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

Summary of the Program
July 11, Monday	July 12, Tuesday	July 13, Wednesday	July 14, Thursday	July 15, Friday
09:15  Opening		EOS, structure, evolution
Rotation powered pulsars	Magnetars	09:00  Yakovlev	LMXB	Accretion powered pulsars
09:30  Harding	09:00  Beloborodov	09:40  Shternin	09:00  Revnivtsev	09:00  Patruno
10:10  Pavlov	09:40  Hermsen	10:10  Postnikov	09:40  Sunyaev	09:40  Postnov
10:40  Beskin	10:20  Kaspi	10:30  Oertel	10:20  Wijnands
11:10  break	10:50  break	10:50  break	10:40  break	10:20  break
11:40  Shibanov	11:20  Lai	11:20  Gusakov	11:10  van der Klis	11:10  Grebenev
12:00  Mereghetti	11:50  Turolla	11:40  Baiko	11:40  Degenaar	11:30  Romanova
12:20  Gonthier	12:10  Teplykh	12:00  Chugunov	12:00  Petri	12:10  Lovelace
12:40  Ng	12:30  Trümper	12:20  Novak	12:20  D'Ai	12:30  Kaur
13:00  Parfrey	12:50  Frederiks
13:20    Lunch	13:10    Lunch	12:40    Lunch	12:40    Lunch	12:50    Lunch
15:20  Contopoulos	15:10  Fernandez	Excursion to the Hermitage. Boat trip.	X-ray bursts	Isolated neutron stars
16:00  Posselt	15:30  Suleimanov		14:40  Brown
	15:50  Gabler		15:20  Chenevez	14:50  Heinke
	16:10  D'Angelo		15:40  Linares	15:30  Kaplan
			16:00  Zhang	16:10  Popov
16:20    break	16:30    break		16:20    break	16:30    break
Pulsar wind nebulae	Supernovae		16:50  Poutanen	17:00  Potekhin
16:50  Kargaltsev	17:00  Janka		17:30  Boutloukos	17:40  Pires
17:30  Komissarov	17:40  Moiseenko		17:50  Majczyna	18:00  Kamble
18:10  Tanaka	18:10  Foglizzo		18:10    end
18:30    end	18:30    end		19:00    Dinner	18:20    Closing

