Programme

G. Israel	2004: de SGR1806-20 anno mirabile	20 minutes
A. L. Watts	High frequency oscillations during magnetar flares: evidence for neutron star vibrations	20 minutes
A. Tiengo	Long term spectral variability in the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 1900+14	20 minutes
P. Woods (for E. Gogus)	RXTE Observations of SGR 1806-20 Bursts	20 minutes
J. D. Gelfand	Tracking the Remains of the Big One: The Evolving Radio Afterglow of the 27 Dec. 2004 Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20	20 minutes

13.10-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-16.00 Session 3 AXPs and SGRs: Observations (Chair: V. Kaspi)

A. G. Lyne	The Pulsar-Magnetar Connection	30 minutes
A. I. Ibrahim	Discovery of a 20 keV Absorption Feature from SGR 1806-20: Evidence of Vacuum Resonance in a Magnetar Atmosphere?	20 minutes
D. Gotz	Unveiling SGR 1806-20 with INTEGRAL	20 minutes
N. Rea	Foresee magnetars' variability	20 minutes

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

16:30-19.00 Session 4 AXPs and SGRs: Observations (Chair: G. Israel)

J. Vink	Magnetars in supernova remnants and magnetar formation scenarios	20 minutes
S. Wachter	Spitzer Observations of SGR and AXP Environments	20 minutes
U. Ertan	On the X-Ray and Infrared Enhancement of Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 2259+58	20 minutes
M. Durant	Intrinsic spectra of magnetars	20 minutes
P. R. den Hartog	AXP 4U 0142+61: New INTEGRAL results and the first simultaneous multi-frequency observation campaign	20 minutes
E. Gotthelf	Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197: Probing the Emission Mechanisms of Magnetars	20 minutes
B. Gaensler	Chandra Smells a RRAT: X-ray Detection of a New Class of Neutron Stars	30 minutes

Tuesday 25^th April

9.40-11.00 Session 5 AXPs and SGRs: Theory (Chair: L. Stella)

M. E. Gonzalez	Unusual X-ray emission from the young, high magnetic field radio pulsar PSR J1119-6127	20 minutes
R. Fernandez	Modelling the Quiescent keV emission from Magnetars	20 minutes
J. S. Heyl	QED can explain the non-thermal emission from SGRs and AXPs	20 minutes
A. M. Beloborodov	Corona of Magnetars	20 minutes

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Session 6 AXPs and SGRs: Theory (Chair: J. Heyl)

M. G. Baring	Modeling the Hard X-ray Components of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars	30 minutes
L. Stella	Gravitational Radiation from Newborn Magnetars	20 minutes
S. Dall'Osso	Constraining the emission of GW from newborn magnetars	20 minutes
I. Jones	Isolated neutron stars and gravitational waves	20 minutes

13.00-14.20 Lunch Break

14.20-15.50 Session 7 AXPs and SGRs: Theory (Chair: M. Baring)

A. Alpar	Isolated Neutron Stars, Cooling and Energy Dissipation	30 minutes
D. Eichler	Transient Heating and Cooling of Neutron Stars	20 minutes
N. Ikhsanov	Accretion by isolated neutron stars	20 minutes
K. Werner	Non-LTE modeling of Supernova Fallback Disks	20 minutes

Wednesday 26^th April

9.30-11.00 Session 8 Isolated NSs: Observations

M. C. Weisskopf	Chandra Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars	30 minutes
M. Cropper	XMM-Newton Observations of the Isolated Neutron Star RBS 1774	20 minutes
A. Treves	Steady and transient blank field sources	20 minutes
B. Posselt	XDINSs as soft X-ray sources	20 minutes

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Session 9 Isolated NSs: Observations

F. Haberl	The pulsars among the Magnificent Seven	30 minutes
M. H. van Kerkwijk	Spectra of isolated neutron stars	20 minutes
R. P. Mignani	Studies of Neutron Stars at Optical/IR Wavelengths	20 minutes
V. Malofeev	Radio emission from AXPs and XDINSs	20 minutes

13.00-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-16.10 Session 10 Isolated NSs: Observations

