Monday 13 March 2000

0900-0920 Welcoming address by the Mayor of Arecibo

          Recent AO Observational Results I (Chair: Fernando Camilo)
         
0920-0940 Alex Wolszczan - Recent PSPM results
0940-1000 Maura McLaughlin - Recent AOFTM results and future plans
1000-1020 Frederick Jenet - Recent CBR results
1020-1030 Dunc Lorimer - PSR J1907+0918 and SGR 1900+14

1030-1100 Coffee + group photo on the patio

          Recent AO Observational Results II (Chair: Maura McLaughlin)

1100-1120 David Nice - Does coherent timing measure up?  
1120-1140 Eric Splaver/Andrea Lommen - MkIV/ABPP timing
1140-1200 Ingrid Stairs/Michael Kramer - Mark IV/ABPP polarimetry
1200-1220 Aris Karastergiou - TBA (something about 1913+16)

1220-1400 The classic ``Rice 'n Beans'' Lunch at the Observatory canteen

          Pulse profiles - theory and observations (Chair: Vicky Kaspi)

1400-1430 Dipanjan Mitra - Revisting pulsar beams
1430-1450 Mark McKinnon - Sign-changing circular polarization in single pulses
1450-1510 Ramesh Bhat - Recent multi-station single pulse observations

1510-1540 Coffee

          Results from other observatories I (Chair: Andrea Lommen)

1540-1600 Barney Rickett - cm-wave ISS observations
1600-1620 Dipanjan Mitra - Pulsar Scattering from the Gum Nebula
1620-1640 Joseph Lazio - Low-Frequency Detection and Observations of Pulsars
1640-1700 David Kaplan - Recent progress in our understanding of magnetars

Evening: Dinner at La Parrillada 

Tuesday 14 March 2000

          Results from other observatories II (Chair: Joe Lazio)

0900-0940 Vicky Kaspi/Fernando Camilo - The Parkes Multibeam Survey
0940-1000 Paulo Freire - Timing millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae
1000-1020 Frederick Jenet - New pulsar search techniques
1020-1040 Don Backer - Interstellar weather in the Crab and B1937+21
1040-1100 Tim Hankins - Recent observations of giant pulses

1100-1115 Coffee

	  Pulsar observing at AO (Chair: Ingrid Stairs)

1115-1135 Andy Dowd - The WAPP : Arecibo's new wide-band pulsar processor
1135-1145 Jean-Luc Margot - A portable baseband recording system
1145-1215 Dunc Lorimer - overview of pulsar observing at AO
1215-1230 What features present/potential users would like to see (discussion!)

1230-1400 Lunch at 'Resaurante El Observatorio' (formerly the Cornell Bar)

	  Future Pulsar observing (Chair: Eric Splaver)

1400-1430 Jim Cordes - The future of pulsar searches at AO and elsewhere
1430-1500 Shami Chatterjee - Present and future pulsar VLBI       
1500-1515 Tim Hankins - Future observations with the upgraded VLA
1515-1530 Mark McKinnon - Imminent pulsar observations with the GBT
1530-1540 Ramesh Bhat - GMRT: Capabilities and Current Status of Pulsar Research


1540-1600 Coffee

1600-1700 Discussion on future priorities (Chair: Zaven Arzoumanian)

	  Anybody willing to make a short presentation on some pulsar-related
	  issue and firing up some discussion is most welcome to do so. Agenda:

          Don Backer - GPS determination of Faraday rotation in the ionosphere
	  Don Backer - thoughts on pulsar archiving