Programme

A PDF version of the programme, including session chairs, can be found here.

Monday
9:00-9:30 Registration/Coffee/Welcome
9:30-10:00 The Discovery of Pulsars Jocelyn Bell Burnell
10:00-10:30 Neutron Star Zoo Vicky Kaspi
10:30-10:45 LOFAR Tied Array All-Sky Survey for Pulsars and Fast Transients Chia Min Tan
10:45-11:00 An Update on the GBNCC Pulsar Survey Ryan Lynch
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-11:45 Search for Pulsars and Transients with the GMRT Bhaswati Bhattacharyya
11:45-12:00 Discovery of Twelve Millisecond Pulsars in Fermi LAT Unassociated Sources With the GBT telescope Siraprapa Sanpa-arsa
12:00-12:15 The Einstein@Home Gamma-ray Pulsar Survey Colin Clark
12:15-12:30 A Fast Folding Algorithm for Large Scale Surveys, and the Discovery of the Slowest Spinning Radio Pulsar Vincent Morello
12:30-12:45 50 Years of Candidate Pulsar Selection – What next? Robert Lyon
12:45-13:00 Coherent De-dispersion: History and Results Timothy Hankins
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:15 Millisecond Pulsar Surveys at Low Observing Frequencies Cees Bassa
14:15-14:45 The First Binary Pulsars and What They Told Us About Binary Star Evolution Dipankar Bhattacharya
14:45-15:00 X-Ray and Optical Properties of Black Widows and Redbacks Mallory Roberts
15:00-15:15 A Decade of Transitional Millisecond Pulsars Amruta Jaodand
15:15-15:30 A Black Widow Up Close Robert Main
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:30 Pulsar Emission Physics: An Historical Overview Alice Harding
16:30-16:45 Correlated Emission and Spin Variability in Radio Pulsars Benjamin Shaw
16:45-17:00 Switching States in Pulsar Magnetospheres Phrudth Jaroenjittichai
17:00-17:15 X-ray Properties of the Mode-switching Pulsar B0943+10 Sandro Mereghetti
17:15-17:30 PSR B0943+10: a Multi-wavelength Picture of a Mode Switching Pulsar Anna Bilous
17:30-19:30 Reception

 

 

Tuesday
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-10:00 Observing the Plasma-Physical Processes Behind Pulsar Radiation Joanna Rankin
10:00-10:15 Organised Polarisation Variability in Radio Pulsars and the Consequences for Emission Theory Cristina Ilie
10:15-10:30 Multi-wavelength Studies of the Crab Pulsar’s Giant Pulses Natalia Lewandowska
10:30-10:45 Mapping the Emission Location of the Crab Pulsar’s Giant Pulses Marten van Kerkwijk
10:45-11:00 3D Pulsar Magnetospheres from First Principles: Kinetic Simulations Anatoly Spitkovsky
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-11:45 Pulsar Polarization: The View from the Southern Hemisphere Simon Johnston
11:45-12:00 Comparing Gamma-ray Loud and Gamma-ray Quiet Radio Pulsars – A Unification Scheme Patrick Weltevrede
12:00-12:15 PSR J1906+0746: From Spin-Precession to Emission Physics Gregory Desvignes
12:15-12:30 Pulsar Observations in the Short Millimetre Regime Pablo Torne
12:30-12:45 Gigahertz-peaked Spectra Pulsars Karolina Rozko
12:45-13:00 The Noisy Ageing of Slow Pulsars: New Thoughts on the Evolution of the Pulsar Population Aris Karastergiou
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 The First Multi-wavelength Pulsars Wim Hermsen
14:30-15:00 The Multi-wavelength View of Pulsars Elizabeth Ferrara
15:00-15:15 The Puzzling Source at the Center of the SNR RCW103 Alice Borghese
15:15-15:30 Magnetar-like Emission in Other Neutron Star Classes Nanda Rea
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:15 Radio Silencing Magnetar Bursts Robert Archibald
16:15-16:30 Hard Tails in High-Field Pulsars and Magnetars Zorawar Wadiasingh
16:30-16:45 Magnetar Giant Flare High-energy Emission Chris Elenbaas
16:45-17:00 The Missing Links of Neutron Star Evolution in the eROSITA Era Adriana Mancini Pires
17:00-17:15 X-ray Emission from Millisecond Pulsars Slavko Bogdanov
17:15-17:30 Modelling Energy-dependent Pulsar Light Curves Christo Venter

 