Session 1: ROTATION POWERED PULSARS [top]
Chairman: Dong Lai
9:30 —	Alice Harding (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): Gamma-ray pulsars in the Fermi Era [PDF (7.8 MB)] [Video (opening & the talk) (124 MB)]
10:10 —	George Pavlov (Pennsylvania State University): Recent NIR-optical-UV observations of pulsars [PDF (0.5 MB)] [Video (Part I) (54 MB)] [Video (Part II) (42 MB)]
10:40 —	Vasily Beskin & Alexander Philippov (Lebedev Physical Institute): On the mean profiles of radio pulsars [PDF (5.3 MB)] [Video (Part I) (68 MB)] [Video (Part II) (32 MB)]
11:10 —	Coffee/tea break
Chairman: Craig Heinke
11:40 —	Yuri Shibanov (Ioffe Institute): New identification of young Crab-like pulsars in the optical and infrared [PDF (2 MB)] [Video (60 MB)]
12:00 —	Sandro Mereghetti (INAF IASF Milano): X-ray and optical observations of the closest isolated radio pulsar [PDF (2.1 MB)]
12:20 —	Peter Louis Gonthier (Hope College, Holland): Population Synthesis of radio and gamma-ray pulsars in the Fermi era [PDF (6.4 MB)] [Video (65 MB)]
12:40 —	Chi-Yung Ng (McGill University, Montreal): Radio Polarization Measurements of the Longest Pulsar Trail G315.9-0.0 [PDF (1.4 MB)] [Video (57 MB)]
13:00 —	Kyle Parfrey (Columbia University, New York): Time-dependent simulations of force-free magnetospheres [PDF (14.7 MB)] [Video (57 MB)]
13:20 —	Lunch
Chairman: Vasily Beskin
15:20 —	Ioannis Contopoulos (Academy of Athens, Greece): Theory of the pulsar magnetosphere [Video (Part I) (67 MB)] [Video (Part II) (49 MB)]
16:00 —	Bettina Posselt (Pennsylvania State University): X-ray observations of old radio pulsars and the example of PSR B1451-68 [PDF (7.9 MB)] [Video (61 MB)]
16:20 —	Coffee/tea break
POSTERS
•	Anatoli Tsygan (Ioffe Institute): The relation of the surface small scale magnetic field to braking indices and inclination angles of radio pulsars
•	Denis Sobyanin (Lebedev Physical Institute): Formation of "lightnings" in an RRAT magnetosphere [PDF (254 KB)]
•	Tatiana Smirnova (Pushchino Radioastronomy Observatory): Pulse intensity distribution of pulsar B0950+08
•	Elena Nikitina (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory): On the structure of pulsar magnetospheres
•	Jerome Petri (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France): A unified polar cap/striped wind model for pulsed radio and gamma-ray emission in pulsars [PDF (1.5 MB)]
•	Shota Kisaka (Hiroshima University): Multi-wavelength emission region of gamma-ray emitting pulsars [PDF (1.7 MB)]
•	Anton Biryukov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute): Monotonous and thousands-of-years cyclic components of isolated radio pulsars spindown
•	Guojun Qiao (Peking University): Annular gap model for high-energy emission from normal and millisecond pulsars
•	Carl Gwinn (University of California, Santa Barbara): Effects of intermittent emission: Noise and signal for scintillating pulsars noise
•	Oleg Malov (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory): Average pulse profiles at frequencies 102 and 111 MHz and spectra of radio pulsars
•	Victor Kontorovich (Institute of Radio Astronomy, Kharkov): Radio emission with acceleration of electrons in a polar gap of a pulsar [PDF (0.9 MB)]
•	Agnieszka Slowikowska (University Zielona Gora, Poland): Decomposition of polarization components of the Crab pulsar and its nebula
•	Aleksei Medvedev (Oulu U.): X-ray luminosity function of rotation powered pulsars
•	Ilknur Gezer (University of Ege, Turkey): Similarity of Jupiter and RRATs

Session 2: PULSAR WIND NEBULAE [top]
Chairman: George Pavlov
16:50 —	Oleg Kargaltsev (University of Florida): Multiwavelength observations of pulsar wind nebulae [Video (Part I) (64 MB)] [Video (Part II) (32 MB)]
17:30 —	Sergei Komissarov (Leeds University): Theory and simulations of pulsar wind nebulae [Video (Part I) (64 MB)] [Video (Part II) (57 MB)]
18:10 —	Shuta Tanaka (Osaka University): Study of young pulsar wind nebulae and their pulsars with a spectral evolution model
18:30 —	End of the session
POSTERS
•	Dmitry Zyuzin (Ioffe Institute): Near-IR imaging of the two pulsar wind nebulae: 3C58 and G292.0+1.8
•	Oleg Kargaltsev (Florida State University): Pulsar-wind nebulae: Studying particle SED and its evolution with spatially-resolved spectra
•	F. Acero (Université Montpellier 2, France): A new PWN overlapping the VelaJr SNR [PDF (1.5 MB)]

