===== NOVA NW3 meeting spring 2009 ===== Date: June 8, 2009 Location: Amsterdam Program 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee, tea, cookies 10.30 - 10.50 Joeri van Leeuwen: A Radio Pulsar/X-ray Binary Missing Link 10.50 - 11.10 Jason Hessels: LOFAR: a powerful tool for studying radio pulsars and fast transients 11.10 - 11.30 Rutger van Haasteren: Gravitational-wave detection using pulsar timing 11.30 - 11.50 Coffee, tea, cookies 11.50 - 12.20 Jacco Vink: Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnants: observations and simulations 12.20 - 12.35 Heino Falcke: Discovery of a new Radio Supernovae in M82 12.35 - 12.50 Ralph Wijers: A gamma-ray burst at z=8.3 12.50 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 14.30 Yuri Levin: Secret lives of supermassive black holes 14.30 - 14.50 Michael Wise: The Energetics of AGN Feedback in Clusters 14.50 - 15.10 Atish Kamble: A curious case of GRB 030329 : 6 years of radio monitoring 15.10 - 15.30 Coffee, tea, cookies 15.30 - 15.50 Andrea Sanna: Study of the properties of kHz QPOs in the transient source XTE J1701-462 15.50 - 16.10 Guoboa Zhang: Triple-peaked X-ray bursts from the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 16.10 - 16.30 Nathalie Degenaar: Crust cooling of neutron stars 16.30 - 16.50 Jelle Kaastra: Recent developments in X-ray spectroscopy 16.50 - 17.00 End Participants Diego Altamirano University of Amsterdam\\ Marcio Avellar University of Groningen\\ Tomaso Belloni Visitor University of Groningen\\ Nathalie Degenaar University of Amsterdam\\ Rob Detmers SRON\\ Samia Drappeau University of Amsterdam\\ Jacobo Ebrero SRON\\ Yan Grange SRON\\ Atakan Gurkan University of Amsterdam\\ Lennart van Haaften Radboud University Nijmegen\\ Rutger van Haasteren University of Leiden\\ Wilbert van Ham Radboud University Nijmegen\\ Godelieve Hammerschlag University of Amsterdam\\ Ytsen Haringa University of Groningen\\ Jan-Willem den Herder ASTRON\\ Jason Hessels ASTRON\\ Beike Hiemstra University of Groningen\\ Sandra de Jong University of Groningen\\ Jelle Kaastra SRON\\ Heino Falcke Radboud University Nijmegen\\ Atish Kamble University of Amsterdam\\ Ramanpreet Kaur University of Amsterdam\\ Michiel v/d Klis University of Amsterdam\\ Joeri van Leeuwen ASTRON/University of Amsterdam\\ Konstantinos Leventis University of Amsterdam\\ Yuri Levin University of Leiden\\ Manu Linares University of Amsterdam\\ Dipankar Maitra University of Amsterdam\\ Sera Markoff University of Amsterdam\\ Mariano Mendez University of Groningen\\ Alessandro Patruno University of Amsterdam\\ Jelle de Plaa SRON\\ Peter Polko University of Amsterdam\\ Nanda Rea University of Amsterdam\\ Andrea Sanna University of Groningen\\ Paolo Soleri University of Amsterdam\\ Valeriu Tudose ASTRON\\ Jacco Vink University of Utrecht\\ Anna Watts University of Amsterdam\\ Ralph Wijers University of Amsterdam\\ Rudy Wijnands University of Amsterdam\\ Michael Wise University of Amsterdam\\ Guobao Zhang University of Groningen\\