Coming Talks: Thursday, July 17

Talks scheduled for July 17th (times are Eastern Daylight Time):

Ben Stappers	Pulsar radio emission: overview of observational status	9:30a
Matthew Baring	Theoretical Perspectives on Non-Thermal Pulsar Emission	10:00a
Willem Hermsen	Non-thermal high-energy emission from radio pulsars: observational status prior to the GLAST era.	10:30a
Vyacheslav Zavlin	Pulsar high-energy emission: soft X-rays	11:30a
Alberto Pellizzoni	Recent pulsar results from AGILE	12:00p
Rene Breton	New Test of Gravity Using Eclipses in the Double Pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B	12:30p
Alice Harding	Multiwavelength Emission From Pulsar Slot Gaps	12:45p
Maxim Lyutikov	Crab giant pulses at sub-nanosecond resolution: quantitative model of non-trivial spectrum	2:00p
Jason Hessels	Uncovering the population of nearby neutron stars at low radio frequencies	2:15p
Yuri Lyubarsky	Theoretical overview of magnetars	2:30p
Fotis Gavriil	Review of Magnetar X-ray Observations	3:00p
Diego Götz	INTEGRAL and Magnetars: a hard X-ray approach to extreme neutron stars	5:00p
Peter Den Hartog	Different spectral components revealed in the high-energy pulse profiles of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars	5:30p
Joseph Gelfand	Radio Emission from the Magnetar SGR 1806-20 Giant Flare	5:45p
David Eichler	A model for the large amplitude QPO luminosity variation in the tail of SGR giant flares	6:00p
Andreas Reisenegger	Neutron star magnetic fields: a theoretical perspective	6:15p

In Montreal: Fantasia Film Festival

For those looking for something to do in the evenings, I highly recommend the Fantasia Film Festival, which is currently happening in and around Concordia University in the downtown area. This is Montreal's premiere alternative film festival. Sunday night I saw "Be a Man! Samurai School" (a comedy?), and I can definitely recommend it. The director was on hand and gave us an impressive martial arts display.