Program
Monday :: Tuesday :: Wednesday :: Thursday
Monday, June 10
| Neutron Star Magnetospheres | ||
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| 8:50 am | Welcome | |
| Chair: Alice Harding | ||
| 9:00 am | Paul Ray | Fermi Pulsars |
| 9:35 am | Zaven Arzoumanian | NICER Results |
| 10:10 am | Discussion | |
| 10:25 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | Constantinos Kalapotharakos | The Fundamental Plane of Gamma-Ray Pulsars: From Observations to PIC Models |
| 11:35 am | Alexander Chen | Numerical Experiments on the Magnetosphere of Weak Pulsars |
| 12:10 pm | Discussion | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| Chair: Demos Kazanas | ||
| 2:00 pm | Alexander Philippov | Kinetic magnetospheres of pulsars, black holes and binary neutron stars I |
| 2:35 pm | Anatoly Spitkovsky | Kinetic magnetospheres of pulsars, black holes and binary neutron stars II |
| 3:10 pm | Discussion | |
| 3:30 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 pm | Ioannis Contopoulos | A ring-of-fire in the pulsar magnetosphere |
| 4:35 pm | Andrey Timokhin | Physics of Pair Pair Formation |
| 5:10 pm | Discussion | |
Tuesday, June 11
| Neutron Star Magnetospheres - Continued | ||
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| Chair: Frank Rieger | ||
| 9:00 am | Hayk Hakobyan | Reconnection and high energy radiation in the outer magnetospheres of gamma-ray emitting pulsars |
| 9:35 am | Demos Kazanas | A simplistic view of the Crab flares and the nebular variability |
| 10:10 am | Discussion | |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| Black Hole Magnetospheres | ||
| 11:00 am | Kyle Parfrey | Kinetic Plasma Simulations of Black-Hole Magnetospheres and Jets |
| 11:35 am | Amir Levinson | Simulations of plasma injection and dissipation in black hole magnetosphere |
| 12:10 pm | Discussion | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| Chair: Kyle Parfrey | ||
| 2:00 pm | Kouichi Hirotani | Time-dependent pair-production cascade in black hole magnetospheres |
| 2:35 pm | Antonios Nathanail | Plasmoids in the vicinity of a black hole |
| 3:30 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 pm | Frank Rieger | Magnetospheric Gamma-Ray Emission in AGN |
| 4:35 pm | Yajie Yuan | Black hole magnetospheric heating as the origin of the compact X-ray corona in Seyfert Galaxies |
| 5:10 pm | Discussion | |
| 6:30 pm | Workshop Dinner | |
Wednesday, June 12
| Magnetar Magnetospheres | ||
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| Chair: Wim Hermsen | ||
| 9:00 am | George Younes | Broad-band phase-resolved spectroscopy of magnetar 1RXS J170849.0-400910 |
| 9:35 am | Kun Hu | Photon Opacities in Highly-Magnetized Neutron Star Magnetospheres |
| 10:10 am | Discussion | |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | Zorawar Wadiasingh | Polarization signatures of the Resonant Compton model for Magnetars FRBs from Low Twist Magnetar Magnetospheres |
| 11:35 am | Discussion | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| Emission Physics and Modeling | ||
| Chair: Zorawar Wadiasingh | ||
| 1:30 pm | Diego Torres | A unifying perspective of the high-energy spectra of pulsars: theory, predictions and tests |
| 2:05 pm | Bronek Rudak | Multiwavelength Studies of Pulsars |
| 2:35 pm | Discussion | |
| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:30 pm | Alice Harding | Modeling High-Energy Emission from Pulsar Magnetospheres |
| 4:05 pm | Christo Venter | Probing the GeV Emission Mechanism of the Vela Pulsar via Energy-Dependent Light Curve Modelling |
| 4:40 pm | Discussion | |
Thursday, June 13
| Emission Physics and Modeling - continued | ||
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| Chair: Kostas Kalapotharakos | ||
| 9:00 am | Oleg Kargaltsev | Exploring the connection between the properties of pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae |
| 9:35 am | Peter Gonthier | Millisecond Pulsars and the Galactic Center Excess |
| 10:10 am | Discussion | |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | Wim Hermsen | Simultaneous X-ray and radio mode switching: Local and/or magnetospheric phenomenon? |
| 11:35 am | Joanna Rankin | Pair-Plasma Source Changes Configure the Bright and Quiet Modes of Pulsar B0823+26 |
| 12:10 pm | Discussion | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| Chair: Andrey Timokhin | ||
| 2:00 pm | Andrzej Szary | On the origin of drifting phenomenon in pulsars |
| 2:35 pm | Jarek Dyks | Coherent mode superposition as a source of complex radio pulsar polarization |
| 3:10 pm | Discussion | |
| 3:30 pm | End of Workshop | |