July 17 Monday ================================ Monday Morning: 8:30-9:00 M. Kramer Double pulsars and other relativistic neutron star binaries 9:00-9:25 R. Rafikov Physics of the double pulsars 9:25-9:50 J. Arons and A. Spitkovsky Spin and Alignment Evolution of the Double Pulsar 9:50 Coffee Break 10:30-10:55 D.Nice Recent results from the Arecibo ALFA pulsar survey 10:55-11:20 Hessels et al. Radio pulsars in globular clusters 11:20-11:45 A. Lyne Radio Transient Neutron Stars Monday Afternoon: 2:00-2:25 R. Manchester The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array and detection of gravitational waves 2:25-2:50 G. Qiao Pulsar magnetoshphere and emission 2:50-3:15 K.S. Cheng Phase-resolved high energy spectrum of pulsars 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-4:25 Haberl, F.; Turolla, R.; De Vries, C.P.; Zane, S.; Vink, J.; Mendez, M.; Verbunt, F. Dim Isolated NSs and Strong evidence for precession of the isolated neutron star RX J0720.4-3125 4:25-4:50 Ho, W.CG.; Chabrier, G.; Chang, P.; Kaplan, D.L.; Lai, D.; Mori, K.; Potekhin, A.Y.; van Adelsberg, M. Modeling atmosphere emission from neutron stars 4:50-5:15 Reisenegger, A.; Fernández, R.; Jofré, P. Thermal emission from old neutron stars: constraints on dense-matter and gravitational physics 5:15-5:30 Werner, K. et al. Non-LTE models for neutron star atmospheres and SN fallback disks ------------------------- [General Cospar event of interest to E1.3: 6:00-7:45 Opening and Award Ceremony 8 pm Reception ] July 18, Tuesday =========================== [General Cospar event of interest to E1.3: 8:30-9:15: GRB-SWIFT Review by Gehrels ] Tuesday Morning: 9:30-9:55 S. Chatterjee The Pulsar VLBI Collaboration Exploiting pulsar distances and velocities from VLBA astrometry 9:55-10:10 C. Wang et al. Neutron Star Kicks in Isolated and Binary Pulsars: Observational Constraints and Implications for Kick Mechanisms 10:10-10:25 Bucciantini, N.; Thompson, T.A. ; Arons, J.; Quataert, E.; Del Zanna, L. Relativistic MHD Winds from Rotating Neutron Stars 10:25-10:40 Yuan, Y.-F.; Yang, J.-M.; Xu, S.-N. Physical conditions in the magnetic protoneutron star winds 10:40-11:00 Chakrabarty, D.; Wang, Z.; Kaplan, D. L. A debris disk around an isolated young neutron star 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-11:50 M.A. Alpar Fallback disks & magnetars: prospects & possibilities 11:50-12:15 Israel, G.L. Unveiling the AXPs/SGRs connection 12:15-12:30 Tanaka, Y. T.; Terasawa, T.; Kawai, N.; Yoshida, A.; Yoshikawa, I.; Yoshioka, K.; Saito, Y.; Takashima, T.; Mukai, T. Geotail observation of SGR 1900+14 giant flare on 27 August 1998 12:30-12:50 Watts, A. Neutron star oscillations and QPOs during magnetar flares 12:50-1:10 Wim Hermsen Quiescent X-ray emission from magnetars July 19, Wednesday ============================ Wednesday Morning: 9:30-9:50 David Helfand Pulsed Radio Emission from the Remarkable AXP Transient XTE 1810-197 9:50-10:20 C. Thompson Magnetars: Theoretical Issues 10:20-10:35 Lovelace, R.V.E; Romanova, M.M.; Toropina, O.D. Spinning-down of magnetars in the propeller regime 10:35-10:50 Xu, R. X.; Tao, D. J.; Yang, Y. The superflares of Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters: giant quakes in solid quark stars? 10:50-11:05 Luo, Q Thermal X-ray emission due to magnetic energy dissipation in magnetars 11:05-11:30 Coffee 11:30-11:45 Medin, Z.; Lai, D. The cohesive strength of neutron star surface matter and its implications for neutron star magnetosphere and radiation 11:45-12:10 Beloborodov, A.M.; Thompson, C. Corona of Magnetars 12:10-12:35 Melatos, A. Gravitational waves from accreting neutron stars 12:35-13:00 van der Klis, M Recent progress in kHz QPOs 13:00-13:15 Zdziarski, A. A.; Gierlinski, M.; Wen, L. New timing properties of 4U 1820-30 Wednesday afternoon 15:30-15:45 Zhang, C.M. The magnetic field and spin frequency of X-ray neutron star associated with the kHz QPOs 15:45-16:10 Gilfanov, M.; Revnivtsev, M. Boundary layer emission in luminous LMXBs 16:10-16:35 Poutanen, J. Theory of LMXBs and accreting millisecond pulsars spectra 16:35-17:00 Romanova, M.M.; Koldoba, A.V.; Kulkarni, A.K.; Long, M.; Lovelace, R.V.E; Ustyugova, G.V. Simulations of disk accretion onto magnetic neutron stars 17:00-17:20 coffee 17:20-17:45 Strohmayer, T. X-ray Bursts Observation Update 17:45-18:15 Cumming, A Probing neutron stars with Type I X-ray bursts 18:15-18:30 Terada, Y.; Mihara, T.; Nagase, F.; Suzaku Cyclotron Team Suzaku observations of cyclotron resonances in binary X-ray pulsars 18:30-18:45 Ben Owen How LIGO and photon astronomy can complement each other right now July 20 Thursday ============================= Thursday Morning (Joint session with E1.4) 10:15-10:40 David Kaplan Connection between NSs and and SNRs 10:40-11:05 S. Yamada Core-Collapse SNe and NS formation 11:05-11:20 J. Gelfand Learning about the Spider from its Web: Studying the NS and SNR in G328.4+0.2 11:20-12:15 Coffee 12:15-12:40 B. Gaensler What can we learn about magnetars from their environments? 12:40-12:55 J. Vink The energy of SNRs with magnetars and Implications for magnetar formation scenarios 12:55-13:10 G. Garmire The slowly Roating NSs in SNR RCW103 Thursday Afternoon: E1.4 sessions