Each Session block ends with ~30 minutes of discussion time.
Monday: 7/28 - Neutron Star Structure
Bob Rutledge Measuring Neutron
Star Radii from Transiently Accreting Neutron Stars in Quiescence
Kaya Mori - X-ray spectroscopy of the isolated neutron star 1E1207.4-5209: Atmospheric composition and equation of state
Fred Walter - Do Radio-Quiet Isolated Compact Objects Have Atmospheres?
Jim Lattimer - Overview of Mass/Radius Relationship in Neutron Stars
Vijay Pandharipande -
Realistic Calculations of Dense Nucleon Matter and Normal Neutron Stars
Chuck Horowitz - The structure of neutron rich nuclei and neutron stars
Lunch: 12:45-14:30
Steve Thorsett (15 minutes) - The Distance (and Radius) of PSR B0656+14
Dong Lai - Neutron Star Surfaces and Their
Radiation
Craig Heinke - Thermal X-ray Radiation from
Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters: Constraints on Mass and Radius?
David Kaplan - Optical Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars
Sergei Zharikov - Optical observations middle-age and old pulsars
Tuesday: 7/29
Frits Paerels - Photospheric X-ray Spectroscopy of Neutron Stars
Todd Strohmayer - Superbursts: Thermonuclear Fury on Neutron Stars
Vicky Kaspi - (Anomalous) X-ray Pulsars and
SGRs (45 minutes)
Deepto Chakrabarti- Nuclear-Powered Millisecond Pulsars and the Maximum Neutron Star Spin Frequency
11:00-1:00
Andrew Cumming - Thermonuclear Flashes on Neutron Stars: Theory vs. Observation
Tony Piro - Pulsational Stability of Accreting Neutron Star Envelopes
Philip Chang - Diffusive Nuclear Burning in Neutron Star Envelopes
Alex Heger - Models for Type I X-Ray Bursts
Ira Wasserman - Neutron Star Precession: Evidence for Type II Superconductivity?
Bennet Link - Precession as a Probe of the Neutron Star Core
Anna Watts - The dynamics of differentially rotating neutron stars
Anna Hayes - Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
Dany Page - Neutron Star Cooling: The Minimal Cooling Paradigm
Kevin Schmidt - Neutron matter properties with auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo
Wednesday: 7/30 Novel Phases at High Density
Nils Andersson - Whatever happened to the r-modes?
Andreas Reisenegger - R-modes and gravitational radiation from millisecond pulsars
Shmulik Balberg - Neutron Stars as Cosmological Laboratories of Dark Matter
Madappa Prakash - A Tale of Two Mergers:
Searching for Strangeness in Compact Stars
Norman Glendenning - Phase transitions in neutron star accretors
Krishna Rajagopal - Phases of QCD Matter
Mark Alford - Quark Matter in Nature
Carsten Vogt - Photon Emission from Dense Quark Matter in Compact Stars
Hikers - Talk To Peter Milne
Thursday: 7/31 Core Collapse Supernovae
Adam Burrows - Current Thoughts on the Mechanism of Core-collapse Supernova Explosions
Todd Haines - Neutrino Detectors and Neutrinos from Supernovae
Raph Hix - - The consequences of nuclear electron capture in core collapse supernovae
Shannon Cowell - Weak Interactions in Nuclear Matter
Angeles Perez-Garcia - RPA Correlations in neutrino opacities for Supernovae
Sasa Ratkovic - Differential Neutrino
Rates and Emissivities from the Plasma Process in Astrophysical
Systems
Lunch: 12:15-14:15
Yong-Zhong Qian - Accretion-Induced Collapse
of a White Dwarf into a Neutron Star and Heavy Element
Nucleosynthesis
George Fuller - Neutrino Flavor Transformation, Compact Objects, and Supernovae
Andrew Steiner - Neutrino-Driven Winds Revisited: The Production of r-Process Nuclei
Matt Carmell - Developments in the Equation of State of Supernova Matter
Aristotle Socrates - The Neutrino Bubble Instability in ProtoNeutron Stars
Friday: 8/1 Magnetic Fields \& XMM Observations
Chris Thompson - Magnetars: Implications for Neutron Star Composition and Formation
Phil Arras - Magnetic Field Evolution in Neutron Stars
Ed Brown - Probing the Internal Temperature of an Accreting Neutron Star
Katherine McGowan - XMM-Newton Observations of PSR J0538+2817 and PSR B1706-44
Sergey Trudolyubov - Properties of X-ray binaries in M31
Concluding Remarks
After Lunch:
Compact Object Mini-Workshop
Posters:
Carlos Peralta - 3D Dynamics of Superfluid
Vortices in Young and Adolescent Pulsars
8:30-10:30
10:45-12:45
14:30-16:00
16:15-17:45
8:00-10:45
Variable Phenomena and Outbursts
Lunch 13:00-14:30
14:30-16:30
16:45-18:45
8:00-10:30
10:45-13:15
Wednesday Afternoon - Excursion/Free Time
8:00-10:00
10:15-12:15
14:15-16:15: r-Process and Neutrinos
16:30-18:00
Thursday Night - Conference Banquet
8:00-11:00