Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars - Main Page
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard Epstein, Chris Fryer, Sanjay Reddy

Revised Program - Unless otherwise noted, all talks are 25+5 minutes.

Each Session block ends with ~30 minutes of discussion time.



Monday: 7/28 - Neutron Star Structure


8:30-10:30

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?


10:45-12:45

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


14:30-16:00

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?


16:15-17:45

David Kaplan - Optical Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars

Sergei Zharikov - Optical observations middle-age and old pulsars



Tuesday: 7/29


8:00-10:45 Variable Phenomena and Outbursts

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


Lunch 13:00-14:30


14:30-16:30

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


16:45-18:45

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


8:00-10:30

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


10:45-13:15

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



Wednesday Afternoon - Excursion/Free Time

Hikers - Talk To Peter Milne



Thursday: 7/31 Core Collapse Supernovae


8:00-10:00

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


10:15-12:15

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


14:15-16:15: r-Process and Neutrinos

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



16:30-18:00

Matt Carmell - Developments in the Equation of State of Supernova Matter

Aristotle Socrates - The Neutrino Bubble Instability in ProtoNeutron Stars


Thursday Night - Conference Banquet

Friday: 8/1 Magnetic Fields \& XMM Observations


8:00-11:00

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