2nd ASTROphysics of Neutron Stars Workshop Program

R: 50m talk + 10m discussion
Rs: 40mtalk + 5m discussion
C: 25m talk + 5m discussion
Cs: 15m talk + 5m discussion

30 June 2008 Monday
09:00 - 09:30 Registration and Coffee
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome
09:45 - 10:45 (R) Inside neutron stars - M. A. Alpar
10:45 - 11:05 (Cs) Dynamics of superfluid neutron star cores- T. Sidery
11:05 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:50 (C) Oscillations of superfluid neutron stars- B. Haskell
11:50 - 12:20 (C) A hydrodynamical trigger mechanism for pulsar glitches- K. Glampedakis
12:20 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30 (R) kHz quasi-periodic oscillations- T. Belloni
15:30 - 16:00 (C) High-frequency QPOs as global disk modes- M. H. Erkut
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:45 (C) Aperiodic variability of HMXBs- P. Reig
16:45 - 17:15 (C) RXTE observations of SMC X-1- A. Baykal

1 July 2007 Tuesday
09:30 - 09:45 Coffee
09:45 - 10:45 (R) X-ray emission properties of rotation powered NSs - W. Becker
10:45 - 11:15 (C) XMM-Newton observations of pulsars with drifting subpulses- J. Gil
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 (R) Recent developments for accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars- R. Wijnands
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45 (Rs) To Pulse or not to Pulse? A Weighty Question - F. Ozel
14:45 - 15:15 (C) On the Distance, Mass and Radius of the Neutron Star in the X-ray Binary 4U 1608-52- T. Guver
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 (C) Deviations from the Flux-Recurrence Time Relationship in GS 1826-238: Evidence for a Truncated Accretion Disk- T. Thompson
16:00 - 16:30 (C) Formation and nature of magnetic fields in NSs- J. Braithwaite
16:30 - 16:50 (Cs) Cyclotron lines in accreting X-ray pulsars - Models and Observations- G. Schonherr
17:00 - 20:00 ASTRONS Business Meeting (ASTRONS partners only)

2 July 2007 Wednesday
09:30 - 09:45 Coffee
09:45 - 10:45 (R) Gravity beyond Einstein- D. Psaltis
10:45 - 11:05 (Cs) Population synthesis of binary pulsars- S. Oslowski
11:05 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:40 (Cs) Unresolved X-ray emission and hot ISM in the bulge of M31- A. Bogdan
11:40 - 12:10 (Cs) Wind braking of pulsars and related objects- J. Horvath
12:10 - 12:30 (Cs) Modeling X-ray Emission from Radio Pulsars- G. Melikidze
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon: FREE, city excursions
20:00 - Workshop Dinner

3 July 2007 Thursday
09:30 - 09:45 Coffee
09:45 - 10:30 (Rs) Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars- E. Gogus
10:30 - 10:50 (Cs) Multiband near-infrared observations of 4U 0142+61 and 1E 2259+586 with Subaru/IRCS - Y. Tanaka
10:50 - 11:10 (Cs) Search for NIR Pulsation of the AXP 4U 0142+61- M. Morii
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50 (Cs) Extragalactic magnetars- S. Popov
11:50 - 12:10 (Cs) Broad-band noise characteristics of AXPs and SGRs- S. Balman
12:10 - 12:30 (Cs) Magnetar Seismology- L. Samuelsson
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30 (C) A resonant cyclotron scattering model for the soft X-ray spectra of magnetars - S. Zane
14:30 - 15:00 (C) On the transient and persistent AXPs- U. Ertan
15:00 - 15:30 (C) Evolution of viscous thin disks- Y. Eksi
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 (Rs) X-ray variability, viscous time scale and Lindblad resonances in LMXBs - M. Gilfanov
16:30 - 16:50 (Cs) The population of radio-quiet thermally emitting isolated neutron stars - A. Mancini Pires
16:50 - 17:10 (C) RXTE-PCA Observations of XMMU J054134.7-682550 - A. Baykal

4 July 2007 Friday - Prof. Umit Kiziloglu Session -
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee
10:00 - 10:45 (Rs) GLAST Mission- J. Knodlseder
10:45 - 11:30 (Rs) Simbol X- C. Motch
11:30 - 12:15 (Rs) XEUS and the prospects for astronomical X-ray Polarimetry- N. Bannister
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45 (Rs) Fast Optical Photometry and Spectroscopy- T. Marsh
14:45 - 15:00 (Cs) The optical counterparts to IGR J06074+2205 & IGR J01583+6713- E. Beklen
15:00 - 15:15 (Cs) An Optical Spectroscopic Approach to Be/X-ray Transient Systems: V0332+53 (BQ Cam)- M. Ozbey
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 (C) High energy astrophysics instrumentation efforts in Turkey based on semiconductor detectors- E. Kalemci
16:00 - 16:30 (C) Detecting dark matter using neutron stars- H. Ogelman