Astronomy Education, Public Outreach and Communication

Director of International Schools for Young Astronomers, IAU
Distinguished Researcher at CAB CSIC-INTA, Spain
Her research focuses on starbursts in high redshift galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei. She is on leave from INAOE, Mexico, to lead the Milgatz project at CAB, Spain.
Mexico
Title of the talk: Training graduate students from the developing world



Galaxies, AGN and the High Redshift Universe

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India

Regents Professor of Astronomy Astronomer, Steward Observatory. Associate Department Head.
University of Arizona
USA

Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and former Director of the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing.
HKSAR

Professor at The Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, Radio astronomy Group
Japan

National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, NARIT. She participated in the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) project
Thailand

Associate Professor at Australian National University
Formation and evolution of galaxies, galaxy dynamics, galactic archeology, turbulence, interstellar medium, chemical evolution
Australia
High energy Astrophysics


Professor of Astronomy at the Institute for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and currently the Robert F. Kennedy visiting professor at the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University.
Mexico
Title of the talk: EHT Black Hole imaging.


Associate Professor of the Institute of Astronomy
at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu
Taiwan

National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Chief of the High Energy Astrophysics Group Chief Scientist
China

Gravitational Wave Astronomy


Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and the current Head of the Monash Astrophysics group.
Australia

Prof. Emeritus of Seoul National University
South Korea
Title of the talk: Gravitational Waves Cosmology and Astrophysics

The lifecycle of stars and their planets

Area of Expertise: Integrated study on the chemical evolution of molecular clouds to protoplanetary disks
Japan

Manager of the Center for Optics and Photonics and Acting Manager of the Center for Atmospheric Science Research, National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand
Thailand
Title of the talk: Exoplanet Research in Thailand through Global Collaboration

The director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica and the chair of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Taiwan


Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
South Korea
Dr. Hyosun Kim

Honorary Professor, UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. Dean of Science and Chair Professor of Physics, The University of Hong Kong (2006-2016)
Canada

Vice-head of department of Astrophysics, Vietnam National Space Center
Vietnam
Title of the talk: Evolution of stars on the Asymptotic Giant Branch, with particular emphasis on its relation with the evolution of their light curves

Area of Expertise: Star and planet formation is one of the most fundamental structure-formation processes in the universe.
Japan
Radio, mm and sub-mm astronomy

He is working at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute specialized in Radio Telescope and Interferometer / Supernova Remnants and Star Formation
South Korea

Distinguished Professor and Centre Director, NCRA-TIFR, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Savitribai Phule Pune University Campus
India

Professor and head teacher of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Insitut Teknologi Bandung
Indonesia

Chair professor of Tsinghua University and the Chief Scientist of the FAST telescope operated by the NAOC. He pioneered several observing and data analysis techniques, including HI narrow self-absorption (HINSA) and a new inversion algorithm for solving the dust temperature distribution.
China

Research Fellow at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Area of Expertise: High resolution observations of star and planet
forming regions
Taiwan

Astronomical Surveys & Time Domain Astronomy

I am a cosmologist interested in tracking the growth of large-scale structure (LSS) of the cosmos, over the entire Universe history.
Japan/Vietnam

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences. Areas of Interest: High energy cosmic transients such as Gamma Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Electromagnetic counterparts of Gravitational Wave sources and other exotic transients.
India

Area of Expertise: cosmic microwave background radiation, large-scale structure of the universe, and galaxies to understand the nature of the universe and the galaxy formation process.
South Korea

Current Larger and Upcoming Astronomical facilities

Chair Professor of Astronomy at National Central University
Taiwan
Title of the talk: Bootstrapping Time-Domain Astronomy with the Trans-Pacific 2-m Telescope: Synergy with the LSST

Professor at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI of Cosmic Dark Matter and Dark Energy Group, Director of Division of Galaxies and Cosmology
China

Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. She is the Principal Investigator of the proposed next generation UV-Optical space telescope (INSIST), leveraging on the experience gained from AstroSat and UVIT.
India

Professor of
Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP),
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
China
Space Sustainability- now a full parallel meeting

Engineer F & Engineer-in–Charge प्रभारी अभियंता
Honorary Member IAU
Indian Astronomical Observatory भारतीय खगोलीय वेधशाला
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
India
Dorje Angchuk दोर्जे अंगचुक


Chief scientist of Space Debris Observation and Data Application Center at National Astronomical Observatory of the China Academy of Sciences
China

Lecturer in Aerospace Systems, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Manchester
UK