Session 3: MAGNETARS [top]
Chairman: Alice Harding
9:00 —	Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia University, USA): Theory of magnetar activity [PDF (12 MB)] [Video (Part I) (66 MB)] [Video (Part II) (50 MB)]
9:40 —	Wim Hermsen (SRON, the Netherlands): Recent progress in observations of magnetars [PDF (3.2 MB)] [Video (Part I) (66 MB)] [Video (Part II) (29 MB)]
10:20 —	Victoria Kaspi (McGill University, Montreal): The radio pulsar/magnetar connection [PDF (2.7 MB)]
10:50 —	Coffee/tea break
Chairman: Wim Hermsen
11:20 —	Dong Lai (Cornell University): "Invisible" magnetic fields of pulsars and magnetars: Observational constraints, Hall cascade and crust breaking [PDF (0.2 MB)] [Video (Part I) (65 MB)] [Video (Part II) (23 MB)]
11:50 —	Roberto Turolla (University of Padova): Is SGR 0418+5729 a waning magnetar? [PDF (2 MB)] [Video (64 MB)]
12:10 —	Daria Teplykh (Pushchino Radio astronomy Observatory): New observations of three AXPs at low radio frequencies
12:30 —	Joachim Trümper (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics): The quiescent emission of AXPs and SGRs – powered by magnetic field decay or accretion? [PDF (1.9 MB)]
12:50 —	Dmitry Frederiks (Ioffe Institute): Observations of Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters with Konus experiments [PDF (1.3 MB)]
13:10 —	Lunch
Chairman: Roberto Turolla
15:10 —	Rodrigo Fernandez (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): Probing magnetar magnetospheres with X-ray polarization [Video (63 MB)]
15:30 —	Valery Suleimanov (University of Tübingen): Magnetized neutron star atmospheres: beyond the cold plasma approximation [PDF (14 MB)]
15:50 —	Michael Gabler (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics): Modulation of magnetar emission by Alfven oscillations of the neutron star [Video (58 MB)]
16:10 —	Caroline R D'Angelo (University of Amsterdam): Flare emission mechanisms in magnetars [PDF (1.6 MB)]
16:30 —	Coffee/tea break
POSTERS
•	Unal Ertan (Sabanci University, Istanbul): Evolution of SGR 0418+5729
•	Paul Lasky (University of Tübingen): Magnetic field instabilities in strongly magnetized neutron stars
•	Pablo Cerda-Duran (Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik): Magneto-elastic oscillations and the damping of crustal shear modes in magnetars
•	Daniele Viganò (University of Alicante, Spain): Force-free magnetosphere numerical solutions [PDF (1.5 MB)]
•	Alexander Gvozdev (Yaroslavl State University): Lower bound on magnetic field strength from SGRs 0526-66, 1806-20, 1900+14 giant flares
•	Sirin Caliskan (Sabanci University, Istanbul): X-ray outbursts of transient anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters
•	Alexander Mushtukov (Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo): Relativistic kinetic equation for Compton scattering of polarized radiation in a strong magnetic field
•	Igor Malov (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory): Do "magnetars" really exist?
•	Kazumi Kashiyama (Kyoto University): Magnetar asteroseismology with long-term gravitational waves
•	Paul Scholz (McGill University, Montreal): The 2009 outburst of magnetar 1E 1547-5408: Persistent radiative and burst properties [PDF (0.5 MB)]
•	Pavel Boldin (Space Research Institute, Moscow): Magnetar detectability by ART-XC aboard Spektr-RG
•	Dmitry Rumyantsev (Yaroslavl State University): Resonant axion production in magnetar magnetosphere
•	Peter Louis Gonthier (Hope College, Holland): Resonant Compton upscattering in high-field pulsars and magnetars [PDF (0.3 MB)]

Session 4: MECHANISMS OF SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS [top]
Chairman: Richard Lovelace
17:00 —	Thomas Janka (MPA, Garching): Mechanisms of supernova explosions [PDF (9.4 MB)]
17:40 —	Sergey Moiseenko (Space Research Institute): Magnetorotational mechanism of core-collapse supernova explosion [PDF (3.8 MB)]
18:10 —	Thierry Foglizzo (CEA Saclay France): A shallow water analog for asymmetric core-collapse, neutron star kick and spin [PDF (1.4 MB)]
18:30 —	End of the session
POSTERS
•	Ivan Korneev (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics): What kind of fission is more important in the r-process?
•	Alexey Aksenov (Institute for Computer-Aided Design, Moscow): One dimensional model of the gravitational collapse of the stellar core and the neutrino luminosity
•	Alessandro Brillante (Goethe U., Frankfurt): Gravitational collapse to third family compact stars [PDF (0.3 MB)]
•	Timur Fatkhullin (Special Astrophysical Observatory): Ultraluminuos SN2009de: End of evolution of a supermassive star?
•	Muneeb Rahman (Islamia College, Peshawar, Pakistan): Weak Decay Rates and mechanism of supernova explosions
•	Alexey Aksenov (Institute for Computer-Aided Design, Moscow): Rotational mechanism of the collapse and the possible gravitational radiation at the rotating stellar core collapse
•	Melina Bersten (University of Tokyo): Physical and observed parameters of Type II-plateau supernovae
•	Yury Uvarov (Ioffe Institute): A leptonic model of the SNR RX 1713.7-3946 nonthermal emission
•	Alexander Moskvitin (Special Astrophysical Observatory): Spectral and photometric monitoring of core-collapsed SNe at SAO RAS
•	Alexander Kuznetsov (Yaroslavl State U.): Dirac neutrino magnetic moment and possible time evolution of neutrino signal from a supernova

