The Symposia subject and venue is decided by an International Board of senior members who appoint the Scientific Organizing Committee of each Symposium. The current Board consists of the following members:

Giovanni Bignami (Former Director, Italian Space Agency, ASI)

Roger Blandford (Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Stanford University)

Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)

Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA/MSFC)

Doug Lin (UCSC, Director Kavli Institute Beijing)

Kazuo Makishima (University of Tokyo)

Richard Manchester (CSIRO)

Rashid Sunyaev (Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik)

Ed van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam)

Shuang Nan Zhang (Tsinghua University)

 

Program Committee

Nathan Smith  (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Una Hwang (NASA/GSFC and Johns Hopkins Univ.)

 

Don Figer (Rochester Institute of Technology)

 

Chryssa Kouveliotou (Co-Chair, NASA/MSFC)

 

Shuang Nan Zhang (Co-Chair, Tsinghua Univ.)

 

Jian Min Wang (IHEP)

 

Wei Min Yuan (YNAO)

 

Ju Fu Lu (XMU)

 

Xiang Dong Li (NJU)

 

Yong Feng Huang (NJU)

 

Local Organizing Commitee

G. X. Dong ( NSFC)


J. X. Hao (CAS)

 

P. W. Ji (NSFC)

 

J. C. Wang (YNAO)

 

W. M. Yuan (Co-Chair, YNAO)

 

S. J. Xue (NAOC)

 

J. M. Wang (Co-Chair, IHEP)

 

F. Zhang (IHEP, secretary; zhangfan@ihep.ac.cn)

 

Z. M. Chang (YNAO, secretary; changzm@ynao.ac.cn)

 

G. Q. Liu (Tsinghua Univ., secretary; liuguoqing@tsinghua.edu.cn)

 
IHEP, Beijing, China