The Physics of Pulsar Magnetospheres

Agenda

		Global Magnetosphere Theory and Simulation
		Chair: Alice Harding
9:15	Welcome
9:30	Spitkovsky	Numerical modeling of pulsar magnetospheres: from force-free to particles
10:05	Philippov	How do pulsars shine?
10:40	Discussion
11:00	Break
11:30	Contopoulos	The Aristotelian Equatorial Current Sheet
12:05	Discussion
12:30	Lunch
		Chair: Demos Kazanas
2:00	Timokhin	How much plasma can a pulsar make?
2:35	Belyaev	Pulsar Polar Cap and Y-point in PIC Simulations
3:10	Discussion
3:30	Break
4:00	Kalapotharakos	Towards the Understanding of the Gamma-ray Emission in Pulsar Magnetospheres: Models vs Fermi
4:35	Brambilla	Developing a specialized Particle-In-Cell code to study Pulsar Magnetospheres
5:10	Discussion

		Mode Changing and Variability
		Chair: Andrey Timokhin
9:00	Rankin	Radio pulsar phenomenology I : Geometry, Emission Heights and Identification of X and O modes
9:35	Mitra	Radio pulsar phenomenology II : Drifting Subpulses
10:10	Discussion
10:30	Break
11:00	Melkidze	Coherent Radio emission, PSG model and Drifting subpulses
11:35	Hermsen	The mystery of simultaneous pulsar moding in the X-ray and radio bands
12:10	Discussion
12:30	Lunch
		Chair: Wim Hermsen
2:00	Van Leeuwen	Pulsar mode changes and subpulse drift
2:15	Szary	A physically justified model of drifting subpulses.
2:30	Discussion
2:45	Kargaltsev	Is there a useful connection between the pulsar magnetosphere geometry and PWN morphology?
3:05	Break
3:35	Harding	Pulsar Variability and the Global Magnetosphere
4:10	Wadiasingh	Magnetar polarization
4:25	Arons	Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from Magnetars
5:00	Discussion
7:00	Workshop Dinner	Siri's Chef's Secret, Greenbelt

		Emission Modeling and Magnetic Fields
		Chair: Kostas Kalapotharakos
9:00	Venter	Insights from Pulsar Light Curve Modeling
9:10	Seyffert	Toward a more rigorous statistical goodness of fit test for concurrent light curve fitting
9:20	Barnard	High-Energy Light Curves in an Offset Polar Cap B-Field Geometry
9:30	Discussion
9:45	Shibata	X-ray and rotational luminosity correlation and magnetic heating of the radio pulsars
10:15	Discussion
10:25	Break
10:55	Hirotani	Leptonic acceleration in pulsar and black hole magnetospheres
11:30	Petri	Multipolar fields in neutron stars
12:05	Kazanas	Crab GeV Flares: Too much ado about not too much?
12:20	Discussion
12:30	Lunch
2:00	Gonthier	Magnetic field decay and unification of young and millisecond pulsar populations
2:30	Grenier	Phase-Resolved Spectroscopy of Millisecond Pulsars
2:45	Discussion
		Present and Future Missions
3:00	Johnson	Pulsar Observations with Fermi
3:35	Break
4:05	Arzoumanian	An X-ray Astrophysics Mission Dedicated to Neutron Stars: Capabilities and Status of NICER
4:35	Hunter	Measurement of Gamma-ray Polarization
4:55	Hays	ComPair/AMEGO
5:15	Discussion