Wednesday
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-10:00 From Einstein’s Theory to Gravity’s Chirp Joseph Taylor
10:00-10:30 Gravity Tests with Pulsars Michael Kramer
10:30-10:45 The Discovery of the Most Relativistic Binary Pulsar: an Update from the HTRU-S Low Latitude Survey Andrew Cameron
10:45-11:00 Testing General Relativity With the Pulsar Triple System Anne Archibald
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-11:45 Strong Field Tests of Gravity with PSR J1141-6545 Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan
11:45-12:00 PSR J1913+1102: A Highly Asymmetric and Relativistic Double Neutron Star Binary System Robert Ferdman
12:00-12:30 Gravitational Waves K J Lee
12:30-12:45 Solar System Ephemerides, Pulsar Timing, and Navigation Joseph Lazio
12:45-13:00 Solar-System Studies with Pulsar Timing Arrays Nicolas Caballero
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 The SKA Evan Keane
14:30-15:00 The Future of Pulsar Research and Facilities Matthew Bailes
15:00-15:15 Pulsar Searches with the SKA Lina Levin Preston
15:15-15:30 A Low-frequency Pulsar Renaissance Jason Hessels
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:15 Enhancing MeerKAT Ewan Barr
16:15-16:30 Pulsar Science with the Canadian CHIME Telescope Cherry Ng
16:30-16:45 Time-domain Astronomy with the GMRT: uGMRT to eGMRT Jayanta Roy
16:45-17:00 FAST Di Li
17:00-17:15 Searching for X-ray Pulsations from Neutron Stars Using NICER Paul Ray
17:15-17:30 Optical Pulsars in the Extremely Large Telescope Era Andrew Shearer

 

Thursday
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-10:00 Pulsar Glitches and their Impact on Neutron-star Astrophysics Richard Manchester
10:00-10:30 Glitches/NS Masses and EOS Bryn Haskell
10:30-10:45 Thermonuclear Burst Oscillations and the Dense Matter Equation of State Anna Watts
10:45-11:00 Dynamical Onset of Superconductivity and Retention of Magnetic Fields in Cooling Neutron Stars Wynn Ho
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-11:45 Glitch Activity of Radio Pulsars and Magnetars Rafael Fuentes
11:45-12:00 Braking Indices and Spin Evolution Cristobal Espinoza
12:00-12:15 The Peculiar Rotational History of PSR J0537-6910 Danai Antonopoulou
12:15-12:30 Neutron Star Equation of State and Uncertainty on the Radius Determination Morgane Fortin
12:30-12:45 A Window into the Neutron Star: Modelling the Cooling of Accretion Heated Neutron Star Crusts Marcella Wijngaarden
12:45-13:00 Magnetospheric Switching in PSR B1828-11 Ingrid Stairs
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 High Energy Beams and Winds Roger Romani
14:30-15:00 Multimessenger (PWN/SNR/etc..) Roberta Zanin
15:00-15:15 Timing Three Dozen Pulsars in Terzan 5 Over a Dozen Years Scott Ransom
15:15-15:30 Evidence for an Intermediate-mass Black Hole in NGC 6624 Benetge Perera
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:15 The Pulsars in the Globular Clusters 47 Tucanae and M15: Latest Results from Long-term Timing Alessandro Ridolfi
16:15-16:30 Magnetar Nebulae can be Rotationally-powered Diego Torres
16:30-16:45 On the Radio-emitting Particles of the Crab Nebula: Stochastic Acceleration Model Shuta Tanaka
16:45-17:00 Absorption-like Features in Middle-aged Pulsars Prakash Arumugasamy
17:00-17:15 A Magnetar at the Heart of the Milky Way Ralph Eatough
17:15-17:30 The Galactic Center Magnetar: Broadband Single Pulses from J1745-2900 Shami Chatterjee
17:30-21:00 Conference Dinner

 

Friday
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-10:00 The Magnetoionic Universe: the Astro-optics of Pulsars, Bursts, and SETI James Cordes
10:00-10:15 Scattering Variability of the Crab Pulsar Laura Driessen
10:15-10:30 Anomalous Pulsar Scattering at LOFAR Frequencies  Marisa Geyer
10:30-10:45 Solar Wind Monitoring with the German LOFAR Stations Caterina Tiburzi
10:45-11:00 Anisotropy and Intermittency in the Interstellar Plasma Barney Rickett
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-11:45 Scintillation Arcs Shed Light on Scattering from Planar Plasma Sheets Dan Stinebring
11:45-12:00 Pulsar VLBI Scintillometry Ue-Li Pen
12:00-12:15 Extreme Scattering Events Toward Two Young Pulsars Matthew Kerr
12:15-12:30 Echoes in the Pulse Profile of PSR B2217+47 Daniele Michilli
12:30-12:45 Polarization Study of the Pulsars in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae Ferderico Abbate
12:45-13:00 Studying Magnetic Fields using Low-frequency Pulsar Observations Charlotte Sobey
13:00-13:15 Closing
13:15-14:00 Lunch
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