The Structure and Signals of Neutron Stars, from Birth to Death

from Monday 24 March 2014 (09:00) to Friday 28 March 2014 (19:55)


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24 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
26 Mar 2014
27 Mar 2014
28 Mar 2014
AM
09:00
Plenary session 1 - Constanรงa Providรชncia (University of Coimbra) (until 11:10)
09:00 --- Welcome and introduction ---
09:10 The Equation of State of Neutron Star Matter - Dr Hans-Josef Schulze (INFN Sezione di Catania)  
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09:50 Constraints on the Equation of State of Nuclear Matter from Heavy-Ion Collisions and from Structure - Prof. Pawel Danielewicz (East Lansing, MSU (USA))  
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10:30 Strangeness in Compact Stars - Dr Juergen Schaffner-Bielich (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt)  
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11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:40
Plenary session 2 - Constanรงa Providรชncia (University of Coimbra) (until 13:00)
11:40 Hybrid stars: how can we identify them ? - Prof. Mark Alford (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)  
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12:20 Exploring dense nuclear matter with heavy-ion collisions - Prof. Peter Senger (GSI Helmholtzzentrum fรผr Schwerionenforschung)  
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09:00
Plenary session 3 - Armen Sedrakian (Frankfurt University) (until 11:00)
09:00 Vela Pulsar Glitches and Nuclear Superfluidity - Prof. Nicolas Chamel (Universitรจ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)  
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09:40 Theory of cooling neutron stars - Prof. Dmitry Yakovlev (IOFFE Institute)  
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10:20 Superfluidity and superconductivity in neutron stars - Dr Andrew Melatos (University of Melbourne, Australia)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary session 4 - Armen Sedrakian (Frankfurt University) (until 12:50)
11:30 Neutron Star Binary Mergers as the Progenitors of Short GRBs - Prof. Edo Berger (Harvard, USA)  
12:10 Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars - Scott Ransom (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)  
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09:00
Plenary session 5 - Nils Andersson (Universitty of Southampton) (until 11:00)
09:00 The extreme activity of strong and low magnetic magnetars - Dr Nanda Rea (nstitute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC), Barcelona, ES)  
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09:40 Towards the great unification of neutron stars - Prof. Jose Pons (University of Alicante, Spain)  
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10:20 Magnetic energy dissipation and emission from magnetars - Dr Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia University)  
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11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary session 6 - Nils Andersson (Universitty of Southampton) (until 12:50)
11:30 The connection between core-collapse supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts - Dr Elena Pian (INAF, Italy)  
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12:10 GRB central engines - Dr Niccolรฒ Bucciantini (INAF Osservatorio di Arcetri)  
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09:00
Plenary session 8 - Ben Owen (Penn. State, USA) (until 11:00)
09:00 Combustion processes in compact objects - Prof. Friedrich Roepke (MPA Garching)  
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09:40 Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae - Dr Christian Ott (Caltech, USA)  
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10:20 Studying Pulsars with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope - Prof. Alice K. Harding (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)  
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11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary session 9 - Ben Owen (Penn. State Univ., USA) (until 12:50)
11:30 Probing the neutron star equation of state through X-ray spectroscopy - Craig Heinke (U)  
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12:10 Probing the neutron star equation of state through X-ray timing - Deepto Chakrabarty (M)  
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09:00
Plenary session 11 - Deepto Chakrabarty (M) (until 10:20)
09:00 Review talk on numerical modelling of neutron star coalesence and their remnants. - Dr Hans Thomas Janka (MPI Garching)  
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09:40 Continuous gravitational waves and neutron star microphysics - Prof. Benjamin Owen (Penn State, USA)  
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10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
Plenary session 12 - Deepto Chakrabarty (M) (until 12:10)
