Invited Speakers

• Rong-Gen Cai (Chinese Academy of Science, China)
  " Thermodynamics of Apparent Horizon in Brane World Scenario"
• Chiang-Mei Chen (National Central U.,Taiwan)
• Yong-Min Cho (Seoul National U., Korea)
  "Topology of Vacuum Space-Time"
• Mirjam Cvetic (U. Pennsylvania, USA)
"D-brane Instantons and Their Implications for String Vacua"
• Valery Frolov (U. Alberta, Canada)
• Dmitri Galtsov (Moscow State U., Russia)
• Ruth Gregory (Durham U., UK)
• Akihiro Ishibashi (U. Chicago, USA)
• Jun Luo (Huazhong U. of Sci. & Tech., China)
  
• Renata Kallosh (Stanford U., USA)
• Sung-Won Kim (Ewha Womans U., Korea)
  "The physics of exotic matter and cosmology"
• Hideo Kodama (Kyoto U, Japan)
  "Superradiance and Instability of Black Holes "
• G.S. Bisnovaty-Kogan (Inst. Space Research, Russia)
  "Core-Collapse Supernovae: Magnetorotational explosions and jet formation"
• Kei-Ichi Maeda (Waseda U.,Japan)
• Vitaly N. Melnikov (Institute Gravitation and Cosmology, Russia)
  "Theoretical Models for Time Variation of G"
• James Nester (National Central U., Taiwan)
• Wei-Tou Ni (Chinese Academy of Science, China)
  "From Equivalence Principles to Cosmology: Cosmic Polarization Rotation, CMB Observation, Neutrino Number Asymmetry, Lorentz Invariance and CPT"
• Varun Sahni (IUCCA, India)
  "A review talk on dark energy"
• Sergey Odintsov (YITP and ICREA/Space Research Institute)
  "Modified gravity as an alternative for dark energy and inflation"
• Sachie Shiomi (National Chiao Tung University)
  "Testing gravitational physics with sperconductiong gravimeters"

Public Lectures

• Katsuhiko Sato (Tokyo U, Japan)
  "How did the Universe begin? -the scenario described by modern physics-"
  Lecture is given in Japanese with English explanation.
• Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
  "The Quest for Gravitational Waves and Binary Black Holes"
  Lecture is given in English with Japanese explanation.