List of people who expressed interest in the conference
| Name | Institution | Probability of participation |
| Kevork Abazajian | Los Alamos | Confirmed |
| Roberto J. Avila | NMSU | Confirmed |
| Joel Berrier | UC Irvine | Confirmed |
| Adam Bolton | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | Confirmed |
| James Bullock | UC Irvine | Confirmed |
| Juan Betancort-Rijo | Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain | Confirmed |
| Chris Brook | Universite Laval, Canada | Confirmed |
| Chris Churchill | NMSU | Confirmed |
| Daniel Ceverino | NMSU | Confirmed |
| Pedro Colin | UNAM, Morelia, Mexico | Confirmed |
| Charlie Conroy | University of Chicago | Confirmed |
| Richard Cool | Steward Observatory | Confirmed |
| Stephane Courteau | Queen's University, Canada | Confirmed |
| Darren Croton | University of California, Berkeley | Confirmed |
| Neal Dalal | CITA, Toronto | Confirmed |
| Romeel Dave | University of Arizona | Confirmed |
| Avishai Dekel | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | Confirmed |
| Juerg Diemand | UC Santa Cruz | Confirmed |
| Elena D'Onghia | MPE-USM, Germany | Confirmed |
| Andreas Faltenabcher | UCO/Lick Observatory | Confirmed |
| Mark Fardal | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Confirmed |
| Kristian Finlator | University of Arizona | Confirmed |
| Marla Geha | Carnegie Observatories | Confirmed |
| Gianfranco Gentile | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque | Confirmed |
| Stefan Gottloeber | Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany | Confirmed |
| Fabio Governato | University of Washington - INAF, Italy | Confirmed |
| Heather Guenther | UC, Irvine | Confirmed |
| Henk Hoekstra | University of Victoria, Canada | Confirmed |
| Nicole Homeier | Johns Hopkins University | Confirmed |
| Yehuda Hoffman | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | Confirmed |
| Linghong Hu | NMSU | Confirmed |
| Michael Hudson | University of Waterloo, Canada | Confirmed |
| Ilian Iliev | CITA, Toronto, Canada | Confirmed |
| Eelco van Kampen | IfA, Univ. of Innsbruck, France | Confirmed |
| Neal Katz | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Confirmed |
| Stelios Kazantzidis | University of Chicago | Confirmed |
| Dusan Keres | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Confirmed |
| Anatoly Klypin | NMSU | Confirmed |
| Alexander Knebe | Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany | Confirmed |
| Franziska Koeckert | Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany | Confirmed |
| Andrey Kravtsov | University of Chicago | Confirmed |
| Ewa Lokas | Copernicus Center, Warsaw, Poland | Confirmed |
| Yu Lu | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Confirmed |
| Andrea Maccio | University of Zurich, Switzerland | Confirmed |
| Stacy McGaugh | University of Maryland | Confirmed |
| Morad Masjedi | New York University | Confirmed |
| Daniel McIntosh | UMassachusetts, Amherst | Confirmed |
| Marco Miranda | University of Zurich, Switzerland | Confirmed |
| Houjun Mo | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Confirmed |
| Ben Moore | University of Zurich, Switzerland | Confirmed |
| Eyal Neistein | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | Confirmed |
| Mark Neyrinck | Institute for Astronomy, U.Hawaii | Confirmed |
| Santiago Patiri | Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain | Confirmed |
| Laura Portinari | University of Turku, Finland | Confirmed |
| Chris Power | Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia | Confirmed |
| Francisco Prada | Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Spain | Confirmed |
| Tom Quinn | University of Washington | Confirmed |
| Michael Rauch | Carnegie Observatories | Confirmed |
| Justin Read | University of Zurich, Switzerland | Confirmed |
| Emilio Romano-Diaz | Jerusalem and UKY | Confirmed |
| Douglas Rudd | University of Chicago | Confirmed |
| Emma Ryan-Weber | Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge , UK | Confirmed |
| Evan Scannapieco | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara | Confirmed |
| Marc Seigar | UC Irvine | Confirmed |
| Josh Simon | Caltech | Confirmed |
| Ramin A. Skibba | University of Pittsburgh | Confirmed |
| Kristine Spekkens | NRAO/Rutgers | Confirmed |
| Greg Stinson | University of Washington | Confirmed |
| Louie Strigari | UC Irvine | Confirmed |
| Jeremy Tinker | University of Chicago | Confirmed |
| Chiara Tonini | SISSA, Italy | Confirmed |
| Frank C. van den Bosch | Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Germany | Confirmed |
| Octavio Valenzuela | University of Washington | Confirmed |
| Nicole Vogt | NMSU | Confirmed |
| Rene Walterbos | NMSU | Confirmed |
| Martin Weinberg | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Confirmed |
| Xiaohu Yang | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China | Confirmed |
| Kristin Warnick | Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany | Confirmed |
