NS-2005: First Announcement

Conference on
Physics of Neutron Stars - 2005
June 27-29, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia

First announcement
[Plain text version of this announcement]

The conference on Physics of Neutron Stars will be held at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (hereafter the Ioffe) on June 27-29, 2005. This will be the 7th gathering on neutron star physics in Saint-Petersburg (after those in 1988, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001). Its aim is to bring together those who are interested in physics and astrophysics of neutron stars and related problems. 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 official language of the conference will be Russian, but there may be a few invited talks in English. Abstracts of the talks will be published in English.

The Organizing Committee:

D.A. Varshalovich (Chair, the Ioffe),
R.L. Aptekar (the Ioffe),
G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan (Space Res. Inst., Moscow),
A.M. Bykov (the Ioffe),
V.S. Imshennik (ITEP, Moscow),
A.V. Ivanchik (the Ioffe),
A.D. Kaminker (the Ioffe),
A.M. Krassilchtchikov (the Ioffe),
K.A. Postnov (Sternberg Astron. Inst., Moscow),
A.Y. Potekhin (the Ioffe),
M.E. Prokhorov (Sternberg Astron. Inst., Moscow),
Yu.A. Shibanov (the Ioffe),
D.G. Yakovlev (the Ioffe).

The sessions will include several invited talks, a larger number of contributed talks, and possibly a poster session. Duration of the invited and contributed talks will be determined in the Second announcement. The participants are kindly requested to pre-register before January 28, 2005, and to submit an application form and an abstract of presentation not later than March 25, 2005. Applications submitted later will be disregarded.

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 pre-registration form, important dates, and other information on the conference are present in the Internet at the URL http://www.ioffe.ru/astro/NS2005/

Additional information will be presented in the Second Announcement. Updates of the information on the conference may be also found on the conference Web-page.

Contacts:

E-mail of the conference:	ns@astro.ioffe.ru
Telephone numbers:	+7-812-2479180
	+7-812-2479326
Fax:	+7-812-5504890
Contact persons:	Alexander Davidovich *Kaminker, Dmitry Georgievich* *Yakovlev*

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