Session 5: EQUATION OF STATE, STRUCTURE, EVOLUTION [top]
Chairman: Edward Brown
9:00 —	Dmitry Yakovlev (Ioffe Institute): Evolution of neutron stars
9:40 —	Peter Shternin (Ioffe Institute): Cooling neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant: Evidence for superfluidity in the core [PDF (2.3 MB)] [Video (62 MB)]
10:10 —	Sergey Postnikov (Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM): Maximally model independent equation of state for neutron star matter [PDF (10 MB)]
10:30 —	Micaela Oertel (LUTH, CNRS/Observatoire de Paris/Université Paris 7): Collective excitations in the neutron star crust [PDF (0.2 MB)] [Video (64 MB)]
10:50 —	Coffee/tea break
Chairman: Dmitry Yakovlev
11:20 —	Mikhail Gusakov (Ioffe Institute): Decoupling of superfluid and normal pulsation modes in neutron and hyperon stars [PDF (2.3 MB)] [Video (60 MB)]
11:40 —	Denis Baiko (Ioffe Institute): Shear Modulus of Neutron Star Crust [PDF (0.7 MB)]
12:00 —	Andrey Chugunov (Ioffe Institute): Electrical conductivity of the neutron star crust at low temperatures [PDF (3.1 MB)] [Video (60 MB)]
12:20 —	Jerome Novak (CNRS – Observatoire de Paris, Meudon): Relativistic numerical models for stationary superfluid neutron stars [PDF (0.4 MB)] [Video (57 MB)]
12:40 —	End of the session
POSTERS
•	Elena M. Kantor (Ioffe Institute): Novel mechanism for the variation of braking index in young pulsars
•	Adam Szmagliński (Cracow U.): Proton localization and magnetic field evolution in dense neutron star matter [PDF (103 KB)]
•	A.P. Igoshev (Saint-Petersburg U.): New synthetic evolution model of isolated neutron stars: from Main Sequence to dying
•	Debarati Chatterjee (University of Heidelberg): Effect of bulk viscosity on Tkachenko modes in superfluid neutron stars
•	Maria Glushikhina (Space Research Institute, Moscow): Global equations for the heat transfer in magnetized neutron stars
•	Vyacheslav Klimenko (Ioffe Institute): The contribution of longitudinal plasmons to the thermodynamics of dense electron plasma
•	Tyler Engstrom (Penn State Department of Physics): Towards a phase diagram for accreting neutron star crusts: free energy calculations of close packed lattices
•	Grigor Alaverdyan (Yerevan State University): Neutron stars in RMF theory with and without scalar-isovector delta-meson field
•	Andrey Chugunov (Ioffe Institute): Nonradial superfluid modes in oscillating neutron stars
•	Andrey Kozhberov (Ioffe Institute): Physical features of binary Coulomb crystals [PDF (1.3 MB)]
•	Alexander Kholtygin (St. Petersburg State University): Statistics of magnetic fields of massive stars, white dwarfs and neutron stars
•	Gevorg Hajyan (Yerevan State University): Stability valley of strange dwarfs: When can they explode?

Afternoon  —  Excursion to the Hermitage. Boat trip.

