Confirmed plenary speakers and tentative topics:
Roy Kerr (Univ. Canterbury): Special talk (online): The Kerr Solution, Black Holes, Quasars and Beyond
Kip Thorne (Caltech): Special talk: The First Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics: A Historic Perspective, Sixty Years Later
Felix Aharonian (MPIK): Particle acceleration confronts observations
Roger Blandford (Stanford): Summary, discussion, future prospectives
Alessandra Buonanno (AEI): Gravitational waves and GR two-body problems
Matthew Bailes (Swinburne): FRBs
Zhen Cao (IHEP): Lhasso/gamma-rays
Charles Gammie (UIUC): BH accretion/EHT
Anna Ho (Cornell): GRBs and other cosmic explosions (e.g. FBOTs)
Henk Hoekstra (Leiden): Observational cosmology (Weak Lensing etc).
Kejia Lee (PKU): CPTA nanoHz GW result
Jianglai Liu (TDLI/SJTU): Dark matter laboratory search overview
Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley): SMBH (& Binaries) review
Elias Most (Caltech): NS mergers/simulations
Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton): Plasma astrophysics
Nick Stone (Hebrew U): Dynamics and transients from galactic nuclei
Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt): nanoHZ GW overview and IPTA results
Neil Turok (Edinburgh): Status of cosmology and open problems/new directions
Simon White (MPA): Large/small Scale Structure and Dark Matter
Partial list of confirmed speakers for the mini-symposia (see the individual mini-symposium page for more information):
Kate Alexander (Arizona): EM Transients, TDE radio
Gordon Baym (UIUC); Neclear matter & NS
Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia): Magnetars, plasma
Liang Dai (Berkeley): Dark matter probe & Lensing
Jane Dai (HKU): TDEs
Glennys Farrar (NYU): Ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Frederico Fiuza (SLAC): Laboratory Astro, collisionless shocks etc
Thierry Foglizzo (Saclay): SN Hydrodynamics
Stefan Gillessen (MPE): Galactic center
JinLin Han (NAOC): FAST pulsar results
Zoltan Haiman (Columbia): Gravitational waves
Jim Hinton (MPIK): High-energy Gamma rays
Kunihito Ioka (Yukawa): GRB/FRB
Pawan Kumar (UT Austin): FRBs
Yuri Levin (Columbia): Neutron Star Interior Dynamics
Di Li (NAOC): FAST FRB results
Xin Liu (UIUC): Binary SMBHs EM search
Ue-Li Pen (CITA): FRBs
Sasha Philippov (Maryland): Pulsars and plasma astrophysics
Tsvi Piran (Hebrew U): TDEs
Yongzhong Qian (Minnesota): Supernova neutrinos
Robert Quimby (San Diego): Superluminous supernovae
Sanjay Reddy (INT): Neutron star EOS constraints
Bart Ripperda (Princeton/CITA): Plasma processes in BH accretion
Youichi Sakawa (Osaka): Laboratory plasma astro
Johan Samsing (NBI): GW sources
Mario Santos (UWC): LLS/cosmology
Yue Shen (IUUC): AGN accretion and variabilities
Daniel Siegel (Greifswald) : NS merger ejecta & kiloNova
Sherry Suyu (Munich): Gravitational Lensing
Masahiro Takada (IPMU): Cosmology
Tomonori Totani (Tokyo): FRB topics
Elenora Troja (Rome): GRBs
Dimitri Uzdensky (Colorado): Plasma astro
Joeri van Leeuwen (Amsterdam): Radio transients
Eli Waxman (Weizmann Inst): Transients & particle astrophysics
Yvonne Wong (UNSW): Cosmology
Haojing Yan (Missouri): JWST results
Huan Yang (Guelph/Perimeter): GW topics
Feng Yuan (SHAO): BH Accretion
Barak Zackay (Weizmann Inst): GW data analysis/implications
Bing Zhang (UNLV): FRBs/Transients
Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP): Insight-HXMT accreting compact objects results
