NASA's new flagship in gamma-ray astronomy, the Fermi Gamma-Ray
Space Telescope (Fermi) launched in June 2008, has already
dramatically improved our understanding of gamma-ray emission
from pulsars. Since its launch, Fermi has discovered over 100
new pulsars above 100 MeV in photon energy, superseding the
gamma-ray pulsar database of six provided by its predecessor,
the EGRET instrument aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.
Many of these have been discovered through blind searches in
gamma rays, some of which display, as yet, no evidence of a
radio signal. In addition, Fermi has identified over 40 new
millisecond pulsars most of which have been seen in radio
wavelengths where pulsations were discovered through pointed
radio observations of Fermi pulsar candidates. With the wealth
of new data from Fermi at hand, we have the first real
opportunity in decades to finally try to understand the high-
energy emission and acceleration in pulsar magnetospheres.
Making full use of this opportunity will require more