ASTROPHYSICS OF NEUTRON STARS
2 - 6 July 2007 İstanbul 
 

(R: 50’ talk + 10’ discussion; Rs=40’ talk + 5’ discussion;  C: 25’ talk + 5’ discussion)

2 July 2007 Monday

09:45 – 10:15  Registration and Coffee

10:15 – 10:30  Welcome
10:30 – 11:30  (R)  Inside Neutron Stars- M. Ali Alpar  (Summer school lectures)
11:30 – 12:30  (R) Equation of State of Neutron Stars - Feryal Ozel
12:30 – 14:30  Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30  (R) Magnetic Field Evolution in Neutron Stars – A. Reisenegger
15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 (R)  Accretion Disks– D. Psaltis
17:00 – 17:30  (C)  Inner Radius of Disks around Propellers– K. Y. Eksi

3 July 2007 Tuesday

09:30 – 10:00  Coffee
10:00 – 11:00  (R)  Millisecond Phenomena around Neutron Stars– M. van der Klis
11:00 – 12:00  (R)  Accreting Millisecond Pulsars– R. Wijnands
12:00 – 12:30  (C)  High-frequency Oscillations in Accretion Disks around Neutron Stars– H. Erkut
12:30 – 14:00  Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00  (R) Spectral modeling of supernova-fallback disks – K. Werner (cancelled)
15:00 – 16:00 (R)  Young Supernova Remnants with Compact Objects: PulsarWind Nebulae and CCOs– S. Reynolds

16:00 – 20:00          ASTRONS Business Meeting
 

4 July 2007 Wednesday 

09:30 – 09:45  Coffee
09:45 – 10:30  (Rs)  A Jet model for Compact X-ray Sources– N. Kylafis
10:30 – 11:15  (Rs)  X-ray Binary Populations in Galaxies – M. Gilfanov
11:15 – 11:45  Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30  (Rs)  Space Cowboy Odyssey, Beyond the Gould Belt– S. Popov
12:30 – 14:00  Lunch Break

Afternoon: FREE

20:00 – Workshop Dinner

5 July 2007 Thursday
09:30 – 10:00  Coffee
10:00 – 10:45  (Rs)  Athmospheres of Magnetized Neutron Stars- V. Suleimanov
10:45 – 11:15  (C)  Exploiting Bowen Fluorescence for System Parameter Determinations in Neutron Star Binaries– D. Steeghs
11:15 – 11:30  Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00  (C)  Analysis of two Unusual X-ray Bursts Observed with INTEGRAL- N. Lund
12:00 – 12:30  (C)  INTEGRAL Observations of Selected Dipping LMXBs– S. Balman
12:30 – 14:00  Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30  (C)  On the X-ray Lightcurve, Pulsed Radio Emission and Spin Frequency Evolution of the Transient AXP XTE J1810-197– U. Ertan
14:30 – 15:00  (C)  X-ray Spectral Modelling of Magnetars– T. Guver
15:00 – 15:30  (C) Investigating Coronae around LMXBs – E. Gogus   
15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 (R) Testing Strong Field GR with Neutron Stars – D. Psaltis
17:00 – 17:30  (C) Physical Essential of the Strong Magnetic Field for both Neutron Stars and Magnetars - Qiu-he Peng

6 July 2007 Friday

09:30 – 10:00  Coffee
10:00 – 11:00  (R) Future Optical and X-ray Observatories for Pulsars – W. Becker
11:00 – 12:00  (R) Future X- and Gamma-ray Missions – E. Kalemci
12:00 – 12:30  (C) Multilayer Mirrors for Hard X-rays – N. Lund
12:30 – 14:00  Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00  (R) The Lobster Wide Field Monitor – G. Fraser
15:00 – 15:30  (C) X-ray Polarimetry Using Dichroic Filters – A. Martindale 
15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:30 (C) X- and Gamma-ray Detector Development at DNSC – I. Kuvvetli
16:30 – 18:00  Discussion