10:50 MAGNETIC FIELDS IN RELATIVISTIC COMPACT-OBJECT BINARIES - Prof. Luciano Rezzolla (AEI)  
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11:30 Extracting information on the neutron star equation of state via gravitational waves from binary inspirals - Dr Tanja Hinderer (Caltech, USA)  
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PM
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Afternoon session - Parallel A - Christian Ott (C) (until 16:30)
14:30 Direct formation of millisecond pulsars from rotationally delayed accretion-induced collapse of massive white dwarfs - Dr Paulo Freire (MPI Bonn)  
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14:50 Formation of Neutron Stars from the ONeMg Core of Super-AGB Stars - Ken'ichi Nomoto  
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15:10 Ultra-stripped Type Ic supernovae from close binary evolution - Dr Thomas Tauris (MPIfR Bonn)  
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15:30 Spectral signatures of super-luminous supernovae powered by magnetars and black holes - Dr Jason Dexter (UC Berkeley)  
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15:50 Neutrino-driven wind from the aftermath of binary neutron star mergers - Dr Albino Perego (TU Darmstadt, Institut fรผr Kernphysik Theoriezentrum)  
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14:30
Afternoon session - Parallel B - Isaac Vidana (University of Coimbra, Portugal) (until 16:30)
14:30 The symmetry energy and neutron star properties - Prof. C. Providรชncia (University of Coimbra)  
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14:50 Phase diagram of nuclear matter in the stellar medium - Prof. Francesca Gulminelli (LPC and Univ.of Caen)  
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15:10 Role of superfluidity close to the neutron drip line - Dr Jerome Margueron (IPN Lyon, France)  
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15:30 Clusterized nuclear matter in the (proto-)neutron star crust and the symmetry energy - Dr Adriana Raduta (IFIN-HH)  
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15:45 SU(3) symmetric hypernuclear matter and related stellar properties - Dr Debora Menezes (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)  
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16:00 New approach to an effective density dependence within an advanced relativistic mean-field theory. - Kristian Petrik (Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)  
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16:15 Dirac density functional for dense matter - Stefan Gmuca (Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Evening session - Parallel A - Adriana Raduta (IFIN-HH) (until 18:40)
17:00 Inhomogeneous phases in dense strongly interacting matter - a generic phenomenon? - Prof. Dirk Rischke (Institut fรผr Theoretische Physik Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitรคt)  
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17:20 Compact stars and general constraints on exotic phases - Prof. Stefan Schramm (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitรคt)  
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17:40 Equation of State for Hybrid Compact Stars - Prof. Veronica Dexheimer (Kent State University)  
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18:00 Constraining the Field Correlator Method by Neutron Star observations - Dr Dario Zappalร  (INFN Cezione di Catania)  
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18:20 Pasta structures in quark-hadron phase transition by non-local NJL model - Prof. Nobutoshi Yasutake (Chiba Institute of Technology)  
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17:00
Evening session - Parallel B - Scott Ransom (NRAO, USA) (until 18:30)
17:00 Population synthesis of radio and gamma-ray normal, isolated pulsars using Markov Chain Monte Carlo - Prof. Peter Gonthier (Hope College)  
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17:15 Population synthesis of Isolated Neutron Stars - Miguel Gullรณn (University of Alicante)  
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17:30 Evolution of relativistic binary systems - Jorge Horvath (I)  
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18:00 Energy transformations in the birth of neutron stars - Dr Ricardo Heras (University College London)  
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18:15 Follow-up searches for continuous gravitational waves - Dr Miroslav Shaltev (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover)  
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12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Afternoon session - Parallel A - Dmitry Yakovlev (IOFFE Inst., San Petersburg) (until 16:30)
14:30 Transport coefficients of nuclear matter in neutron star cores in the BHF framework - Peter Shternin  
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14:50 Transport coefficients in superfluid neutron stars - Dr Laura Tolos (ICE (CSIC-IEEC))  
