Introducing the teams behind the 33rd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. With contributions from the Scientific Organizing Committee, the International Organizing Committee, and the Local Organizing Committee, each group plays a key role in bringing the event to life.
Organizers
Scientific Organizing Committee
Nobel Laureates
John Mather
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Adam Riess
Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences;
Space Telescope Science Institute
Frank Wilczek
Arizona State University
Anabella Araudo
ELI Beamlines
David Blair
The University of Western Australia
Roger Blandford
Stanford University
Markus Boettcher
North-West University, South Africa
Robert Brandenberger
McGill University
Axel Brandenburg
Carnegie Mellon University; Nordita
Yi-Fu Cai
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Damien Easson
Arizona State University
Glennys Farrar
New York University
Katherine Freese
University of Texas at Austin; Stockholm University
Brenda Frye
University of Arizona
Ruth Gregory
King's College London
Gary Horowitz
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Marc Kamionkowski
Johns Hopkins University
Rocky Kolb
University of Chicago
Eiichiro Komatsu
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Dong Lai
Cornell University
Cecilia Lunardini
Arizona State University
Priyamvada Natarajan
Yale University
Hiranya Peiris
University of Cambridge
Frank Rieger
Heidelberg University
Maria Rodriguez
Utah State University
Pearl Sandick
University of Utah
Tarun Souradeep
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India
Glenn Starkman
Case Western Reserve University
Mark Trodden
University of Pennsylvania
Tanmay Vachaspati
Arizona State University
Alex Vikman
Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Roland Walter
University of Geneva
David Wands
University of Portsmouth
Amanda Weltman
University of Cape Town
Frank Wilczek
Arizona State University
Matias Zaldarriaga
Institute for Advanced Study
Paul Davies
Arizona State University
International Organizing Committee
Anabella Araude
Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Jose C.N. de Araujo
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
Jean Audouze
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
Markus Boettcher
North-West University, South Africa
Marco Bruni
University of Portsmouth, UK
Michal Bursa
Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Joan Centrella
West Virginia University, USA
Lai Dong (Chair)
Cornell University, USA
Maria V. Fonseca Gonzalez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Josh Frieman
Fermilab, USA
Werner Hofmann
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Germany
Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Yipeng Jing
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China
Victoria Kaspi
McGill University, Canada
Andrew Melatos
University of Melbourne, Australia
Aguiar Odylio
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
Vahe Petrosian
Stanford University, USA
Martin Rees
University of Cambridge, UK
Yoel Rephaeli
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Frank Rieger
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Germany
Remo Ruffini
University "La Sapienza", Italy
Bernard Sadoulet
UC Berkeley, USA
Brian Schmidt
Australian National University, Australia
Giancarlo Setti
Universita di Bologna, Italy
Joe Silk
Oxford University, UK
John Stachel
Boston University, USA
Rashid Sunyaev
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Germany
Jean Swank
NASA, USA
Andrzej Trautman
Warsaw University, Poland
Virginia Trimble
UC Irvine, USA
Joachim Trümper
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Germany
Ludovic Van Waerbeke
University of British Columbia, Canada
Roland Walter
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Markus Boettcher
University of Portsmouth, UK
Local Organizing Committee
Faculty:
Andrei Belitsky
Mathew Baumgart
Judd Bowman
Paul Davies
Damien Easson (Chair)
Simon Foreman
Cynthia Keeler
Cecilia Lunardini
Philip Mauskopf
Maulik Parikh
William Terrano
Tanmay Vachaspati
Rogier Windhorst
Staff:
Marisol Diaz
Anne Dominic
Jeanette Perez
Jessica Strycker