C. Motch	Measuring proper motions of isolated neutron stars with Chandra	20 minutes
F. M. Walter	The Trigonometric Parallax of Geminga. II. Consequences	20 minutes
A. De Luca	The puzzling compact X-ray source in RCW103	20 minutes
P. M. Woods	Evidence for a Binary Companion to the Enigmatic Compact Central Object 1E 1207.4-5209	20 minutes
D. Kaplan	X-ray Timing of two Nearby, Isolated Neutron Stars	20 minutes

16.10-16.40 Coffee Break

16:40-19.00 Session 11 Isolated NSs: Theory

J. Pons	The anisotropic thermal emission of magnetized neutron stars	30 minutes
D. Lai	Neutron Star Surfaces and and their Radiation	20 minutes
S. Zane	Neutron star surface emission: beyond the dipole model	20 minutes
A. Turbiner	Molecular systems in a strong magnetic field	30 minutes
K. Mori	Magnetized Oxygen atmosphere models and their application to the isolated neutron star 1E 1207.4-5209	20 minutes
W. Ho	Magnetic Hydrogen Atmosphere Models and the Neutron Star RX J1856.5-3754	20 minutes

20:30 Conference dinner at Hotel Russell

Thursday 27^th April

9.30-11.00 Session 12 PSRs: Observations

O. Kargaltsev

Thermal Radiation from Pulsars, from X-rays to Ultraviolet

30 minutes

L. Kuiper

Hard X-ray (10-100 keV) timing and spectral properties of young spin-down powered pulsars

30 minutes

V. Zavlin

X-ray emission from millisecond pulsars

30 minutes

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.50 Session 13 PSRs: Observations

K. McGowan	X-ray Observations of PSR B0355+54 and Its Pulsar Wind Nebula	20 minutes
M. A. Livingstone	New measurements of pulsar braking indices	20 minutes
W. Becker	X-ray Emission Properties of Old Pulsars	20 minutes
T. DeLaney	Constraints on Neutron Star Cooling using Chandra Observations of PSR B1509-58 and PSR B1951+32 20?	20 minutes

12.50-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-15.50 Session 14 PSRs: Observations/Theory

J. A. Gil	Thermal X-ray emission from polar cap in drifting subpulse radio pulsars	20 minutes
W. Hermsen	Vela Pulsar Profiles from the Radio to High-energy Gamma-rays	20 minutes
E. Nokhrina	Acceleration of plasma outflows from compact astrophysical sources	20 minutes
A. Timokhin	Could we see oscillations of the neutron star after the glitch in pulsar?	20 minutes

15.50-16.20 Coffee Break

16:20-18.50 Session 15 NS Cooling and Interior Structure

A. Y. Potekhin	The effects of strong magnetic fields on neutron-star thermal radiation	30 minutes
P. Haensel	EOS of neutron-star cores and spin-down evolution of pulsars	30 minutes
J. Lattimer	Equation of State Constraints from Neutron Stars	30 minutes
S. B. Popov	Neutron star masses: dwarfs, giants and neighbors	20 minutes
F. Burgio	A microscopic equation of state for proto-neutron stars	20 minutes
N. Andersson	Modelling the dynamics of superfluid neutron stars	20 minutes

Friday 28^th April

9.30-11.10 Session 16 NS Cooling and Interior Structure

D. P. Page	Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars with Strong Magnetic Fields	30 minutes
A. Reisenegger	Internal heating and thermal emission from old neutron stars: constraints on dense-matter and gravitational physics	30 minutes
M. Ruderman	Thermal emission areas of heated neutron star polar caps	20 minutes
A. Kaminker	Cooling of Isolated Neutron Stars With Magnetized Envelopes	20 minutes

11.10-11.40 Coffee Break

11.40-12.50 Session 17 NS Cooling and Interior Structure

J. E. Horvath

What do exotic models of compact stars have to offer?

30 minutes

B. Link

Precession as a Probe of the Neutron Star Interior

20 minutes

D. N. Aguilera

Spin-one color superconductivity in compact stars?