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15:10 Tests of the nuclear equation of state and superfluid and superconducting gaps using the Cassiopeia A neutron star - Wynn Ho (U)  
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15:30 The neutron star in Cassiopeia A: equation of state, superfluidity, and Joule heating - Dr Alfio Bonanno (INAF-Catania)  
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15:50 Effects of superfluidity on cooling of compact stars - Armen Sedrakian (Frankfurt University)  
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16:10 Thermal Evolution of Compact Stars with Color Superconducting Quark Matter - Dr Tsuneo Noda (Kurume Institute of Technology)  
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14:30
Afternoon session - Parallel B - Alice Harding (NASA, USA) (until 16:30)
14:30 Origin and evolution of magnetars - Dr Sergei Popov (SAI Moscow)  
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14:50 Partially Screened Gap in Pulsars - Dr Andrzej Szary (Kepler Institute of Astronomy, Univ. Zielona Gora, Poland)  
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15:10 Clues to the formation and evolution of magnetars from X-ray observations of the associated supernova remnants - Toshio Nakano (University of tokyo)  
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15:30 Effect of strong magnetic ๏ฌelds on the nuclear โ€œpastaโ€ phase structure - Dr Rafael C. R. de Lima (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina)  
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15:45 Stellar compact objects under strong magnetic fields - Dr Rudiney Casali (Institut de Physique Nuclรฉaire de Lyon)  
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16:00 What makes magnetars (as well as normal pulsars) radio laud? - Prof. George Melikidze (J. Kepler Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Gora, Poland)  
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16:15 Azimuthally-structured radio beams of pulsars - Dr Jaroslaw Dyks (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Evening session - Parallel A - Nicolas Chamel (Universitรจ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) (until 18:30)
17:00 Sound modes and instabilities in a relativistic superfluid - Andreas Schmitt (Vienna University of Technology)  
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17:20 Effects of the symmetry energy in core-collapse supernovae - Matthias Hempel (B)  
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17:40 The equation of state from chiral forces in the Green's functions approach - Dr Arnau Rios Huguet (University of Surrey)  
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18:00 Numerical studies of the dynamical bar-mode instability in rapidly rotating relativistic stars - Dr Luca Franci (Universitร  di Parma)  
18:15 Neutron star metamorphosis: from sub-luminous accretion to rotation-powered quiescence - Manuel Linares (I)  
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Evening session - Parallel B - Jerome Margueron (IPN Lyon, France) (until 18:30)
17:00 Symmetry energy and neutron star radii - David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw)  
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17:30 Nucleon effective masses within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory: Impact on stellar neutrino emission - Mr Gabriele Taranto (INFN)  
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17:45 Properties of Infinite Nuclear Matter and Neutron Star Matter with the Gogny Interaction - Mr Roshan Sellahewa (University of Surrey)  
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18:00 PROPERTIES OF LOCALIZED PROTONS IN NEUTRON STAR MATTER AT FINITE TEMPERATURES - Dr Adam Szmagliล„ski (Institute of Physics, Cracow University of Technology)  
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18:15 Quark-Model Baryon-Baryon Interaction and Its Prospects in the Nuclear Matter Physics - Dr Kenji Fukukawa (INFN Sezione di Catania)  
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12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Plenary session 7 - Nils Andersson (Universitty of Southampton) (until 15:10)
14:30 Data sets of equation of state for core-collapse supernovae: their impact on dynamics and signals - Prof. Kohsuke Sumiyoshi (Numazu College of Technology, Japan)  
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15:15
Afternoon session - Parallel A - Jorge Horvath (IAG-USP) (until 16:30)
15:15 The effects of a neutron star translational and rotational motion in observable timing and evolution of radiopulsars - Anton Biryukov  
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15:35 The glitch activity of the Crab pulsar - Cristobal Espinoza (P)  
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15:55 Nuclear equation of state from observations of short gamma-ray burst remnants - Dr Paul Lasky (School of Physics, melbourne University)  
