Annual NewCompStar Conference 2016

from Monday, 25 April 2016 (08:00) to Friday, 29 April 2016 (18:00)
Istanbul (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Apr 2016
26 Apr 2016
27 Apr 2016
28 Apr 2016
29 Apr 2016
AM
08:00
Registration (until 09:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:00
Plenary Talk (until 10:50) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:10 Gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars - Ian Jones (University of Southampton)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:00 gravitational wave emission from isolated neutron stars and the dynamics of the associated unstable oscillation modes - Kostas Glampedakis   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Plenary Talk (until 13:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
11:20 Some new aspects of the QCD phase transition in proto-neutron stars and core-collapse supernovae - Matthias Hempel (Basel University)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
12:10 Measurements of Masses and Radii Of Neutron Stars - Dr Tolga Güver (Istanbul University)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:00
Plenary Talk (until 10:50) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:10 R process nucleosynthesis in supernovae and neutron star mergers - Friedrich Thielemann, Andreas Lohs (University of Basel)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:00 Transport phenomena in neutron stars - Laura Tolos (University of Groningen)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Plenary Talk (until 13:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
11:20 Quark Deconfinement in the Context of the Millisecond Magnetar Model for GRBs - Dr Niccolo Bucciantini   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
12:10 Probing neutron star properties with pulsar glitches - Prof. Pierre Pizzochero   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:00
Plenary Talk (until 10:50) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:10 Gravitational-wave signal from binary neutron stars: a systematic analysis of the spectral properties - Luciano Rezzolla (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Frankfurt, Germany)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:00 "Topics in the Theory of Dense Matter: Progress and Challenges" - Prof. Chris Pethick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Plenary Talk (until 12:10) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
11:20 Neutron stars in alternative theories of gravity - models,astrophysical implications and universal relations - Dr Daniela Doneva   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:00
Plenary Talk (until 10:50) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:10 Neutron stars as the progenitors & central engines of GRBs - Dr Antonia Rowlinson   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:00 Inferring properties of the central engine of short GRBs - Paul Lasky   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Plenary Talk (until 13:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
11:20 Do hyperons exist in the interior of neutron stars? - Dr Isaak Vidana   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
12:10 Interacting fermion star in Kaluza--Klein World, FRG Approach to Nuclear Matter in Extreme Conditions - Gergely Gabor Barnaföldi- Szilvia Karsai-Peter Posfay (Wigner RCP Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:00
Plenary Talk (until 10:50) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
09:10 Observational constraints on the physical properties of neutron stars - Dr Bettina Posselt   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:00 Observational aspects of isolated neutron stars - Silvia Zane (university college London)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Plenary Talk (until 12:40) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
11:30 Nonlinear Superfluid Dynamics - Evidence in Pulsars - Prof. M. Ali Alpar (Istanbul University)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
11:50 Astrophysical constraints on the equation of state? - Dr Morgane Fortin   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
PM
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Afternoon session (until 15:40) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:00 The Critical Strain Angle along the Neutron Star Crust - Mr Onur Akbal   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:20 The effect of the magnetic field on the inner crust of neutron stars - Mr Constança Provdência   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:40 Spin polarized neutron star matter and core-crust transition in the neutron stars - Dr Mohsen Bigdeli   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:00 Modification of magicity toward the dripline and its impact on electron-capture rates for stellar core collapse - Adriana Raduta (IFIN-HH)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:20 Electromagnetic structure of Neutron Stars - Mr Antonio Graziano Pili   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:40 --- Cofee break ---
16:00
Evening session (until 16:40) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:00 The extraordinary 2011 outburst of the magnetar Swift J1822.3-1606 Magnetar Model for GRBs - Manoneeta Chakraborty (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:20 Interaction modes of magnetic compact stars with gaseous environment near a supermassive black hole - Dr Vladimir Karas (Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Afternoon session (until 16:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:00 A simple model for pulsar glitches - Mr Marco Antonelli   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:20 Accretion in white dwarf binaries - short time variability and broadband noise characteristics: connecting CVs to neutron star and black hole binaries - Prof. Şolen Balman   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:40 Force-free magnetospheres of neutron stars - Dr Taner Akgün   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:00 Non-ideal effects in relativistic plasmas with the ECHO code for GRMHD - Luca Del Zanna   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:20 Learning about neutron stars from pulsar precession observations - Mr Gregory Ashton   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:40 3D Hall Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Neutron Stars - Dr Justin Elfritz   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:20
Evening session (until 18:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:20 Propeller effect in X-ray pulsars - Dr Sergey Tsygankov   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:40 On the maximum accretion luminosity of magnetized neutron stars: connecting X-ray pulsars and ultraluminous X-ray sources - Dr Alexander Mushtukov   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
12:10
Contributed Talk (until 12:30) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
12:10 Neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories with a massive scalar field - Prof. Stoytcho Yazadjiev   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
Free & MC meeting (until 17:30) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Afternoon session (until 16:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:20 Spherically Symmetric Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations - Mr Kevin Ebinger   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:40 R-process nucleosynthesis and binary neutron star mergers - Mr Luke Bovard   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:00 Hadron-quark phase transition in hybrid stars and first insights for generating a new supernova EoS - Mr Oliver Heinimann   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:20 Cool quark matter - Aleksi Vuorinen   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:40 Neutrino-nucleon interactions in supernovae matter - Dr Andreas Lohs   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:20
Evening session (until 18:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:20 Maximum mass, moment of inertia and compactness of relativistic stars - Ms Cosima BREU   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:40 Artificial entropy viscosity in numerical relativistic hydrodynamics - Mr Federico Guercilena   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
12:40
Contributed Talk (until 13:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
12:40 Multiwavelength observations of gamma-ray loud binaries - Maria Chernyakova (DCU)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Afternoon session (until 16:00) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:00 Constraints on the neutron star properties from the relativistic energy density functional - Prof. Nils Paar   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:20 Numerical modelling of compact static stars in Minimal Dilatonic Gravity - Denitsa Staicova   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
14:40 Relativistic stars in Starobinsky gravity with matched asymptotic expansion - Mr Sercan Çıkıntoğlu   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:00 Excluded volume effect and neutron stars’ equation of state - Prof. Ludwik Turko   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:20 Microscopic Vortex Velocity for Neutron Stars - Mr Erbil Gügercinoğlu   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
15:40 Phase lags of quasi-periodic oscillations across source states in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 - Marcio de Avellar (Universidade de São Paulo)   (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)
16:00
Closing Speech & Group Photo Shooting (until 16:30) (Bogazici University-Rectorate Building)