2008 Orange Pulsar Meeting Programme

Thursday 6th March 2008

Session 1 - Chair: Simon Johnston

09:25 - 09:30: Duncan Campbell-Wilson (Molonglo Observatory, USyd) - Welcome
09:30 - 10:00: Alan Vaughan (Macquarie) - The first years of pulsar observing at Molonglo
10:00 - 10:20: Ramesh Bhat (Swinburne) - Giant Pulses from the Crab Nebula pulsar
10:20 - 10:40: Jim Palfreyman (UTas) - Extended micro giant pulses in the Vela pulsar
10:40 - 11:00: Patrick Weltevrede (ATNF) - The effect of beam evolution on the population of radio pulsars with interpulses

11:00 - 11:30: Morning Tea

Session 2 - Chair: George Hobbs

11:30 - 11:50: Dick Manchester (ATNF) - The Parkes pulsar timing array project 
11:50 - 12:10: David Champion (ATNF) - The Parkes pulsar timing array pipeline
12:10 - 12:30: Sarah Burke (Swinburne, ATNF) - Binary supermassive black holes: From locally observed binary AGN to the predicted gravitational wave background
12:30 - 12:50: Joris Verbiest (Swinburne, ATNF) - Long-term millisecond pulsar timing 
12:50 - 13:10: Mark Purver (Jodrell Bank, UManchester) - The European pulsar timing array

13:10 - 14:30: Lunch

Session 3 - Chair: Bryan Gaensler

14:30 - 14:50: Duncan Galloway (Monash) - Transient x-ray pulsations in accreting neutron stars
14:50 - 15:10: Christine Chung (UMelb) - Pulse variations in XTE J1814-338
15:10 - 15:30: Alpha Mastrano (UMelb) - Force-free fields and the origin of magnetic field in compact stars 
15:30 - 15:50: Aidan Hotan (Curtin) - Radio magnetar monitoring: observations of XTE J1550-5418

15:50 - 16:30: Afternoon Tea and Telescope Tour

Session 4 - Chair: Duncan Galloway

16:30 - 16:50: Qinghuan Luo (USyd) - Oscillating pair production in a magnetar magnetosphere
16:50 - 17:10: Matthew Verdon (USyd) - Polarization effects in an oscillating pulsar magnetosphere
17:10 - 17:30: Don Melrose (USyd) - Cyclotron maser emission from the closed magnetic field region
17:30 - 17:50: Mike Keith (ATNF) - New high-resolution pulsar surveys at Parkes

18:30 - Late: Conference Dinner

Friday 7th March 2008

Session 5 - Chair: Matthew Bailes

09:30 - 09:50: George Hobbs (ATNF) - A study of glitches and timing noise in young pulsars
09:50 - 10:10: Anthony van Eysden (UMelb) - Gravitational radiation from pulsar glitches
10:10 - 10:30: Lila Warszawski (UMelb) - Collective vortex-line motion in pulsar glitches
10:30 - 10:50: Bryan Gaensler (USyd) - The Scale Height and filling factor of warm ionised gas in the Milky Way

10:50 - 11:30: Morning Tea

Session 6 - Chair: Dick Manchester

11:30 - 11:50: Simon Johnston (ATNF) - Pulsars and the GLAST mission
11:50 - 12:10: Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer (ATNF, USyd) - The ATNF pulsar data archive
12:10 - 12:30: Daniel Yardley (ATNF, USyd) - Sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays to single sources of gravitational waves
12:30 - 12:50: Matthew Bailes (Swinburne) - Pulsars in globular clusters
12:50 - 13:00: Closing address

13:00 - 14:30: Lunch



2008 Orange Pulsar Meeting - List of Participants

Rodger Ashwell (Molonglo Observatory)
Matthew Bailes (Swinburne)
Ramesh Bhat (Swinburne)
Adrian Blake (Molonglo Observatory)
Sarah Burke (Swinburne, ATNF)
Duncan Campbell-Wilson (Molonglo Observatory, USyd)
David Champion (ATNF)
Shami Chatterjee (USyd)
Christine Chung (UMelb)
Bryan Gaensler (USyd)
Duncan Galloway (Monash)
George Hobbs (ATNF)
Aidan Hotan (Curtin)
Tim Hubbard (Molonglo Observatory)
Simon Johnston (ATNF)
Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer (ATNF, USyd)
Mike Keith (ATNF)
Qinghuan Luo (USyd)
Dick Manchester (ATNF)
Alpha Mastrano (UMelb)
Don Melrose (USyd)
Stephen Chi-Yung Ng (USyd)
Jim Palfreyman (UTas) 
Mark Purver (Jodrell Bank, UManchester)
Anthony van Eysden (UMelb)
Alan Vaughan (Macquarie)
Joris Verbiest (Swinburne, ATNF)
Matthew Verdon (USyd)
Lila Warszawski (UMelb)
Patrick Weltevrede (ATNF)
Daniel Yardley (ATNF, USyd)