Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Coming Talks: Thursday, July 17

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

Ben StappersPulsar radio emission: overview of observational status9:30a
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 magnetars2:30p
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.