Plenary Speakers
| PLENARY SPEAKERS | BROAD TITLE |
| Gary Hinshaw | Status of WMAP Data |
| Andrew Jaffe | The Future of CMB Studies |
| Subir Sarkar | Cosmology beyond the Standard Model |
| HongSheng Zhao | Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Puzzles and an Alternative Solution |
| Subhabrata Majumder | Cosmology with Clusters |
| Parampreet Singh | Big Bang Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantum Cosmology |
| B. Sathyaprakash | Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves |
| Rana Adhikari | Survey of Gravitational Waves Experiments |
| John Conklin | The Gravity Probe B Experiment and Results |
| John Baker | Survey of Numerical Relativity Results |
| Maria Alessandra Papa | Data Analysis for Gravitational Wave Detectors |
| Andy Fabian | X-ray detection of spinning black hole |
| Sumit Das | Cosmological Singularities in String Theory and Gauge-Gravity Duality |
| Alejandro Corichi | Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity |
| Madhavan Varadarajan | Black Hole Information Loss Puzzle in LQG |
| SHORT PLENARY SPEAKERS ** | BROAD TITLE |
| David Langlois | Cosmological perturbations from inflation |
| Alessandra Buonanno | Interfacing analytical and numerical relativity in modeling binary black hole coalescences |
| Martin Reuter | Asymptotic Safety in Quantum Gravity |
| Keiichi Maeda | Beyond the Einstein-Hilbert Action |
| Samir Mathur | What do black holes tell us about the state of the early Universe? |
**Since the ICGC-04, there are two types of plenary talks -- longer and shorter duration ones. The shorter ones are more specialized and yet expected to be accessible to wider audience.
Parallel Workshop Sessions
| SESSION | TOPICS | SESSION CHAIRS |
| I | Classical General Relativity and Gravitational Waves | Sushant Ghosh Sanjay Jhingan |
| II | Cosmology | T R Seshadri Tarun Deep Saini |
| III | Quantum Gravity | Parthasarathi Majumdar Sudhakar Panda |