Shanghai, China | December 7-11, 2026
Organized by Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
About the Conference
The Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI) in Shanghai, in collaboration with several other institutions, is organizing the inaugural "International Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics," to be held in Shanghai from December 7 to 11, 2026. We envision this as the start of a recurring series — similar in spirit to the Texas Symposium — that will likely rotate among various institutions across China every few years.
The symposium will cover all major topics in relativistic astrophysics, including (but not limited to) gravity and gravitational waves, formation of black holes of all scales, accretion processes around compact objects, explosive time-domain phenomena (e.g. supernovae, GRBs, TDEs), rotation and magnetically powered sources (e.g. pulsars, magnetars, FRBs), particle astrophysics (cosmic rays, gamma-rays and neutrinos), plasma astrophysics (including laboratory probes) and future high-energy astrophysics missions.
Format: Oral talks + poster presentations (displayed throughout the conference). Oral talks will include both invited/solicited talks and contributed talks. Given the diverse topics covered by the symposium, it is likely the afternoon oral talks will be divided into 2-3 parallel sessions. There will be dedicated poster sessions. This conference is in-person only.
The maximum number of participants in the conference is limited to 300.
Pre-registration: If you are interested in receiving further announcements about the symposium, please pre-register (input your name and email).
SOC:
Roger Blandford (Stanford)
Alessandra Buonanno(AEI)
Xinwu Cao (ZJU)
Zhen Cao (IHEP)
Alessandra Corsi (Johns Hopkins U.)
Zigao Dai (USTC)
Charles Gammie (UIUC)
Marat Gilfanov (MPA)
Jinlin Han (NAOC)
Luis Ho (PKU)
Thomas Janka (MPA)
Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech)
Vicky Kaspi (McGill)
Michael Kramer (MPIR)
Dong Lai (TDLI/Cornell, chair)
Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute)
Xiangdong Li (NJU)
Yosuke Mizuno (TDLI, co-chair)
Samaya Nissanke (DESY-DZA/Univ.Potsdam)
Sasha Philippov (Maryland/Stanford)
Sterl Phinney (Caltech)
Eliot Quataert (Princeton)
Re'em Sari (Hebrew Univ)
Masaru Shibata (AEI)
Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)
Jim Stone (IAS Princeton)
Diego Torres (ICREA, Barcelona)
Dmitri Uzdensky (Oxford)
Xiaofeng Wang (Tsinghua/TDLI)
Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute)
Yueliang Wu (UCAS)
Feng Yuan (Fudan Univ.)
Weimin Yuan (NAOC)
Shuangnan Zhang (IHEP)
Bing Zhang (HKU)
LOC:
Lisa Duan (TDLI)
Dong Lai (TDLI)
Yosuke Mizuno (TDLI)
Zhen Pan (TDLI)
Jieshuang Wang (TDLI)
Hao Zhou (TDLI)
Youjun Lu (NAOC/UCAS)
Xiangyu Wang (NJU)
Wen Zhao (USTC)
Venue:
Shanghai (details to be confirmed)
We look forward to welcoming you to Shanghai!
TDLI
Shanghai Bund
Yu Garden
