Morning sessions will consist of approximately twenty plenary talks, and afternoon will consist of 16 parallel sessions, covering the full range of relativistic astrophysics topics including:

• Cosmology
• Compact Objects
• Particle Astrophysics
• Early Universe
• Gamma Ray Astronomy
• Active Galaxies
• Cosmic Rays
• Supernovae
• Dark Energy
• Tests of Gravity
• Numerical Relativity
• The Galactic Centre
• Gravitational Waves

Confirmed plenary speakers include:

• Tom Abel Reionization
• Manuela Campanelli Numerical Gravity
• Sean Carroll Dark Energy
• Jonathan Feng Astroparticle Physics
• Wendy Freedman The cosmological distance scale
• Reinhard Genzel The black hole at the Galactic Centre
• Henk Hoekstra Gravitational Lensing
• Craig Hogan What is wrong with cosmology?
• Phil Hopkins Galaxy formation, black holes and AGN
• Eiichiro Komatsu IUPAP Prize Talk: Non-Gaussianity
• Lawrence Krauss The future of the Universe
• Shri Kulkarni Gamma-ray Bursts
• Andrew Liddle Inflation
• Peter Michelson GLAST
• Sterl Phinney Gravity Waves
• Paul Sommers The Pierre Auger Observatory
• Ingrid Stairs The Double Pulsar
• Virginia Trimble A remarkable achievement ... Texas at 45
• Clifford Will Tests of General Relativity

Public Talk:

• Rocky Kolb