Pulsars and Neutron Stars Session

Monday, 16 December 1996, 2-4 pm

Preliminary Program

Chair: Don Backer (Berkeley)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: Don C. Backer, dbacker@bkypsr2.berkeley.edu

Speakers

Radiation Mechanism and Magnetospheric Structure

2:00 T. H. Hankins & J. C. Weatherall (NMIMT, Socorro), Emission Physics in Radio Pulsar Nanostructure: Theory and Observation
2:15 Carl Gwinn et al. (UC Santa Barbara), Resolving the Magnetosphere of the Vela Pulsar

Glitch Physics, Internal Structure of Neutron Stars

2:30 A. Sedrakian & J. Cordes (Cornell), Generation of Pulsar Glitches: A Superfluid Core Model
2:40 M. Borumand, R. Joynt, & W. Kluzniak (Wisconsin), Superfluid Densities in Neutron-Star Matter

Binary Pulsars

2:50 Fred Rasio (MIT), The Latest Theoretical and Observational Results on the M4 Triple
3:00 Dong Lai (Caltech), Binary Radio Pulsars and Neutron Star Formation

Isolated Neutron Stars, Polar Cap, and Thermal Emission

3:10 Patrizia Caraveo (Milano),
3:20 Mel Ulmer (Northwestern), CGRO OSSE Observations of Isolated Pulsars
3:30 Frederik Walter (SUNY), Ralph Neuhaeuser, Hans-Christian Thomas, Vyatcheslav Zavlin, and Sybille Peschke (MPE-Garching), ROSAT and HST Observations of the Isolated Old Neutron Star Candidate RXJ185635-3754
3:40 G. G. Pavlov (Penn State), V. E. Zavlin, J. Truemper (MPE-Garching), X-rays from Polar Caps of Radio Pulsars

Posters

Radiation Mechanism and Magnetospheric Structure

• Michael Isenberg (University of Chicago), John Wang (Maryland), Structure and Stability of Scattering Atmospheres in Neutron Star Magnetospheres
  
• Klaus Thielheim (Kiel), The Simulation of Neutron-Star Magnetospheres
  
• N. D'Amico (Bologna), The Northern Cross submillisecond pulsar-search experiment
  
• K. Chen (Hong Kong), Radiation Mechanisms of Pulsars
  

  Binary Pulsars

• Kopeikin S. M. (Tokyo Observatory), Binary Pulsars as Detectors of Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  
• Fred Rasio (MIT), More about the Latest Theoretical and Observational Results on the M4 Triple
  

  Isolated Neutron Stars, Polar Cap and Thermal Emission

• G. F. Bignami, P. Caraveo, R. Mignani , & F. Pierfederici (Milano), Ion Cyclotron Feature(s) from the atmosphere of Geminga
  
• Sachiko Tsuruta (Montana State University), Detectability of Thermal Radiation from Neutron Stars
  
• T. Belloni, L. Zampieri, and S. Campana (Illinois), Search for Old Neutron Stars in Molecular Clouds: Cygnus Rift and Cygnus OB7
  

  Pulsar Winds

• Vladimir Burdyuzha & Vladimir Kauts (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow), The New in Spectroscopy of Neutron Stars - Positronium
  
• Maria Chernyakova & A. Illarionov , (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow), Periodic Gamma-ray Generation in a Binary System with a Millisecond Pulsar
  
• S. Sigurdsson and R. Wijers (Cambridge), On the Vela Remnant