Conference Programme
| 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 – 1:30 | 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 |