Workshop Program - List of Posters

All posters can be displayed for the duration of the meeting in the Dorothy Quincy Suite at the John Hancock Conference Center (the same room in which talks will be held).

The allowable dimensions for each poster will be 4 feet by 4 feet (120 cm by 120 cm).


Topic 1: Rotation-Powered Pulsars in Supernova Remnants
1.01  Fronefield Crawford (Lockheed) "A sensitive targeted search campaign at Parkes to find young radio pulsars at 20 cm"
1.02 Fronefield Crawford (Lockheed) "SNR G292.2-0.5: A radio supernova remnant associated with the young pulsar J1119-6127"
1.03 Richard Dodson (Tasmania) "G343.1-2.3 and PSR 1706-44"
1.04 Vasilii Gvamaradze (Abastumani)  "Some arguments in support of the association of pulsar B1706-44 with supernova remnant G343.1-2.3"
1.05 Vasilii Gvamaradze (Abastumani) "The spin-down of PSR B1509-58"
1.06 Josh Migliazzo (MIT) "Proper motion of PSR B1951+32 in the supernova remnant CTB 80"
1.07 Aaron Golden (National U Ireland)  "Characterizing the optical counterpart to PSR B1951+32 in CTB 80"
1.08 Benjamin Collins (Columbia) "Chandra X-ray image-spectroscopy of the pulsar/SNR System Kes 75"
1.09 Eric van der Swaluw (Dublin IAS) "Inferring initial spin periods for neutron stars in composite remnants"
1.10 Fernando Camilo (Columbia) "PSR J1016-5857: a young radio pulsar with possible supernova remnant, X-ray, and gamma-ray associations"

Topic 2: Supernovae and Supernova Remnants
2.01 Daniel Schaudel (MPE) "Galactic SNR candidates in the ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS)"
2.02 Gloria Dubner (IAFE) "Environs of bilateral supernova remnants with neutron stars"
2.03 Robert Klinger (Illinois) "A peculiar linear feature in SNR N206"
2.04 Lewis Ball (Sydney) "Simulated radio images and light curves of young supernovae"
2.05 Jasmina Lazendic (Sydney) "Molecular diagnostics of SNR shocks"
2.06 Jacco Vink (Columbia) "XMM-Newton observations of RCW 86"
2.07 Miroslav Filipovic (Western Sydney)  "Galactic SNRs in PMN survey"
2.08 Paul Plucinsky (CfA)  "Chandra observations of the eastern limb of the Vela supernova remnant"
2.09 Ken'ichi Nomoto (Tokyo) "X-ray signatures of SNR 1987A"
2.10 Kurt Weiler (NRL) "In the beginning... (Supernovae)"
2.11 Jacco Vink (Columbia) "Detection of the 67.9 keV and 78.4 keV lines associated with the radio-active decay of Ti-44 in Cas A"

Topic 3: Pulsar Wind Theory
3.01  Shinpei Shibata (Yamagata)  "Electric field screening by pairs in the presence of returning positrons"
3.02 Niccolo' Bucciantini (Arectri)  "Bow-shock pulsar wind nebulae"

Topic 4: Exotic Neutron Stars and their Supernova Remnants
4.01  Herman Marshall (MIT)  "X-ray emission from the arcsec scale jet of SS 433"
4.02 Marco Feroci (IAS/CNR) "The BeppoSAX view on the 2001 reactivation of SGR 1900+14"
4.03 Maxim Lyutikov (McGill) "Magnetospheric structure and non-thermal emission of AXPs and SGRs"
4.04 Sandro Mereghetti (IFC/CNR)  "On the distance and age of the SNR G266.2-1.2 (Vela Junior)"
4.05 Bulent Kiziltan (Penn State) "Exploring the central region of the SNR RX J0852.0-4622 and a search for an optical counterpart"
4.06 Richard Rothschild (UCSD) "Propellor vs magnetar models for SGRs/AXPs"
4.07 Zhongxiang Wang (MIT) "Search for the optical counterparts of southern anomalous X-ray pulsars and radio-quiet neutron stars in supernova remnants"
4.08 Adrienne Juett (MIT) "Chandra/HETGS spectroscopy of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61"
4.09 Robert Fesen (Dartmouth) "HST upper limits on the optical flux from the central X-ray point source in Cas A"
4.10 David Kaplan (Caltech) "Where are SGRs?"
4.11 Eric Gotthelf (Columbia) "A phase-coherent timing solution for the magnetar candidate 1E 1841-045"
4.12 Peter Woods (NASA MSFC) "Large torque variations in two soft gamma repeaters"

Topic 5: Isolated and Binary Neutron Stars
5.01  Noriaki Shibazaki (Rikkyo) "Vortex configurations, oscillations and pinning in neutron star crusts"
5.02 Richard Dodson (Tasmania) "High time resolution observations of a Vela glitch"
5.03 David Thompson (NASA GSFC)  "High-energy gamma-rays from neutron stars in supernova remnants: from EGRET to GLAST"
5.04 Eric Gotthelf (Columbia) "Hiccups in the night: X-ray monitoring campaign of the two Crab-like LMC pulsars"
5.05 Scott Ransom (CfA) "Fast search techniques for high-energy pulsars"
5.06 Craig Heinke (CfA) "Two quiescent neutron stars in 47 Tuc"
5.07 Don Lloyd (CfA) "Model atmospheres and spectra of magnetized neutron stars"

Topic 6: Observations of Pulsar Nebulae
6.01  Dion Lewis (Tasmania) "The Vela pulsar wind nebula at 6 cm"
6.02 Elsa Giacani (IAFE) "Two new pulsar wind nebulae around southern pulsars"
6.03 Samar Safi-Harb (Manitoba) "The intriguing plerionic supernova remnant G21.5-0.9"
6.04 Lydie Koch Miramond (Saclay)  "The optical counterpart of the Vela pulsar synchrotron nebula"
6.05 Yves Gallant (Saclay) "Infrared observations of plerions and composites"
6.06 Dave Green (MRAO) "The Crab Nebula at 850 microns"
6.07 John Hughes (Rutgers) "A pulsar wind nebula in the oxygen-rich supernova remnant G292.0+1.8"
6.08 David Moffett (Furman) "Powered by a pulsar: SNR G291.0-0.1"
6.09 Charles Olbert (Columbia) "A X-ray synchrotron nebula in the supernova remnant 3C 396"
6.10 Bryan Gaensler (MIT) "Chandra observations of SNR G0.9+0.1 and its pulsar-powered nebula"
6.11 Mallory Roberts (McGill) "The pulsar wind nebula in G11.2-0.3"
6.12 Eric Gotthelf (Columbia) "Chandra view of relativistic winds from young rotation-powered pulsars"
6.13 Victoria Kaspi (McGill) "Chandra observations of the Duck pulsar PSR B1757-24"
6.14 Marcel Agueros (Washington) "Detection of X-ray emission from the composite supernova remnant G16.7+0.1"