International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics

Together with Abdus Salam, Riccardo Giacconi, George Coyne, and Francis Everitt, they founded the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA) in 1985.

International Centre For Theoretical Physics (ICTP) - Trieste (Italy) Space Telescope Institute - Baltimore - Maryland - (USA) Specola Vaticana - Castelgandolfo (Vatican City) Stanford University - Stanford, California (USA) University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome (Italy) University of Science and Technology of China (China) University of Insubria (Italy) University of Rome "Sapienza" (Italy) University of Udine (Italy) University of Washington at Seattle (USA) World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) - Trieste (Italy) Collaboration agreements have been signed between ICRA and scientific institutions worldwide, in particular: AIGRC (The Australian International Gravitational Research Centre), Australia ARSEC (Astrophysical Research center for the Structure and Evolution of the Cosmos), South Korea BAO (Beijing Astronomical Observatory), China CECS (Centro de Estudios Cientificos de Santiago), Chile Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia IHES (Institut Hautes Etudes Scientifiques), France KSNU (Kyrgiz State National University), Kyrgyzstan IPM (Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics), Russia MEPhI (Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute), Russia NCST (National Centre for Science and Technology), Vietnam OCA (Côte d’Azur Observatory), France PAO (Pyongyang Astronomical Observatory), North Korea University of Tirana, Albania YITP (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics), Japan UADP (Physics Department, University of Arizona), USA Since 2002, ICRA co-organizes an International Ph.D. program in Relativistic Astrophysics - International Relativistic Astrophysics Ph.D.

It has been focused on exchange of information and collaborations between Italian and Korean astrophysicists on new issues in the field of Relativistic Astrophysics.

The symposia cover topics in astrophysics and cosmology, such as gamma ray bursts and compact stars, high energy cosmic rays, dark energy and dark matter, general relativity, black holes, and new physics related to cosmology.

Almost 80 physicists and engineers in widely diversified fields relativistic gravitation, space research, SQUID technology, large scale cryogenics, clock technology, laser and radar science and other fields - came together in the kinds of free technical exchange so characteristic of William Fairbank, in whose honor the meeting was held.

The second meeting was held in Hong Kong and was devoted to relativistic gravitational experiments in space.

The 2nd Galileo - Xu Guangqi meeting took place in Hanbury Botanic Gardens (Ventimiglia, Italy) and Villa Ratti (Nice, France) in 2010.