This July was a very busy month for meetings. It kicked off with the annual Astronomical Society of Australia meeting which was held this year in my old home town of Hobart, Tasmania. I presented some preliminary results from the PEGS project in a talk titled "Tuning up for Gravitational Wave detection in Accreting Neutron Stars". As is traditional the Harley Wood Winter School was held the weekend before; the theme was "Powerful Objects" and I gave a talk on accretion-powered neutron stars. Back to Melbourne for a week, and then off to Bremen, Germany for cospar¹⁰. I revised my ASA talk in Event H02, and also gave a talk on the discovery of burst oscillations in EXO 0748-676 in Event E13 as well as presenting a poster on MINBAR.
Then it was off to Leiden, NL for the Lorentz Center workshop on X-ray bursts and burst oscillations, where I gave an invited talk on the status of burst observations. The workshop was a terrific event, an excellent chance to catch up with colleagues (see the group photo) and see the state-of-the-art of burst research, as well as see a bit of Leiden.

Accreting neutron stars — Tiny Galactic Powerhouses — HWWS talk
Tuning up for Gravitational Wave detection in Accreting Neutron Stars — ASA 2010/COSPAR H02 talk
A 552 Hz Burst Oscillation in EXO 0748-676 — COSPAR E13 talk
The Multi-INstrument Burst ARchive — MINBAR — COSPAR E13 poster
Status of thermonuclear burst observations — Lorentz Center Workshop talk

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