PULSAR CONFERENCE 2010

Chia Laguna Resort, Sardinia (Italy) – 10-15 October 2010

Radio pulsars: An astrophysical key to unlock the secrets of the Universe
A conference celebrating the 45th anniversary of Jocelyn Bell's scientific career
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Fri 15

Sun 10 Mon 11 Tues 12 Wedn 13 Thur 14
9:00 - 10:30
Session Ia Session IIIa Session Va Session VIa Session VIIIa
Coffee break /



11:00 - 12:30
Session Ib Session IIIb Session Vb Session VIb Session VIIIb
Lunch /




16:00 - 17:30
Tribute to Don Backer
Session IIa
Session IVa Visit to SRT site (from 14:30) Session VIIa
Coffee Break /
at SRT site

18:00 - 19:30 Welcome and registration Session IIb Session IVb Visit to SRT site Session VIIb
Dinner

Social Dinner


21:30 - 22:30
Public Lecture by P. Caraveo




Talks per session
Invited lectures 30 minutes
Invited talks 20 minutes
Contributed talks 15 minutes
(question time included)

Finding New Pulsars [Ia] (90 min) - Monday 11, 09:00 - 10:30
  • Lorimer: Blind Searches for Pulsars
  • Keith: The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey
  • Bates: The discovery of 5 MSPs in the HTRU survey
  • Lazarus: An update on the status of the pulsar-alfa survey
  • Boyles: The GBT 350-MHz drift-scan survey

  • Finding New Pulsars [Ib] (90 min) - Monday 11, 11:00 - 12:30
  • Kondratiev: A search for pulsars in the local group of galaxies
  • Ransom: Recent Results from Targeted Pulsar Searches
  • Hessels: New radio MSPs from a survey of faint fermi Gamma-Ray sources
  • Belfiore: Fermi LAT pulsars in the Carina region
  • Saz Parkinson: Status and prospects of Fermi LAT pulsar blind searches

  • Tribute to Don Backer by V. Kaspi (20 min) - Monday 11, 16:00 - 16:20

    Exploiting Pulsar Arrays [IIa] (60 min) - Monday 11, 16:30 - 17:30
  • Manchester: Pulsar Timing Arrays and their Applications
  • Lee: Gravitational wave science with pulsar timing array
  • Yardley: Limiting and detecting gravitational waves with a pulsar timing array

  • Exploiting Pulsar Arrays [IIb] (75 min) - Monday 11, 18:00 - 19:30
  • Ferdman: The European Pulsar Timing Array collaboration
  • van Haasteren: Gravitational-wave background: setting limits using EPTA data
  • Bassa: The Large European Array for Pulsars
  • Rodin: Detection of gravitational waves with pulsar timing
  • Stinebring: Gravitational wave detection with pulsars: how nasty is the ISM?

  • Public lecture (60 min) - Monday 11, 20:30 - 21:30
  • Patrizia Caraveo: Four decades of gamma-ray pulsars hunting: from the early prompting to the Fermi revolution

  • Timing Pulsars [IIIa] (90 min) - Tuesday 12, 09:00 - 10:30
  • Demorest: High precision timing of millisecond pulsars at Arecibo and Green Bank
  • Champion: Measuring the mass of solar-system planets using pulsar timing
  • Hartnett: Comparison of astrophysical and terrestrial frequency standards: which are the best clocks?
  • Rickett: Pulsar scintillation arcs reveal anisotropy and intermittency in the turbulent interstellar plasma (Interstellar Spaghetti?)
  • Noutsos: Recent and future measurements of pulsar rotation measures and the Structure of the large-scale Galactic magnetic field

  • Timing Pulsars [IIIb] (90 min) - Tuesday 12, 11:00 - 12:30
  • Freire: Timing of pulsars in Globular Clusters
  • Perera : The evolution of PSR J0737-3039B and a model for relativistic spin precession
  • Lazaridis: Precision timing of the eclipsing binary PSR J2051-0827
  • Weltevrede: PSR J1119-6127: a pulsar trinity
  • Wang : Pulsar timing at Urumqi

