Confirmed Plenary Speakers

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Matthew Bailes (2024 Shaw Prize winner in Astronomy for discovery of fast radio bursts)

Australia

Matthew Bailes – The Shaw Prize

Reinhard Genzel (Nobel Laureate, 2020, for the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole)

German

Reinhard Genzel – Nobel Prize

Shri Kulkarni (2024 Shaw Prize winner in Astronomy for ground breaking discoveries in time domain astronomy)

India

Shrinivas R Kulkarni – The Shaw Prize

Max Pettini (2025 Gruber cosmology prize, for fundamental work on the universe’s Deuterium abundance and Baryon density)

UK

Max Pettini – Gruber Cosmology Prize

Brian Schmidt (Nobel Laureate, 2011, for the discovery of cosmic acceleration)

Australia

Brian P. Schmidt – NobelPrize.org


Tamara Davis, Professor in The University of Queensland (Astronomical surveys & Time Domain Astronomy)

Australia

Tamara Davis

Yang GAO, Director of Center for AI Robotics in Space Sustainability, Co-Director of Space Science and Technology Institute (Space Sustainability)

Hong Kong SAR

Yang GAO

Luis Ho, Director, KAVLI Institute of Astronomy (Upcoming astronomical facilities)

Beijing China

Luis C. Ho

Hyesung Kang, PUSAN university (Cosmic ray acceleration at astrophysical shocks)

South Korea

Hyesung Kang

Sarah Pearce, CSIRO’s Acting Chief Scientist and Deputy Director at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. Director SKA-Low telescope, Australia

Australia

Sarah Pearce

Laura Perez, winner of New Horizons Prize in Physics (The lifecycle of stars and their planets)

Chile

Pérez, Laura

Ildar SHAIKHISLAMOV, Professor of Novosibirsk Technical State University and deputy director of Institute of Laser Physics SBRAS (The lifecycle of stars and their planets)

Russia

Ildar F. Shaikhislamov