40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars and More

Aug 12-17, 2007 McGill University, Montreal Canada
www.ns2007.org

This conference is to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of radio pulsars in the summer of 1967. We will highlight the important discoveries of the last 40 years and address the most interesting and topical areas of neutron star astrophysics today.

Keynote speakers:

  • Anthony Hewish (Cambridge) and Joseph Taylor (Princeton)

Public lecture

  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford), evening of August 14th

Scientific topics:

  • pulsar searches and timing; accretion and recycling
  • millisecond pulsars in the field and in globular clusters
  • young neutron stars, including magnetars, traditional Crab-like pulsars, and isolated neutron stars
  • glitches, precession, and nulling
  • binary pulsars, including the double pulsar
  • constraints on mass, radius, and the equation of state
  • new and future instrumentation.

Abstract submission May 1st
Early registration deadline June 15th
Accommodation deadlines June 30th - July 12th