20 minutes

12.50-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-15.30 Session 18 NS Cooling and Interior Structure

D. Bandyopadhyay

Exotic bulk viscosity and its influence on neutron star r-modes

20 minutes

S. K. Reddy

Strange Stars: A Crust with Nuggets

20 minutes

K. P. Levenfish

Dichotomy of thermal states of SXRTs vs neutron superfluidity in neutron stars cores

20 minutes

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16:00-17.00 Session 19 Conclusions

G. Pavlov

Concluding remarks I

30 minutes

J. Trumper

Concluding remarks II

30 minutes

Poster sessions

Poster session 1: Tuesday April 25th - Wednesday April 26th

Poster	Name	Title
A1	J. E. Ventura	Thermal History of Magnetars
A2	I. F. Malov	The drift model of 'magnetars'
A3	Valery F. Suleimanov	Importance of Compton scattering to radiation spectra of isolated neutron stars
A4	Grigory Beskin	Search for fast optical activity of SGR 1806-20 at the SAO RAS 6-m telescope
A5	Jacco Vink	The peculiar spectral evolution of RX J0720.4-3125
A6	Motoyuki Saijo	Viscosity driven instability in rotating relativistic stars
A7	Victoria Komarova	Optical search for counterparts to isolated neutron stars at the 6m telescope of SAO RAS
A8	Rim Dib	10 Years of RXTE Monitoring of Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U0142+61
A9	Juan C Lopez Vieyra	The exotic ion H3++ in strong magnetic fields
A10	Juan C Lopez Vieyra	Two-electron molecules H2 and H3+ in a strong magnetic field
A11	Jacqueline K. Faherty	The Trigonometric Parallax of Geminga. I. The Technique
A12	Nanda Rea	Our distorted view of the magnetars
A13	Jillian A. Henderson	Is RX J1856.5-3754 a Strange Star?
A14	Bryan Gaensler	Are Magnetars Formed From Massive Progenitors?
A15	Cindy Tam	Chandra Monitoring of the Candidate Anomalous X-ray Pulsar AX J1845-0258
A16	Xiangdong Li	Spin down of young neutron stars with a fallback disk
A17	Jorge E. Horvath	SGR 1806-20 as a source of gravitational waves: constraints on models after the Dec 27, 2004 superflare
A18	Marta Burgay	Search for Radio Pulsations in AXPs
A19	David Lomiashvili	Non-precession Model of Rotating Radio Transients
A20	German Lugones	Giant flares of SGRs: Evidence for the birth of quark stars?
A21	German Lugones	Nucleation of superconducting quark bubbles and implications for neutron star structure
A22	A. M. Pires	TBA
A23	Alaa Ibrahim	The Origin of the 6.4 keV Emission Line from SGR 1900+14

Poster session 2: Thursday April 27th - Friday April 28th

Poster	Name	Title
B1	Brynmor D. L. Haskell	Mountain on Neutron stars
B2	Ian Hawke	Gravitational wave emission from collapsing neutron stars
B3	Kinwah Wu	QCD phase transition in neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts
B4	Anahit R. Harutyunyan	Observational manifestations of superdense stars containing quark matter
B5	Qiu-he Peng	The Origin of the superstrong magnetic field of neutron stars and magnetars
B6	Sergey V. Zharikov	The optical spectrum of the middle-age pulsar PSR B0656+14
B7	Anton V. Biryukov	On the peculiarities in the rotational frequency evolution of isolated neutron stars
B8	Brigitte Tome	Detectability of gravitational waves from the r-mode instability in newly-born neutron stars: The role of differential rotation
B9	Arkadi Kuzmin	Giant Pulses of Pulsar Radio Emission
B10	Elena Nokhrina	On the surface current in a neutron star polar cap
B11	Andrey Timokhin	Force-free magnetosphere of aligned rotator
B12	Lars Samuelsson	Oscillations in the Neutron Star Crust
B13	Richard Dodson	20 years of timing in the radio
B14	Nelson L. Falcon	Fast Cooling Stars and Heat Waves
B15	Tatiana Victorovna Shabanova	Slow glitches in the pulsar B1822-09
B16	Sergey Karpov	Short time scale pulse stability of the Crab pulsar in the optical band
B17	Armando Manzali	XMM-Newton assessment of the spectral shape of the Vela pulsar
B18	Hakki B Ogelman	X-ray observations of pulsars during Chandra-Newton era
B19	Andrei M Beloborodov	Processing of surface X-ray emission by electron-positron envelopes around young neutron stars
B20	Kostas Glampedakis	Elastic or magnetic? A toy-model of global magnetar oscillations and implications for QPOs during flares
B21	Alexey Aksenov	Structure of pair winds from compact objects with an application to the emission from hot bare strange stars
B22	Axel Schwope	A second absorption feature in the X-ray spectrum of RBS1223

