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Relativistic astrophysics is the application of the theory of general relativity (the theory of strong gravitational fields) to problems in astrophysics. The strongest gravitational fields in the universe are associated with compact objects (neutron stars and black holes).

Dr. Ramesh Narayan is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and a Senior Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Chang-Goo Kim is an associate research scholar at Princeton University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Western Ontario (CITA National Fellow), Princeton University,  and the Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute (Flatiron Research Fellow).

Christina Kreisch, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Presidential Fellow, is a 4^th year Ph. D. candidate in Astrophysics at Princeton University. Her work focuses on understanding the large scale structure of our universe and how we can use it to better constrain theories of the universe’s evolution and its constituents. Recently she has worked on probing neutrino properties with cosmic voids and constraining novel neutrino physics with an eye towards cosmological tensions, using both cosmic microwave background and large scale structure data. She also has interests in utilizing machine learning to glean complicated, nonlinear relationships in large scale structure.

Dr. Frye is making a concerted effort to understand how galaxies form and evolve in the universe. She has chosen to take the approach of gravitational lensing, which offers rare and magnified views of distant galaxies. She observes these giant arcs with the objectives of establishing the distribution of the total mass of dark plus visible matter in the lens, and investigating the physical properties of the lensed sources. 

Norman Murray is a theoretical astrophysicist with wide-ranging interests from nonlinear dynamics to solar physics to (exo)planets, galaxies, and active galactic nuclei. He is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto, Canada, and, from 2006 to 2014, Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Andrej Obuljen is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo working with Prof. Will Percival. He has earned his PhD degree at SISSA (Italy). His main research interest is studying the Large-scale Structure of our Universe using either future 21cm Intensity Mapping or upcoming spectroscopic galaxy surveys (e.g. DESI) in order to better constrain main cosmological parameters.