (University of Calgary, Canada) |
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Thursday afternoon: High Energy Emission from rotation-powered Pulsars |
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Chair: W. Hermsen |
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14:00 - 14:40
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Gamma-ray emission of pulsars: status and multi-wavelength context
G. Kanbach (MPE-Garching, Germany) |
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14:40 - 15:20
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Theory of radiation transfer in neutron star atmospheres
V.E. Zavlin (Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, USA) |
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15:20 - 15:50
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coffee break |
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15:50 - 16:10
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Importance of Compton scattering to radiation spectra of isolated neutron stars
V. Suleimanov (University of Tübingen, Germany) |
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16:10 - 16:30
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Recent observations of pulsar wind nebulae in EGRET error boxes
M. Roberts (Eureka Scientific, USA) |
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16:30 - 16:50
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Drifting subpulses and thermal X-ray emission from the polar cap surface
J. Gil (University of Zielona Gora, Polan) |
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16:50 - 18:00
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Poster session & Coffee |
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Friday morning: Isolated Neutron Stars (constraints on the equation of state from NS observations, isolated NS radii, high frequency QPOs in LMXB, burst oscillations) |
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Chair: D. Page |
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9:00 - 9:40
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Surface emission from X-ray dim isolated neutron stars: The challange of simplicity
R. Turolla (Univ. Padova, Italy) |
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9:40 - 10:20
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The magnificent 7 - similarities & differences
F. Haberl (MPE, Garching, Germany) |
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10:20 - 10:40
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Accreting isolated neutron stars
N. Ikhsanov (University of Cambridge, UK) |
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10:40 - 11:10
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coffee break |
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11:10 - 11:50
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Radiation radii of neutron stars
J. Trümper (MPE, Garching, Germany) |
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Friday afternoon: Future observational prospects |
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Chair: G. Kanbach |
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14:00 - 14:40
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Future Gamma-ray observations of pulsars and their environment
D.J. Thompson (Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA) |
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14:40 - 15:20
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The prospects for X-ray polarimetry and its potential use for understanding neutron stars
M. Weisskopf (Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, USA) |
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15:20 - 15:50
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coffee break |
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15:50 - 16:30
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Observing gravitational waves from neutron stars
R. Prix (LIGO Collaboration, Albert-Einstein Inst. Potsdam). |
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16:30 - 16:50
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LOFAR: A powerful tool for pulsar studies
B. Stappers |
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16:50 - 17:00
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Conclusion and summary
W. Becker |
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