The conference will be held at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (hereafter the Ioffe) on June 6-8, 2001. This will be the sixth gathering on neutron star physics in St.-Petersburg (after those in 1988, 1992, 1995, 1997, and 1999). Its aim is to bring together those who are interested in physics and astrophysics of neutron stars. All subjects relevant to theory and observations of neutron stars are welcome: radiation (from radio to hard gamma-rays), origin, evolution in binary systems, merging, radio pulsars, X-ray pulsars, X-ray bursters, transients, soft gamma repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars, internal structure, atmospheres, neutrino emission, etc. The conference is planned as a Russian event (the sessions will be mainly in Russian), but scientists from other countries may also be present.

The Organizing Committee:

• D.A. Varshalovich (Chair, the Ioffe),
• R.L. Aptekar (the Ioffe),
• G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan (Space Res. Inst., Moscow),
• Yu.N. Gnedin (Pulkovo Observatory),
• A.V. Ivanchik (the Ioffe),
• A.D. Kaminker (the Ioffe),
• A.B. Koptsevich (the Ioffe),
• A.Y. Potekhin (the Ioffe),
• K.A. Postnov (Sternberg Astron. Inst., Moscow),
• M.E. Prokhorov (Sternberg Astron. Inst., Moscow),
• Yu.A. Shibanov (the Ioffe),
• D.G. Yakovlev (the Ioffe).

The contributions will be selected by the Organizing Committee. Abstracts of the accepted contributions will be published. An abstract should be in English, not larger than 1 page in total.

The application form, instructions for preparation of abstracts, and other information on the conference are present in the Internet at the URL http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/astro/NS2001

A limited financial support may be available.
Additional information on this support, scientific programme, accommodation, registration fee, and weather forecast will be presented in the Second Announcement to be distributed by e-mail not later than on May 15. Earlier updates of the information on the conference may be found on the above Web-page.

Contact person: Kaminker Alexander Davidovich

phones:	(812) 247-91-80
	(812) 247-93-26
fax:	(812) 550-48-90
e-mail:	ns@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru