Confirmed invited speakers
- Lorenzo Amati (INAF/IASF, Italy)
- Rafail Aptekar (Ioffe Institute, Russia)
- Matthew Baring (Rice University, USA)
- Andrey Beloborodov (Columbia University, USA)
- Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan (Space Research Institute (IKI) and NRNU MEPHI, Russia)
- Sergei Blinnikov (ITEP (Kurchatov Center), and SAI, and Kavli IPMU, Russia)
- Andrei Bykov (Ioffe Institute, Russia)
- Alberto Javier Castro-Tirado (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
- Bertrand Cordier (DSM/Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique, France)
- Alessandra Corsi (George Washington University, USA)
- Frédéric Daigne (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France)
- Massimo Della Valle (Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Italy)
- Dmitry Frederiks (Ioffe Institute, Russia)
- Diego Götz (CEA Saclay/Irfu, France)
- Jochen Greiner (MPE, Germany)
- Anatoli Iyudin (ExUL, SINP, MSU, Russia and MPE, Germany)
- Alexander Kaminker (Ioffe Institute, Russia)
- Martin Lemoine (Institut d’Astrophysique, Paris, France)
- Andrew Levan (University of Leicester, UK)
- Vladimir Lipunov (ExUL, SINP, MSU and SAI, MSU, Russia)
- Andrew MacFadyen (New York University, USA)
- Sandro Mereghetti (INAF/IASF-Milano, Italy)
- Frederic Piron (CNRS/IN2P3, France)
- Konstantin Postnov (SAI, MSU, Russia)
- Felix Ryde (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- Takanori Sakamoto (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan )
- Nial Tanvir (University of Leicester, UK)
- Marco Tavani (INAF/IAPS-Roma, Italy)
- Richard Willingale (University of Leicester, UK)
- Bing Zhang (University of Nevada, USA)