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Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Program

Monday :: Tuesday :: Wednesday :: Thursday

Monday, June 10

  Neutron Star Magnetospheres
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
  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
  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
  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