International Conference Physics of Neutron Stars - 2011 July 11-15, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia

Rotation powered pulsars, pulsars emission mechanisms

• Alice Harding (GSFC, USA): Gamma-ray pulsars
• Ioannis Contopoulos (Academy of Athens, Greece): Theory of the pulsar magnetosphere

Pulsar wind nebulae

• Oleg Kargaltsev (U. of Florida): Multiwavelength observations of pulsar wind nebulae
• Sergei Komissarov (Leeds U.): Theory of pulsar wind nebulae

Magnetars

• Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia U., USA): Theory of magnetars
• Wim Hermsen (SRON, the Netherlands): Observations of magnetars

Accretion powered pulsars

• Alessandro Patruno (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Observations of accreting millisecond pulsars
• Konstantin Postnov (Moscow U., Russia): X-ray pulsars
• Marina Romanova (Cornell U., USA): Modeling of accreting millisecond pulsars

Neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries

• Mike Revnivtsev (IKI, Russia): Observations of neutron star in low-mass X-ray binaries
• Rashid Sunyaev (IKI, Russia; MPA, Germany): Theory of boundary/spreading layers

X-ray bursts

• Edward Brown (Michigan State U., USA): Theory of X-ray bursts
• Duncan Galloway (Monach U., Australia): Observations of X-ray bursts

Isolated neutron stars

• Craig Heinke (U. of Alberta, Canada): Compact central objects
• David Kaplan (MIT): Observations of isolated neutron stars
• Alexander Potekhin (Ioffe Institute): Theory of thermal radiation from isolated neutron stars

Equation of state, structure, evolution

• Dany Page (UNAM, Mexico): Evolution of neutron stars

Mechanisms of supernova explosions

• Thomas Janka (MPA, Garching): Mechanisms of supernova explosions