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16:15 GRB 130831A: The Birth and Death of a Magnetar at z=0.5 - Dr M. De Pasquale (Mullard Space Science Laboratory - University College London)  
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Afternoon session - Parallel B - Francesca Gulminelli (LPC Caen, France) (until 16:30)
15:15 Neutron stars and nuclear matter parameters - Hajime SOTANI (Kyoto University)  
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15:35 Obtaining the neutron star gravitational mass limit in the frame work of the LOCV method - Hamidreza Moshfegh (University of Tehran)  
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15:55 Electromagnetic signals from bare strange stars - Dr Giulia Pagliaroli (INFN - LNGS)  
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16:15 Inhomogeneous structures of neutron star crust and mechanical properties - Toshiki Maruyama (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Evening session - Parallel A - H.-Thomas Janka (MPI Garching, Germany) (until 18:40)
17:00 The long-term post-outburst spin down of low magnetic field magnetar Swift J1822.3-1606 - Mr Paul Scholz (McGill University)  
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17:20 Repeated, Delayed Torque Instabilities Following Flux Enhancement in the Magnetar 1E 1048.1 5937 - Robert Archibald  
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17:40 Superfluid magneto-elastic oscillations in Magnetars - Dr Michael Gabler (MPA Garching)  
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18:00 Superfluid and superconducting magnetars and QPO spectrum - Dr Andrea Passamonti (INAF-Observatory of Rome)  
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18:20 Three evolutionary paths for magnetar oscillations - Kostas Glampedakis  
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17:00
Evening session - Parallel B - Juergen Schaffner-Bielich (Frankfurt University) (until 18:15)
17:00 Equation of State for Neutron Stars based on a microscopic energy density functional : from the outer crust to the core - Prof. Xavier Vinas (Universitat de Barcelona)  
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17:20 Unified equations of state of dense matter: nuclear-matter properties โ€ฆ.. - Dr Anthea Fantina (Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, Universitรฉ Libre de Bruxelles)  
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17:40 Nuclear pasta phase in core-collapse supernova matter - Helena Pais (University of Coimbra)  
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18:00 Surface properties of nuclei embedded in a nucleon gas in the framework of the Extended Thomas-Fermi theory - Mr Franรงois Aymard (LPC Caen, France)  
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12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Afternoon session - Parallel A - Jose Pons (Alicante University, Spain) (until 15:45)
14:30 Physics of isolated neutron stars from their X-ray emission - Daniele Viganรฒ  
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14:50 Statistical ages and the cooling rate of X-ray dim isolated neutron stars - Dr Ramandeep Gill (CITA (University of Toronto))  
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15:10 Probing the crusts of transiently accreting neutron stars - Dr Nathalie Degenaar (University of Michigan)  
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15:30 Quiescent thermal emission of neutron stars in LMXBs - Dr Deborah Aguilera (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Bremen, Germany)  
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Afternoon session - Parallel B - Nanda Rea ((CSIC-IEEC Barcelona/University of Amsterdam)) (until 15:45)
14:30 Radio pulsar emission and crustal field evolution - Prof. Ulrich Geppert (DLR and University of Zielona Gora) Prof. Janusz Gil (University of Zielona Gora) Prof. Gogi Melikidze (University of Zielona Gora)  
14:50 The tormented quiescence of the transient neutron star low mass X-ray binary Centaurus X-4 - Federico Bernardini (w)  
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15:10 X-ray observations of gamma-ray pulsars detected by Fermi - Dr Roberto Mignani (INAF/IASF)  
15:30 Searching for pulsars with Einstein@Home - David Keitel (Albert Einstein Institute)  
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15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:15
Evening session - Parallel A - Nathalie Degenaar (Ann Arbor, Michigan Univ., USA) (until 17:15)
16:15 Neutron stars with hyperon cores: stellar radii and EOS near nuclear density - Prof. Pawel Haensel (Nicholaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Warsaw, Poland)  
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16:35 The neutron star radius and the dense-matter equation of state - Sebastien Guillot (M)  
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16:55 The birth of quark stars - Giuseppe Pagliara  
