This Workshop aims to bring together approxiamately 30 active researchers, both outside and within China, to present and discuss current research in the following areas, where accretion plays essential roles：

(1)  Star and planet formation
(2)  Hypernovae and gamma-ray bursts
(3)  Active galactic nuclei, supermassive black holes, and tidaldisruption events

Scientific Organizing Committee

Dong Lai (Chair, Cornell University, USA)
Alexander Heger (Monash University, Australia)
Yipeng Jing (SJTU, China)
Andrew King (University ofLeicester, UK)
Doug Lin (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Giuseppe Lodato (University of Milan, Italy)
Rebecca Martin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
Daniel Price (Monash University,Australia)
Yanqin Wu (University of Toronto,Canada)
Jilin Zhou (Nanjing University,China)

Local Organizing  Committee

Yong-Zhong Qian (Chair, SJTU/University of Minnesota, USA)
Projjwal Banerjee (Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, SJTU)
Zhen Yuan (Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, SJTU) 
Jinghua Shi (TDLI)
Haiying Zhao (TDLI)

Invited participants (* to be confirmed)            

Xuening Bai (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA)
Xinwu Cao (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China)
Cathie Clarke* (Cambridge University, UK)
Ruobing Dong (University of Arizona, USA)
James Guillochon* (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA)
Wick Haxton (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Alexander Heger (Monash University, Australia)
Greg Herczeg (Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, China)
Yipeng Jing (SJTU, China)
Andrew King (University of Leicester, UK)
Willy Kley* (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Kaitlin Kratter* (University of Arizona, USA)
Dong Lai (Cornell University, USA)
Xiangdong Li (Nanjing University, China)
Jufu Lu* (Xiamen University, China)
Steve Lubow (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA)
Rebecca Martin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
Gordon Ogilvie (Cambridge University, UK)
Daniel Price (Monash University, Australia)
Daniel Siegel (Columbia University, USA)
Chris Thompson (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Canada)
Yanqin Wu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Andrew Youdin* (University of Arizona, USA)
Cong Yu (Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, China)
Qingjuan Yu (Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, China)
Feng Yuan (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China)
Yefei Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Shuangnan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics, China)
Jilin Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
Zhaohuan Zhu (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)