Dear Colleague, please find enclosed (and shortly on the web page) the final program for the Rome 2000 Mini-Workshop on SGRs AXPs. Looking forward to see you in Rome, Marco Feroci and Sandro Mereghetti --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soft Gamma Repeaters: The Rome 2000 Mini-Workshop 16 October 2000 Rome - CNR Headquarters http://vsnet.ias.rm.cnr.it/rome2000/SGR2000.html romasgr@ias.rm.cnr.it FINAL PROGRAM OF THE ROME2000 MINI-WORKSHOP ON SGRs AND AXPs Monday, October 16 2000 ORAL SESSION ============ 09:30 - 10:30 Registration 10:30 - 10:35 Welcome 10:35 - 11:15 C. Kouveliotou "Observations of SGRs" (Invited Review) 11:15 - 11:30 R. Aptekar "General properties of recurrent bursts from SGRs" 11:30 - 11:45 K. Hurley "The Proper Motion of SGR1900+14" 11:45 - 12:05 D. Kaplan "Chandra Observations of SGRs" 12:05 - 12:45 L. Stella "Observations of AXPs" (Invited Review) 12:45 - 13:00 G.L. Israel "Multi-wavelength observations of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars" 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break - Poster Viewing 15:00 - 15:40 C. Thompson "SGRs and AXPs: a Theoretical Update" (Invited Review) 15:40 - 16:00 R. Rothschild "Nature vs. Nurture: The Origin of Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars" 16:00 - 16:15 B. Zhang "Nature and Nurture: a model for soft gamma-ray repeaters" 16:15 - 16:30 S. Bastrukov "Magnetotorsional pulsations of superparamagnetic magnetar" 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break - Poster Viewing 17:00 - 17:15 R. Perna "AXPs and SGRs: spectral fits and the magnetar model" 17:15 - 17:30 R. Duncan "Magnetar Flares in Our Galaxy and Beyond" 17:30 - 17:45 K. Ioka "Magnetic Deformation of Magnetars for the Giant Flares of the Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters" 17:45 - 18:00 A. Dar "Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Magnetars or Young Quark Stars?" 18:00 - 18:15 D. Fargion "The Gamma Ray Burst and Soft Gamma Connection in Precessing Gamma Jets" 18:15 - 18:30 G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan "SGR in nearby galaxies" 18:30 Concluding Remarks POSTER SESSION ============== Efremov, Y. 'Are Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters near the star clusters by a chance or by origin?' Feroci, M., K. Hurley, R. Duncan, C. Thompson 'The Giant Flare from SGR 1900+14' Marsden D., Lingenfelter R.E., Rothschild R.E. 'Resolution of the Age Discrepancies in Pulsars/SNR Associations' Mereghetti, S., Cremonesi, D., Feroci, M., Tavani, M., 'BeppoSAX observations of SGR 1806-20' Palmer, D. 'The Period History of SGR 1900+14 from Gamma to Radio' Palmer, D. 'Rapid Spindown of SGR 1900+14 in the days after the August 27 1998 Superburst' Smith, I.A. 'Multiwavelength Observations of SGRs' Zhang, B. and A.K. Harding 'Inner magnetospheric accelerators in a magnetar environment and the condition for radio emission'