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16:15
Evening session - Parallel B - Ulrich R.M.E. Geppert (DLR) (until 17:15)
16:15 Gamma-ray emission and variability of the Crab Nebula above 100 MeV: theoretically challenging AGILE observations - Carlotta Pittori (ASDC and INAF-OAR)  
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16:30 Optical companions to binary Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters: the case of IGR J18245-2452/PSR J1824-2452I - Cristina Pallanca  
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16:45 Millihertz Quasi-periodic Oscillations in 4U 1636-536: Pulse Profile and Energy Spectrum - Dr Holger Stiele (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)  
17:00 X-ray Bursts from Accreting Neutron star LMXBs - Manoneeta Chakraborty (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)  
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20:00 --- Conference dinner ---
12:10 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Afternoon session - Parallel A - Andrew Melatos (University of Melbourne, Australia) (until 16:00)
14:00 Equation-of-state dependence of neutron-star mergers - Dr Andreas Bauswein (Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)  
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14:20 Results of the search for continuous gravitational wave signals from known pulsars - Dr Cristiano Palomba (INFN Roma)  
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14:40 Compact static stars in minimal dilatonic gravity - Dr Plamen Fiziev (Foundation of Theoretical and Computational Physics and Astrophysics (TCPA) Sofia University)  
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15:00 Measuring the Mass-Radius Relation of Neutron Stars with the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) - Prof. Luigi Stella (INAF - OAR)  
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15:20 On the gravitational signal from tidally deformed neutron stars in coalescing binaries - Prof. Leonardo Gualtieri (Rome University "La Sapienza", Italy)  
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15:40 Probing the neutron star equation of state with second-generation gravitational wave detectors - Michalis Agathos  
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14:00
Afternoon session - Parallel B - Janusz Gil (University of Zielona Gora, Poland) (until 16:00)
14:00 Multiwavelength properties of gamma-ray loud binaries. - Maria Chernyakova (D)  
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14:15 Radiation efficiencies of the pulsars (current update). - Sergey Zharikov  
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14:30 Constraint of Pulsar Wind Properties from Induced Compton Scattering off Radio Pulses - Dr Shuta Tanaka (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo)  
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14:45 g-modes in superfluid neutron stars - Elena Kantor  
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15:00 The first variable gamma-ray pulsar: challenging the models of high-energy magnetospheric emission - Massimiliano Razzano  
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15:15 Linkup of non-rotating neutron-star and outer-Schwarzschild metrics - Dr Lubos Neslusan (Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences)  
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15:30 Statistical measure of complexity in compact stars with global charge neutrality - Mr Rodrigo Souza (IAG - USP Sao Paulo)  
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
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Evening session - Parallel A - Leonardo Gualtieri (Rome Univ., Italy) (until 18:00)
16:30 Instability windows and evolution of rapidly rotating neutron stars - Mikhail Gusakov  
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16:50 New possible class of rapidly rotating neutron stars - Andrey Chugunov (I)  
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17:05 Magnetic fields and r-modes in slowly rotating relativistic neutron stars - Cecilia Chirenti (UFABC)  
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Evening session - Parallel B - Luigi Stella (INAF - Osservatorio di Roma) (until 18:00)
16:30 Simulations of X-ray Bursts and Superbursts - Ms Sofie Fehlmann (University of Basel)  
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16:45 Testing the Impact of Surface Temperature Inhomogeneities on Quiescent Neutron Star Mass/Radius Determinations - Mr Khaled Elshamouty (University of Alberta)  
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17:00 New multiwavelength observations of two gamma-ray pulsars J0357+3205 and J1357-6429 - Ms Aida Kirichenko (Ioffe Physical Technical Institute)  
17:15 New results of the time lags in the QPO's of 4U 1636-53 - M. Bronzato de Avellar (IAG in San Paulo, Brasil)  
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