Social Events

Conference Dinner: There will be a Conference Banquet on the evening of Wednesday 26 at the Russell Hotel. In the spirit of keeping the costs for the participants as low as possible we decided not to include this in the registration fee. The cost will be £50 per person and you can bring as many guests as you like (modulo availability). Please book in advance if you are interested. See here for further details.

Programme

Scientific Programme

AXPs and SGRs: Observations Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4

AXPs and SGRs: Theory Session 5, Session 6, Session 7

Isolated NSs: Observations Session 8, Session 9, Session 10

Isolated NSs: Theory Session 11

PSRs: Observations Session 12, Session 13

PSRs: Observations/Theory Session 14

NS Cooling and Interior Structure Session 15

NS Cooling and Interior Structure Session 16, Session 17, Session 18

Conclusions Session 19

Oral schedule

Monday 24th April

8.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.10 Welcome address

10.10-11.10 Session 1 AXPs and SGRs: Observations

Anomalous X-ray Pulsars

30 minutes

XMM-Newton view of Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters

30 minutes

11.10-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Session 2 AXPs and SGRs: Observations (Chair: S. Mereghetti)

2004: de SGR1806-20 anno mirabile

20 minutes

High frequency oscillations during magnetar flares: evidence for neutron star vibrations

20 minutes

Long term spectral variability in the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 1900+14

20 minutes

P. Woods (for E. Gogus)

RXTE Observations of SGR 1806-20 Bursts

20 minutes

Tracking the Remains of the Big One: The Evolving Radio Afterglow of the 27 Dec. 2004 Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20

20 minutes

13.10-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-16.00 Session 3 AXPs and SGRs: Observations (Chair: V. Kaspi)

The Pulsar-Magnetar Connection

30 minutes

Discovery of a 20 keV Absorption Feature from SGR 1806-20: Evidence of Vacuum Resonance in a Magnetar Atmosphere?

20 minutes

Unveiling SGR 1806-20 with INTEGRAL

20 minutes

Foresee magnetars' variability

20 minutes

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

16:30-19.00 Session 4 AXPs and SGRs: Observations (Chair: G. Israel)

Magnetars in supernova remnants and magnetar formation scenarios

20 minutes

Spitzer Observations of SGR and AXP Environments

20 minutes

On the X-Ray and Infrared Enhancement of Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 2259+58

20 minutes

Intrinsic spectra of magnetars

20 minutes

AXP 4U 0142+61: New INTEGRAL results and the first simultaneous multi-frequency observation campaign

20 minutes

Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197: Probing the Emission Mechanisms of Magnetars

20 minutes

Chandra Smells a RRAT: X-ray Detection of a New Class of Neutron Stars

30 minutes

Tuesday 25th April

9.40-11.00 Session 5 AXPs and SGRs: Theory (Chair: L. Stella)

Unusual X-ray emission from the young, high magnetic field radio pulsar PSR J1119-6127

20 minutes

Modelling the Quiescent keV emission from Magnetars

20 minutes

QED can explain the non-thermal emission from SGRs and AXPs

20 minutes

Corona of Magnetars

20 minutes

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Session 6 AXPs and SGRs: Theory (Chair: J. Heyl)

Modeling the Hard X-ray Components of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars

30 minutes

Gravitational Radiation from Newborn Magnetars

20 minutes

Constraining the emission of GW from newborn magnetars

20 minutes

Isolated neutron stars and gravitational waves

20 minutes

13.00-14.20 Lunch Break

Monday 24^th April

Tuesday 25^th April

Wednesday 26^th April