  • Timing Pulsars [IVa] (80 min) - Tuesday 12, 16:00 - 17:30
  • Lyne: The origin of Timing Noise
  • Coles: Spectrum analysis of pulsar timing observations
  • Buchner: The Vela double glitch
  • Espinoza: Glitches in the rotation of pulsars
  • Karastergiou : Long term profile variability in a bright pulsar

  • Timing Pulsars [IVb] (35 min) - Tuesday 12, 17:55 - 18:30
  • Ray: Gamma-Ray Pulsar Timing with the Fermi LAT
  • Roberts: Companion wind's effects on 7 MSPs

  • Looking for the Progenitors [IVb] (60 min) - Tuesday 12, 18:30 - 19:30
  • Archibald: The LMXB/millisecond pulsar transition object FIRST J102347.6+003841
  • Breton: Neutron Star masses from the flushed face of irradiated pulsar companions
  • Ferraro: The true nature of Terzan 5: the largest galactic "furnace" of MSPs
  • Riggio: A model to interpret pulse phase shifts in accreting millisecond X-Ray pulsars: SAX J1808.4-3658 as a proof of concept

  • Studying Pulsar Faces [Va] (90 min) - Wednesday 13, 09:00 - 10:30
  • Kaspi: 'Grand Unification' in Neutron Stars
  • Miller: Multiwavelength studies of Rotating RAdio Transients
  • Caliandro: Search for gamma-ray emission from magnetars with the Fermi LAT
  • Ceccobello : Montecarlo simulations of emerging spectra in strong magnetic field atmospheres of neutron stars
  • Bagchi: The luminosity function of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters

  • Studying Pulsar Faces [Vb] (80 min) - Wednesday 13, 11:00 - 12:20
  • Israel: Probing magnetar physics through bursts and outbursts
  • Levin: The first magnetar discovered in the radio band
  • Malofeev: New observation of radio emission of two AXPS at low frequencies
  • Livingstone: Post-outburst X-Ray observations of the pulsar-magnetar transition
  • S. Ng: An X-Ray view of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 with Chandra and RXTE: comparing the 2008 and 2009 outbursts

  • Understanding Pulsar Emission [VIa] (90 min) - Thursday 14, 09:00 - 10:30
  • Romani: The Fermi LAT Pulsars
  • de Ona Wilhelmi: Latest results on Pulsar Wind Nebulae on the GeV to TeV energy range
  • Harding: Pair Cascades and Deathlines in Offset Magnetic Dipole Fields
  • Celik: On the phase averaged spectrum of pulsars and shape of their cutoffs

  • Understanding Pulsar Emission [VIb] (90 min) - Thursday 14, 11:00 - 12:30
  • Pilia: Looking for peculiar gamma-ray pulsars with the AGILE satellite
  • Johnson: Observations and modeling of Gamma-Ray MSPs seen with the Fermi LAT
  • Guillemot: Multiwavelength analysis of four gamma-ray millisecond pulsars
  • den Hartog: Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of high magnetic field pulsars
  • Parent: First detection of Gamma-Ray pulsations from a Globular Cluster MSP with Fermi

  • Understanding Pulsar Emission [VIIa] (90 min) - Thursday 14, 16:00 - 17:30
  • Gonthier: Population synthesis of radio and gamma-ray pulsars in the Fermi era
  • Pierbattista: Confronting pulsar gap models with Fermi observations and population expectations
  • Dormody: Using the sensitivity of Fermi-LAT pulsar blind searches to constrain the Geminga fraction
  • Becker: Pulsars at X-rays
  • De Luca: X-Ray observations of "Gamma-Ray only" pulsars

  • Understanding Pulsar Emission [VIIb] (90 min) - Thursday 14, 18:00 - 19:30
  • Pellizzoni: X-Ray and Gamma-Ray emission from mildly recycled pulsars
  • Mignani: Neutron Star astronomy with the HST: a glorious history, a bright future
  • Tiengo: The first deep x-ray and optical observations of the closest isolated radio pulsar
  • Gradari: Observations of optical pulsars with two hight time resolution photometers at Asiago and NTT
  • Reisenegger: Rotochemical heating of old neutron stars
  • Jones: Detailed studies of the Crab pulsar with GAVRT

