These conferences are supported by NASA's Office of Space Science, and conducted with the cooperation of the scientific staff of the Goddard Space Flight Center and the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland.

The Scientific Organizing Committee for this conference includes:

Tom Abel	Heino Falcke	Steve Holt	Jean-Loup Puget
Amy Barger	Andrea Ferrara	Hajime Inoue	Rashid Sunyaev
Chris Carilli	Reinhard Genzel	John Mather	Meg Urry
David Elbaz	Guenther Hasinger	Lee Mundy	Nicholas White