Astrophysics of Compact Objects

The meeting will consist of invited/solicited talks (20-40 minutes), contributed talks (15 minutes) and posters. There may be room within the program to upgrade some contributed talks to (longer) solicited talks if such talks are considered of special interest to the participants. We also plan to leave room for last-minute new results. To be considered for oral talks, please submit your abstract by May 1, 2007.

• Core collapse of massive stars and SNe, formation of NS and BH, effect of rotation of B field, collapsars.
• Various manifestations of NSs: Pulsars, magnetars (AXP/SGR); thermal and nonthermal (radio and high-E) emission; surfaces and magnetospheres; internal structure & dynamics; transient pulsars; pulsar wind nebulae and SNRs.
• Pulsars/NSs as a tool: binary pulsars, probe of dense matter, GR, gravitational wave background and ISM.
• X-ray binaries: spectrum and variability, accreting X-ray pulsars.
• BH accretion: accretion physics, jets/outflows, microquasars, probe of strong gravity (e.g. Fe K line)
• Ultraluminous X-ray sources and IMBH.
• BH in the Galactic Center (stars and gas). AGN accretion flow.
• GRBs: afterglows and high-energy emission, recent SWIFT results, GRB/SNe connection, GRB hosts, long/short GRBs, physics of relativistic flows and particle accelerations; application of GRBs to astronomy.
• Compact binary evolution, ultracompact binaries. WD accretion and merger, SN Ia progenitors and explosions.
• Sources of gravitational waves: LIGO and LISA sources/sciences; coalescing compact binaries, recent GR simulations.
• Future prospects: GLAST, LIGO, LISA, Con-X, SKA, etc.

• Alessandra Buonanno (Maryland): Binary black hole coalescence and GWs
• Wei Cui (Purdue): TeV emission from compact objects (Hess, Veritas etc)
• Zigao Dai (Nanjing): GRB issues (maybe applications to cosmology)
• Lee Sam Finn (Penn State): Gravitational Waves, LIGO update/LISA
• Neil Gehrels (GSFC): SWIFT GRB results
• Andrei Gruzinov (NYU): Pulsar theory (Force free electrodynamics)
• JinLin Han (NAOC): Probe Galactic Magnetic Fields with Pulsars: New results
• Alice Harding (GSFC): High-E emission from pulsars etc, GLAST connection
• George Hobbs (ATNF): Pulsar Timing and Gravitational Waves, Pulsar Timig Arrays
• David Kaplan (MIT): Isolated NSs (thermal emitters), NS/SNR connection
• Andrew King (Leicester): Compact Binaries (possible GRB connection), Accreting Sources/ULXs
• Pawan Kumar (UT Austin): GRB issues
• Chryssa Kouveliotou (Huntsville): GRB-SN Energetics
• Yuri Levin (Leiden): Magnetar oscillations, QPOs; galactic center stars
• Amir Levinson (Tel Aviv): Jets: Theoretical issues
• Tipei Li (Tsinghua U.): High-E Astro missions from China, etc.
• Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue): Double pulsars theory, Magnetar or GRB
• Kazuo Makishima (Tokyo): ULXs vs. Stellar BH binaries; New Suzaku results on compact objects
• Sandro Mereghetti (Milano): Magnetar Obs.
• Remesh Narayan (Harvard): Accretion/outflows etc
• Sergei Nayakshin (Leicester): Stars (inc. compact objects) and Gas near Galactic Center
• Alexander Potekhin (Ioffe Instit.): Neutron Star Surfaces/Atmospheres, thermal emission
• Nanda Rea (SRON-Utrecht): Intermittent pulsars and RRATs
• Zhiqiang Shen (Shanghai Obs.): Sub-mm imaging of BH (Sgr A*)
• Masaru Shibata (Tokyo): GR/MHD simulations of Core collapse or NS/BH Binary merger
• Patrick Slane (Harvard CfA): Recent Progress on PWN
• Tod Strohmayer (GSFC): X-ray binaries, X-ray bursters, QPOs, ULXs
• Chris Thompson (CITA): GRB theory or magnetar theoretical issues
• Nick White (GSFC): X-ray missions (Con-X, etc)
• Kinwah Wu (MSSL/UCL): Ultra-compact double degenerate binaries, etc.
• Bing Zhang (UNLV): GRBs (classifications etc)
• .....
• MORE TO BE ADDED .........