  • Planning the Future [VIIIa] (90 min) - Friday 15, 09:00 - 10:30
  • D'Amico: The Sardinia Radio Telescope
  • Stappers: LOFAR
  • ter Veen: FRaTs, a real-time single pulse search for fast radio transients with LOFAR
  • Stairs: Pulsars with ASKAP
  • Bouchard: Survey strategies with SKA pathfinders

  • Planning the Future [VIIIa] (35 min) - Friday 15, 11:00 - 11:35
  • Gupta: Pulsar and transient science with the upgraded GMRT
  • Kramer: SKA - Pulsars in the future

  • Concluding Remarks (25 min) - Friday 15, 11:35 - 12:00
  • Jocelyn Bell

  • Posters

  • Barr: The Effelsberg northern sky pulsar survey
  • Bastrukov: Vibration-energy powered emission of quaking magnetars
  • Bhattacharyya: Discovery of unique subpulse drift pattern in PSR B1039-19
  • Bhattacharyya: Investigation of unique nulling properties of PSR B0818-41
  • Bilous: Pulsar in Ter5 A binary system: timing and single-pulse study
  • Burgay: Simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of magnetars
  • Chukwude: The spindown behaviour of some HARTRAO radio pulsars
  • Cognard: Pulsar observations at Nançay
  • Collins: Search for the Optical Counterparts of Fermi Discovered Pulsars
  • DeCesar: Likelihood analysis of pulsar emission models with LAT light curves and phase-resolved spectroscopy
  • Desvignes:Pulsar observations with the Allen Telescope Array
  • Drago Generation of strong internal magnetic fields due to R-modes in MSPS
  • Dumora: Search for Gamma Quiet pulsars
  • Eatough: Results from the latest re-analysis of the Parkes multi-beam survey
  • Gargano: On the spectral and timing analysis of CTA1 19 months after its discovery as a radio-quiet pulsar
  • Gil: Partially screened polar gap in pulsars
  • Gourgouliatos: Wind Confinement of Pulsar Magnetosphere
  • Graikou: Fractionated pulsAr histogram statistics
  • Grégoire: Constraining the Galactic MSP population using Fermi Large Area
  • Iacolina: Evolution in recycling scenario
  • Janssen: Multi-telescope timing with the EPTA
  • Jaroenjittichai: Evolution of the pulsar beam
  • Karuppusamy: The LEAP Pulsar Machines
  • Kerr: Getting the most from photons: detecting faint pulsars and setting stringent limits
  • Kijak: Pulsars with gigahertz-peaked spectra
  • Lopez:Observations of pulsars with Cherenkov telescopes
  • Lynch: A Study of Non-Recycled Globular Cluster Pulsars
  • Majid: Pattern recognition techniques for detection of radio transients
  • Malov: Drift model and the nature of AXPs and SGRs
  • Melikidze: Is the enigma of the pulsar radio emission solved?
  • Mickaliger: Pulsar science with the 43-m telescope at Green Bank
  • Olausen: A Look at the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408 One Year After its 2009 Outburst
  • Pennucci: The Very Massive Binary Pulsar J1614-2230
  • Potapov: Sensitivity of pulsar timing observations to low-frequency noise and search for the gravitational wave background using Pulsar Timing Array.
  • Rochford: Investigations into the behaviour of plasma surrounding pulsars.
  • Rodin: Detection of the gravitational waves with pulsar timing
  • Roy: A sensitive search for young radio pulsars in supernova remnants with the GMRT
  • Roy: Detection of multiple glitches from the young pulsar J1833-1034:
  • Sarkissian: Parkes Pulsar Backends
  • Sartore: Probing isolated compact remnants with microlensing
  • Serylak: The temporal properties of subpulse modulation of pulsars
  • Smith: PSRs J0248+6021 and J2240+5832: Learning From "Typical" Gamma-ray Pulsars
  • Smits: Parallax measurements of pulsars with the SKA
  • Smits: The Large European Array for Pulsars
  • Teplykh: New Data of Radio Observations of Two XDINSs at Low Frequencies
  • Thomas: Towards understanding the effects of geometry and rotation on pulsar intensity profiles
  • Torre: Discrete resampling for semitargeted continuous waves search
  • You: The effect of solar wind by pulsar observations
  • Young: Intermittent radio emission from PSR B0823+26
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