Session 6: NEUTRON STARS IN LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARIES [top]
Chairman: Sergei Grebenev
9:00 —	Mike Revnivtsev (IKI, Russia): Observations of neutron star in low-mass X-ray binaries [PDF (1.3 MB)] [Video (Part I) (65 MB)] [Video (Part II) (49 MB)]
9:40 —	Rashid Sunyaev (IKI, Russia; MPA, Germany): Theory of boundary/spreading layers [PDF (2.3 MB)] [Video (Part I) (64 MB)] [Video (Part II) (53 MB)]
10:20 —	Rudy Wijnands (University of Amsterdam): Using very-faint X-ray transients to probe ultra dense matter in neutron stars [PDF (2.2 MB)] [Video (Part I) (66 MB)] [Video (Part II) (4 MB)]
10:40 —	Coffee/tea break
Chairman: Rudy Wijnands
11:10 —	Michiel van der Klis (University of Amsterdam): Quasi periodic oscillations [Video (Part I) (63 MB)] [Video (Part II) (33 MB)]
11:40 —	Nathalie Degenaar (University of Amsterdam): New observational results on neutron star crust cooling in transient X-ray binaries [PDF (4.8 MB)] [Video (54 MB)]
12:00 —	Jerome Petri (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France): Constraining the mass and moment of inertia of neutron stars from quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binaries [PDF (0.6 MB)] [Video (56 MB)]
12:20 —	Antonino D'Ai (University of Palermo): X-ray spectroscopy of X 1822-371: when the accreting neutron star lies hidden [PDF (1.7 MB)]
12:40 —	Lunch
POSTERS
•	Morgane Fortin (CAMK & LUTH, Warsaw & Meudon): Modeling the thermal properties of quasi-persistent neutron star X-ray binaries [PDF (210 KB)]
•	Artem Prosvetov (MIPT, IKI): Comparative analysis of GX 339-4 and AQL X-1 outbursts
•	Gulizar Gencoglu (University of Ege, Turkey): A study on the evolutionary paths of LMXBs

Session 7: X-RAY BURSTS [top]
Chairman: Sergei Popov
14:40 —	Edward Brown (Michigan State University, USA): Theory of X-ray bursts, long bursts and superbursts [PDF (10.9 MB)] [Video (Part I) (67 MB)] [Video (Part II) (41 MB)]
15:20 —	Jérôme Chenevez (DTU Space, Copenhagen): INTEGRAL observations of long X-ray bursts [PDF (1.3 MB)] [Video (58 MB)]
15:40 —	Manuel Linares (MIT, Cambridge, USA): On the cooling tails of thermonuclear X-ray bursts: News from Terzan 5 [PDF (1.7 MB)] [Video (60 MB)]
16:00 —	Guo-Bao Zhang (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen): Spectral evolution of X-ray bursts in LMXB 4U 1636-53 [PDF (1.2 MB)] [Video (41 MB)]
16:20 —	Coffee/tea break
Chairman: Alexander Potekhin
16:50 —	Juri Poutanen (University of Oulu): New advances in spectral modeling of X-ray bursts: constraining neutron star radii [PDF (7.7 MB)] [Video (Part I) (49 MB)] [Video (Part II) (10 MB)]
17:30 —	Stratos Boutloukos (University of Tübingen): New constraints on thermonuclear bursts from the highest precision X-ray spectra [PDF (0.3 MB)]
17:50 —	Agnieszka Majczyna (Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw): Determination of fundamental parameters of neutron star in MXB 1728-34 from fitting of burst spectra by the ATM model atmospheres [PDF (2.1 MB)]
18:10 —	End of the session

19:00–21:00  —  Conference dinner.

