CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (list in progress)
- Michael Shull, U. of Colorado
- Kosuke Sato, Saitama University
- Varsha Kulkarni, University of South Carolina
- Nobuhiro Okabe, Hiroshima University
- Mark Voit, Michigan State University
- Jukka Nevalainen, University of Tartu
- Stefano Ettori, Osservatorio Astronomico Bologna
- Daisuke Nagai, Yale University
- Benjamin Oppenheimer, U. of Colorado
- Taotao Fang, Xiamen University
- Monique Arnaud, CEA Saclay
- David Buote, University of California Irvine
- Bart Wakker, Wisconsin
- Fabrizio Nicastro, Osservatorio Astronomico Roma
- Nicolas Lehner, Notre Dame
- Andy Ptak, NASA GSFC
- Hsiao-Wen Chen, Chicago
- Klaus Dolag, MPA Garching
- Jelle Kaastra, SRON
- James Bartlett, University of Paris VII
- Yutaka Fujita, Osaka University