Talks
All talks were scheduled for 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion time
Monday 27 September
Session 1: Pulsar Searches (Chair - Dick Manchester)
09:00 | Dick Manchester | Welcome |
09:10 | Lina Levin | Recent discoveries from the HTRU survey |
09:30 | Marianne Lemoine-Goumard | Fermi-LAT discovery of pulsars in blind searches |
09:50 | Mike Keith | Discovering Radio Pulsars in Fermi Gamma-ray Sources |
10:10 | Discussion |
10:30 Morning tea/coffee
Session 2: Magnetosphere/High-Energy Emission (Chair - Don Melrose)
11:00 | Andrew Melatos | Diagnosing Magnetospheric Structure through Radio Polarimetry |
11:20 | Sarah Traine | Stokes Tomography with Thermal X-ray emission |
11:40 | Marie-HИlХne Grondin | Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae and their associated pulsars |
12:00 | Mark Bennett | Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Soft Gamma Repeater flares |
12:20 | Discussion |
12:30 Lunch
Session 3: Timing/Gravitational Waves (Chair - Mike Keith)
13:30 | Dick Manchester | Status report on the PPTA project |
13:50 | Daniel Yardley | Detecting the Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing |
14:10 | K.J. Lee | Gravitational wave science with pulsar timing |
14:30 | Stefan Oslowski | J0437-4715 timing |
14:50 | Aidan Hotan | The legacy of CPSR2 and directions for future instruments |
15:10 | Discussion |
15:30 Afternoon tea/coffee
Session 4: Emission Mechanisms (Chair - Andrew Melatos)
16:00 | Thierry Reposeur | Observation of radio loud pulsars with the Fermi-LAT telescope |
16:20 | Timothy Young | The polarisation of single pulses from Vela |
16:40 | Mohammad Rafat | Linear acceleration emission in radio pulsars |
17:00 | Rai Yuen | Pulsar Electrodynamics and Current Density |
17:20 | Discussion |
18:00 Conference Dinner
Tuesday 28 September
Session 5: Glitches etc. (Chair - Bill Coles)
09:00 | Meng Yu | Timing solutions for 177 Parkes pulsars |
09:20 | Anthony van Eysden | Pulsar glitch recovery and the superfluidity coefficients of bulk nuclear matter |
09:40 | Jim Palfreyman | Consecutive Bright Pulses in the Vela Pulsar and did the recent glitch change anything? |
10:00 | Willie Kunert | DM Variations and Structure Functions |
10:20 | Discussion |
10:30 Morning tea/coffee
Session 6: Instruments/Tools (Chair - George Hobbs)
11:00 | Jonathan Khoo | The ANDS-ATNF Data Archive |
11:20 | Ankur Chaudhary | The ANDS-ATNF Data Sets |
11:40 | Jonathon Kocz | Removing RFI from pulsar data |
12:00 | Ben Barsdell | Seeing pulsars through GPUs |
12:20 | Thomas Russell | A new phased-array LBA for high precision pulsar science |
12:40 | Discussion |
12:50 Lunch
Session 7: Pulsar Timing (Chair - Aidan Hotan)
13:50 | Don Melrose | Pulsar current revisited |
14:10 | Ding Chen | International Time standards |
14:30 | George Hobbs | Pulsar timescale - coping with real data |
14:50 | Kranav Sharma | Results of High Precision Timing of 20 Millisecond Pulsars |
15:10 | Bill Coles | Spectrum analysis of pulsar timing residuals |
15:30 | Discussion and Closing Remarks |