Session 8: ACCRETION POWERED PULSARS [top]
Chairman: Juri Poutanen
9:00 —	Alessandro Patruno (University of Amsterdam): Observations of accreting millisecond pulsars [PDF (4.7 MB)] [Video (Part I) (66 MB)] [Video (Part II) (56 MB)] [Video (Part III) (23 MB)]
9:40 —	Konstantin Postnov (Moscow University, Russia): X-ray pulsars [PDF (2 MB)] [Video (Part I) (35 MB)] [Video (Part II) (65 MB)] [Video (Part III) (55 MB)]
10:20 —	Coffee/tea break
Chairman: Konstantin Postnov
11:10 —	Sergei Grebenev (Space Research Institute): Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients and other wind-fed accretors - testing with the Corbet diagram [PDF (1 MB)] [Video (65 MB)]
11:30 —	Marina Romanova (Cornell University, USA): Modeling of accreting millisecond pulsars [Video (Part I) (66 MB)] [Video (Part II) (32 MB)]
12:10 —	Richard Lovelace (Cornell University): Accretion in the magnetic propeller regime [PDF (2.3 MB)] [Video (Part I) (66 MB)] [Video (Part II) (2 MB)]
12:30 —	Ramanpreet Kaur (University of Amsterdam): The true nature of seven enigmatic faint persistent slow X-ray pulsators [PDF (8 MB)] [Video (58 MB)]
12:50 —	Lunch
POSTERS
•	Evgeny Derishev (Institute of Applied Physics): Principal physical effects in gyroresonant radiation transfer
•	Olga Toropina (Space Research Institute): Bondi-Hoyle accretion on magnetized neutron star
•	Sergey Tarasov (IKI RAN, MEPHI): Non-equilibrium layer of neutron stars
•	Alexander Kaurov (St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University): Observations of accreting pulsars with Konus-Wind [PDF (1.3 MB)]
•	Mikhail Garasyov (Institute of Applied Physics): Spectral and statistical properties of gyroresonant radiation from compact stars
•	Rüdiger Staubert (University of Tübingen): New insights into the physics at work in the accreting binary pulsar Her X-1 [PDF (0.4 MB)]
•	Suzan Dogan (University of Ege, Izmir, Turkey): Disk-magnetosphere interaction in neutron stars
•	Anna Chashkina (Sternberg Astronomical Institute): Magnetic field estimates for accreting neutron stars in massive binary systems and models of magnetic field decay [PDF (67 KB)]
•	Jari Kajava (University of Oulu): Evidence for a varying disc-magnetosphere coupling in the 2008 outburst of SAX J1808.4-3658

Session 9: ISOLATED NEUTRON STARS [top]
Chairman: Oleg Kargaltsev
14:50 —	Craig Heinke (University of Alberta, Canada): Observations of compact central objects [PDF (7.2 MB)] [Video (Part I) (66 MB)] [Video (Part II) (43 MB)]
15:30 —	David Kaplan (MIT): Observations of isolated neutron stars [PDF (11 MB)] [Video (Part I) (65 MB)] [Video (Part II) (56 MB)]
16:10 —	Sergei Popov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow): Evolution and observational appearance of isolated neutron stars with decaying magnetic fields [PDF (1.5 MB)] [Video (Part I) (59 MB)] [Video (Part II) (4 MB)]
16:30 —	Coffee/tea break
Chairman: David Kaplan
17:00 —	Alexander Potekhin (Ioffe Institute): Theory of thermal radiation from isolated neutron stars [PDF (2 MB)] [Video (Part I) (67 MB)] [Video (Part II) (44 MB)]
17:40 —	Adriana Mancini Pires (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam): First dedicated XMM-Newton and ESO-VLT observations of the isolated neutron star in the Carina Nebula (2XMM J104608.7-594306) [PDF (8.6 MB)] [Video (63 MB)]
18:00 —	Atish P Kamble (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): New optical/UV counterparts and the spectral energy distributions of nearby, thermally emitting, isolated neutron stars [PDF (6 MB)] [Video (45 MB)]
POSTERS
•	Daria Teplykh (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory): New data on profiles and dynamic spectra of two XDINS at low radio frequencies [PDF (2.5 MB)]
•	Andrey Danilenko (Ioffe Institute): The Vela and Geminga pulsars in the mid-infrared
•	Aida Kirichenko (Ioffe Institute): A likely optical counterpart of the PSR J1357-6429

INTERDISCIPLINARY POSTERS [top]
•	Alexei Pozanenko (Space Research Institute): Model of extended emission of short Gamma-ray Bursts

18:20 —  CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE [PDF (0.4 MB)]