Brian Warner
Cataclysmic variables

Kostas D. Kokkotas
Generation mechanisms of gravitational waves

Feryal Özel
Compact objects

Ronald A. Remillard
Accretion processes in neutron stars and black holes

Advisory Committee

N. Andersson - University of Southampton - United Kingdom
L. Bildsten - University of California at Santa Barbara - USA
D. Blair - University of Western Australia - Australia
A. Bruch - Laboratório Nacional de Astrofisica - Brazil
M. Coleman Miller - University of Maryland - USA
V. Ferrari - Università di Roma “La Sapienza” & INFN/Roma - Italy
J.A. de Freitas Pacheco - Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur - France
C. Hellier - Keele University - United Kingdom
J. Horvath - University of São Paulo - Brazil
J. McClintock - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - USA
R. Rothschild - University of California at San Diego - USA
R. Sunyaev - Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics - Garching - Germany

Local Organizing Committee

O. D. Aguiar, J. C. N. de Araujo, J. Braga, F. D'Amico, F. J. Jablonski, O. D. Miranda, C. V. Rodrigues