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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">we kindly invite interested people to register for a contributed talk or poster at the IAU Symposium 363 "Neutron Star Astrophysics at the Crossroads: Magnetars and the Multimessenger Revolution"
which will be held in L’Aquila, Italy (June 22nd - 26th, 2020).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The symposium will focus on the astrophysical implications of gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations of neutron stars. It will discuss the status, perspectives and challenges in
the blossoming era of multi-messenger astronomy in order to build a complete physical picture of neutron stars, both isolated and in binary systems. It will explore the many facets of neutron stars, from magnetars to extreme astrophysical phenomena, such as
giant flares, gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae. It will include discussions on next generation facilities for multi-messenger astronomy and their associated science cases.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The deadline for abstract submission is February 15th 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For detailed information please visit the conference webpage</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hp5DC1WZXriMDr5NBSLtPq-?domain=astromeeting.gssi.it">http://astromeeting.gssi.it/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">===================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> IAU Symposium 363: Neutron Star Astrophysics at the Crossroads:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Magnetars and the Multimessenger Revolution -- 1st Announcement</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> ===================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">June 22nd - 26th, 2020</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Coordinating IAU Division: Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Supporting IAU Commission: Commission D1 Gravitational-wave astrophysics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">INVITED SPEAKERS (preliminary list)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Slavko Bogdanov, Alessandra Corsi, Paolo D’Avanzo, Imma Donnarumma, Irina Dvorkin, Paolo Esposito, Chris Freyer, Ersin Gogus, Alice Harding (TBC), Jeremy Heyl, Kostas Gourgouliatos, Michael Kramer,
Paola Leaci, Samaya Nissanke, George Pavlov, Luigi Piro, Sergei Popov, Andrea Possenti, Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Patricia Schmidt, Masaru Shibata, Masaomi Tanaka, Christina Thöne, Hendrik Van Eerten, Daniele Viganò, Linqing Wen.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Register here:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/k1JpC2xZYvCpJLOzZH19xCd?domain=astromeeting.gssi.it">http://astromeeting.gssi.it/registration/registration-form/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The conference fee is 325,00 € (275,00 € for undergraduate and PhD students). It includes coffee breaks and lunches from Monday to Friday, social dinner, on-line proceedings, and childcare.
The late registration fee (after April 15th) is 400,00 €.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Marica Branchesi (chair), Gian Luca Israel (chair), Roberto Turolla (chair), Eleonora Troja (chair), Matthew Baring, Laura Cadonati, Bala Iyer, Nobuyuki Kawai, Tara Murphy, Rosalba Perna, Nanda
Rea, Stephan Rosswog, Samar Safi-Harb, Dmitry Yakovlev, Silvia Zane</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PROCEEDING EDITORS:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Eleonora Troja, Silvia Zane</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Marica Branchesi (chair), Chiara Badia, Valerio Congeduti, Eliana Di Giovanni, Marco Drago, Simone Dall’Osso, Paolo Esposito, Gor Oganesyan, Giulia Pagliaroli, Alessandro Pajewski</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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