A more complete list of plenary titles and abstracts will be updated here when available.

	Abhay Ashtekar Pennsylvania State University Title: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Very Early Universe			Edmund Bertschinger Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topic: Cosmological tests of General Relativity
	Roger Blandford Stanford University Topic: Active galactic nuclei			Manuela Campanelli Rochester Institute of Technology Topic: Numerical Relativity
	George Ellis University of Cape Town Topic: Inhomogeneous cosmologies			Krzysztof Gorski JPL, California Institute of Technology Topic: Recent results from Planck
	Fiona Harrison California Institute of Technology Topic: Recent results from NuSTAR			Charles J. Horowitz Indiana University Topic: Review on nuclear equation of state for compact objects
	Nick Kaiser IfA, University of Hawaii Topic: Gravitational lensing and applications to cosmology			Robert Kirshner Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Topic: The accelerating universe
	Sanjay Reddy University of Washington Topic: Nuclear astrophysics			Remo Ruffini International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics Topic: Gamma ray bursts
	Bernard Schutz MPIGP - Potsdam/Golm Topic: Gravitational waves			David Spergel Princeton University Topic: Recent results from cosmology
	Paul Steinhardt Princeton University Topic: The very early universe			Joseph Taylor Princeton University Topic: Review on binary pulsars
	Virginia Trimble UC Irvine & LCOGT Topic: History of the Texas Symposia			Steven Weinberg University of Texas at Austin Topic: The Higgs boson and cosmology

Other distinguished invited speakers include: